Tag 26
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Tag 26 is the third short film by German director Andreas Samland
. It is sometimes called by the English translation of the title "Day 26". It was shot about 70km away from Berlin, close to the Polish border. The film featured almost no dialogue and actors' faces were hidden behind masks for most of the movie. The few words spoken in the movie are in German. The production budget was 2500 euros but the film overspent to 7000 euros. The director quotes Tarkovskij
´s Stalker
as the main influence for his film.
Cast and Crew:
ing he decides to remove his suit. The other survivor prepares to leave, but when confronted with the prospect of spending the rest of his life alone and confined inside the biohazard suit, he chooses to return to his companion, who is already dying. As his companion dies, he takes off the mask of his biohazard suit, dooming himself to die as well, but so he can share one final moment of humanity by letting his companion see him face to face before he dies.
Andreas Samland
- Awards :* Best Short Film for Der Blindgänger - Brooklyn International Film Festival 2004* Best Short Film for Tag 26- Brooklyn International Film Festival 2003- Filmography :*Der Blindgänger *Tag 26...
. It is sometimes called by the English translation of the title "Day 26". It was shot about 70km away from Berlin, close to the Polish border. The film featured almost no dialogue and actors' faces were hidden behind masks for most of the movie. The few words spoken in the movie are in German. The production budget was 2500 euros but the film overspent to 7000 euros. The director quotes Tarkovskij
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
´s Stalker
Stalker (film)
Stalker is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic...
as the main influence for his film.
Cast and Crew:
- Cast: Ronnie Marzillier, Peter Beck
- Screenwriter/Director: Andreas Samland
- Editor: Andreas Samland, Wolfgang Gessat
- Cinematographer: Max Penzel
- Sound: Martin Frühmorgen
- Production Design: Doerte Maria Schreiterer
- Producers: M. Knapheide
Plot
Twenty six days after an undescribed biological disaster, two survivors thereof are forced to live in cumbersome protective biohazard suits and scavenge for food, water and fuel in a desolate dead land. The two follow the incomprehensible sounds of the radio in search of fellow survivors. They stop for supplies at a farm house. One of the characters' suits is accidentally ripped, and when he is tested positively for poisonPoison
In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism....
ing he decides to remove his suit. The other survivor prepares to leave, but when confronted with the prospect of spending the rest of his life alone and confined inside the biohazard suit, he chooses to return to his companion, who is already dying. As his companion dies, he takes off the mask of his biohazard suit, dooming himself to die as well, but so he can share one final moment of humanity by letting his companion see him face to face before he dies.
Awards
- Grand Chameleon Award 2003 - Brooklyn International Film Festival
- Best Short 2003 (nominated) - Max Ophüls Festival
- European Broadcasters Award (Short Film) 2003 - Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
- Grand Prize 2004 (nominated) - Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.