Julia´s Disappearance

“Julia’s Disappearance is a beautifully handled dramatic comedy that embraces age as a questioning of self - perception (…) The film’s beauty lies in the questions it asks and the answers it doesn’t provide (…) We may not have a choice in our aging process, but we may have a choice in how much we metaphorically fade.” John Carozza (artshub.com.au)

Genre Comedy
Year of Production 2009
Director Christoph Schaub
Principal Cast Corinna Harfouch, Bruno Ganz, Stefan Kurt, André Jung, Daniel Rohr, Sunnyi Melles, Teresa Harder, Max Herbrechter, Christine Schorn, Renate Becker
Length 88 mins

The 50th birthday is usually considered an anniversary to be lavishly celebrated with friends and family – and that was exactly the way Julia had planned her birthday to be: the place at the restaurant is booked, her closest friends have dressed up for the occasion – only the birthday girl does not show up! The reason is simple: Just when she turns 50 years old, beautiful Julia finds out that she has become completely invisible to the people surrounding her. Thus, she has completely lost her mood for partying. Aimlessly, she wanders around the city and meets an attractive man whom she takes to a tête-à-tête in a bar without any hesitation. Meanwhile, the guests at her party take to alcoholic drinks and appreciably lose themselves in philosophical debates about the sense of life. Simultaneously to this plot line, the film episodically tells the story of an 80-year old woman who does not behave according to her age at all, and about two teenagers who would like to be older.

Christoph Schaub, born 1958 in Zürich, Switzerland, initially started to study German literature but soon joined Mediengenossenschaft Videoladen Zürich to get into the film industry and dropped out of university. Schaub was a member of Mediengenossenschaft until 1992 and participated as a cutter, cinematographer, and assistant director in numerous film projects.
In 1988, he set up the production company "Dschoint Ventschr". One year later, he was one of the initiators of the Zürich movie theatre Morgental which was followed by the movie theatre RiffRaff. To this date, Schaub is a member of RiffRaff’s administrative board. In 1996, he started to work as a lecturer at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich where he also teaches until today. Christoph Schaub made his feature-length debut film in 1987 with the motion picture Wendel that was shown at the Solothurn Film Festival and at the Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize in Saarbrücken. A selection of his other award-winning features includes Dreißig Jahre (1989), Am Ende der Nacht (At The End of the Night, 1992), Stille Liebe (2001), Sternenberg (2004), Jeune Homme (2006) and Happy New Year (2008). Giulias Verschwinden (Julia’s Disappearance, 2009), based on a screenplay by Martin Suter, won the Prix du Public at the Locarno International Film Festival and became the highest-grossing Swiss film of 2009.

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