Afternoon (Nachmittag)

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" in free, idiosyncratic appropriation, transposed into the here and now. Irene, actress at the theater, drives to her house on the lake, near Berlin, where her older brother Alex and her son Konstantin live. Summer, sun, bathing lake - on the outside an idyllic scenery, but the characters are entangled in themselves, and above the everyday scenes there is an atmosphere of tiredness, sadness and lost love: “Three days in summer, the end of a family, of which only there remains is still a rest ”(Schanelec).

Director: Angela Schanelec, 97 min., 2006/2007