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Level Up Your Life

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Synopsis

Evelyn’s life is anything but happy. The relationship with her husband has gone into hibernation and day in, day out she’s terribly bullied by her much younger and arrogant boss.

The indebted courier Frank is doing no better. He, too, fights with perpetual disdain. In order to impress his new and much more successful acquaintance Angela, he plays the wealthy entrepreneur. In search of a fancy present for his adored one, he tears open the parcels entrusted to him and accidentally swaps the contents – and instead of the blouse that she ordered, Evelyn receives a book about medical plants, which gives her the daring idea of a self-brewed laxative agent to avenge her unloved boss… however, that plan goes more than belly-up.A quirky glimpse behind petty bourgeois facades, where horror but also happiness lurk.

Technical Information

2018; Comedy; Switzerland, Germany; 90 minutes; Apple ProRes 4444 / rec709; Aspect Ratio: 1:1,85 (1920×1080 Letterbox); Surround-Sound 5.1 & Stereo (LtRt_R128); Original Language: German; Subtitles: English

Script
Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus

Director
Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus

DoP
Daniela Knapp, Tom Schneider

Steadicam
Stefan Sosna

Light
Dr. Marc Reisner, Simon Wottreng

Sound
Ulrich Westner

Production Design
Tatjana Paulus

Edit
Oliver Paulus, Ana R. Fernandes, Nela Märki, Torsten Truscheit

Music
Marcel Vaid, Doc Wenz

Sounddesign
Ramón Orza

Sound Mix
Stefan Korte

Producers
Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand

Production
Motorfilm GmbH, Zürich (CH), Frischfilm Produktionen, Mannheim (DE)

Postproduction co-financed by          
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK
Migros Kulturprozent
Lotteriefonds Kanton Solothurn
Fondation SUISA
Praesens Film
Kulturamt Mannheim
Filmcomission Nordbaden

Evelyn Möller  
Sabine Reinhardt     

Frank Gehrlach
Christoph Jungmann

Ursel König
Isolde Fischer                                

Der Chef – Mr. Peck
Jim Libby

Bernd Engel
Volker Heymann

Barbara Engel
Coralie Wolff

Angela Parker
Belina Raffy

coming soon

Solothurner Filmtage 2018

Festival des deutschen Films, Ludwigshafen 2018

DEA Open Air International Film Festival Albania 2018 – Award for Best Actor (Christoph Jungmann)

Semana da Lingue Alemã do Brazil, 2019

Cinema Svizzero a Venezia #8, 2019

Il Cinema Svizzero Contemporaneo, Milano 2019

coming soon…