The Last City (2021)
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are: an old artist who meets his younger self; a mother who lives with her two grown-up sons, a priest and a policeman; a Chinese and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist.
Director: Heinz Emigholz
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John Erdman as Archaeologist / Artist |
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Susanne Sachße as “Japanese” Woman / Curator |
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Laurean Wagner as Policeman |
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Jonathan Perel as Weapon Designer / Cosmologist |
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Young Sun Han as Young Man / Priest |
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Dorothy Ko as Mother / Chinese Woman |
| Directing | Heinz Emigholz | Director |
| Production | Irene von Alberti | Producer |
| Editing | Till Beckmann | Editor |
| Camera | Till Beckmann | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Heinz Emigholz | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Heinz Emigholz | Editor |
| Production | Frieder Schlaich | Producer |
| Writing | Heinz Emigholz | Writer |
| Sound | Andreas Reihse | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Kreidler | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Ueli Etter | Production Design |
| Sound | Alexander Paulick | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Cássio Brasil | Production Manager |
| Production | Katerina Thanopoulou | Production Manager |
| Production | Itamar Luria | Production Manager |
| Production | Julia M. Müller | Production Manager |
| Sound | Jochen Jezussek | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Christian Obermaier | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Markus Ruff | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kyriaky Melidou | Makeup Artist |