The Dark Side of the Moon
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The Dark Side of the Moon

Stephan Rick
Year of release in Luxembourg 2015
Year of release in Luxembourg 2015
Director Stephan Rick
Luxembourg producer IRIS PRODUCTIONS
In co-production with
  • Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion Gmbh (DE)
Script Catharina Junk, Stephan Rink (adapted from Martin Suter's book "The dark side of the moon")
Original version
  • German
Duration 100 minutes
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Cast and crew
Cast

    Moritz Bleibtreu, Nora von Waldstätten, Jürgen Prochnow, Luc Feit, Nickel Bösenberg, Marco Lorenzini, Germain Wagner

Crew

    DOP: Felix Cramer 
    Productrion Manager: Bénédicte Hermesse
    Costume design: Magdalena Labuz 
    Make Up: Katja Reinert 
    Production design: Gabriele Wolff
    Sound: Max Meindl 

Synopsis

Corporate lawyer, Urs Blank, is the undisputed star of his profession. He has money and the perfect wife. But the suicide of a business colleague throws him off track and leads to an attraction with Lucille and her alternative lifestyle. Seduced into experimenting with hallucinogenic mushrooms, his dark side merges , as with merciless power, long suppressed aggressions burst out and go wild. The once civilized lawyer turns into an instinct-driven individual and erratic murderer. Deeply unsettled by the change he flees to the woods in search of an antidote but the police and his vindictive business partner are already on his tracks.