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Andreas Bolm

Le Juge

Fiction | 4k | black and white | 68:0 | Germany | 2017

- Didn’t you know that you were giving poison to him- No, I didn’t know. - Didn’t you know that the flypaper could kill a cat, didn’t you? Didn’t you know that it could even kill a man? - Yes,I knew it was poison, but not as strong as that. Words and fragments of a trial: The case of poisoners. Peasant women killing their men. On the roads of Hungary a judge is haunted by his own voice. Jacques Nolot plays the vagabonding judge obsessed and caught by the claws of the past. A film noir fantastic based on a true story.

Andreas Bolm was born 1971 in Cologne, Germany. After working as a musician and sound engineer in Manchester, England, he began to experiment with photography and video. In 1999 Andreas enrolled at the documentary department of the University of Television and Film in Munich. Andreas is living and working in Germany, Hungary and France. His films Ròzsa (2000), The Sleepers (2003), Jaba (2006), All The Children But One (2008) and School Files (2012) have been screened at many festivals worldwide. Jaba was presented at the Festival de Cannes in 2006 and won the « Golden Mikeldi » for best documentary at the Zinebi film festival in Bilbao. In 2009 Andreas attended the Cinefondation Residence Festival de Cannes where he developed his film Die Wiedergänger/The Revenants (2013). The film was premiered in 2013 at the 63th Berlinale, Perspektive deutsches Kino and presented at the MoMA in New York, series New German Films. In 2013 Andreas attended a four months residency in the frame of the Nipkow Program in Berlin.