2016 Red Rock Film Festival

Keeper of the Past (Wächter der Spieluhr)
(Germany) In German with English subtitles
(2015) 29 min. (2.40:1)

DIR Marco J. Riedl, PRO Julia Kampmann, SCR Marco J. Riedl, DP Julia Kampmann, EDIT , MUS , CAST Hanno Friedrich, Luisa Wietzorek, Martin Kessler, Charles Rettinghaus, Vanessa Quintero, Claudia Hein

Accepting life as it comes...is a our decision to make! Farmer Finn van Hagen begins a New Life and moves with his wife and his two children out to the country. He now lives on an old, idyllic farm in the middle of nowhere… to his eyes, in a perfect world. One day a stranger appears out of the blue. He asks Finn strange questions and tries to draw a well-kept secret from his daughter Verlanda: the where abouts of a music box, in which Finn’s past lies hidden… a past, he has long forgotten. If Finn should ever open the music box… he not only might lose his family forever… he also might bring it to cave in the World as he knows it. The Decision is his…