Taste of Life

Year: 2017

Duration: 88 min

What does life taste of? For joyful Nikki (Antje Nikola Mönning) the answer is clear: of pleasure. Delightfully she enjoys this at every possible occasion, as she drives through the country in her Land-Rover looking for people and their stories for her video-blog. -I'm not so much interested in the topics that are shown every night in the evening news, but rather what the people on the road are telling. Every person has a story. (NIKKI) Cheeky, explosive and full of easiness the film pictures life in associative images all around topics of Sex and relationship, guilt and religion, sense and nonsense of conventions - and thus let you have a voyeuristic insight into the desires and longings of the protagonists. 'This year we are going to make a film.' This was the first idea and it was 1st of June 2017. 'Who wants to be part of it?'. After deciding on the cast, the creative part of forming ideas for the script started. We knew we did not want to have a narrative story. There should be no explanations. 'To get inspired I started looking through Rolands old archives of texts he has written but which were far to good to be rotting away in a dusty corner.' (Mira Gittner) 'Over the last years we had quite a few encounters with people and their stories, which we wanted to integrate into one of our movies.' (Roland Reber) 'The best platform for one's emotional exhibitionism is the Internet'. (Antje Nikola Mönning) So there it was: the basic idea of NIKKI, the video-blogger who catches people and their stories on her camera without commenting. It only took two month of preparation, deciding on the idea for the story line, the cast and finding and organizing the locations for TASTE OF LIFE. After that it was within 25 days in august that the movie finally has been shot with a small team behind the camera, 50 people in front of the camera and 11 different locations - and lots of enthusiasm and creativity of everyone involved. After another five weeks of post production the final cut was ready in October 2017 and could celebrate its world premier at the 51st Hof international Film Festival (October 2017), its international premiere at the Brussles International Film Festival in Belgium (April 2018). Theatrical release in Germany was 22nd of February. Since October 2018 the film has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray as well as on digital platforms.

Genre: Action   Comedy   Drama   Music