The Black Square

Imagine you want to hide, but you have a stage appearance on your agenda.

The art-thieves Vincent and Nils are close to their goal: In their cruise ship cabin lies the 60 million dollar painting "The Black Square", which they are to deliver to their client on board. They have only one small unforeseen appointment beforehand which ought to take place on the ship’s show stage. While they are struggling through their program as Elvis and David Bowie impersonators, unknown perpetrators take the opportunity and steal “The Black Square”...! Vincent, the prevented painter, makes an exact copy of the Malevich piece with somewhat idiosyncratic methods, even a second duplicate after the first one goes missing. Meanwhile, the noose is tightening around the criminal duo: Nils is unmasked, and Vincent does not notice that his acquaintance from the ship’s bar, the immensely artistic Martha, is only seeking his proximity and sits for him as a model because she too, is after one certain thing – “The Black Square”...

Cast

Vincent Kowalski
Bernhard Schütz
Nils Forsberg
Jacob Matschenz
Martha
Sandra Hüller
Mia
Pheline Roggan
Levi
Christopher Schärf
Helen Caracas
Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Bernhard Lossa
Wolfram Packhäuser
Das Das Schwarze Quadrat - Poster 1

The Black Square

Peter Meister

  • Fiction
Production Country / Year
Germany 2021
Language
de. OF ohne UT
Format
DCP, Color, 105min
2.35:1, Discrete 5.1
Original Title
Das Schwarze Quadrat

Director & Crew

Peter Meister 1

Peter Meister

Born in 1987 in Bonn. Studied Film Studies, Literature and Philosophy in Mainz. Active as

director and screenwriter.

Filmography

2013 PARKPLATZLIEBE, Kurzfilm

2016 ES WAR FEUCHT, DUNKEL UND ROCH NACH HOLZ, Kurzfilm

2018 MENSCHENJAGD, Kurzfilm

HORIZONT

2020 DAS SCHWARZE QUADRAT, Spielfilm  HOF 2021

Writer
Peter Meister
Director of Photography
Felix Novo de OLIVEIRA
Editor
Jan Ruschke
Production Designer
Tim Tamke
Costume Designer
Kathrin Aschendorf
Casting Director
Silke Koch
Sound
Nick Friedrich
Music Composer
Andreas Lucas
Make-up
Tim Scheidig Petra Herzler-Grossmann
TV Commissioning Editor
Christian Cloos (ZDF – DkF)
Olaf Grunert (ZDF/arte)
Daniela Muck (arte)
Producer
Alexander Bickenbach
Manuel Bickenbach

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