502 Feet
Lana shares an apartment with her sick mother whom she has to care for. To escape her harsh reality, she watches a young woman in the flat across the street through a video camera. In her obsessive imagination, she develops an intimate relationship with her. When Lana sees her new friend’s well-being threatened, she abandons the role of an observer and intervenes in the events.
Two apartment buildings facing each other, three women, three generations and one video camera. The story of an obsession.
Cast
- Lana
- Michaela Caspar
- Maria
- Maria Luise Preuss
- Vivi
- Emilia von Heiseler
- Gaspar
- Lucas Lentes
502 Feet
Anton von Heiseler
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2022
- Language
- de. OF mit en. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 71min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- 153 Meter
Director & Crew
Anton von Heiseler
Born in 1994 in Berlin. Studied Philosophy at the Technische Universität Berlin and Arts and Media at the Berlin University of the Arts, followed by studies in Directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Active as a director.
Filmography
2018 THE BLACK MOUNTAIN, Kurzdokumentarfilm
1919 MOUNTAIN & MAIDEN, Kurzdokumentarfilm
POST MORTEM, kurzdokumentarfilm
2022 153 METER, Spielfilm HOF 2022
“Despite the plot being fictitious, the film does have documental features. The actresses are part of a family – my family. Michaela Caspar and Maria Luise Preuss are – as in the film – mother and daughter who live together. Maria Luise Preuss suffers from aphasia and paralysis resulting from a stroke and is cared for by her daughter. Emilia von Heiseler, who plays the young woman across the street, is Michaela Caspar’s daughter – and my twin sister. Although the cast’s family ties are not, per se, relevant to the viewer, our goal was to deliver very intimate and often painful scenes between the characters in a way that transcends the fictional.”Anton von Heiseler
- Writer
- Anton von Heiseler
- Maximilian Rummel
- Andreas Koch
- Director of Photography
- Lucas Heinze
- Editor
- Benedikt Strick
- Set Designer
- Paula-Antonia Jacob
- Costume Designer
- Friederike Marie Rost
- Sound
- Jonas Lenz
- Sound Designer
- Richard Meyer
- Wenzel Krah
- Music Composer
- Lukas Zepf
- Justin Robinson
- Make-up
- Aysche Adawi
- Producer
- Gila-Ilija Beroš