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Sorry is the name of a unique agency with a strange objective, founded by four young people on the cusp of adulthood (Kris, Wolf, Frauke and Tamara). They visit the homes of the victims of our small cruelties and apologize for us. Sorry apologizes to the mistreated employees of companies, and frees the consciences of those managers who have committed wrongdoings.
But it’s not always easy to shed one’s guilt, just like it isn’t easy to free one’s self from other people’s cruelty. When they find the dead body of a woman, the four young people will be thrust into a mortal labyrinth, a drama that continuously mixes points of view and time frames, where forgiveness is not always possible.
Chosen by the Berlin Film Festival as one of the 12 best novels for a film adaptation, with its tight and cinematic style (reminiscent of Seven), Sorry tackles difficult themes such as guilt and individual responsibility, child abuse and its potential criminal consequences across generations, and succinctly captures the Berlin of those young people born after the fall of the Wall.
Zoran Drvenkar (Croatia, 1967) moved with his family to Berlin at the age of three. He worked various jobs before writing for Tagesspiegel. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he left the city, only to return in 1995. Today, he lives outside Berlin in an old mill. The author of over 40 books, he has written poetry, short stories, science fiction, detective novels and children’s literature. For the cinema, in 2006 he wrote Tough Enough, directed by Detlev Buck, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale. A film adaptation of his 2003 novel Du Bist Zu Schnell will be released soon.
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11/12/2009 ore 16:00
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