Director Timm Kroeger

Script Roderick Warich, Timm Kröger

Camera Roland Stuprich

Design Cosima Vellenzer

Music Gustav Mahler, Hans Pfitzner

Cast: Thorsten Wien, Eva Maria Jost, Daniel Krauss, Christian Blümel, Andreas Conrad, Theo Leutert

Producer Viktoria Stolpe

Production Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

 

  In 1929, music teacher Paul Leinert receives an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto Schiffmann, a talented composer who has moved away from Berlin after a failed marriage. Otto invites Paul in his forest cabin to get to know his new, long-awaited symphony. Paul, his wife Anna and his friend Willi find the cabin, but Otto is nowhere to be seen. As they go looking for him, Paul notices something odd about the song of the local birds…

 

TIMM KROEGER

  Born in 1985 in Itzehoe, Northern Germany. Timm began his studies at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark where he also spent a year as teacher’s assistant. Following an internship at ARRI Rental in Munich, he studied Cinematography & Documentary Film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Timm works as author, director and cinematographer. “The Council of the Birds” is his first feature film.