Ground Control

Aug 23, 2022

1h 34m

★ 0.0

"Male protagonist: completely desolated with voices in his head. Very original."

Overview

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of live-action footage and animated scenes. A stream of (un)conscious stereotypes.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

a&b Film- und Videoproduktion

Ground Control Trailers

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Cast

Captain Madeleine McAuliffe

Zita Gaier

Robert Mayrhofer

Florian Sebastian Fitz

Lena

Viktoria Hillisch

Mother

Marion Rottenhofer

Father

Andreas Radlherr

Sophia (Ground)

Nina Dafert

Major Rob Tomson

Philip Kurzmann

Sophia (Control)

Barbara Braun

Robert

Finn Hanssen

Producer

Martin Ploderer

Colleague

Bernhard Georg Rusch

Old Lady

Emmy Schörg

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

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Observations

Invalid Date

A young woman with little choice takes part of a social experiment

5.7

Plastic Jesus

Jan 1, 1971

Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He doesn't believe in anybody, respects no one and is in constant conflict with the ruling system and order. After being left by a silly American girl, Tom binds with a woman whose husband is abroad. When she kicks him out, he moves in with her husband's sister, who later kills him in the attack of jealousy. All this is shown in the context of major historical events prior to 1968. with lots of archive footage of world leaders.

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Virtual Love

Oct 31, 1993

A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him?

5.2

Southland Tales

Nov 14, 2007

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

6.8

Import/Export

Oct 18, 2007

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...

6.9

The Baby of Mâcon

Sep 17, 1993

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

6.2

Ten Little Indians

Jul 31, 1965

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.

2.3

Darling Nikki

Jul 26, 2019

Nikki is a carefree, fun-loving girl, juggling the men in her life, in her quest for the ultimate love. She soon falls into a fantasy world where she is no longer able to distinguish her real life with her "secret" one.

5.2

Black Snake

Mar 28, 1973

On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.

7.5

mid90s

Oct 19, 2018

In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.

6.4

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Feb 11, 2006

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

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Soft

Feb 11, 2023

A portrait of new found sobriety and love unravels as a young woman moves through the motions of melancholic life in seclusion.

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The Man Who Loved Flowers

Oct 22, 2010

Neither her, nor the last five, not one of them was Alyona. But he knew she was waiting for him. And he would find her. Based on Stephen King's short story of the same name.

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The Mystery of a Guy From Valche

Oct 22, 2010

On an early spring morning, a man's corpse is discovered on the beach of an island town. No ID, no outerwear, no signs of violence. The story uncovers a mystery when it is revealed that the day before the incident, the deceased had excused himself for a cup of coffee at work 3,000 kilometers from where his corpse was later discovered. Based on the novel The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.

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Dogmouth

Oct 27, 2019

A piece of writing with real danger and which focuses on a mysterious mafia of violent Viet Nam Vets living on freight trains who are akin to Hell's Angels without the Harley. The net is closing since they are being pursued by relentless railroad agents. They may be a repugnant set of people and the film will disturb and provoke the audience that sees it but it follows what John Steppling (also writer of '52 Pickup' directed by John Frankenheimer w/ Roy Sheider and Ann Margaret and 'Animal Factory' directed by Steve Buscemi w/ Willem Dafoe. Mickey Rourke. Ed Furlong) believes - 'Art is not your friend'.

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Nona

Oct 22, 2010

A young man finds himself in a mental hospital. He does not know how he found himself there. The only thing that pops up in his mind is the image of a mysterious girl. Trying to figure out what happened to him, he begins to write down his story from the beginning. Will he be able to understand what is a figment of his imagination and what is reality...? Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

5.8

The Kovak Box

Jul 18, 2006

David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?

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Et après, on verra

Oct 21, 2022

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