Brother of Sleep explained

Schlafes Bruder
Native Name:
Director:	Joseph Vilsmaier
Producer:	Danny Krausz Peter Sterr
Music:	Enjott Schneider Hubert von Goisern Harald Feller
Cinematography:	Joseph Vilsmaier
Editing:	Alexander Berner
Distributor:	Senator
Runtime:	127 minutes
Country:	Germany
Language:	German
Gross:	$6 million (Germany)^[1]

Brother of Sleep is a 1995 German film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and based on the novel Schlafes Bruder by Austrian writer Robert Schneider. It was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Cast

• as Elias
• Dana Vávrová as Elsbeth
• Ben Becker as Peter
• Jochen Nickel as Köhler Michel
• Jürgen Schornagel as Kurat Benzer
• Paulus Manker as Lehrer Oskar
• Michaela Rosen as Seffin
• Peter Franke as Seff
• Detlef Bothe as Lukas
• Michael Mendl as Nulf

Reception

It was the fourth most popular German film of the year with a gross of 9.9 million Deutsche Mark ($6 million).^[1]

See also

• List of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• • Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes

Notes and References

1. Screen International. Top 5 Domestic Films 1995. 15. 5 April 1996.
2. Web site: H. G. Pflaum. On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. German Films. 27 August 2008. dead. https://archive.today/20070813145148/http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html. 13 August 2007. dmy-all.
3. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
4. Web site: 41 to Compete for Foreign Language Oscar Nominations. 4 October 2015. FilmFestivals.com . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120407001102/http://www.filmfestivals.com/news/newsl1.htm. 7 April 2012.