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Radiant Sea

Country: Germany, Language: German, 79 mins

Original Title

Lichtes Meer
  • Director: Stefan Butzmühlen
  • Writer: Stefan Butzmühlen; Jan Künemund
  • Producer: Björn Koll

CGiii Comment

It has some very good points...but, sometimes you feel as if you are watching CCTV.

Now, this static vision of seascapes and freight containers - with a bit of Madame Butterfly thrown in to heighten the atmosphere - may add to the mood of the film...alas, they are - in some places - so lengthy...either the director fell asleep in the editing suite or the script needed some excessive padding. So much so...that the Michelin man could be considered rather trim by comparison.

This is a disparate love story and a voyage across the Atlantic...and it does look as if the filmmaker, cast and crew jumped aboard a ship and made the most of it...now, that's rather impressive to say the least.

When the two young men are together...it works...it needed more of these scenes to fully develop the disparity between the two and the story as a whole.

Butzmühlen has done a fine job and has a blossoming talent...he just needs to develop his script more before he shoots, stay awake in the editing suite and re-think his musical choices...those German sea-shanty folksongs were worse than a choir of tone-deaf psychotic cats.

Still...a film worth watching...and, a talent worth developing.


Trailer...

Lichtes Meer - Offizieller Trailer from Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Full of anticipation, beautiful Marek leaves his parents farm and boards a cargo ship where he is to become a trainee. Marek wants to find freedom and in doing so he falls in love with the enigmatic hunky sailor Jean. Will it just be a fling? Does Jean have a lover in every port? Or maybe it will be true love and last forever. In this beautiful cross Atlantic journey, Marek may not actually become a sailor, but he will certainly find out who he is.

Cast & Characters

Martin Sznur as Marek;
Jules Sagot as Jean;
Katharina Melchior as Marek's Mother;
Niels Melchior as Marek's Father;
Lisa Melchior as Marek's Sister;
Sarah Melchior as Marek's Sister