''Timeless'' is a 2016 German

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directed by

Alexander Tuschinski Alexander Tuschinski (born October 28, 1988, Stuttgart, West Germany) is a German film director, film producer, writer, actor and musician. Internationally, he is best known for his feature films which have won awards at various film festivals ...

. Besides many German actors, it stars

Helmut Berger Helmut Berger (; born Helmut Steinberger; 29 May 1944) is an Austrian actor, known for his portrayal of narcissistic and sexually-ambiguous characters. He was one of the stars of the European cinema in the late 1960s and 1970s, and is regarded a ...

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Rick Shapiro Rick Shapiro (born April 13, 1959) is a Los Angeles-based comedian and actor. Life and career Shapiro was born in New Jersey. Spending his early years in New York City and New Jersey, Shapiro started his career in the early 1980s as a comedia ...

Angus Macfadyen Angus Macfadyen (born 21 September 1963) is a Scottish actor. His roles include Robert the Bruce, both in ''Braveheart'' and ''Robert the Bruce'', Komodo in ''Warriors of Virtue'', Vice-Counsel Dupont in '' Equilibrium'', Jeff Denlon in the '' ...

and

Zachi Noy Zachi Noy ( he, צחי נוי; born 8 July 1953) is an Israeli actor. Early life Noy was born in 1953 in Haifa, Israel. At a young age, Noy did stage work for the local Israeli theater "HaSadna" in Haifa. Later, he spent his military service in ...

. It had its world premiere at

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on November 27, 2016.

Plot

The film is about a young man, Arnold Richter, who suddenly travels in time from Germany 1932 to a near-future where a new dictatorship rises. There he gets involved in events and adventures which lead to a full-blown revolution.

Production

Helmut Berger Alexander Tuschinski Set Timeless

The production was filmed in Germany. The cast mostly consisted of German actors, such as David Pakosch, along with

and

. Alexander Tuschinski wrote many major parts specifically with the actors portraying them in mind, and worked on the characters in close connection with the actors during preparation and during filming. For sequences set on the Eastern Front in 1945, the film uses one of the few drivable Soviet

T-34/85 The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940. When introduced its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was less powerful than its contemporaries while its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons. The Chri ...

tanks in Germany. Those scenes were filmed near

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. Sequences depicting American troops on the Western Front in 1944 were filmed in an old factory building in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

. The film was scheduled to have its world premiere in 2016. After multiple festival screenings in 2017 (among them at

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and

Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival The ''Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival'' (commonly abbreviated as "HRIFF") is a film festival with a focus on independent films held annually at L.A. Live / Staples Center and additional cinemas across Hollywood, California. HRIFF gues ...

where it won "Best International Film") it was released on Amazon in January 2018.

References

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