''Cloud 9'' (german: link=no, Wolke Neun) is a 2008 German
drama film
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directed by
Andreas Dresen and starring
Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, and Horst Westphal. The story focuses on love and sex in old age and had its world premiere at the
2008 Cannes Film Festival
The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2008. The President of the Official Jury was American actor and director Sean Penn. Twenty two films from fourteen countries were selected to compete for the ''Palme d'Or''. The awards ...
, where it won the ''Heart Throb Jury Prize'' from the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
jury. The title is an
Anglicism
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With the rise in Anglophone media and the global spread of British and US cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries, many English terms have become widespread in o ...
of the phrase "cloud nine".
Cast
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Ursula Werner - Inge
* Horst Rehberg - Werner
* - Karl
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Steffi Kühnert
Steffi Kühnert (born 19 February 1963) is a German actress. She appeared in more than eighty films since 1978. Since November 2009, she has been a professor of acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art, where she was previously a guest l ...
- Petra
Reception
References
External links
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2008 drama films
2008 films
German drama films
Films directed by Andreas Dresen
Films set in Berlin
2000s German-language films
2000s German films
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