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"The Book of the Hermit"
by Tobias Sandberger and Thitz

"The Hermit's Book" is a short feature film that, using a curious 18th century phenomenon, tells a fictional story. 
As a conveyor of the novelistic plot serves an ornamental hermit, hired by the eccentric owner of a country chateau to live modestly like a hermit, for the adornment of the garden in a grotto. Nobody seems to know his true identity. However, apart from his ornamental function, the hermit has very personal reasons to live isolated from the world. By means of illustrated books and novels he tries to console himself over a failed love. When Rachel, his childhood sweetheart, returns to the castle after the death of her father to live with her husband and children, a confrontation with the past seems inevitable.

The fourth joint film by the Sandberger/Thitz writing team is this time set in the Truegerian façade and make-believe culture of the 18th century, when the contrast between culture and nature became one of the most important philosophical themes.

Beside the plot of the play there is a second level: on the animation table cartoons and engravings of the 18th century are used to tell the story in a more abstract way between the covers of a book - The Book of the Hermit. 

The Book of the Hermit.

Genre: cinema short - partly animated
Year of production: 2002
Format: 32mm
Length: 30 min

Description: The film is the legacy of a hermit who spent over 30 years
with a noble family of the 18th century.
in an artificial grotto on their estate.
in an artificial cave on the estate of a noble family.
was employed. In his hermitage
books are his only "conversation
partners". At some point he begins to
a book himself. In it he transcribes
the stories of the books he has read
to the inhabitants of the castle. In a fa-
of history and stories, the
stories, the fate of the ornamental
the fate of the Ziereremite is told,
which seems to be inextricably linked to that of the noble family.
with that of the noble family.

Directed and written by.......Tobias Sandberger & Thitz
Assistant director.............   Petra Schroeder
Camera..........................   Joern Staeger & Doro Carl
Costumes.....................     Ulrike Gutbrod & Greta Ostwald
Props.....................    ..     Sushi
Sound...............................Jens Roehm
Light...............................  Markus Oswald
Building stage...................Sascha Schaeffer

Performers:    

Lady Rachel....................    Miriam Fiordeponti
Lord Francis....................    Matthias Breitenbach    
Beatrix............................    Charlotte Crome    
Rev Tusher/Mrs Tucker...    Tomek Nowicki    
Lord Mohun....................    Stefan Goesling    
Beatrix as KInd..............    Zarah Bracht    
Frank..............................    Viktor Goerlich    
Frank as toddler..........    Quentin Sandberger    

The hermit......................    Thitz    
Henry.............................    Tobias Sandberger    

Soldiers........................    Mark Boehm    

Kevin L. Bauer    

Sven Asmus-Reinsberger    

Rudi Burr    

Sushi    

Producers:                        Phitz Philm and Abbildungszentrum Hamburg
Production management: Peter Ott, Thitz, Sandberger
Concept/Book:                 Thitz, Tobias Sandberger
Dramaturgy, Art Director: Thitz, Stuttgart
Director:                           Tobias Sandberger
Camera:                          Jörn Staeger, Doro Carl
Trick camera/Editing:      Tobias Sandberger
Sound:                            Joachim Rudolph, Alphaton Hamburg
Music:                             Pit Przygodda
Equipment:                    Thitz,Katharina Trost, ( Schorndorf).