72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Submergence

Wim Wenders
Germany - France - Spain      110 m.
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Submergence is a love story that takes us into the extremely different worlds of our two protagonists, Danielle Flinders and James More. They meet by chance in a remote hotel in Normandy where they both prepare for a dangerous mission. They fall in love almost against their will, but soon recognize in each other the love of their lives. When they have to separate, we find out that James works for the British Secret Service. He’s involved in a mission in Somalia to track down a source for suicide bombers infiltrating Europe. Danielle ‘Danny’ Flinders is a bio-mathematician working on a deep sea diving project to support her theory about the origin of life on our planet. Soon, they are worlds apart. James is taken hostage by Jihadist fighters and has no way of contacting Danny, and she has to go down to the bottom of the ocean in her submersible, not even knowing if James is still alive…

Director
Wim Wenders
Screenplay
Erin Dignam
Production
Lila 9th (USA)
Cameron Lamb
Backup Films (France)
Jean Baptiste Babin, Joel Thibout, David Atlan-Jackson
Neue Road Movies (Germany)
Wim Wenders
Morena Films (Spain)
Juan Gordon
Photography
Benoît Debie
Edition
Toni Froschhammer
Music
Fernando Velázquez
Cast
James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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Embankment Films
Westbourne Studios. Unit 20, 242 Acklam Road
W10 5JJ
London
United Kingdom
Running Time
110 m.
Country
Germany - France - Spain
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