ALLENDE EL MAR (Lost Horizons)

A feature film by Wolfgang H Scholz

with Peter Lohmeyer, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ofelia Medina

One must have a goal,

his mother told him as a child.

One has to leave something behind,

which proves your life,

his father used to say.

The desperate search of an abandoned German husband (Robert) for his Mexican wife, who rushed to Mexico with their 7-year-old son. He struggles to fight his way through until he can finally find her whereabouts. Since his decision to fly to Mexico, comic sequences of a parallel Robert and a story that is similar to his and yet always takes place a little before or after begin. The desperate search develops into a story about the relationship between time and the meaning of waiting. But above all, it is a story about fathers and the difficulties in culturally mixed relationships.

A film about a couple in which both believe they know each other because of the closeness and duration of their relationship. In fact, however, they know very little, almost nothing about each other In this story, this couple has a child, a son. The woman and his wife left him without a trace. One of the two, the very father who is looking for his son, has to prove his existence. Nobody believes him that he actually lived the life he tells them about. I've had this basic idea in my head since my last feature film „Lost Wings“, 1999. In my opinion, a crucial point is the search for his son. His child as proof of his own life.

Wolfgang H Scholz, 2008

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish

100 mins.

Producer:                    Doña Films S.A. de C.V., Mexico

Co-Producer:                Sic! Film Productions GmbH, Deutschland

Producer:                      Erwin Neumaier de Hoyo

Distribution, world:        ATLAS INTERNATIONAL                   

Distribution, Mexico:     MACONDO CINE

Director + book:            Wolfgang H Scholz

The script-doctor for the sreenplay was the bestseller-author Laura Esquivel ((„Like Water for Chocolate“ 1992, „The Law of Love” 1996, “Swift as Desire” 2001).

Camera, DoP:              Arturo de la Rosa

Editing:                         Sigfrido Barjau

Sound Design:             Pablo Fernandez

Production design:       Guadalupe Sánchez

Funding for this film could not be closed.