Feature Film · Germany · 2021–2025
Ein Stück
über den Rand
About and Beyond the Edge
Regie & Buch: Christian David Fischer
Synopsis
Bea is an actress — and perhaps too old. For her first solo theatre project, she searches for a beginning but finds only fragments and loose ends. As rehearsals, everyday life and her own texts intertwine, the boundary between character and biography begins to dissolve.
A hybrid feature film about performance, aging and the fragile moment when fiction creates a space for emotions that could not emerge in real life.
Bea ist Schauspielerin — und vielleicht zu alt. Für ihr erstes Solo-Theaterprojekt sucht sie nach einem Anfang, findet aber nur Fragmente und offene Enden. Als Proben, Alltag und eigene Texte ineinandergreifen, beginnt die Grenze zwischen Figur und Biografie zu verschwimmen.
- Regie & Buch
- Christian David Fischer
- Produzenten
- Christian David Fischer, Paul von Boetticher
- Schnitt
- Paul von Boetticher
- Dramaturgie
- Charlotte Birkner-Behlen
- Darsteller:innen
- Bettine Beer (Bea Kamphausen)
Sven Carl Gusowski (Stefan Kamphausen)
Juanjo Sanchez (Ernesto)
Ikko Masuda (Ein Mensch)
Lisa Diringer (Paula)
Vandross Alage (Amadou)
Elsa Loy (Casterin) - Sprachen
- Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch
- Fertigstellung
- Oktober 2025
- Budget
- 15.000 EUR
- Land
- Deutschland
Director's Statement
Can a fictional situation make something emotionally possible that real life could not?
This question became the starting point for Ein Stück über den Rand. I did not want to make a film about theatre. I wanted to explore theatre as a space where something can happen that everyday life often prevents: where emotions, memories and conflicts can find a form before they can be fully understood.
The film's hybrid form follows this movement. Reality, rehearsal and fiction constantly overlap — not to blur the distinction between truth and invention, but to explore how both can shape each other.
At the same time, Bea's story reflects a wider question: who is still granted the space to create, to change and to be seen? Through the perspective of an aging actress, the film looks at the invisible boundaries created by age, gender and social expectations — and at the ways artistic spaces can exclude voices that do not fit established ideas of success.
Can art be the place where life finally catches up with us?
— Christian David Fischer, Regisseur