Edmond	Vadim Glowna
	Madame	Angela Winkler
	Kogi	Maximilian Schell
	Mister Gold	Birol Ünel
	Secretary	Mona Glass
	Maid	Marina Weiss
	Balladeer	Benjamin Cabuk
	Preacher	Peter Luppa
	Sleeping Beauty	Jacqueline Le Saunier
	Sleeping Beauty	Maria Burghard
	Sleeping Beauty	Babet Mader
	Sleeping Beauty	Linda Elsner
	Sleeping Beauty	Sarah Swenshon
	Sleeping Beauty	Isabelle Wackers
	Written and Directed by	Vadim Glowna
	Produced by	Vadim Glowna
		Raymond Tarabay
	Co-Produced by	Peter Weber
		Michael Frenschkowski
		Marco Herten
		Bernd Schaarmann
	Director of Photography	Ciro Cappellari
	Production Design by	Peter Weber
	Costume Design by	Lucie Bates
	Make-Up Artist	Jekatarina Oertel
	Sound Design by	Thomas Knop
	Edited by	Charlie Lézin
	Original Music by	Nikolaus Glowna
		Siggi Mueller

Vadim Glowna was born 1941 and grew up in Hamburg. The versatile actor, director and author attended Hamburg Stage school. 1961 Gustaf Gründgens took him directly to Hamburger Schauspielhaus where Glowna’s career began. Vadim Glowna became one of Germany’s most popular TV and film actors. He also had many international appearances for example in Sam Peckinpahs epos ‘Steiner - Cross of Iron’ and Claude Chabrols ‘Quiet Days in Clichy’ among many others.

In 2000 he was awarded Best Actor of the year by German Film Critics for his appearance in Oskar Roehlers award winning film ‘No Place to Go’.

Vadim Glowna is also a very successful director, he directed more than 30 TV films as well as 8 feature films. 1981 he won several awards for his film ‘Desperado City’, among others: The ‘Caméra d'Or’ at the International Filmfestival in Cannes. Two of his other directed films ‘Nothing left to lose’ (1983) and ‘Raising to the Bait’ (1992) where in the competition at the International Berlin Filmfestival and both got Honorable Mentions. 1989 Vadim Glowna was member of the jury at the Berlin Filmfestival.

Maximilian Schell is one of the most wellknown and one of the most succesful Germanspeaking actor and director worldwide.

In 1961 he tackled the difficult role of the defense attorney in the sprawling war-crimes epic ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ for which he won an ‘Oscar’ as Best Actor.

Maximilian Schell was all in all six times nominated for the ‘Oscar’ as well as for the ‘Golden Globe’ which he won twice. In Peckinpah’s ‘Steiner - Cross of Iron’ (1976) he met Vadim Glowna, where they became friends.

Angela Winkler is as a German theatre actress a living legend. She appeared in over 100 different plays and worked with the best directors in Europe as Peter Zadek, Luc Bondy, Klaus Michael Grüber etc. Most of her 22 film appearances became big successes, like ‘The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum’ (Schlöndorf/Trotta) where A. Winkler was awarded with the German Filmprize and ‘The Tin Drum’ which won the ‘Oscar’ for the best foreign film as well the ‘Palme d’Or’ at the International Filmfestival in Cannes in 1980. 1984 she played the leading part together with Vadim Glowna in ‘Edith’s Diary’.

Birol Ünel is currently the shooting star of the German film scene. After the huge success of ‘Head-On’ (won ‘Golden Bear’ at the Berlin Filmfestival as well as the ‘Europeen Film Award’, sold to more then 30 territories worldwide and had more than 10 mio EUR at the box office), he actually played in Tony Gatlif’s new film ‘Transylvania’ the principale role and will be starring Vadim Glowna’s next film ‘Heroes’. In 2004 Birol won the ‘German Filmprize’ and was nomitated as Best Actor for the ‘Europeen Film Award’.

First Japanese novelist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968). Many of Kawabata’s book explore melancholically the place of sex in culture and people’s lives. His works combined old Japan’s beauty with modernist trends, realism with surrealistic visions. Over the course of his life, Kawabata wrote more than a hundred ‘palm-of-the-hand’ stories - as the author called them.