Smoke (Aus der Reihe "24FPS – Fotografie im Film")

In the organizer's words:

The screenplay, written by Paul Auster, tells several parallel storylines centered around a small tobacco store in Brooklyn.

After the violent death of his wife, Paul has been living unhappily alone in his writer's apartment since the 1970s. One evening, Paul wants to get his Schimmelpenninck cigarillos just before closing time, the owner of the tobacco store, Auggie Wren, invites Paul into his apartment for a cigar length. There he shows Paul his project: every morning at exactly eight o'clock he takes a tripod photo of his store, seen from the opposite corner of the intersection, and has done so for many years. The two of them look at the albums, and when they arrive at the albums of the 1970s, Paul suddenly finds his deceased wife depicted in a photo.

USA 1995, 112 minutes, original English version with German subtitles | FSK: 12

Directed by Wayne Wang | Screenplay: Wayne Wang, Paul Auster | Producers: Kenzô Horikoshi, Greg Johnson, Hisami Kuroiwa, Peter Newman | With: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Harold Perrineau Jr., Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Forest Whitaker, Giancarlo Esposito, Jared Harris | Distributed by: Park Circus