SYNOPSIS Robert is living in Betty's flat. Betty is living in reality. As Robert hates Betty's reality he starts to hide. In Betty's flat. TEAM CAST: Achim Schauffele, Marion Gretchen Schmitz, Michael Dreher DIRECTOR: Astrid Rieger SCREENPLAY: Astrid Rieger, Bernd Thiele SCRIPT CONSULTANT: Michaela Tschubenko, Henning Kunze PRODUCTION: Astrid Rieger CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mark Liedtke LIGHTING: Jana Pape SOUND: Benedikt Rauterberg SET DESIGN: Gregor Mager COSTUME DESIGN: Daniela Bayer MAKE-UP: Mercedes Wagner EDIT: Astrid Rieger, Ronald Scharf SPECIAL EFFECTS: Stefan Ringelschwandtner SOUND DESIGN: Eunice Martins SOUND MIX: Harald Guhn COLOR GRADING: Robin Schmude DISTRIBUTION & SALES Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg e.V. AWARDS "predicate: valuable" by the German Film Rating Office (FBW) 2010 nominated for "Best Screenplay" at shortcutz Berlin JURY STATEMENT FBW- "predicate valuable" This strange title stands for rose hip jam. Robert, who is a bit unwordly, preserves it. Robert is feeling like a nature's child, denying the normality of his girlfriend's every day life, that he considers plain. He is hoarding supplies, like a squirrel. Also at a buffet where he is actually supposed to be presented to his future boss. But Robert flees into his cave, that he has set up in the common flat. While he is living a dire existance behind cardboard boxes, walnuts are lying on the bed to dry. Robert will never be submitting himself to daily routine, so he subsequently cuts out his own path – away from the haunting world of duty and restraint. His getaway into the woods ultimatively marks his withdrawal from reality. This is being pointed out in a surreal scene where he believes to see his "almost-boss" in the forest. He grants him a definite refusal with his rose hip jam. Robert's surreal escapism is used as an opportunity to create coherent pictures, especially in terms of colours. There are crimson rose hips, brown nuts, deep green forests and the white, sterile flat. Still, a few scenes interfere with this all in all felicitous staging displaying the life of a freak. Robert's encounter with his "almost-boss" at the evening buffet seems exorbitantantly performed and is little convincing in it's mannered way. FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION International Film Festival Cannes - Short Film Corner - GerMANY Shorts, 26th International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg 2010 , 34th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2010, kurzfilmfunk hamburg < berlin 2010, molodist - Kyiv International Film Festival 2010, 23rd exground filmfest Wiesbaden 2010, Shortcutz Berlin 2011, Lichter Filmtage Frankfurt 2011, achtung berlin - new berlin film award 2011, UKS Oslo 2011, Skandaløs Festival 2011, NOVA Contemporary Culture Sao Paolo und Belo Horizonte 2012, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2014 PRESS Hannover Allgemeine Zeitung 13.10.2010 A man is picking rosehips. At home he cooks them with the utmost meticulousness. His girlfriend is in the office, while he is hoarding food, like an animal preparing for winter. Later the man is hiding in a ventilation shaft in their apartment to escape a job interview. Astrid Rieger’s film "Dogrose" focuses on two people being in a relationship and still isolated from each other. The story lives from its grotesque humour and the protagonist’s insistent and obscure facial expressions. Neue Presse 13.10.2010 Rieger's film "Dogrose" shows an almost autistic-looking young man who escapes from a world of obligations and constraints, by focusing entirely on boiling rose hip jam. One has to come up with something like that! (...) Especially Rieger's film convinces with impressively atmospheric pictures and dramaturgy.