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The Owner

The Owner

2012Movie⏱️ 1h 34mNot Rated
Drama
7.1
IMDB Rating
191 votes

The film follows a backpack on a journey around the world, intersecting the lives of dozens of fascinating characters along the way. Written and directed by 25 different directors on 5 continents in an unprecedented online collabo...

Director
N/A
Writers
Ather Ali, Ian Bonner, Francois Coetzee
Stars
Jorge Mario Agudelo, Chiraz Aich, Christine Altmann
Release Date
May 25, 2012
Language
English, German
Country
United States, Germany
💬 12
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

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Jorge Mario Agudelo
as Crazy person
Chiraz Aich
Chiraz Aich
as Lisa
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Christine Altmann
as Marie
Surely Alvelo
Surely Alvelo
as Maria
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Gonzalo Arroyos
as Crazy person
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Floriane Aurigny
as Object Magazine Staff Member
👤
Heidi Baratta
as Psychic
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Adriana Barba
as Rosália
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Edilaine Donizete Barbosa
as Villager 2
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Brian Baumeister
as News Cameraman

🎬 Technical Specs

Filming Location
Berlin, Germany
Production
Ex Film Collective, Lights Go Down, RR3 Films

🏷️ Keywords

f ratedcollaborative filmmaking

🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

A whole new world of filmmaking
by jblockbuster-461-7748432014-08-12
10/10

"The Owner is truly one of the most amazing films I've seen in the last years. Personally I feel the story of making the Owner is as big as the film itself - 25 directors from all over the world gather their resources to create one film. A film like this would have been impossible to make just years ago but now, in the time of networking over the internet, a whole new world opens up for independent filmmakers. Specifically interesting about The Owner is the story the filmmakers created to weave all their different segments into one whole story. The Owner is not a collection of short st..."

💡 Did You Know?

At the beginning of the film, after a man empties out the contents of the backpack and doesn't find anything valuable and leaves it, a homeless looking young girl approaches it and begins to pick up the contents. There are several letters and one of the letters she picks up has on the envelope written "mac guffin", this is a reference to a plot device popularly used in films known as a MacGuffin in which an object serves as the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation- just like the backpack in this film.

📖 Synopsis

The film follows a backpack on a journey around the world, intersecting the lives of dozens of fascinating characters along the way. Written and directed by 25 different directors on 5 continents in an unprecedented online collabo...