Flirt
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Hal Hartley
Bill Sage
Nils Bruck
Elina L÷wensohn
Kumiko Ishizuka
Tetsuya Tabata
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Dizzying and deadpan in the best Hartley style, "Flirt" begins in New York City with the story of Bill, whose girlfriend gives him an ultimatum a few hours before leaving for a trip to Paris: make a commitment or end the relationship. Asking for ninety minutes to think it over, he sets out to investigate the only remaining romantic possibility in his life--a married woman named Margaret. Instead, he is forced to confront Margaret's devastated husband, Walter, who turns up with a gun, threatening to shoot himself. Bill's efforts to save Walter wind up literally exploding in his face. The film then proceeds to tell a variation of the same basic story two more times: in Berlin, where the central character is Dwight, a young black American unable to settle down with his boyfriend, Johan, an older German art dealer; and in Tokyo, where a dance student named Miho is torn between her teacher/choreographer, Mr. Ozu and her boyfriend, an American filmmaker.
Director
Hal Hartley
Cast
Bill Sage
Nils Bruck
Elina L÷wensohn
Kumiko Ishizuka
Tetsuya Tabata
Maria Schrader
Tetushi Yamazaki
Morito Ikeda
Patricai Scanlon
Sabina Svoboda
Stefan Kolosko
Hirofumi Nakagawa
Jorg Biester
Toshizo Fujiwara
Meikyoh Yamada
Miho Nikaidoh
Tomoko Fujita
Jakob Klaffke
Hasan Ali Mete
Martin Donovan
Junji Iijiima
Geno Lechner
Parker Posey
Michael Imperioli
Liana Pai
Robert John Burke
Lars Rudolph
Karen Sillas
Bano Dost
José Z·±iga
Harold Perrineau
Eri Yu
Susanna Simon
Yuri Aso
Chikako Hara
Joy Kraft
Masatoshi Nagase
Susie Bick
Erica Gimpel
Boris Aljinovic
Amina Gusner
Hans Martin Stier
Paul Austin
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Sebastian Koch
Frank Schendler
Gerhard Severin
Yutaka Matsushige
Holt Mccallany
Kenji Yamaguchi
Hannah Sullivan
Dwight Ewell
Dominik Bender
Natsumi Mizuno
Hal Hartley
Peter Fitz
Crew
Tetsuya Aoki
Steve Apicella
M J April
Mark Bailey
Jennifer Baime
Teresa Ballard
Michael Baskett
Sarah Black
Vincent Botsh
Meg Bowles
John Brenkus
Jerome Brownstein
Reinhard Brundig
Paul Candrilli
Mara Catalan
Judy Chin
Joe Cimino
Thierry Didonna
Marjorie Durand
Norman Engel
Christopher Fanning
Catherina Findeisen
Almut Fitzgerald
Jeff Frederick
Frank Friedemann
Ines Fritscher
Larry Ganem
Joey Garfield
Jeanne L Gilliland
Alyssa Goldberg
Lisa Gossels
Ulla Gothe
Folker Greisner
Sarah Gross
Nicolay Gutscher
Martin Hagemann
Steve Hamilton
Steve Hamilton
Grete Hartkopf
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley
China Hayashi
Mark Higashino
Mark Higashino
Edgar Hinz
Ted Hope
Billy Hopkins
Joyce Hsieh
Carleen Hsu
Haruko Imamura
Yasunobu Isa
Satoru Iseki
Satoru Iseki
Miwa Ishiguro
Toshimori Iwaki
Diana Jaher
Brigitte Janus
Fumisada Kaneshiro
Miki Kasamatsu
Miki Kasamatsu
Lydia Kavanaugh
Bernhard Keller
Jami Kibel
Eric Klein
Christa Kofer
Christoph Krauss
Michael Kruger
Hisami Kuroiwa
Lars Lange
Rick Lange
Wolfgang Laubner
Sarah Lavery
Hope Litoff
Susan Littenberg
Sherrie Liu
Jason Lowi
Richard Ludwig
Ann Markel
Tomoyuki Maruo
Kendall Mccarthy
Allan R Mckinnon
Kelly Miller
Lila Mirochin
Lila Mirochin
Kenji Mizobuchi
Andreas Muller
Edmund Muller
Georg Nonnenmacher
Cass O'meara
Naohiro Ohno
Yoshito Ohno
Mechthild Olliges
Hiroshi Onishi
Toshiaki Ozawa
Tom Patterson
Craig Paul
Noelle Penraat
Stom Norpsan Peterson
Linda Phillips
Helmut Prein
Jeff Pullman
David Pultz
Hans-joachim Rabs
Jennifer Ralston
Katrin Rohm
Steve Rosenzweig
Christoph Ruter
Katsunori Saito
Tsutomu Sakurai
Tina Salomon
Dave Samuels
Johnny Santiago
Ric Schachtenbeck
Roland Schmidt
Leah Schoenewolf
Axel Scholz
Hans Schronherr
Alexander Schubert
Cornelius Schutz-kraft
David Shanker
Shinichi Shimano
Narito Shimizu
Osamu Shimizu
Steve Silkensen
Erla Skuladottir
Suzanne Smith
Michael Spiller
Reilly Steele
W Frank Stubbledfield
Frank Stuck
Tsuyoshi Sugino
Jacqui Sullivan
Fumiaki Suzaka
Patricia Sztaba
Stan Sztaba
Shouichi Takeuchi
Osamu Takizawa
Kotaro Tanabe
Amy Tapper
Jeffrey Taylor
Gabrielle Theurer
Gabrielle Theurer
Adrienne Tien
Masaki Tokumi
Makiko Tomoda
Adrian Truini
Tommy Tsuda
Yoko Umezawa
Akira Utsunomiya
Monika Von Manteuffel
Kazutoshi Wadakura
Alexandra Welker
Karin Wisel
Scott Wyles
Hideo Yamaoka
Isao Yukisada
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States January 1996
Released in United States on Video June 3, 1997
Released in United States September 1995
Released in United States Summer August 7, 1996
Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 - October 15, 1995.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Opening Night in Park City) January 18-28, 1996.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentation) September 7-16, 1995.
Began shooting February 1993.
Completed shooting March 22, 1995.
Hal Hartley's previous short "Flirt" (USA/1993), starring Parker Posey and Martin Donovan, will comprise the New York segment of this tryptich film.
The Berlin segment was shot September 7-13, 1994 and the Tokyo segment March 15-22, 1995.
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 - October 15, 1995.)
Released in United States January 1996 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Opening Night in Park City) January 18-28, 1996.)
Released in United States on Video June 3, 1997
Released in United States Summer August 7, 1996
Released in United States September 1995 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentation) September 7-16, 1995.)
