Title	KETTLEBELL
Brand	DOCMORRIS
Product/Service	DOCMORRIS
Category	A02. Script
Entrant	JUNG VON MATT Hamburg, GERMANY
Idea Creation	JUNG VON MATT Hamburg, GERMANY
Production	MARKENFILM Hamburg, GERMANY
Post Production	INFECTED POSTPRODUCTION Hamburg, GERMANY
Additional Company	2WEI MUSIC Hamburg, GERMANY
Additional Company 2	ARRI MEDIA GMBH München, GERMANY
Additional Company 3	DOCMORRIS - DIE APOTHEKE. Heerlen, THE NETHERLANDS

Name	Company	Position
Frank Müller	DocMorris N.V.	Chief Marketing Officer
Gil Pfitzenmaier	DocMorris N.V.	Director of Marketing
Hannah Polczyk	DocMorris N.V.	Head of Brand & Content
Dörte Spengler-Ahrens	Jung von Matt AG	Managing Director Creation
Alex Schmid	Jung von Matt AG	Creative Director
Dennis Wendt	Jung von Matt AG	Senior Producer
Natalie Martens	Jung von Matt AG	Client Service Director
Olasumbo Pinheiro	Jung von Matt AG	Concept, Copywriter
Ibrahem Ghhareib	Jung von Matt AG	Concept, Art Director
Tasja Oldach	Jung von Matt AG	Senior Project Manager
Viktor Mahé	Jung von Matt AG	Junior Project Manager
Marc Strass	Markenfilm Hamburg GmbH	Executive Producer / Head of Production
Tim Freudenthal	Markenfilm Hamburg GmbH	Assistant Producer
Alan Finlay	Markenfilm Hamburg GmbH	1st AD
Sune Sorenson	AgentZoo	Director
Martin Bardrum	AgentZoo	Agent
Ditte Birk	Freelance	International PR Manager
Franz Lustig	Cosmic Talents	DOP
Marie Berg	Cosmic Talents	Agent
Pauline Perez	Cosmic Talents	Agent
Marine Boisse	Cosmic Talents	Assistant
André Gelhaar	Freelance	Editor
Philipp Orgassa	ARRI Media GmbH	Colourist
Julia Dobler	ARRI Media GmbH	Head of Commercial
Mathias Knöfler	ARRI Media GmbH	Producer Colour
Mathilda Barchmann	ARRI Media GmbH	Grading Assistant
Nathan Padgett	2WEI Music GmbH	Composer
Simon Heeger	2WEI Music GmbH	Composer
Christian Vorländer	2WEI Music GmbH	Composer
Clarissa Beckert	2WEI Music GmbH	Music Supervisor
Tilbert Oelke	Freelance	Storyboard Artist
Paolo Tresoldi	Freelance	Concept

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

The heartwarming films tells the story of an old man who prepares for the holiday, in spite of his health, so that he can share a special moment with his grand-daughter on Christmas Day. He lives alone and realizes that the holidays are coming and he will finally be with his family again. He decides that to make this holiday more meaningful, he has to prepare: not just emotionally, but also physically. He finds his old kettlebell and starts to train religiously every single day- he can’t afford to fail. But why a kettlebell? We don’t know yet. Christmas day comes and he lifts his grand-daughter to place a beautiful star on top of the Christmas tree. He lifts her in the same motion as he lifts his kettlebell during training, without missing a beat. At the end, they share an emotional moment because it was all worth it.

Cultural / Context information for the jury

A majority of Germans still don’t trust health in a digital context and 2020 was a unique year for everyone; so, we had to bridge the gap between tradition and new. All through the year, even though we had to stay apart, we always found ways to come together and spend quality time together. For this work, DocMorris wanted to create something special that made the moment of coming together even more emotional and meaningful. Aside from being a pharmaceutical brand, DocMorris wanted to capture the essence of a special holiday during a very peculiar time.

Provide the full film script in English.

EXT. HOUSE - MORNING A small house sits quietly on a small street with autumn leaves nestling beneath the soon-to-be-bare (but still green) trees as the morning slowly breaks. Inside SAM (70s) is sitting on his bed, slippers waiting neatly for his feet to get in, whilst the cold outside mirrors the vacant stare in his eyes and blankness of his face. In the window reflections we sense a neighbor, MARK (40s), splitting logs into pieces with a maul axe. INT. HOUSE, BEDROOM - MORNING Sam looks at his bedside table. An old turtle is waking up too. He exhales faintly, as if he needs that little bit of extra to get himself going and slips his feet into the warm slippers to get up. INT. HOUSE, HALLWAY - MORNING Sam walks down the hallway, crossing a small room where we glimpse trophies in passing. We stop in front of an array of old and faded photos hanging on the wall next to the room and Sam steps back into frame, as if he notices them too. The photos depict a younger Sam in his prime, partaking in sports contests - full of vigor and clearly a great one at that. Sam picks up one of the frames and as he looks at it we hear a distant memory of a crowd cheering - for a moment it looks like Sam is right back there again and he passes his finger across the picture as if he is trying to touch the fabric of his past. INT. HOUSE, STUDY - MORNING Sam peaks inside to glance at his old medals, trophies, and awards with a nostalgic expression in his face. He looks outside the window, where Mark is still hard at work, lift-ing logs onto a high stack. Mark, who notices Sam looking at him, smiles and waves. Marks’s gesture sparks something in Sam. He gets a look of deter-mination and grabs a coat hanging on a chair. INT. WORK SHED - MORNING Sam, still in his morning robe (only covered by the coat), turns on the light inside the sparsely used and slightly messy shed, filled with gar-den equipment, lawn movers, rakes and some fitness equipment piled up in a dusty mess at the far end. He makes his way through the disarray and finally finds what he was looking for - a box. He blows away the dust, and opens it. He smiles. Inside the box, there’s a heavily used, old-fashioned, kettlebell. The box and bell look like they could be old enough to be from his youth as a competitive sportsman. He pulls at it and immediately his smile fades, as he realizes that he can’t even lift it out of the box. INT. BEDROOM - DAWN Sam wakes up the day after and immediately feels the back ache from yesterday’s attempt at pulling the the kettlebell (he holds a hand on his back). He looks at the picture frame of his younger self, lying on the bedside table next to the turtle. Sam quirkily gestures his contempt and turns it upside down, so he doesn’t have to look at it, which makes the turtle hide inside its shell. INT. KITCHEN - DAWN Putting on a hot tea kettle, he looks outside the window toward the shed where we sense the box and kettlebell, still inside, through a small shed window. He looks like it provokes him. INT. WORK SHED - DAY Autumn winds are picking up and the leaves are whirling around in the background as Sam walks in and turns the light on again - kettlebell sitting neatly in the same spot as yesterday. He breathes in as he thinks “you don’t know who you’re messing with”. EXT. WORK SHED - DAY Sam groaningly, and with great difficulty, backs up inside the shed, pulling the kettlebell along the ground. Next door, another neighbor, EMMA (70s) is about to go out for groceries, getting into her car (old Mercedes). She looks at Sam like she’s trying to figure out what’s going on. Sam pretends that what he is doing is totally normal and tries to disguise the kettlebell behind him, discretely holding his back again and gasping for breath. Sam closes the door with a strained smile but Emma looks unconvinces and skeptical. INT. WORK SHED - DAY We sense Emma driving off in the background as Sam puts the picture frame on a small work bench in front of him (to motivate him) and subtly nods as if he is on a mission. He sits down in front of it and pulls the bell again; it lifts a few inches. INT. WORK SHED - DAY TO EVENING Sam keeps pushing himself to lift it, higher and higher, sweating profusely, but determined to make it. Day has turned into evening as Sam continues powering through. It is clear his goal is to get the bell onto an old cupboard, which is quite elevated and requires a lot of effort. He pushes on and on. But then - he pushes too hard. He strains himself and yells out in pain! EXT. WORK SHED - EVENING We hear the yell outside and a passing couple walking with a stroller stops and look curiously at the shed. EXT. STREET - EVENING Emma, who just got back with with groceries, also heard it. They look at each other in disbelief. INT. HOUSE, BEDROOM - MORNING Sam wakes up, groggy from his workout, to a buzzing phone (the display says “IDA”) but he is so exhausted that he thinks it is his alarm, so he tries turning off the sound by pushing the alarm clock, which makes the radio start instead, only adding to the morning confusion. He quickly turns it off again and sits up, shaking his head as if trying to get his bearings after what just happened. INT. HOUSE, BATHROOM - DAY Sam takes two pain relief pills and swallows them with a glass of water, then closes the wall-hanging cabinet, which reveals him in cabinet mirror. He looks like he is doubting himself. Like he is asking himself “what were you thinking?”. EXT. WORK SHED - DAY Sam puts a lock back on the shed and locks it - across the street Mark pulls out a Christmas tree from his trunk of his car (modern station car, Opel or VW) and easily swings it above his head to put it on his shoulders to the delight of his young children, NOA (6) and LISA (10), who run out greeting him. Their mom, ANKE (40s) is standing in the doorway, smiling. Sam instantly gets an ex-pression of determination on his face and unlocks the shed again. INT. WORK SHED - DAY Sam sits down in front of to the picture to start working out again. The phone starts buzzing again (display: IDA) but Sam doesn’t notice. He powers on! Now, behind him, IDA (late 30s) walks in. She is holding the phone in her hand and looks at Sam as if trying to figure out what’s going on? IDA Papa? He looks at her. Then picks up the kettlebell and begins lifting it again. She is about to say something, but she can see by his expression that he is not to be deterred, so she walks out. We stay on Sam as he keeps pushing himself - lifting the kettlebell higher and higher. He’s not twenty years old anymore but it clearly doesn’t bother him. His discipline is inspiring! The camera slowly moves in. EXT. HOUSE - DAY Sam steops out, dressed in old-school sportswear. He waves politely at Anke across the street (inside her home) as he steps into the shed again - Anke smiles perplexed. EXT. STREET (AUTUMN TURNS WINTER) Sam walks from his house into the shed (Anke’s POV). The brown autumn leaves covering the ground. EXT. STREET (AUTUMN TURNS WINTER) Winter has come and Sam still powers on. He walks across the hard snow covered ground. Now, even the next door children, who are playing in the snow, notice the “peculiar neigh-bor”. Curious to find out whats going on. INT. SHED - DAY NOA and LISA are observing Sam, as he pushes himself harder and harder. They start to immitiate his workout. Even the turtle is bopping its head along now. INT. SHED - EVENING Sam is getting closer, he is pressing himself so hard, he doesn’t relent, He WANTS it up on the cuprboard and then... He does it! Almost anyway. It hits the edge and stays there for a second, before it comes down again. EXT. SHED - EVENING Sam is exultant, exhausted but elated. Excited. It looks like he’s just about to jump for joy or do a victory dance until he gets self-conscious and looks around as if to check no one saw. Noa and Lisa laugh and run away). He sits down, breathing heavily, and quietly smiles to himself.He didn’t “conquer his de-mon” but he did better than he ever expected. EXT. HOUSE - CHRISTMAS MORNING Sam is leaving the house, smartly dressed, holding a small care-fully wrapped gift underneath his arm, as he gets into his old car (Volvo 242 or Volvo 66). A bit of snow is coming down. He waves goodbye to Lisa, Noa, Mark, and Anke, who wave back from inside their Christmas decorated home. INT. IDA’S HOUSE - CHRISTMAS EVE There’s a heavy snow storm outside as we see the beautifully decorated interior with Christmas adornments everywhere, a beautiful Christmas tree bedecked with ornaments and a beau-tifully set Christmas table. They have several guests already and everyone is enjoying themselves except Ida. Ida’s husband, TIM (late 30s), notices her standing by the window. She is looking out into the dark stormy winter, worried. INT. CAR - CHRISTMAS EVE Sam is driving through a blizzard hardly able to see. INT. IDA’S HOUSE - CHRISTMAS EVE The doorbell rings and Ida rushes to the door. EXT. IDA’S HOUSE - CHRISTMAS EVE It’s not Sam. It’s a group of carolers singing a Christmas song. It’s lovely and Tim ap-pears in the background smiling, but Ida can’t hide that she wished it was someone else. EXT. IDA’S HOUSE - CHRISTMAS EVE But then Tim nods in the direction behind the carolers. It’s Sam arriving in his car. He gets out and looks at Ida subtly smiling. INT. IDA’S ENTRY HALLWAY - CHRISTMAS EVE Sam gets in from the cold, everyone happily greeting him in with open arms and politely wishing the carolers a good night, as he walks in. INT. IDA’S LIVING ROOM - CHRISTMAS EVE Everyone inside also greets Sam as he takes off his snowy coat and gets his bearings. People are happily getting ready for the Christmas proceedings but it’s as if Sam search-ing. He looks around as if trying to find something, or someone, and then… Ida’s daughter, MAYA (7), walks around a corner and sees him. She immediately lights up throws herself into an embrace. Sam kneels down next to her and pulls out the gift he brought. She looks at it and opens it. It’s a Christmas star!? Maya is delighted. Ida, who is hanging up Sam’s coat, walks back in and sees Sam, Maya and the star. It looks like something subtly dawns on her. Sam gets up again and looks at Maya. He discretely rubs his back and smiles knowingly at her.Maya picks up the star and reciprocates the smile, when Sam PICKS her up and LIFTS her high into the air! Sam swings her up, so she can put the star on top of the Christmas tree! All the guests look surprised and watch in amazement, none of them expecting this to happen. Sam carefully puts her down again, she smiles and runs off and Sam looks at Ida for a moment (they don’t need words, they understand) Ida, still standing in the doorway, gets tears of joy in her eyes. INT. SHED - NIGHT We see the empty shed with the kettlebell and a faint light protruding from an outside street lamp, which hits the picture frame still placed on the work bench. It wasn’t the sports achievement picture, it just had a similar frame (but not even, we just never noticed the frame was not quite the same). It was a picture of Maya. LOGO & CLAIM END.