Machan

1h 49m

6.7

Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to immigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an application to a handball tournament in Bavaria, and not even knowing what the game is, they submit themselves and a group of friends as the "Sri Lanka National Handball Team". For appearance's sake, they begin minimal training and then seek travel visas from the German Embassy. Their plans to simply escape into the West upon arrival in Germany are thwarted by the quick appearance of the tournament organizers and an arena of fans eager to see the prowess of the Sri Lanka National Handball Team.

Cast

Dharmapriya Dias

Gihan De Chickera

Dharshan Dharmaraj

Namal Jayasinghe

Sujeewa Priyalal

Dayadewa Edirisinghe

Pitchchei Selvaraj

Kumara Thirimadura

Pubudu Chathuranga

Pradeepan Puwabalasingham

Sarath Karunaratne

Mangala Pradeep Kumara

Saumya Liyanage

Angry Foreigner

Mahendra Perera

Crew

Uberto Pasolini

Director, Writer, Screenplay, Story, Producer, Idea

Ruwanthie De Chickera

Writer, Screenplay, Story, Idea

Masahiro Hirakubo

Stefano Falivene

Director of Photography

First Assistant Director

First Assistant Director

Second Assistant Director

Second Assistant Director

Julia Schweizer

Third Assistant Director

Assistant Director

Cunchana Basanayake

Production Coordinator

Production Coordinator

Production Coordinator

Production Coordinator

Antonello Sammito

Production Coordinator

Sonja B. Zimmer

Executive Producer

Conchita Airoldi

Prasanna Vithanage

Associate Producer

Henning Molfenter

Katharina Holzfuss

Production Assistant

Production Design

Christian Almesberger

Camera Operator

First Assistant Camera

Ricarda Hibbeln

Additional First Assistant Camera

First Assistant "A" Camera

Nadine Neuneier

Second Assistant "A" Camera

First Assistant "B" Camera

Steadicam Operator

Damayanthi Fonseka

Constanze Hagedorn

Costume Supervisor

Sandhiya Jayasuriya

Costume Assistant

Nathalie Neusüß

Wardrobe Assistant

Lalith Dharmawardena

Ebert Wijesinghe

Key Makeup Artist

Nina Heppelmann

Supervising Sound Editor

Anandar Chandrahasan

Sound Recordist

Hans-Jörg Bramm

Hunor Schauschitz

Lakshman Joseph De Saram

Original Music Composer

Stephen Warbeck

Original Music Composer

Yann McCullough

Gopi Darmaratnam

Production Accountant

Wolfgang Schwedler

Production Accountant

Dialogue Editor, Recording Supervision

Lal Harindranath

Johannes Pfaller

Janak Mayadunne

Still Photographer

Still Photographer

Jeewanthi Manik

Script Supervisor

Senaka Nawaratne

Script Supervisor

Caroline Veyssière

Script Supervisor

Harald Gliesche

Location Manager

Malcolm Mantara Rattanapitiya

Location Manager

Assistant Location Manager

Matthias Nerlich

Assistant Location Manager

Katja Hoerstmann

Business Affairs Coordinator

Welagedara Ranasinghe

Property Master

Martin Nicolas Kunz

M.D. Mahindapala

Additional Photography

Recording Supervision

Fabrizio Pistone

Digital Conform Editor

Eddie Handschak

Video Assist Operator

Rohana Premachandra

Stefan Walkowiak

Ariyarathne Perera

Iranthi Abeyasinghe

Production Manager

Christian Klempert

Unit Production Manager

Pierpaolo Marcelli

Digital Intermediate

Matthias Fehrenbach

Oliver Kueper-Grobecker

Billy A. Campbell

Additional Editor

Crowd Assistant Director

First Assistant Editor

Tharupathi Munasinghe

Isobel Griffiths