BITTERSÜSS/ BITTERSWEET PORTFOLIO UPDATE: PRODUCTION DESIGN (Pre-Production 2013) for visually strong but 'Almost NO- Budget' like film: TITLE: BITTERSÜSS/ BITTERSWEET, GENRE: Drama, 95min CAST: Lisa Brand, Manuel Cortez, Jessy Moravec, Susen Ermich, Thomas Giegerich, Amrei Haardt, Steffen C. Jürgens, Stefan Lampadius, Carolina Rath, Daniel Steiner, Franziska Traub, Tom-Veit Weber, Milton Welsh, Ramin Yazdani CREW: Production: Neptunia Pictures GmbH, Tonfabrik Audio Productions Producer: Bhati, Sorg, Sharma Writer/ Director: Krishna Bhati Cinematographer: Christoph Wieczorek Production Designer: Yvonne von Krockow Kostümbild: Petra Fassbender Editor: Matthias Semmler Sound Design: Martin Hertel SYNOPSIS: Sweet like love, bitter like betrayal. After a terrible fight with her conservative parents, 19-year-old Mina moves in with her sister Mandy, who works a prostitute. Mina finds love when she meets Tony, a DJ with financial problems. But two sinister debt collectors give them a drastic ultimatum: they have three days to raise 11 000 Euros. Mandy’s advice to Mina is a diabolic one: to sell the costliest thing she possesses, her virginity.