Director: Alan Ball
Script: Alan Ball
Created by: Alan Ball
Photography: Alan Caso
Editor: Christopher Nelson
Music: Richard Marvin
Sound: Richard Van Dyke
Production Design: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein
Principal Cast: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Jeremy Sisto, Rachel Griffiths
Producer: Christian Taylor
Executive Producer: Alan Ball, Robert Greenblatt, David Janollari
Production: HBO Productions in association with The Greenblatt Janollari Studio for HBO
Distribution Germany: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution
Tel: +44 89 455 789 0
Fax: +44 89 455 789 19
E-Mail: petra.juettner@warnerbros.com
Internet: www.wbitv.com
First Broadcast: 04.06.2001, 21.30 HBO over 5.4 Mio
Selected Filmography Alan Ball: Oh Grow Up (TV series), 1999; American Beauty, 1999; Cybill (TV series), 1995 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supprorting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Rachel Griffiths Golden Globes 2002.
An absolute must for fans of the series, it already enjoys cult status in the U.S. The clients of funeral home Fisher & Sons end up six feet under at the end up each episode. Up until that point, director and writer Alan Ball (Oscar for
„American Beauty“) puts the protagonists of his first television series through everything the human mind can devise, from black humor to sheer desperation. With a precise grasp of the American dream of perfect family life, he dissects everything from the ideals of wedded bliss down to the taboo of death itself. Alan Ball was recognized as Best Director by the Directors’ Guild of America, and the show won Best Series at the Golden Globes in 2001.