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PRIX Television EUROPA Fiction Franz Fuchs - A Patriot 01 Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot Entering organisation: Österreichischer Rundfunk - ORF Contact: Susanne Spellitz When the terrorist Franz Fuchs committed suicide Email: [email protected] in 2000, it seemed as if Austria had buried a painful chapter of its past. Elisabeth Scharang has taken another Author/s: Elisabeth Scharang look at the case. This programme reveals new facets Director: Elisabeth Scharang that go beyond the actual criminal case. Camera: Helmut Wimmer A feature documentary film, this psychogram of a lone Commissioning editor: Klaus Lintschinger perpetrator interwoven with documentary sequences Production company: epo-film produktionsges.m.b.h. and archival material, becomes the first film to tackle Producer: Dieter Pochlatko this subject comprehensively, questioning the political Co-Producer/s: ORF, Austrian Television Fund, climate in Austria and Europe as well. It is the story Cine Styria Kunst of an exceptionally talented person who ended up becoming a terrorist instead of a nuclear physicist. Length: 89’ Total budget: €1,000,000.- Production format: Super 16 Date of production: September 2007 First broadcast: 20:15, 2 October 2008, ORF Screened on: Monday, 20 October 2008 AUSTRIA Television PRIX Fiction EUROPA 02 The Intruder De Indringer Entering organisation: episode 1/3 Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - VRT Contact: Franky Audenaerde Tom Vansant, a 40-year-old doctor in Brussels, is Email: [email protected] desperately searching for traces of his daughter Louise who disappeared 18 months ago. In his search, he Author/s: Ward Hulselmans comes across another 16-year-old runaway who left Director: Frank Van Mechelen her hometown in the Ardennes at about the same time Camera: Lou Bergmans as Louise disappeared. Although the girl refuses to talk Commissioning editor: Marc de Geest about her past, Tom is convinced that she knows more Production company: Skyline Entertainment about his daughter. Producer: Eric Wirix He follows the girl to the Ardennes and lands in an unknown and dangerous environment where things are Length: 48’43’’ not what they seem and where hostile villagers don’t really care for strangers. Total budget: €2,227,000.- Production format: Not specified Date of production: 2004-2007 First broadcast: 18 November 2007, VRT Competing for SPECIAL PRIX EUROPA Donated by Finnish Broadcasting - YLE Title of series: De Indringer BELGIUM Screened on: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 PRIX Television EUROPA Fiction War Correspondent 03 Voenen Korespondent Entering organisation: Bulgarian National Television - BNT Contact: Juliana Boianova This is a film looking at the unknown life of the Email: [email protected] distinguished Bulgarian writer Yordan Yovkov, soldier, correspondent, friend, missionary, and chronicler of Author/s: Vladi Kirov the pain, suffering and the thirst of the ordinary men in Director: Kostadin Bonev wartime. These small pieces of melodramatic stories Camera: Konstantin Zankov at the war fronts are based on stories, which the writer Commissioning editor: Kosta Bikov actually experienced and recreated. Production company: Bulgarian National Television Producer: Costa Bikov Co-Producer/s: Gala film Length: 89’ Total budget: € 180,000.- Production format: Digi Beta Date of production: March 2008 First broadcast: 5 May 2008, BNT 1 Screened on: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 BULGARIA Television PRIX Fiction EUROPA 04 The Wave The Wave Entering organisation: episode 1/3 Czech Television - CT Contact: Jitka Prochazkova A gripping story that develops in the setting of the real- Email: [email protected] life natural disaster that took place along the shores of the Indian Ocean in December 2004. The alldestructive Author/s: Josef Klima Tsunami wave hit the very lives of hundreds of Director: Jiri Svoboda thousands. Amongst them were two lifelong friends, Camera: Ivo Popek, Richard Radonic Adam and Robert. Adam had come to these parts of the Commissioning editor: Ivan Hubac world to spend a holiday with his young wife; Robert Production company: Czech Television had cut short his roving lifestyle to settle here in a Producer: Jaroslav Kucera Hispanic colony. The two men are overjoyed to meet again, they have Length: 73’19’’ many years to catch up on. Then the great Tsunami came crashing onto these peaceful shores and the Total budget: €334,208.- gigantic ocean waves flooded all around them. Only one Production format: Digi Beta of the two men survived. As he regains consciousness Date of production: January 2008 at hospital, he first remembers nothing at all and he First broadcast: 20:00, 10 February 2008, CT 1 doesn’t even know who he is. Then, gradually, his memory comes back, but there are things he can’t understand. And so, for some time, Adam hides behind the identity of his friend Robert, in order to take time to unravel the network of deception and crime he was supposed to have been involved in, as well as to clarify some foggy events in his own life. Competing for SPECIAL PRIX EUROPA Donated by Finnish Broadcasting - YLE Title of series: The Wave CZECH REPUBLIC Screened on: Thursday, 23 October 2008 PRIX Television EUROPA Fiction Shade 05 Katve Entering organisation: Finnish Broadcasting Company -YLE Contact: Monica Bergman It’s the summer holidays and three young men are Email: [email protected] heading south to the awaiting hot sandy beaches with InterRail passes. Rami, Pietro and Lare are looking for Author/s: Jaana Salminen a fresh beginning. Director: Matti Ijäs Camera: Pauli Bessonoff Rami is brooding in the shadow of his young Commissioning editor: Harri Virtanen stepmother and mourning his late mom, while his dad Production company: YLE appears to care less about how his son is doing. Work Producer: Asta Parikka comes first. Pietro is heading south in search of his father. His Length: 54’03’’ single mother, half fed-up with life, has decided to dump his belongings and to kick her boy out once and Total budget: €420,000.- for all. Production format: Digi Beta Lare has been going out with his Johanna for a couple Date of production: December 2007 of years and wishes their relationship was more First broadcast: 20:00, 10 December 2007, YLE 1 permanent in nature. A few weeks of summer life do more to mature these lads than the train journey does and the course of their lives is influenced by, for example, a lost little boy, the vanishing act of an eccentric docent, an occultist fair and one sad text message. Trains come and go, but friendship is forever. Screened on: Friday, 24 October 2008 FINLAND Television PRIX Fiction EUROPA 06 Silver Stars Hopeanuolet Entering organisation: episode 1/3 Finnish Broadcasting Company -YLE Contact: Monica Bergman Silver Stars is a road movie about Ritva and Marja- Email: [email protected] Leena, two ageing women who, contrary to all conceptions, lead lives that are anything but tranquil. Author/s: Kaarina Hazard, Leea Klemola These two ladies might have their age and gender in Director: Anu Mantila common, but that’s as far as any similarities goes. Camera: Jussi Eerola Commissioning editor: Harri Virtanen This picturesque comedy plays out on the highways of Production company: Do Films Ltd = Aamu our northern civilised nation, depicting a world where Producer: Markku Tuurna armpits are scrubbed over washbasins and where a mere Co-Producer/s: YLE fiver can be lot of money. Length: 45’07’’ Total budget: €756,999.- Production format: Not specified Date of production: October 2007 First broadcast: 21:00, 15 October 2007, YLE 1 Competing for SPECIAL PRIX EUROPA Donated by Finnish Broadcasting - YLE Title of series: Hopeanuolet FINLAND Screened on: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 PRIX Television EUROPA Fiction Mummy is crazy 07 Maman est Folle Entering organisation: France 3 Contact: Beatrice Dupas Sylvie, a very sensitive woman who can still play like Email: [email protected] children do, comes in contact with a new world. A lot of refugees from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan and Author/s: Jean-Pierre Ameris, Olivier Adam eastern countries live in Stangatte, a northern city of Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris France. Camera: Not specified Sylvie becomes voluntary to help them and strikes Commissioning editor:Not specified up a friendship with one of them called Jallah. Her Production company: Escazal Films husband and their two children don’t understand her Producer: Sophie Revil commitment. Is she too fragile to stand the reality? Co-Producer/s: TV5, CRRAV Nord-Pas de Calais Length: 90’ Total budget: Not specified Production format: Not specified Date of production: February 2007 First broadcast: 22 October 2007, France 3 Screened on: Monday, 20 October 2008 FRANCE Television PRIX Fiction EUROPA 08 One Day, You’ll understand / Later Plus tard Entering organisation: France 2 Contact: Ghislaine Jassey In today’s Paris, Victor, stands alone. He is deep in Email: [email protected] thought in front of a large wall where names have been engraved. It is the French memorial to its Jewish Author/s: Dan Franck, Jérôme Clément, adapted by deportees. Marie-José Sanselme, Amos Gitaï Twenty years earlier, in a cluttered apartment, filled Director: Amos Gitaï with a lifetime of precious antiques, some stranger than Camera: Caroline Champetier others, Rivka is preparing a dinner for two that she will Commissioning editor: Not specified share with her son Victor. Production company: Image & Compagnie Producer: Serge Moati, Nicole Collet The television is on and we can hear a survivor’s Co-Producer/s: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, testimony at Klaus Barbie’s trial, which has just begun. Fontana - RTL-TVI, Région Ile-de-France Though Rivka is working to control her emotions, they are evident. Length: 89’10’’ The same testimony can be heard in Victor’s large office. He turns a deaf ear to his secretary’s requests Total budget: €2,000,000.- as he is poring over the documents covering his desk.