S.01_CoverGFQ1.qxp_Layout 1 21.01.15 09:25 Seite 1 GFQ THE BERLINALE ISSUE SHOOTING STAR Jannis Niewöhner SPOTLIGHT ON CHILDREN’S FILM directors Wolfgang Groos & Mike Marzuk, Gabriele Walther of Caligari Film GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY 1-2015 S.01_CoverGFQ1_no_2.qxp_Layout 1 21.01.15 09:23 Seite 1 GFQ THE BERLINALE ISSUE SHOOTING STAR Jannis Niewöhner SPOTLIGHT ON CHILDREN’S FILM directors Wolfgang Groos & Mike Marzuk, Gabriele Walther of Caligari Film GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY 1-2015 S.02_Contents_U2.qxp_Layout 1 21.01.15 09:49 Seite 1 CONTENTS GFQ 1-2015 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 S.03_CONTENTS_GFQ1_2015_Seite3.qxp_Layout 1 21.01.15 10:10 Seite 1 GFQ 1-2015 CONTENTS IN T H I S I S S U E IN BERLIN DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN Ingo Haeb ............................................. 38 DIE ABHANDENE WELT THE MISPLACED WORLD Margarethe von Trotta ............................ 4 NEW DOCUMENTARIES ALS WIR TRÄUMTEN 7 TAGE IM SEPTEMBER 5 AS WE WERE DREAMING Andreas Dresen ....................................... 7 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER Karsten Scheuren ..................................... 39 ELSER – ER HÄTTE DIE WELT VERÄNDERT 10 MILLIARDEN – WIE WERDEN WIR ALLE SATT? 10 BILLION – 6 13 MINUTES Oliver Hirschbiegel ....................................................... WHAT WILL WE EAT TOMORROW? Valentin Thurn ....................... 39 7 EVERY THING WILL BE FINE Wim Wenders .................................... AM KÖLNBERG HEDI SCHNEIDER STECKT FEST AM KOELNBERG Robin Humboldt, Laurentia Genske ..................... 40 HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK Sonja Heiss ......................................... 8 BERLIN EAST SIDE GALLERY Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies ............ 40 IM SOMMER WOHNT ER UNTEN DIE BÖHMS – ARCHITEKTUR EINER FAMILIE CONCRETE LOVE – SUMMERS DOWNSTAIRS Tom Sommerlatte .................................... 9 THE BÖHM FAMILY Maurizius Staerkle Drux ................................. 41 PETTING ZOO Micah Magee ............................................................. 10 BONNE NUIT PAPA Marina Kem ..................................................... 41 SIBYLLE LIKE A CAST SHADOW Michael Krummenacher ............. 11 CAPITAL C Jørg Kundiger, Timon Birkhofer .................................. 42 VICTORIA Sebastian Schipper .......................................................... 12 HERR VON BOHLEN André Schäfer ............................................... 42 WANJA Carolina Hellsgård ............................................................. 13 KRIEG DER LÜGEN WAR OF LIES Matthias Bittner ...................... 43 FREIRÄUME UNOCCUPIED Filippa Bauer (doc) ............................ 14 LETZTE ZUFLUCHT LAST HOPE Adnan G. Köse ............................. 43 I REMEMBER Janna Ji Wonders (short) ........................................... 14 SHOOTING STAR 2015 MÜLHEIM-TEXAS. HELGE SCHNEIDER HIER UND DORT MÜLHEIM-TEXAS. HELGE SCHNEIDER HERE & THERE IN THE RIGHT PLACE Andrea Roggon ............................................................................... 44 A portrait of actor Jannis Niewöhner ............................................... 16 NICE PLACES TO DIE Bernd Schaarmann .................................... 44 SPOTLIGHT ON CHILDREN’S FILMS NON CI È STATO REGALATO NIENTE Eric Esser ........................... 45 FANTASTIC, ELABORATE, SPECIAL NEW SHORTS A portrait of director Wolfgang Groos ............................................. 18 THE FRANCHISE MAN NACH AUSCHWITZ AFTER AUSCHWITZ Jan Sobotka .................... 46 A portrait of director Mike Marzuk .................................................. 20 ROADTRIP Xaver Xylophon ............................................................. 46 ALCHEMISTS OF EMOTIONS UPCOMING FILMS A portrait of Caligari Film ................................................................ 22 47 NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 24 EIN ATEM A BREATH Christian Zübert ........................................... 47 NEW FEATURES AXEL DER HELD AXEL THE HERO Hendrik Hoelzemann .............. DIE GESCHLECHTSKRIEGERINNEN COLONIA Florian Gallenberger ...................................................... 47 28 THE GENITAL WARRIORS Matthew O. L. Way ............................... DIE DUNKLE SEITE DES MONDES HIRSCHEN – DA MACHST WAS MIT! THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Stephan Rick ................................. 48 HIRSCHEN George Inci .................................................................... 29 FACK JU GÖHTE 2 Bora Dagtekin ................................................... 48 KAFKANISTAN Daniel Carsenty .................................................... 30 THE FASSBINDER STORY Annekatrin Hendel ................................. 48 DER KLEINE DRACHE KOKOSNUSS COCONUT THE LITTLE DRAGON HILFE, ICH HABE MEINE LEHRERIN GESCHRUMPFT 49 Nina Wels, Hubert Weiland ............................................................... 31 HELP, I SHRUNK MY TEACHER Sven Unterwaldt ............................ KRÄHENZEIT TIME OF CROWS Wolfgang H. Scholz ....................... 32 KLEINE ZIEGE, STURER BOCK STROPPY COW, STUBBORN RAM Johannes Fabrick ...................... 49 LICHTGESTALTEN ICONS OF LIGHT Christian Moris Müller ........ 33 MÄNGELEXEMPLAR Laura Lackmann ............................................ 49 MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER Tommy Krappweis ......................... 34 VOM VERSCHWINDEN ON DISAPPEARING Jan Speckenbach ............................................ 50 DAS RICHTIGE LEBEN THE REAL LIFE Robert Heber .................. 35 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 52 WISHING TREE Ankie Lau .............................................................. 36 Film Exporters .................................................................................. 53 WORST CASE SCENARIO Franz Müller ........................................... 37 Imprint ............................................................................................... 55 3 S.04_DIE ABHANDENE WELT.qxp_Layout 1 21.01.15 10:47 Seite 1 IN BERLIN GFQ 1-2015 photo © 2015 Concorde Filmverleih/Jan Betke Berlinale DIE ABHANDENE Special WELT THE MISPLACED WORLD y pure coincidence, a photograph MARGARETHE VON TROTTA ranks among the GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2015 found on the internet by chance most important female directors in German DIRECTOR Margarethe von Trotta SCREEN- of a renowned American opera cinema since the 1970s, during which time PLAY Margarethe von Trotta CINEMATOG - Bsinger, Caterina Fabiani, throws she also made a name for herself as an RAPHY Axel Block CAST Katja Riemann, the lives of Paul Kromberger and his actress. Today primarily active as a screen - Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Gunnar daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, writer and director, her most well-known Möller, Robert Seeliger, Karin Dor, Tom Beck, well advanced in his years, appears to re - films include: THE LOST HONOR OF August Zirner, Rüdiger Vogler PRODUCER cognize the image as that of his deceased KATHARINA BLUM (1975, in co-direction Markus Zimmer PRODUCTION COMPANIES wife Evelyn, Sophie’s mother. Unable to with Volker Schlöndorff), THE SECOND Clasart Film, Tele München RUNTIME 101 convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a- AWAKENING OF CHRISTA KLAGES (1977), min LANGUAGE German fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New SISTERS OR THE BALANCE OF HAPPINESS York to seek out this mysterious stranger... (1979), MARIANNE AND JULIANE (1981), SALES SHEER MADNESS (1983), ROSA LUXEMBURG Wild Bunch (1985), THE AFRICAN WOMAN (1990), THE [email protected] LONG SILENCE (1993), THE PROMISE (1994), www.wildbunch.biz ROSENSTRASSE (2003), I AM THE OTHER WOMAN (2006), VISION (2009), and her latest film THE MISPLACED WORLD (2015). 4 S.05_ALS WIR TRAEUMTEN.qxp_Layout 1 21.01.15 10:49 Seite 1 GFQ 1-2015 IN BERLIN photo © Rommel Film/Pandora Film/Peter Hartwig In ALS WIR Competition TRÄUMTENAS WE WERE DREAMING s we were dreaming, the outskirts ANDREAS DRESEN was born 1963 in Gera GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2015 of Leipzig were the world. The and studied at the “Konrad Wolf” University of DIRECTOR Andreas Dresen SCREENPLAY GDR had gone and we still were Film & Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Wolfgang Kohlhaase, based on the novel by Athere. Pitbull was not a pusher Since 1992, he has been working as a writer Clemens Meyer CINEMATOGRAPHY Michael yet. Mark was not dead yet. Rico was the and director for film, TV and theater. A se - Hammon CAST Merlin Rose, Julius Nitsch - greatest boxer and Starlet the most beautiful lection of his award-winning films includes: koff, Joel Basman, Marcel Heuperman, girl, but she didn’t love me the way I loved her. SILENT COUNTRY (1992), NIGHT SHAPES Frederic Haselon, Ruby O. Fee PRODUCER Everything changed. For us it was the best of (1998), THE POLICEWOMAN (2000), GRILL Peter Rommel CO-PRODUCER Andreas times. POINT (2001), VOTE FOR HENRYK! (2003), Dresen, Andreas Leusink, Tom Dercourt WILLENBROCK (2004), SUMMER IN BERLIN PRODUCTION COMPANY Rommel Film, in (2005), CLOUD 9 (2008), WHISKY WITH VODKA co-production with Iskremas Filmpro- (2009), STOPPED ON TRACK (2011), and AS duktion, Cinema Defacto, RBB, BR, MDR, WE WERE DREAMING (2015). ARTE France Cinéma RUNTIME 117 min LANGUAGE German SALES The Match Factory [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com 5 S.06_ELSER_Layout 1 26.01.15 14:51 Seite 1 IN BERLIN GFQ 1-2015 photo © Lucky Bird Pictures/Bernd Schuller Out of ELSER – ER HÄTTE Competition DIE WELT VERÄNDERT13 MINUTES eorg Elser was a man who