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German Films Quarterly 2 · 2010

IN CANNES: UN CERTAIN REGARD THE CITY BELOW by Christoph Hochhaeusler LIFE, ABOVE ALL by Oliver Schmitz

PORTRAITS Directors Brigitte Bertele & Robert Thalheim, Collina Film Production, Actor Volker Bruch In Competition MY JOY by Sergei Loznitsa German Producer: ma.ja.de fiction/Leipzig World Sales: Fortissimo Film Sales/Amsterdam

In Competition LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER by Bertrand Tavernier German Producer: Pandora Film/Cologne World Sales: StudioCanal/Paris

In Competition TENDER SON – THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT by Kornél Mundruczó German Producer: Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris

In Competition TOURNÉE by Mathieu Amalric German Producer: Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion/Leipzig World Sales: Le Pacte/Paris

In Competition UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

German Producers: Geissendoerfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion & The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne Out of Competition THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU by Andrei Ujicaˇ German Producer: Neue Mira Filmproduktion/Bremen World Sales: Mandragora International/Paris

Out of Competition CARLOS THE JACKAL by Olivier Assayas German Producer: Egoli Tossell Film/Halle World Sales: StudioCanal/Paris

Un Certain Regard AURORA by Cristi Puiu German Producer: Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris GERMAN FILMS AND CO-PRODUCTIONS 2010 FILM FESTIVAL THE CANNES AT Un Certain Regard THE CITY BELOW by Christoph Hochhaeusler Producer: Heimatfilm/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne

Un Certain Regard LIFE, ABOVE ALL by Oliver Schmitz German Producer: Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Bavaria Film International/Geiselgasteig

Cannes Classics THE TIN DRUM by Volker Schloendorff German Producers: Seitz Filmproduktion/Munich, Bioskop Film/Munich, Artemis Film/Berlin, Hallelujah Film/Potsdam, GGB/Munich World Sales: Argos Film/Neuilly-sur-Seine

Séance Speciale NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ by Patricio Guzmán German Producer: Blinker Filmproduktion/Cologne World Sales: Pyramide International/Paris

Directors’ Fortnight THE LIGHT THIEF by Aktan Arym Kubat German Producer: Pallas Film/Halle World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne

Directors’ Fortnight PICCO by Philip Koch Producer: Walker+Worm Film/Munich World Sales: Rezo Films International/Paris

Directors’ Fortnight LE QUATTRO VOLTE by Michelangelo Frammartino German Producer: Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris All photos courtesy of producers and world sales agents. Credits not contractual. not contractual. agents. Credits sales and world of producers All photos courtesy Critics’ Week BI, DON’T BE AFRAID Atelier by Srdan Golubovic by Phan Dang Di CIRCLES German Producer: Neue Mediopolis German Producer: TR9 Film/Leipzig Filmproduktion/Leipzig German Films Quarterly 2 · 2010

director portraits 6 THE ANTHROPOLOGIST A portrait of Brigitte Bertele 8 POLITICAL, WITTY, HUMAN A portrait of Robert Thalheim

producer portrait 10 EXPLORING NEW AREAS A portrait of collina Filmproduktion

actor portrait 12 THE UNPREDICTABLE A portrait of Volker Bruch

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in production 20 BASTARD Carsten Unger 21 DAS BLAUE VOM HIMMEL Hans Steinbichler 21 DR. KETEL Linus de Paoli 22 DSCHUNGELKIND Roland Suso Richter 23 FINE ART GAMES Anton Gonopolski 24 HIDDEN Agnieszka Holland 25 HOMIES Adnan G. Koese 26 JOHNNY KUEHLKISSEN Andi Rogenhagen 26 KLANG DER STILLE Friederike Jehn 27 KNOTENPUNKT Kanwal Sethi 28 LENAS LIEBE Didi Danquart 29 PINA Wim Wenders 30 PLAYOFF Eran Riklis 31 WINTERVATER Johannes Schmid 32 ZIMMER 205 Rainer Matsutani

new german films 34 DIE 4. REVOLUTION – ENERGY AUTONOMY THE 4TH REVOLUTION – ENERGY AUTONOMY Carl-A. Fechner 35 ANSICHTSSACHE 2 A MATTER OF OPINION 2 Matej Bobrik, Igor Chojna, Piotr Litwin, Justyna Tafel, Bartosz Warwas, Mark Wegner 36 BARRIERE BOUNDARIES Andreas Kleinert 37 BLACK DEATH Christopher Smith 38 BOXHAGENER PLATZ BERLIN, BOXHAGENER PLATZ Matti Geschonneck 39 DETROIT – ZWISCHEN UTOPIE UND UNTERGANG DETROIT – BETWEEN UTOPIA AND PERDITION Roland May 40 EFECTO DOMINÓ DOMINO EFFECT Gabriel Gauchet 41 FRITZ BAUER – TOD AUF RATEN FRITZ BAUER – DEATH BY INSTALMENTS Ilona Ziok 42 GOOD MORNING AFRICA! Chiara Sambuchi 43 HABERMANN Juraj Herz 44 JANE’S JOURNEY Lorenz Knauer 45 KETCHUP IN TUVA – A TRANSSIBERIAN TREASURE HUNT Eike Schmitz 46 DIE KINDER VOM FRIEDRICHSHOF THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNE Juliane Grossheim 47 KONFERENZ DER TIERE ANIMALS UNITED Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe 48 KRIEGERSTOCK Joseph Lippok 49 EIN LAPTOP GEGEN DIE ARMUT A LAPTOP AGAINST POVERTY Chiara Sambuchi 50 LEVEL 3D Marcus Morlinghaus 51 LIFE, ABOVE ALL Oliver Schmitz 52 LOVE & THEFT Andreas Hykade 53 METROPOLIS Fritz Lang 54 OLIVIERO TOSCANI – BILDERWUT OLIVIERO TOSCANI – THE RAGE OF IMAGES Peter Scharf, Katja Duregger 55 PHILIPP Fabian Moehrke 56 RHEINGOLD Andreas Pieper 57 ROAD TO RAINBOW Mo Asumang 58 ROCK IT! Mike Marzuk 59 SEAN SCULLY: ART COMES FROM NEED Hans Andreas Guttner 60 SOLTAU Peter Huemmeler 61 SUICIDE CLUB Olaf Saumer 62 TIGER-TEAM Peter Gersina 63 UNBELEHRBAR UNTEACHABLE Anke Hentschel 64 UNTER DIR DIE STADT THE CITY BELOW Christoph Hochhaeusler 65 UNTER STROM LIVE WIRE – A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT KIDNAPPER Zoltan Paul 66 ZEITEN AENDERN DICH ELECTRO GHETTO Uli Edel

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71 foreign representatives · imprint Brigitte Maria Bertele (photo courtesy of Brigitte Maria Bertele) “I like the ambivalence of it,” says thedirector. it,” says “Perhaps of “I like theambivalence ithassome- DIRECTOR PORTRAIT theories of strict logic with notions of ‘languagegames’,whoworked strictlogicwithnotionsof theories of Brigitte Maria Bertele A portrait of BrigitteA portrait of Maria Bertele ANTHROPOLOGIST THE as an elementary school teacher rather than a university professor, schoolteacher ratherthanauniversity as anelementary wastheViennaphilosopher enoughherfavorite humanities, curiously Ludwig Wittgenstein, a man of many contradictionswhocombined many Wittgenstein,amanof Ludwig but was interested in philosophy and playing with the idea of studying withtheideaof andplaying but wasinterested inphilosophy east: muchearlier, direction whenshehadnotyet contemplated film similar.” ourneighborsinthesouth- for hasafoible clearly Bertele thecultures upinBavaria, arething todowithmegrowing quite profession, primarily onthestage. ThenAustriahadarenewed influ- profession, primarily and wasalsoatalentedarchitect who oncebuiltahouse. training as an actress and worked successfully for someyears for inthe training asanactress andworked successfully In the end, Bertele didn’t study Philosophy afterall;instead,shebegan Philosophy study didn’t In theend,Bertele 2 ·2010 german filmsquarterlygerman and Austria seem to have athinggoing. and Austriaseemtohave served in war regions, and the question of what actually goesthrough whatactually inwarregions,served andthequestionof feature, full-length herfirst makes feature films; mainly the meantime,Bertele BuenosAires. In abroad inTirana/Albania andattheFilmCollegeof director –aswellsemesters film asadocumentary she qualified ined only rarely in German cinema to date: German soldierswhohave cinema todate:German inGerman rarely ined only and–bycontrast toothercountries–hasbeenex in Germany am - A Hero’s Welcome hardest-head ed, mostpromis hergeneration. ing voicesof the intooneof theBerlinale2008,already madeBertele Forum of Wuerttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg followed thatinsight– followed Wuerttemberg inLudwigsburg FilmAcademy Direction attheBaden- of whatIwanttodo!”Astudy is exactly Honigman inaretro “That sheknew: there, andimmediately spective Heddy of thefilms ence –attheDiagonaleinGraz.Shesaw than 20 festivals andwontheFirstStepsAward 2008andtheGerman than 20festivals wasscreened atmore theBerlinale,film miere intheForum of Augen Funke &Stertz GmbHMedienAgenten Agent: feature, the broad casters SWR/ARTE. onhernext working Sheiscurrently than adozen festivals. morewon several prizesathomeandabroad andwasshownatmore Giants Giants minute TV-film 24h Berlin –EinTag imLeben Film Critics’Award in2009.Aswellasacontributiontotheproject email: [email protected] ·www.funke-stertz.de email: [email protected] 216120 +49-40-43 21610·fax phone +49-40-43 Schulterblatt 58·20357Hamburg/Germany thecityAccrainGhana.It isaboutchildren intheslumsof The film FilmAwardAmsterdam Short inGold2008. andwontheGerman which waspremiered FilmFestival Documentary attheInternational film 2007 bythe53-minutedocumentary in2005. Festival whichwaspremieredrefugees, attheLeipzig Film Documentary film documentary made theshort In2004she years,the following alsoactingincinemaandTVfilms. Performing inUlmandtheGITIS Arts an actress of attheAcademy in Moscow and performed inmore than30stageproductionsin Moscowandperformed during from school,shebegantrainingin1993as in Berlin.Aftergraduating Brigitte Maria Bertele A Hero’s Welcome ) was Bertele’s first feature film, madein2008;afteritspre- feature film, ) wasBertele’s first Der Brand. ( Berggorilla Riesen sanfte –Ugandas A GlimpseSquiptare Mountain GorillasMountain Gentle –Uganda’s came to grips withasubjectthatisstilltaboo came togrips A Hero’s Welcome was born in Ulm in 1974; today shelives inUlm1974;today was born , whichpremiered intheInternational Horizon Zone , Bertele alsomadethe43- , Bertele (2005) was followed in (2005) wasfollowed Roaming AroundRoaming director portrait · Peter Stertz about under-age ( Nacht vor ) in2009for , 6 their mind when they return after the experience of death and vio - garding the character.” One example of this is Maja Schoene, the lead - lence to the peaceful conditions of German middle-class society? ing actress of Der Brand – a discovery. Bertele shows this through the example of David, a young man who has experienced borderline situations and cannot find his way back Asked again about her role models, she mentions the name Anges into society. It is the intense drama of a homecoming soldier and a Varda – her films are always located on the threshold between au - nightmarishly staged story of emotional derangement, far from senti- thenticity and artificiality – and Carlos Reygadas. And the much-loved mental. Austrians: in the case of her latest material, Goetz Spielmann’s Revanche was especially important. And Ulrich Seidl’s films, of “I find people in borderline situations interesting,” Bertele says, “but course. “And only recently I saw Jessica Hauner’s Lourdes. That’s also the conflicts tackled in my films slumber within us all.” It is important a fascinatingly made film.” to Bertele that cinema thematizes the present day and the realities of life around us. Perhaps it is here that one notices her origins in docu- Ruediger Suchsland spoke with Brigitte Maria Bertele mentary film most clearly and that she still numbers some documentary filmmakers among her favorite directors: Joris Ivens and Frederick Wiseman, for example. “My view of the cinema has been shaped by documentary film,” she says, and also cites the British direct cinema and cinema verité. “I see myself as a kind of anthro - pologist,” Bertele adds. “Even such absolutely fundamental questions as ‘How should we live?’ can be handled in the cinema.”

She recently finished shooting in Mannheim for her new film, with the working title Der Brand, which should have its premiere at a film festival during the second half of this year. It is also about what is known in medical language as a ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’. How does a person cope with dreadful memories, how can life continue when everything seems to be over? This time, it is about a young woman who struggles with the consequences of rape. She tries to fight against the fact that being raped has changed her. But her image of herself as a self-confident, independent woman and her relation to her own body begin to show cracks …

The screenplay was written by Johanna Stuttmann, who also wrote her first film; Bertele has worked with her since film school. Although she “only” collaborates on the development of the screenplays, Bertele obviously views herself as an author filmmaker: “I always have to come to a point where I can say to myself: that is mine, I have to chew over the stories as long as it takes, until they are mine.” She regards this process of acquisition as one aspect of her creativity.

In a similar way to many well-known author filmmakers, Bertele also likes to continue working with the same people. For the future, she imagines herself as part of a working family, a pool of familiar and trusted colleagues, but one that can always be recombined. For instance, the cameraman for Der Brand was Hans Fromm, who is known primari ly as Christian Petzold’s cinematographer. “I would get bored with myself if I didn’t work with new people now and again,” she says.

She considers her direction of acting one of her strengths as a director. This is actually surprising, as acting might appear to be the opposite of direction. While one group needs to be constantly analyzing, thinking a lot and keeping things under control, actors need to do the opposite: abandon control, not attempt to watch themselves. “As a former actress,” Bertele says, “perhaps I am more able to give concrete artistic and creative instructions.” The effect is often described in a screenplay, but not the way that it can be produced.

She seeks advice when it comes to casting, as many directors have started doing recently: “It sharpens your perspective for a character.” While selecting the actors, it is important to her “that someone is not pre-defined by past roles, so that they can keep an open mind re -

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2 · 2010 7 Robert Thalheim (photo © Ali Ghandtschi) festival in Cannes, is still relatively unknown in German cinema. unknowninGerman inCannes, isstillrelatively festival prizesalready andhasbeenrepresentedmany attheacclaimed us. He forced us to do practical work relatively early on.Normally, early us. Heforced ustodopractical workrelatively It all began with Rosa von Praunheim. The Berlin filmmaker was It allbeganwithRosavonPraunheim. TheBerlinfilmmaker looking back, his pupil is full of praise: “It was pure good fortune for praise:“Itwaspure goodfortune of back,hispupilisfull looking And itissure tobeaswittytheothers. ButThalheim,whohaswon Thalheim’s teacher of Direction at the film academy inPotsdam academy Direction atthefilm and Thalheim’s teacher of sense of humor. histhird making feature film. Thalheimiscurrently sense of Thalheim awful. But the image of the totally inhibited German withnohumorat inhibited German thetotally Buttheimageof awful. most among his colleagues – whether of thesameageorolder–ishis most amonghiscolleagues–whetherof all isquitewrong.” You totalkabout humorwith have “There humorandthere humorthatis isgoodGerman isGerman DIRECTOR PORTRAIT A portrait of Robert Thalheim A portrait of HUMAN WITTY, POLITICAL, 2 ·2010 german filmsquarterlygerman , becausethecharacteristicthatmakes himstandout Robert seriously.” something’ –andinaway,out intotheworldandlearn Itookthat ‘First,go ussome ratherprofessorial advice: sion, anoldermangave remembers in StudioBabelsberg.“Onthatocca- anopenhouseday –andhe Super 8camera,”hetellsme,now amusedatthememory father’s Iwasallowedtoholdmy Once,asa kid, withart. money knowanyone whomade “Ididn’t eleven. atthe ageof films their first thathewanted togo During hisschooldays, Thalheimalready knew For us, important.” thatwasreally to film school. But he certainly wasn’t one of thosepeoplewhomake oneof wasn’t school.Buthecertainly to film once aweek,heputusunderpressure, compelledustotellstories. ages–hehadusproducing for something small mess aboutmaking students, for somethingthey are almostholy 10-minute films the first email: [email protected]·www.abovetheline.de 10 73 87 +49-30-28 0·fax 73 87 phone +49-30-28 Wielandstrasse 5·10625Berlin Above theLineGmbH Agent: Kakao istmehralsMilch Kakao on hisnextproject, working RegardHeiscurrently Certain attheCannesFilmFestival. Along ComeTourists otherawards. in2007by well asmany Thiswasfollowed andtheDialogueenPerspectivein Ludwigshafen, attheBerlinale,as Film German of prize)attheFestival film German endowed private FilmAwardSaarbruecken Art 2005(thehighest- in2005,theGerman in attheMax-OphuelsFestival feature films full-length for Netto feature film –Thalheimdirected study hisfirst in histhird year of Zeit istLeben Potsdam. films madethree short Here, hefirst in academy logue”. Asfrom 2000,Thalheimstudiedatthefilm Poland” contributiontotheGerman-Polish and“asuccessful dia - Sueddeutsche Zeitung Diamant Meyer,together withStefan heco-wrote thebook the East/CentralEuropean culturalmagazine of Berlin in1998.Duringthisperiod,Thalheimwasalsoco-founder Philology,German Politics in attheFreie andHistory Universitaet Brecht-theater BerlinerEnsemblebefore beginninghisstudiesof inIndonesiaandasanassistantdirectorject duringalongerstay atthe And Along ComeTourists film hissecondfeature for thefoundation these experiencesformed Youth MeetingCenteratthedocumentationcenterinAuschwitz– Touristen intheInternational tonationalservice he completedhisalternative Robert Thalheim (2005). With this film, Thalheimwonthepromotional award (2005). Withthisfilm, about “Polish history in the films of AndzejWajda” –the about “Polish of inthefilms history ). Inthelate90s, Thalheimalsoworked onaculturalpro- and Zwillinge praised it as a “‘must-read’ for all travelers to alltravelers for praised itasa“‘must-read’ was born in1974Berlin.Afterhisschooling, was born Granica , whichwaspremiered inthesectionUn · Kathrin Naeher . (2002) and (all 2001),thenMario Mueller– ( Am Endekommen Ich (2003). Afterwards – Three Percent, Plotki director portrait . Inaddition, Asche oder Asche And 8 So he collected experience first: his alternative to military service in this film is the way in which the director manages to keep a basically Auschwitz, a developmental aid project for a conservation organiza - light-hearted tone, and even to be funny now and then, despite the tion in Indonesia, and then a study of cultural sciences in Berlin: at that setting and a background history that would wipe the smile from time, he also published a book about Andzej Wajda together with a anyone’s face. Here, once again he found a lightness of narrative that historian. “I did so many things with great enthusiasm. An awful lot freed the story from its many weighty and depressing elements, came together, which helped me when I got to the film academy.” flavoring it with a healthy portion of sarcasm. In this way, the film also developed as a contrast to those of leaden, authoritarian representa- It meant that he was strong enough to deal with the positive tive cinema such as Downfall and The Lives of Others, from which all pressure from Rosa von Praunheim, and still in his third year of study, the life and everyday qualities have been banished, and which aim to with a budget of only 4,500 Euros, Thalheim made his first feature “fasten up” the past. And Along Come Tourists discovers the film Netto, which brought him a number of prizes. It is a father-son past in the present; it is full of everyday events, concrete, and not at story which also tells us a little about the losers after the radical all symbolic. political change in Germany in 1989, slightly nostalgic for “East Berlin’s Johnny Cash”, but also taking a look at the new security mania and its Thalheim works with a hand-held camera and material that gives his industry of bodyguards and alarm systems, and above all about images a documentary touch. His viewpoint is casual, ready to make philanthropy and male worlds. Made without a fixed screenplay on rapid changes of perspective – and this emphasizes the characters’ only 12 shooting days, it was a bitter, quiet, well-observed film; a position as flaneurs, and the immediacy of the action. comedy that always teetered on the brink of tragedy. His new film is the first for which he did not write his own screenplay: And this film already had the most important thing of all: its own “I do see myself as an author filmmaker, but I would like to work recognizable signature. Some of it is distantly reminiscent of the together with a writer. I am in the process of trying to find the right British director Ken Loach, and so Netto became an early example one. That has been one outcome of the first two films. I noticed that, of “Hartz IV cinema” soon after its premiere. This expression refer- on my own, I am approaching my limits. My ideal would be to have an red to the German social reforms under the Schroeder government, idea and then develop it further in collaboration with an author.” signifying a type of cinema that was new on the German film scene. Together with Andreas Dresen and some other students of Berlin film The new film is about twin girls who travel to Hungary on their holi- academies, Thalheim stood for cinema that was not terribly stylized in days in 1988 and fall in love with two boys from the West. “It’s a sum- formal terms, but spontaneous and fleet of foot – its content not mer film, but an awful lot happens in those few weeks. In the end, the West but East German, interested in the ordinary people and thus far symbiotic sisters split up.” It’s a true story and an image of the two away, on the one hand, from the stylization and formal exaggeration Germanys, as well as the two sides of East Germany. “Of course, it of Oskar Roehler, for example. However, it also represented a clear is terrifically charged, in so many ways, but I try to get away from contrast to the now famous Berlin School (Petzold, Grisebach, that.” Heisenberg, Koehler etc.) shaped by the experiences of the West German, educated middle classes. Shortly before they began shooting, he had to re-cast the leading roles, as one actress became pregnant. That reminded him of his But Thalheim does share their interest in realism and people of his second film: only a week before they were due to begin shooting, a age, as well as a turning away from the so-called ‘rules of film narra- ban on filming in the concentration camp was issued. It is only possi- tive’. To this extent, he takes up – like Roehler and Akin, who adopt ble to survive such experiences with humor: “The humor that I real- the melodrama, and the Berliners who take the realism and reference ly like is humor that makes you laugh about yourself, enabling you to to film history – a third aspect of the heritage of new German cine- let go, and create ironic distance to yourself.” We will go on laughing ma: an interest in direct experience. He himself describes this in the with Robert Thalheim. following way: “I am looking for a realism that is not a sticky natu - ralism to capture the moments you would normally edit. But I do Ruediger Suchsland spoke with Robert Thalheim always start out with people and not from a formal idea.”

What else has influenced him? Asked about his own personal cinematic topography, he names Ken Loach and Casavettes, but also Charlie Chaplin – “for me, the cinema began there.” He also loves the witty dialogues of Woody Allen – but aside from that, “I have also been shaped by the eastern European documentary approach, the Polish films of Kieszlowski and Wajda, by Zanussi, and of course DEFA films ranging from Ich war 19 to Solo Sunny.”

“I have always been interested in the field of conflict between political, social themes and the personal stories encompassed by them. Not by way of presenting theses, but always shaped by a human approach and by humor. But also political. That’s a difficult challenge.”

And Thalheim sought out a pretty difficult challenge with his second film, as well: And Along Come Tourists. This recounts the experiences of a young man completing his alternative to military service in contemporary Auschwitz. The most astonishing thing about

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2 · 2010 9 PRODUCER PORTRAIT Munich-based collina Filmproduktion was founded in 2002 by producer-screenwriter Ulrich Limmer to develop and produce films for the national and international cinema and television markets. A graduate of Munich’s University of Television and Film, Limmer worked at Bavaria Film, finally becoming head producer for the cinema division and managing director of Bavaria Verleih und Produktion, before moving to head up Kinowelt Filmproduktion in 1997. He re - ceived Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for Schtonk! and a German Film Award for The Slurb (Das Sams), both of which he co-wrote as well as produced. The Bavarian Film Award for Best Children’s Film went to Limmer’s first production with his new company, My Magical Friend Sams (Sams in Gefahr), while The White Elephant children’s media award was presented in 2006 to Gernot Roll’s The Robber Hotzenplotz (Der Raeuber Hotzenplotz). Based on the books by Otfried Preussler, this family film was produced by collina Filmproduktion with Constantin Film. Since then, the company has received nominations for the Golden Camera and Adolf Grimme Prize for the TV movie My Dear Fear (Angsthasen) and a Best Actor award from the Bavarian Film Awards for Edgar Selge for his performance in this film. Lars Buechel’s Lippel’s Dream (Lippels Traum) received a nomination in the Best Children’s and Young People’s Film category for the 2010 German Film Awards. collina Filmproduktion’s other credits include: Mr. Woof (Herr Bello, dir: Ben Verbong, 2007), Cheeky Girls (Freche Maedchen, dir: Ute Wieland, 2008), Die Liebes - fluesterin (dir: Jakob Schaeuffelen, 2008, TV), The Hairdresser (Die Friseuse, dir: Doris Doerrie, 2010), Cheeky Girls 2 (Freche Maedchen 2, dir: Ute Wieland, 2010), The End Is My Beginning (Das Ende ist mein Anfang, dir: Jo Baier, 2010), and Caius im alten Rom (dir: Tobi Baumann, 2011, in development). Ulrich Limmer is the co-screenwriter on My Magical Friend Sams, The Robber Hotzenplotz, Mr. Woof, Lippel’s Dream, The End Is My Beginning and Caius im alten Rom. He also wrote the screenplay for My Dear Fear.

Contact: collina Filmproduktion GmbH Franz-Joseph-Strasse 15 · 80801 Munich/Germany

Ulrich Limmer (photo film) © Bernd Spauke/collina phone +49-89-55 06 180 · fax +49-89-55 06 18 18 email: [email protected] · www.collinafilm.de EXPLORING NEW AREAS A portrait of collina Filmproduktion

“It had always been my secret desire to set up with my own company Filmproduktion in 1997. “When the Neuer Markt started to fall apart, and I thought about it long and hard,” recalls producer Ulrich I took this chance to leave Kinowelt and set up on my own,” Limmer Limmer about his decision to establish his Munich-based production continues. “I am glad that I took this step and have never regretted it company collina Filmproduktion in 2002. Limmer had known for one second.” from his time as a student at Munich’s University of Television and Film that he wanted to make a career in production while at the same time “I am in the lucky situation of being able to develop my projects and working as a writer of screenplays for TV and cinema. position them well,” he says. “It’s a great privilege to be able to concentrate on feature films. I have produced a couple of TV films, but After handling productions at the university after his graduation, the focus is on films for the cinema. The fact that I write alone or with Limmer then worked for Bavaria Film, finally becoming head producer partners and then produce means that it’s good if you are your own for the cinema division and managing director of Bavaria Verleih- und master,” Limmer notes. Produktions GmbH before being appointed as the head of Kinowelt

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2 · 2010 10 He explains that he has never wanted to restrict himself only to pro- beaten track for a change.” ducing films of certain genres. “My first film was Schtonk! and then I was constantly getting offered satires on society. That also happen- With collina Filmproduktion now established in the German pro - ed when I started making family films like The Slurb – I was just duction landscape, Limmer is not, however, looking for a ‘house- offered family entertainment!,” he recalls. keeping deal’ or participation from one of the bigger players. “As an independent producer, you always think of yourself being able to “But now I am producing other kinds of films such as Doris Doerrie’s operate independently, but naturally you are dependent on others. The Hairdresser or Jo Baier’s The End Is My Beginning. Nevertheless, the company belongs to me 100% and I don’t see any The common link, if you will, for all these films is my passion for the reason to change this.” respective project. They are very different from one another, and that has a lot to do with the fact that I like exploring new areas – other- “Admittedly, there are advantages with a ‘housekeeping deal’, but wise one is in danger of slipping into a routine.” there’s also a downside. A project like The End Is My Beginning would be difficult to realize if you are part of a large group. In fact, if According to Limmer, collina Filmproduktion currently has a number you look at the structure of the German film industry, most of the of projects in development: “Some are being written by third parties really interesting films come from the independents and small com - and others by me or in partnership with other writers. They range panies. They are the ones taking the risks with the content.” from historical subjects through modern comedies to a story about the young Adolf Hitler and one about a boy who is a victim of the Meanwhile, Limmer points out that his company’s name refers to his euthanasia program.” second home in Italy: “I have a house there on a hill – hence the name ‘collina’ – and, in this way, I can always be reminded of one of the After producing three films last year – The Hairdresser, Cheeky most wonderful places in the world. What’s more, I think the name Girls 2 and The End Is My Beginning (which he also co-wrote) has a nice ring to it. However, I don’t understand much about foot- – Limmer is planning to spend this year concentrating on his writing ball, so it is definitely not referring to the Italian referee!” before embarking on the next production, Caius im alten Rom, in 2011. Adapted by Limmer and Rochus Hahn from the German- American writer Henry Winterfield’s trilogy about a group of child- Martin Blaney spoke with Ulrich Limmer ren’s adventures in ancient Rome, the family film will be directed by Tobi Baumann (Soloalbum).

“It will probably have to be a European co-production and I can imagine us either going to Tunisia or Cinecitta because we need existing sets of Rome since we can’t afford to build them ourselves,” he explains.

The future may also see Limmer collaborate for a fourth time with children’s author Paul Maar on a third Slurb film as well as with director Ute Wieland on another outing for the Cheeky Girls.

“One of the biggest projects I have in development is The Champagne Spy which can only be made in English because it is set in Egypt in the 1960s,” Limmer says. “I am in concrete talks with an American author to write the screenplay and could imagine having either an English or American director.” The Champagne Spy is based on the life of the agent Wolfgang Lotz whose book of the same name provided the inspiration for a successful documentary by Nadav Shirman from 2007.

Meanwhile, Limmer is particularly proud of the adaptation of Tiziano Terzani’s bestseller The End Is My Beginning, which he co- wrote with Folco Terzani. He produced the film with Jo Baier as director and a cast including Bruno Ganz, Elio Germano, Erika Pluhar and Andrea Osvart in Northern Tuscany last autumn.

Ganz plays the terminally ill Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani, a former Asia correspondent for Der Spiegel magazine, in conversation with his son Folco about daring to risk freedom, courage, love, illness and mourning, the fleeting moments of beauty, and how to take one’s fare well.

“It was a big risk to make this film,” he recalls, “because it is actually more of a chamber piece and almost a monologue. But it has be come a very emotional film and encourages me to continue thinking in this direction and try doing things for the cinema where one leaves the german films quarterly producer portrait

2 · 2010 11 Volker Bruch (photo © Alex de Brabant/COLORSTORM) ACTOR PORTRAIT Over the last few years beensurprisedatthefrequency with Ihave Over thelastfew VolkerA portrait of Bruch THE UNPREDICTABLE , who has been grabbing all the best parts before they geta before they allthebestparts Bruch, whohasbeengrabbing which friendswhoare actorscomplainaboutaguycalled About ten days before VolkerAbout tendays Bruch’s 30thbirthday, wedecidedto admiration. improve so ouracquaintancewiththisyoung manwhohasdeveloped resignation and echowiththe samemixture of their voicesalways inthesame breath, say and sogood,they hewasn’t only chance. If german filmsquarterlygerman · 2010 2 Volker and get to know it. This enjoyment of adventure can actually betrans- adventure canactually and gettoknowit.Thisenjoyment of likesalthough hereally Munich,it’s nowtimetoexplore thecapitalcity nights. he wantstomoveherehausting party Hesays soon;allinall, new, –heprefers get thisfeeling toex territory more productive - consideration,and–you soon answersafter careful forthcoming gives hustle,he café ZumFuchsbauinKreuzberg. needalotof He doesn’t inthe breakfast hung-over atmosphere tomeetmefor andarranges thecustomary theBerlinale,butBruchdefies is thelastSaturday of acting.It from film aninsidertiptoaleadingforce inGerman rapidly subsume one of thekey issuesintheOscar subsume oneof his words –amonologuedirected againstBrunoGanz–ultimately about themoral,legalandethicalquestionsraisedbyaNazitrial, scene:here, hephilosophizes abrief a lastingimpression withonly Daldry’s Aust.Finally, Stefan studentinStephen journalist asacriticallaw fect British English, and in Bernd Eichinger’s andinBernd BritishEnglish, fect RAF-discourse through(2008) hebattledhisway theFirstWorld War withhisper- ladfrom in ed anintroverted country Bavaria, Times keen things:inMarcuser todiscovernew H.Rosenmueller’s mostrenowned actingagencies, Germany’s Players, even one of madetheyoung whippersnapper,these parts bythenrepresented by oneof cope withhisowndisabilityafteraseriousaccident.Andevery offender, inEinerbleibt sitzen bold: in Baader Meinhof Complex Baader Meinhof increasingly important roles. important remained Bruch’sincreasingly always choiceshave theGrimmePrizeandwascastin anominationfor he received films the twoconsecutive orKatja asCorinnaHarfouch Riemannin side suchestablishedgreats along toprove himanopportunity himself Alain Gsponerhadgiven - career: afterdirector different acompletely marked theonsetof cinemaandTVscene.This toconcentrateontheGerman preferring atheater,Afterwards, tojointheensembleof herejected anoffer success completinghistrainingthere intheyears thatfollowed. fully MaxReinhardt SeminarinVienna, aplaceatthefamous offered email: [email protected] ·www.players.de 86 16 85 +49-30-2 80·fax 16 85 phone +49-30-2 Sophienstrasse 21·10178Berlin/Germany Players GmbH AgenturManagement Agent: security. ten years. atschool,hewas Afterinitialexperienceinacabaret group inthelast talentalmostunobtrusively German of up tothetoplevel inMunichMarchBorn 1980, himself as hungry for experience and still shies away from pro experienceandstillshiesaway for ashungry himself fessional pected roles. Volker brothers andsisters;hedescribes Bruchhasfive toseekoutunex- histendency evidencing are alsocinematicforays Farm thenovel versionof most recent works, thefilm ( Tannoed Nichts istvergessen ( The Reader Beste Zeit , 2009) and the literary portrait portrait , 2009)andtheliterary , 2007)and (2008) he mastered the art of leaving behind leaving of (2008) hemastered theart Rose Volker Bruch (2005) and Beste Gegend (2008) heembodiedacclaimed (2007) heplayed ayoung sexual (2008) abiker to whomustlearn Life Actually ® -winning film. Andhis -winning film. The Red Baron has worked hisway Goethe! The Murder (2008) heplay- actor portrait (2006), (2010) Best The 12 ferred to his entire career: the young man with the gentle features When we part after about two hours, Bruch has made a lasting that can develop tremendous power in a camera close-up has proved impression on me. It is the unusual combination of a desire to ex - himself in some remarkably different roles, far from what might be plore, a down-to-earth personality and outstanding talent that make expected from up-and-coming actors of his age. Bruch explains: “You him into an unpredictable actor; one – and we can be sure of this – can only choose exciting roles if you are offered them, and up until who will continue to make his fellow actors nervous while the film - now I have been very lucky. I enjoy playing characters that are difficult makers raise their hats to him. to grasp at first, that surprise people over and over again, because they act without thinking about what they are doing. I often do things Johannes Bonke spoke with Volker Bruch that I don’t understand, and I enjoy that. It’s this contradiction that I look for in my roles as well.”

He has always been bold when it comes to finding himself, driven by a thirst to rediscover himself permanently. However, the enduring quality of Bruch’s chosen roles was never a motto, but a natural urge. “Of course I have noticed the way that I keep welcoming the slippery slope. Contexts are often revealed most clearly in this feeling of uncertainty,” Bruch comments. “I want to find something out, and that’s only possible if you dare something, if you make yourself vul- nerable and go on admitting to yourself that you have absolutely no idea about things.”

What others call an urge for perfection, Bruch himself describes as a mood of departure: “When I can rest secure, I am already in the midst of repetition. So, rather than reeling off the same successful principle time and time again, I try to surprise myself in every role.”

That was why he rejected an offer to join the ensemble of a theater after his training at the famous Max Reinhardt Seminar – so that he wouldn’t make himself a slave to one particular cultural institution for two years. “I wanted something different,” Bruch says and these words already explain, indirectly, his thirst for action in subsequent years.

I wanted to know where that desire came from and when he was seiz - ed by a passion to act. “At the age of fifteen I was a member of a cabaret troupe, a load of crazy guys with nothing better to do than be silly and joke around all day. It was terrific fun examining serious matters in a playful way, and then over-exaggerating them onstage, sometimes to the point of absurdity, or simply showing them in a com pletely different context. Of course, the idea of doing that pro - fessionally and earning money with it was very tempting.”

We talk about the way he has gradually established himself on the film scene and I ask whether the moment comes as an actor when you know that you have really made it professionally. “That is the wrong conclusion altogether, but if you set yourself step-by-step targets and think to yourself ’that is where I want to go’, well, that’s fine. I thought that way for the first time when I was accepted at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. But when I got there it soon became clear: now things are really beginning. I have experienced moments like that again and again – they are almost cyclic. Actually, it’s about time I put it behind me.”

I want to know whether – in the days leading up to his 30th birthday – he sometimes contemplates his rise over the last ten years. Bruch considers for a minute and then replies: “I am not the sort of person that draws a balance, or someone who plans the future down to the very last detail. If anyone asks me where I think I will be in ten years time, I consider it an utterly absurd question. I don’t even see where I’ll be in five minutes time.”

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2 · 2010 13 NEWS 2/2010 Reception (photo © Volker Corell) Reception (photo © Volker ® Hustle and bustle at the Villa Aurora pre-Oscar Hustle and bustle at the Villa Aurora

OSCAR FEELING IN HOLLYWOOD GLANCE BACK TO THE FUTURE – 30 YEARS OF FILM FUNDING IN HAMBURG Once again this year, German Films and Villa Aurora (the Foundation for European American Relations) in cooperation with the German The funding of films in Hamburg has a long tradition. Thirty years ago, Consulate General and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles invited some a model for a new cultural film fund was established, one that would 500 guests to the traditional pre-Oscar® afternoon reception for all later be taken up by other federal states. Over 3,000 films have been German Oscar®-nominees at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. supported with some 197 million Euros since the founding of the Despite the rainy weather, the guests celebrated with the German Hamburg Film Office (1980), the FilmFund Hamburg (1982), and the delegation of artists and representatives of the German film industry FilmFoerderung Hamburg (1995). Some of the most successful films – never before were so many German and German-international co- include: Jailbirds, Rossini, The White Masai, Bandits, Aimee & Jaguar, King productions nominated in so many different categories. of Thieves, Red Zora, The Campus, Kick It Like Beckham, Head-On, Rosenstrasse, and Soul Kitchen. German Films’ US representative Oliver Mahrdt welcomed the teams of The White Ribbon (director: Michael Haneke), The Last Station Special attention is given to the support of up-and-coming new talent. (director: Michael Hoffman, German producer: Egoli Tossell Film To this day, many now well-known directors including Tom Tykwer, Halle), Ajami (directors: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, German pro- Hermine Huntgeburth, Soenke Wortmann, Detlev Buck, Sebastian ducer: Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion), Rabbit à la Berlin Schipper and Fatih Akin all have a very special bond with the film fund - (directors: Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosolowski, German producer: ing institution: each one of them made their first feature film with sup- ma.ja.de Filmproduktion), as well as Inglourious Basterds (director: port from Hamburg. Quentin Tarantino, German producer: Studio Babelsberg/Zehnte Babelsberg Produktion). An aspect that is still in tact today is that funding is decided by two committees of industry professionals with different focuses. In addition to production support, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (a two-state institution) is also an inter - mediary in the industry.

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2 · 2010 14 After the founding of the Location Office, now the Film Commission, NEW RENDEZ-VOUS PRESIDENT and since the fusion of the offices in Hamburg and Kiel, the Film - foerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein offers consulting services, i.e. The German-French Film Rendez-vous Association is the for legal and financial issues, and cultivates contacts and networking cooperation partner for the annual film gathering which has been with international partners at a traditional co-production dinner organized by German Films and Unifrance since 2003. during the Berlinale as well as at numerous other festivals and markets. This year’s anniversary is being celebrated with special professional A general meeting was held in February during the Berlin International events, film series, special publications and a cinema advertisement. Film Festival when the members voted for a new administrative board. Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Alfred Huermer, Yves Marmion, Margaret Menegoz and Peter Sehr were endorsed. The producers Bettina Brokemper (Heimatfilm), Christophe Mazodier (Polaris Film) and Hanneke van der Tas (Nikovantastic Film) were newly voted onto the administrative board.

The general meeting, moreover, decided on an alteration of the stat - utes whereby the funding institutions from both countries are no lon - ger represented in the administrative board. Instead, a member from the CNC, FFA, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German regional film funds will be active in a consultative capacity in an asso- ciated advisory committee.

Following on from the general meeting, Alfred Huermer (Integral Film) was elected as president by the new administrative board. The vice- presidents for the administrative board’s next term of office are Yves Marmion and Peter Sehr, with Christophe Mazodier serving as trea - surer.

The 8th German-French Film Rendez-vous will be held in Heidelberg from 25 – 27 November 2010. Marquee at Indiana UniversityMarquee (photo courtesy of Project) the Indiana University DEFA MORE THAN 3500 TITLES AT THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY DEFA PROJECT DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK

Twenty years after ‘The Fall of the Wall,’ The Indiana The stock of films available for distribution from the Deutsche University DEFA Project has brought East German films Kinemathek can now be researched at http://verleihfilme. together with scholars, cultural figures and the film’s creators for four deutsche-kinemathek.de. Highlights of the collection include early months of screenings, panels, and interviews. The films (many from international features, German and international film classics prior to the DEFA Film Library’s travel ing Wende Flicks series) illustrate the 1945, films from German filmmakers living in exile, films pertaining to history of filmmaking from transition and unification to the present. Berlin, and German documentaries. Via combined search parameters, These works provide an un paralleled view of politics and social com- some 3,500 films can be researched according to title, director and mentary through art, during one of Europe’s brightest historical cast. Detailed information about cast and crew, film synopses and events. print information as well as selected photo motifs are available at the click of a mouse. Dr. Brigitta Wagner is the initiator of the DEFA project, which inte- grates not only the different schools and levels within the university, but reach es out to both the regional community and to the inter - national film community. The generous support of the German Consulate, the DEFA Foundation, the DEFA Film Library, the New Frontiers-New Perspectives University Grant, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), FilmLand Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, University Departments, Programs, & Centers, Bloomington Community Partners and German Films, made this event possible.

Symposium guests included: the screenwriting legend Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Peter Kahane, Katrin Schloesser and Frank Loeprich (Oe- Film), Knut Elstermann (film journalist for radio, print, and TV), Helmut Morsbach (DEFA Foundation), Thomas Krueger (Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung), and film scholars from Harvard University, University of Michigan, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Washington University-St. Louis, and Indiana University. Screenshot ofScreenshot distribution databank the Deutsche Kinemathek’s

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2 · 2010 15 2010, the thematic programs will demonstrate the diversity and dyna- mism of German short films. In keeping with the theme of the German pavilion, Balancity – A City in Balance, the short film program Stadtbilder/Cityscapes will address urban architectural landscapes.

A further contemporary reference will be provided by a segment of films exclusively dedicated to the subject of football in celebration of this year’s World Cup. Two additional programs specifically refer to German themes: while Achtung Deutschland presents an assortment of ‘typically German’ characteristics, Mauerblueten/Wall Blooms reveals the diverse nature of life as it was in East Germany. And finally, Best of Germany brings together a collection of films that have received local and international critical acclaim. More information can be found at Johannes Rexin celebrate their success in Berlin www.interfilm.de/expo. (photo courtesy of the Berlin International Film Festival) 2ND KIDS REGIO FORUM

In cooperation with the children’s film market BUFF Financing Forum

Producer Bettina Brokemper, director Semih Kaplanoglu, and producer Semih Kaplanoglu, director Bettina Brokemper, Producer and the Southern Swedish film funding body Film i Skåne, KIDS Regio, the lobby initiative for European children’s films, held its 2nd KIDS MEDIA FORUM NRW IN COLOGNE Regio Forum in March 2010 in Malmo/Sweden. With support from Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM) and the Federal The future of 3D and a comparative look at the European financing of State of Thuringia, where the KIDS Regio initiative is based, around 50 the digitalization of cinemas are just two of the many topics that will professionals met to discuss new and experimental channels and tools be on the agenda at the International Film Congress hosted by the for marketing and distribution. In a second workshop, producers dis- Filmstiftung NRW from 28 – 29 June 2010 in Cologne. As in pre- cussed financing and co-production strategies for European children’s vious years, the congress takes place within the framework of the films and exchanged experiences with framework conditions and Media Forum NRW, whose motto this year is “Values We Hold financing possibilities in different European countries. When the 1st Dear”. The forum will address the latest in media trends in the pub - KIDS Regio Forum was held in 2009, the participants had agreed on lishing industry, as well as in television, cinema and video games. the Erfurt Declaration, a five-point agenda to strengthen the European children’s film industry. Further information on KIDS Regio and the The Film Congress and the Media Forum are important dates for the report of the Forum can be found at www.kids-regio.org. industry, offering the opportunity to make new contacts and perpe- tuate an exchange. As a special highlight, the Filmstiftung NRW will present the entire Yusuf-trilogy of the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu during the event Kino Special. Kaplanoglu won the Golden Bear in Berlin this year for his film Honey. The two final parts of the trilogy, Honey and Milk, were supported by the Filmstiftung NRW and produced by the Cologne-based production outfit Heimatfilm.

INTERFILM BERLIN PRESENTS GERMAN SHORTS AT SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO

interfilm Berlin is delighted to have been entrusted with the task of compiling five short film programs for the German pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. On view from 1 May to 31 October From the KIDS Regio Forum (photo courtesy the KIDS Regio Forum ofFrom MDM) (photo © Interfilm Berlin) Scene from “Our Wonderful Nature “Our Wonderful Scene from

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2 · 2010 16 “VISION” OPENED KINO!2010 AT MOMA IN NEW YORK

German Films presented KINO!2010: New Cinema from Germany as part of the annual survey at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 21 April – 2 May. With the support of the Goethe-Institut in New York, the German Consulate General and the Deutsches Haus, a total of ten recent German films, including six documentaries, were shown in the presence of several of the German artists.

KINO!2010 was opened by Vision by Margarethe von Trotta (US dis- tributor: Zeitgeist Films) with the lead actress Barbara Sukowa in attendance. Laurence Kardish, senior curator of the MoMA’s Film & Media Department, focused this year on the stronger presence of the German documentary. There were screenings of All My Fathers (Alle meine Vaeter) in the presence of the director Jan Raiber; Comrade Couture (Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie) by Marco Wilms, who was in New York with the costume designer Sabine von Oettingen; From Ramstein FFF PRESENTS FILMS FROM BAVARIA with Love (Liebesgruesse aus Ramstein) by Irene Langemann, The IN CAPE TOWN Wondrous World of Laundry (Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft) by Hans-Christian Schmid, and the Academy Award®-nominated Polish- For the last 15 years there has been a partnership between Bavaria German documentary short Rabbit à la Berlin (Mauerhasen) by Bartek and the Western Cape. This summer, for 10 days from 9-18 June in Konopka and Piotr Rosolowski. Cape Town, a “Bavarian House” will host 18 institutions and NGOs under the motto “Bavaria meets Western Cape Expo 2010”. , in cooperation with the Film

FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Uschi Reich (left), Bavarian Minister Siegfried Schneider and FFF managing director Producer Commission Cape Town, will offer a program for the Bavarian and Klaus Schaefer (photo at the Love is Folly © FFF Bayern/Alexandra Festival Mesch) in Varna South African film industries, including a location tour, a reception, a children’s film program in cooperation with Powerchild and Missio, as well as the presentation of current productions from Bavaria and the rest of Germany, which were shot in part in South Africa.

Last year, FFF Bayern presented Bavarian films together with the

(photo © Karin Kohlberg) (photo © Karin Bavarian Minister of the Media Siegfried Schneider at the Love is Folly Festival in Varna/Bulgaria. Another presentation of Bavarian films is planned for this fall in Rome, in cooperation with the Bayerisches

O. Mahrdt, B. Sukowa, N. Gerstman, Sukowa, B. Mahrdt, O. Pilgerbuero.

WE LOVE CO-PRODUCTIONS

Berlin-Brandenburg is one of Europe’s hubs for international co-pro- L. Kardish, E. Russo, R. Roy at the KINO!2010 Opening E. Russo, L. Kardish, ductions. Within the last couple of months – again – internationally renowned actors and directors such as Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger (Unknown White Male), Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana (Hanna), Enrique Sánchez Lansch was also on hand to present his Das Reichs- Roland Emmerich, Vanessa Redgrave, Rhys Ifans (Anonymous) and orchester – The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich (Das Reichs- Agnieszka Holland (Hidden) came here to shoot their latest films. orchester – Die Berliner Philharmoniker und der Nationalsozialismus). In With high-tech production facilities, enthralling landscapes and an this context, the New York Goethe-Institut organized a panel discus- attractive film funding system, Germany’s capital region has become sion at the Wyoming Building with Enrique Sánchez Lansch and the location for award-winning films. Susanne Schneider (The Day Will Come/Es kommt der Tag) as well as her lead actress Katharina Schuettler about the Third Reich and RAF terrorism. The discussion was moderated by the writer and director Pia Frankenberg. Andreas Dresen‘s comedy Whisky with Vodka (Whisky mit Wodka) and the German Films short film program NEXT GENERATION 2009 were also screened at this year’s KINO! event.

Do you want to shoot an Oscar®? Come to Berlin-Brandenburg and increase your chances! Four years in a row the prestigious trophy already went to films supported by the regional film fund Medienboard, including Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino and The Reader by Stephen Daldry – that’s why we love co-productions.

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2 · 2010 17 MARGARETHE VON TROTTA TRIBUTE IN MIAMI

During the 27th Miami International Film Festival (4 – 15 March 2010) a special tribute was dedicated to the German director and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta who attended the event together with German actress Barbara Sukowa. The tribute section screened four of her films: I Am the Other Woman (Ich bin die Andere), Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse, and her latest film Vision. In addition, NORTH SEA SCREEN PARTNERS (NSSP) Margarethe von Trotta was honored with the Career Achievement Tribute. NSSP is the catchy acronym for North Sea Screen Partners which is a network of 12 international partners from six EU countries bordering the North Sea. The aim of the project is to link the film industry in the North Sea region. Measures should strengthen the existing potential within the media industry. The region’s attractiveness is emphasized by cross-linking and expanding the partners’ existing resources. International co-productions is one key aim of NSSP’s activities. The other intention is to promote the North Sea Region on screen. Unique locations can be found at the coast as well as high-skilled staff and state-of-the-art production facilities.

Nordmedia is hosting a “North Sea on Screen” conference on 26 August 2010 in Bremen. Producers are invited to pitch their projects dealing with North Sea Region’s common contents. The conference will also offer information about the film countries Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the UK and their possibilities and Barbara Sukowa, Margarethe von Trotta in discussion von Trotta Margarethe Barbara Sukowa, conditions of film co-producing and co-financing. As co-productions with Oliver Kohlberg) in Miami (photo © Karin Mahrdt become more and more important, NSSP intends to strengthen links across the film industry in the North Sea Region. GmbH worldwide transport solutions Int. Medienspedition FILMTRANSPORTS . FIRST CLASS SERVICE ! AIRFREIGHT WORLDWIDE: EXPORT . IMPORT . WAREHOUSE INTERNATIONAL COURIERSERVICE: WORLDWIDE „DOOR TO DOOR“ TRUCKING SERVICE . OVERNIGHT FESTIVALS . FILMPRODUCTION-HANDLING

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REMUNERATION IN GERMANY FOR

PRIVATE COPYING - RENTAL OF VIDEOGRAMS - CABLE RETRANSMISSION

VGF, a collecting society under German law, was founded in 1981 when private homecopying of TV-programs (in particular feature films) by means of videorecording equipment started to become commercially important.

Since 1982 VGF collects video levy monies due to German and foreign film producers under Art. 54 of the German Copyright Act (for blank cassettes and VCR's) and distributes them to the respective rightsowners. The German Collecting Societies Act obliges VGF to make sure that all authors/rightsowners and owners of neighbouring rights of motion pictures, including foreign rightsowners who enjoy national treatment under the international copyright conventions, receive an equitable share of the monies collected for all rightsowners of programs broadcasted by German TV-Stations. Since it is virtually impossible for the individual rightsowners to control the use of the property and to make claims individually, Art. 54 provides that the respective rights must be administered collectively and claims can be made through a collecting society only.

VGF now administers a great number of film rights of important film and TV producers from USA, Great Britain, Germany and other countries who have joined VGF as members. Since VGFs activities come under the supervision of the German Patent Office, it is safeguarded that a fair devision of monies among all rightsowners concerned takes place and that producers receive an equitable share of the video levy revenues in Germany.

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Art. 54 German Copyright Act - Video Levy

Art. 54 of the German Copyright Act provides a remuneration for private copying of movies. As the rightowner cannot prevent private copying, manufacturers and importers of equipment and blank cassettes/CDs/DVDs are charged with a levy. The claim can be made by a collection society only (Art. 54h German Copyright Act). VGF as a trustee administers the rights for film and TV producers and distributes the respective amounts to the rightsowners. Licensing of television rights does not imply transfer of the above mentioned right.

Art. 27 German Copyright Act - Rental Levy

Art. 27 of the German Copyright Act entitles rightsowners to a supplementary remuneration for the rental and lending of videograms by video-retailers. The money must be paid by the video-retailer. It is provided by law (Art. 27 Sec.3) that claims can be made by collecting societies only.

Art. 20 b German Copyright Act - Cable Retransmission Fee

Rightowners whose programs are broadcast by German TV stations and retransmitted via cable are also entitled to a remuneration for such cable retransmission. VGF is also active in collecting this fee. Administration of the above mentioned fees by VGF incurrs no costs for the rightsowners. If your company is interested in collecting these remunerations, please contact VGF for more detailed information.

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Bastard opens with the nine-year-old Nikolas (Finn Kirschner) disappearing without a trace and the police fearing that this might be a sex crime. The profiler Claudia Meinert (Martina Gedeck) comes across inconsistencies in her conversations with the boy’s parents, and the mother, in particular, seems to be hiding something.

Scene from “Bastard” Scene from When a video then appears of Nikolas in handcuffs, the trail leads to

(photo © Maranto Films) the 13-year-old Leon (Markus Krojer). Now it is up to the psy - chologist to gain Leon’s trust and solve the case. But the boy begins a game of cat and mouse with the investigators and the family that could lead to a catastrophe for everyone involved.

“We were pleased and surprised that everyone on our wish list for the cast was happy to commit at an early stage because they were convinced by the quality of the screenplay,” Bahar notes, pointing out that the role of Nikolas is the first substantial acting part for the child actor Finn Kirschner, while Antonia Lingemann – who had a support- Bastard ing role in the Bushido biopic Electro Ghetto (Zeiten aendern Dich) – now has her first lead in this film. Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Psycho-Thriller Production Companies Maranto Films/Cologne, Gifted Markus Krojer, known to audiences from Marcus H. Rosenmueller’s Films/Ludwigsburg, in co-production with SWR/Baden-Baden With two Heimatfilms Grave Decisions (Wer frueher stirbt ist laenger tot) and backing from Filmstiftung NRW, MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Little White Lies (Die Perlmutterfarbe) – came to the attention of Bahar BKM Producers Reza Bahar, Nicole Ringhut Commissioning when he saw him at the awards ceremony of the Bavarian Film Editor Ulrich Herrmann Director Carsten Unger Screenplay Awards. Carsten Unger Director of Photography Lars Petersen Editor Dora Vajda Production Design Christian Strang “The challenge with this film was to keep true to our vision and not let Principal Cast Martina Gedeck, Markus Krojer, Thomas Thieme, the story be distorted by other people,” Bahar explains. “We always Finn Kirschner, Antonia Lingemann, Hanns Zischler, Beate Maes, held on to our intention to make the film as we wanted. The film’s plot Stephan Schad Casting Sabine Schwedhelm Format 35 mm, color, is very uncompromising and so it is not without reason that it took us cs, Stereo Shooting Language German Shooting in Cologne four years to find a broadcaster and funders. But we had the good and surround ings, March – April 2010 fortune to have a commissioning editor like Uli Herrmann [at SWR] who also fought for the project.” Contact Maranto Films GmbH · Reza Bahar “The special and unique aspect of this film is the mix of a psychologi- Venloer Strasse 241-245 · 50823 Cologne/Germany cal thriller and a coming-of-age drama,” Bahar notes. “What appealed phone +49-2 21-16 85 30 04 · fax +49-2 21-16 85 30 05 to me was the uncompromising nature of the characters, the unusual email: [email protected] course of events and the unpredictable plot.” www.marantofilms.com At the same time, Maranto Films is working as a service producer, Producer Reza Bahar first met writer-director Carsten Unger with Nicole Ringhut in charge, for Wild Bunch Germany and Pan- when they were both studying at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Européenne/Paris on Largo Winch 2. The international co-production Academy in Ludwigsburg in 2005. will be shot in the Cologne area from mid-May with a cast including Tomer Sisley, Ulrich Tukur, Laurent Terzieff and Clemens Schick. “I was in my first year and Carsten was preparing his graduation film The Blue Monkey (Der Blaue Affe),” recalls Bahar who then produced Gifted Films is currently preparing the next feature film by Thomas the 45-minute film, starring Matthias Schweighoefer and Esther Stuber (Teenage Angst). Other national and international projects are Zimmering, as a co-production with Hessischer Rundfunk. When The at the stage of development or financing at both companies. Blue Monkey premiered at the 2007 Hof International Film Festival, Unger and Bahar met up again and talked at length about the director’s MB new project – at the time called Rattenfaenger – which was in its third draft of the screenplay.

“The project has changed quite a lot since then,” Bahar says. “Originally, the two teenage children played out their frustration against the parents and it was more of a story about revenge.”

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2 · 2010 20 “I could hardly believe the quality of the script,” says director Hans Steinbichler. “I was taken by the depth and size of this story, which sets a deeply moving, personal fate and European history on two levels into a glittering, emotional mosaic. But what fascinated me most is the humor, the drama, the happiness that comes from every pore of this story.” “Das Blaue vom Himmel” (photo © Juergen Olczyk) Set to move its audience between laughing and crying, Das Blaue vom Himmel entertains at a high level and unfolds, especially, a moving mother-daughter story. “Both have to travel into their own

On the set of past and at the same time to another country,” Steinbichler con tinues, “in order to achieve the perhaps most important moment in human existence: forgiveness.”

It’s no surprise Das Blaue vom Himmel has exactly the right cast to convey these emotions. Juliane Koehler has featured in, among Das Blaue vom Himmel many others, Novemberkind, Effi Briest, Mondkalb und Der Untergang. Hannelore Elsner is one of the stalwarts of contemporary German Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Pro- cinema, whose extensive filmography includes Jakobs Bruder, Vivere, duction Company die film/Munich, in cooperation with Alles auf Zucker!, Die Unberuehrbare and Die Kommissarin. Karoline WDR/Cologne, ARD Degeto/Frankfurt, BR/Munich, ARTE/Stras - Herfurth, equally as solid, can lay claim to Der Vorleser, Das Parfum, bourg With backing from German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Eine andere Liga and Crazy. Filmstiftung NRW, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin- Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA) Producer Uli As producer Uli Aselmann observes, “This deeply moving and Aselmann Director Hans Steinbichler Screenplay Robert exciting story also reminds you of the lows people experience in life, Thayenthal, Josephin Thayenthal Director of Photography but in re-conquering the peaks of life it shows the respect with which Bella Halben Editor Mona Braeuer Music by Niki Reiser we can dignify what we have achieved. This is what gives Das Blaue Production Design Evi Stiebler Principal Cast Juliane Koehler, vom Himmel its emotional backbone, moves viewers and gives Hannelore Elsner, Karoline Herfurth, Niklas Kohrt, David Kross, them something with which to identify.” Ruediger Vogler Casting Nina Haun Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German Shooting in SK Wuppertal, Cologne, Bochum, Heiligendamm, Berlin, Riga, February – April 2010

World Sales Beta Cinema / Beta Film GmbH · Andreas Rothbauer Grunwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany phone +49-89-67 34 69 80 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 email: [email protected] www.betacinema.com Ketel” “Dr. Scene from

Throughout her life, Marga (Hannelore Elsner) has shown little Welter/dffb) (photo © Nikos feeling for her daughter Sofia (Juliane Koehler). But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased hus- band Juris. She becomes increasingly lost in her forgetfulness and suddenly demands, like a child, gentleness. It’s an uncomfortable situation for Sofia who, after so long with hardly any contact, must now take care of her mother. And she is sometimes gruff, sometimes funny, now and again completely present or totally absent. And as if she were relieved to be suddenly free from her memories, she relates Dr. Ketel now and again things from way back when. Things Sofia has never heard of. Sofia’s growing realization that Marga’s past also affects her Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama, Fantasy/ own gives Sofia the impetus to make a sudden journey with her Science Fiction Production Company dffb/Berlin Producer mother to Riga. This is where Marga grew up and where she married Anna de Paoli Director Linus de Paoli Screenplay Anna de Paoli, Juris. But the more Sofia learns about her mother, the less clear it Linus de Paoli Director of Photography Nikos Welter Editor becomes who she herself is. Linus de Paoli Music by Felix Raffel Production Design Daniela Petrozzi Principal Cast Ketel Weber, Franziska Rummel, Pit Following his success with such films as Hierankl and Winterreise, Bukowski, Sema Poyraz Casting Anna de Paoli Format HD, b&w, Hans Steinbichler with Das Blaue von Himmel (working blow-up to 35 mm, 1:1.85, Dolby SR Shooting Languages title: “Promising the Moon”) turns his talents to a time trip into the German, English Shooting in Berlin, March – May and September 1930s (Karoline Herfurth as the young Marga) and 1990s 2010 (Hannelore Elsner as the older Marga). The result is a story about the power of love and forgiveness. german films quarterly in production

2 · 2010 21 World Sales Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) Jana Wolff Potsdamer Strasse 2 · 10785 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-25 75 91 52 · fax +49-30-25 75 91 62 email: [email protected] · www.dffb.de

Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which Director Roland Suso Richter Director (photo © 2010 UFA Cinema) (photo © 2010 UFA the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he’s needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Nobody knows his name or that by day he’s the caretaker of a shabby tenement building. He pushes boundaries and suffers defeats that cost him the last of his strength. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor. Dschungelkind “My father was a doctor in Neukoelln for thirty years,” says Dr. Ketel’s producer and co-writer, Anna de Paoli. “He’d tell me Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Adventure, Biopic, stories about his work. More than actual episodes or anecdotes, I Family Entertainment, Literature Production Company UFA have a certain emotional tie to his work – the feeling of being involved Cinema/Munich, in co-production with ARD Degeto/Frankfurt with various people, with their suffering, their illnesses and their cares With backing from German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Film- of being responsible and mostly having to deal with things on their stiftung NRW, German Federal Film Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds own. The good feeling of having an honorable duty, coupled with Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Producers Nico doubts about not being up to the task; somehow working at the bot- Hofmann, Dr. Juergen Schuster, Wolf Bauer, Thomas Peter Friedl, tom of the pond. So the story has a very personal core, but touches Natalie Scharf Commissioning Editor Hans-Wolfgang Jurgan at the same time universal questions about self-image and personal Director Roland Suso Richter Screenplay Natalie Scharf, Richard interaction.” Reitinger, Beth Serlin, based on the novel of the same name by Sabine Kuegler Director of Photography Holly Fink Editor Bernd Dr. Ketel’s near future setting gives the film the freedom to sharpen Schlegl Production Design Michael Koening Music by Annette the circumstances and draw the borders of the known less tightly. Focks Principal Cast Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Stella Inspiration came also from Pulp Fiction actress Amanda Plummer, Jury Kunkat, Sina Tkotsch Casting Nina Haun, Jacqueline Rietz Format member at the Sitges Film Festival where the de Paolis’ most recent 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German short film, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Kill, had its debut and was award ed Shooting in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Malaysia, Special Mention. February – June 2010

“For me,” says director and co-writer Linus de Paoli, “Dr. Ketel Contact is an artistic act of passage. In my previous films I trusted only the UFA Cinema GmbH · Thorsten Hagemann strength of editing. Here the emphasis is on the characters. The idea Dianastrasse 21 · 14482 Potsdam/Germany is to make the film as original and gripping as possible through the phone +49-3 31-70 60 209 · fax +49-3 31-70 60 216 contradictory lead character.” email: [email protected] www.ufa-cinema.de SK Principal photography is currently underway in Malaysia on Roland Suso Richter’s latest feature film Dschungelkind (“Jungle Child”) based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Sabine Kuegler.

Sold more than 1.5 million times and translated into 31 languages worldwide, Kuegler’s book tells the true story of a German girl who spent her childhood with a previously unknown tribe in the jungle of West Papua.

“Right from when I first read Sabine Kuegler’s bestseller Jungle Child, strong, memorable images appeared in my head that touched me to my innermost being,” director Roland Suso Richter recalls. “They are powerful archaic images, of outmoded customs, rites and unknown conventions. And it is precisely these images that appeal to a longing in every one of us. They transport the craving for both the primal and the unknown. They let us dream. They lead us into a world which would otherwise be closed to us and long forgotten.”

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2 · 2010 22 As Roland Suso Richter explains, Jungle Child is the story of “a so- called ‘Third Culture Kid’ who grows up between two cultures. This clash of two such contradictory cultures is for me the central topic of Jungle Child. Like in a mirror, our own behavior patterns are de- monstrated through those patterns of the indigenous people, the ‘Fayu’, and, at the same time, the question is posed: are the things we consider normal and perceive as correct really correct?”

“Jungle Child is thus a very modern story because it also asks, among other things, whether the values and rules manifested in our society are mainly responsible for the happiness and satisfaction in our lives?,” he argues. Games/Luciano Cervio/Anton Gonopolski)

The co-production with ARD Degeto is the latest in producer UFA “Fine Art Games” (photoScene from © Fine Art Cinema’s ambitious slate of literary and bestseller adaptations and marks Roland Suso Richter’s return to directing for the cinema after handling several prestige TV productions such as Mogadishu Welcome Fine Art Games (Mogadishu), The Miracle of Berlin (Das Wunder von Berlin) and The Frontier (Die Grenze). Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Tragicomedy, Musical Comedy Production Company dffb/Berlin, in co-pro- Sabine as a child was cast with Stella Kunkat – who had previously duction with Gonopolski und Guddat Filmproduktionen/Berlin appeared in the TV dramas Romy and March of Millions (Die Flucht) – Producer Anna Katharina Guddat Director Anton Gonopolski while Sina Tkotsch, seen last year in Rainer Matsutani’s Gangs, Screenplay Anton Gonopolski, Bastian Kleppe Director of was picked to play the teenage girl. Meanwhile, the roles of Sabine’s Photography Luciano Cervio Editor Anton Gonopolski Music parents are taken by Thomas Kretschmann (Valkyrie, Mogadishu by Anton Gonopolski Production Design Joern Lachmann Welcome) and Nadja Uhl (The Baader Meinhof Complex, Summer in Principal Cast Camilo Sottolichio, Marina Weis, Alerij Bondarew, Berlin). Nastja Smirnova Format RED One, color, blow-up to 35 mm, cs, Dolby SR Shooting Languages German, Russian, English, French The German theatrical release through Universal Pictures Shooting in Samara/Russia, Berlin, April 2010 International Germany in collaboration with UFA Cinema is planned for the end of 2010. World Sales Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) MB Jana Wolff Potsdamer Strasse 2 · 10785 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-25 75 91 52 · fax +49-30-25 75 91 62 email: [email protected] · www.dffb.de

Apollo, in his mid thirties, is a Greek guy who lives in Berlin. He’s a gambler, seducer and good-time-guy. He has an illegitimate child in Russia but does not even know whether it’s a boy or girl. But now Apollo finds himself in a bind: he has to present the child, and fast, otherwise he won’t inherit the fortune left to him by his rich uncle.

A private detective hands Apollo a very thin dossier. His child is called Alexander Vasiliev and is, at this moment, participating in the Fine Art Games in a small town on the Volga.

Apollo sets off to Russia to find his son but on arrival discovers there is not one but twenty-eight boys called Alexander Vasiliev on the competitors’ list! Which one is his? What once looked as simple as stealing candy from a baby has now become very complicated. Fortunately, Apollo quickly makes new friends who help him in his search. And that leads only to new disasters!

Fine Art Games’ producer, Anna Katharina Guddat, is a student at Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy (dffb), as is the film’s director and co-writer, Anton Gonopolski, who also studied at Moscow’s film school. This is their graduation project.

“Without the dffb we could never have financed such an unusual film,” says Anna Katharina Guddat. “Fine Art Games is essential-

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2 · 2010 23 ly an operetta. We are filming and singing in German, Russian and upcoming liquidation of the ghetto by hiding in the sewers. They offer French and have gathered our team and cast from all over the world. him money to protect them. Although he is aware that helping a Jew Our lead actor, Camillo, is half Chilean, half Canadian; our camera- could mean immediate execution for him and his family, Socha sees man, Luciano, is Argentinean; the sound man is Norwegian and the this as easy cash and they strike a deal. Soon and inevitably the Jews’ assistant director is from Alaska! All this under Russian direction and money runs out. But now there is no turning back. German production. You can’t get more ‘international co-production’ than this!” Agnieszka Holland (Oscar®-nominated for Angry Harvest, 1985, and Europa Europa, 1990, which also brought her the Golden Globe for SK Best Foreign Film) directs Hidden in an unsparingly documentary style but also, alongside the incredible drama, with warm-hearted humor.

Benno Fuermann plays the Jew Mundek Marguiles, who finds his great love, in all places, in the sewers; Maria Schrader and Herbert Knaup are the rich, married Chigers, parents of two children, of which one, Krystyna, lives as the last surviving witness in Scene from "Hidden" Scene from Jasmin Marla Dichant) the USA, while the Polish hero despite himself, Leopold Socha, is played by Robert Wieckiewicz.

“It’s a tale of courage, love and redemption in the midst of unimaginable brutality,” says Hidden’s writer David Shamoon, “It was so incredible it had to be true, this story of Socha’s transformation into

(photo © nfp/SchmidtzKatze Filmkollektiv/(photo © nfp/SchmidtzKatze a hero honored by Israel’s Yad Vashem as one of The Righteous Among the Nations that forms the heart of the film.”

Do not mistake Hidden for ‘just another’ Holocaust film. This is a thriller, an adventure, a love story, and a story of redemption. It may Hidden have taken place in Poland, during World War II, but the events are as current and immediate as those in Iran, Afghanistan, Congo, Darfur Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama, History and anywhere else humans dehumanize each other. Production Company Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv/Halle & Berlin, in co-production with The Film Works/Toronto, Zebra What makes Hidden stand out is that it’s warts and all: the Jews are Films/Warsaw With backing from German Federal Film Fund not just merely innocent, helpless victims, the hero is not above (DFFF), Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, Medienboard Berlin- reproach and the ‘villains’ are not simply evil. For Socha, avoiding the Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA), HessenInvest easy route of betraying the Jews is difficult. He struggles, not only with Producers Marc-Daniel Dichant, Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippl, the very real physical danger of discovery, but also with his own deci- Leander Carell, Eric Jordan, Paul Stephens, Juliusz Machulski, sion to help them. Among the Jews is a con man, while another is an Wojciech Danowski Director Agnieszka Holland Screenplay adulterer who abandons his family to the Nazis. “All this,” Shamoon David Shamoon Director of Photography Jolanta Dylewska continues, “makes Hidden a potent cauldron of tensions and para- Editor Michael Czarnecki Music by Antek Lazarkiewicz noia among a group of people clinging to life on the edge.” Production Design Erwin Prib Principal Cast Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fuermann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria SK Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Kinga Preis Casting Heta Mantscheff, John Buchan, Jason Knight, Weronika Migon Format RED, color, 1:1.85, Dolby SR Shooting Languages Polish, Yiddish, German Shooting in Berlin, Leipzig, Warsaw, Lodz, January – March 2010

Two-time Academy Award®-nominee Agnieszka Holland di rects Hidden, as written by David Shamoon from Robert Marshall’s book In the Sewers of Lvov, the true story of the thief, sinner and bigot Leopold Socha who became a wartime hero.

Nazi-occupied Lvov/Poland, 1943: Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and minor thief, struggles to make ends meet for his wife and daughter. He comes across a motley group of Jews trying to escape the

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2 · 2010 24 Initially, Koese didn’t have anyone particular in mind for the part of Marvin until he got to know Uwe Ochsenknecht during the shooting of Run for Your Life and talked about his Homies project.

“He thought that his son Jimi Blue could be ideal for the role,” Koese recalls. “When I met him, Jimi understood the story right away. He has matured as an actor and is becoming more of a character actor. Cast & crew ofCast & crew “Homies” This role, though, is quite different from what he has done in the past.”

As for Ismail Deniz, who was cast as Osman, Koese had known (photo © enigma film/Andreas Grasser) him for some time because they hail from the same part of the Ruhrgebiet. Deniz had played in Run for Your Life, and the role in the new film was specially written for him.

Meanwhile, Sabrina Wilstermann, who plays the love interest Homies Stella in this coming-of-age film, “is a complete newcomer who has never stood in front of a camera before,” says Koese, explaining that Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Comedy, Coming- he “wanted to get over the feeling that she really wants to become a of-Age Story, Music Production Company enigma film/Munich, dancer.” in co-production with Starhaus Filmproduktion/Munich, Odeon Pictures/Munich With backing from HessenInvestFilm, German Like Wilstermann, many of the other young actors in the cast – in - Federal Film Fund (DFFF), German Federal Film Board (FFA) cluding Ali Murtaza and Selina Shirin Mueller – come from Producers Fritjhof Hohagen, Clarens Grollmann Director Adnan the Frankfurt area where the film was shot from February 23 to G. Koese Screenplay Adnan G. Koese, Andrea Kriegl Director March 30. of Photography James Jacobs Editor Manuel Reidinger Production Design Susanne Richter Principal Cast Jimi Blue “It has been great fun shooting in Frankfurt and many of the people Ochsenknecht, Sabrina Wilstermann, Ismail Deniz, Selina Shirin on the crew in important positions come from there,” Koese notes. Mueller, Ali Murtaza, Guenther Kaufmann, Detlef D. Soost, Tai Jason “We have a lot of young people who are getting their first chance Music by Tai Jason Casting Tina Werner Format 16 mm, with a position of responsibility on a film and they are really dying to blow-up to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital Shooting get on with it. It’s very much what the film’s about: finding your own Language German Shooting in Frankfurt am Main, February – identity, getting a chance and making use of it. There is a real energy March 2010 here on the set.”

World Sales In addition, he has veteran actor Guenther Kaufmann cast as the Aktis Film International GmbH · Stelios Ziannis rapper legend D.W. Court. “Guenther is a living legend for me and Altenburgerstrasse 7 · 04275 Leipzig/Germany that’s how he appears in this film.” Koese also draws on the services phone +49-3 41-35 00 26 10 · fax +49-3 41-35 00 26 19 of Detlef D. Soost of Popstars fame on both sides of the camera. email: [email protected] · www.aktis-film.com Soost was responsible for the choreography of certain scenes in the film and also plays the part of Stella’s dance teacher. Originally, director Adnan G. Koese had the idea for his latest film Homies (working title) far back in 2003 and even received funding Meanwhile, another coup was to attract the internationally famous for script development. But then another project, Ironman – later music producer Tai Jason onboard to write the score for the film known as Run for Your Life - From Junkie to Ironman – came together which will be released in Germany in 2011 by Kinowelt. quicker and became Koese’s feature debut in 2008. “The story is like an emotional, poetic story,” Koese concludes. “Its Co-written by Koese with Andrea Kriegl, Homies centers on message doesn’t only concern young people, but addresses all of us 18-year-old Marvin, who comes from a well-to-do background and because emotions are universal.” lives in a smart villa in the suburbs. His mother, a successful real es - tate agent, has already planned his future, down to the last details. But MB Marvin has quite a different vision of life: his great passion is music – and this is where he wants to prove himself and show what he’s capable of, without any of his mother’s money. After a meeting with the rapping legend D.W. Court, he finally decides to take his life into his own hands. When he gets to know the clique around the cool Osman and pretty Stella, it seems that his dream is coming true. For the first time, he feels that he is really respected and taken seriously. Moreover, he falls head over heels in love with Stella. But, all of this has its price: he conceals his true background so that he will be accepted. When Osman susses the secret, the deception is in danger of being exposed. Now Marvin must risk everything …

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2 · 2010 25 Underdogs, Emmas Glueck, FC Venus – Frauen am Ball, Eine andere Liga, Kebab Connection, Gegen die Wand, the list could go on! In 1998 Schwingel and Schubert teamed up with publisher Hejo Emons to open Wueste Film West.

Producer Bjoern Vosgerau, who first discovered the material and (photo © Harald Opel) supported Andi Rogenhagen in developing the script, describes Director Andi Rogenhagen Director Johnny Kuehlkissen as “an archaically funny and at the same time warm-hearted story. It’s a family comedy about love and tole- rance. If I were to point to a reference film, then I’d say Little Miss Sunshine, certainly for its family relationship aspects, but here we’re also aiming, for example, at a faster pace and putting much more emphasis on the comedy.”

SK Johnny Kuehlkissen

Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Comedy, Coming- of-Age Story, Drama Production Company Wueste Film/Hamburg, in co-production with Wueste Film West/Cologne, NDR/Hamburg, in cooperation with ARTE/Strasbourg With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) Producers Bjoern Vosgerau, Uwe Kolbe, Stefan Schubert, Ralph Schwingel, Hejo Emons Director Andi Rogenhagen Screenplay Andi Rogenhagen Director of Photography Ralf Mendle Production Design Peter Menne Principal Cast Jasna Fritzi

Bauer, Waldemar Kobus, Nora Tschirner, Victoria Trauttmannsdorf, Jehn, L. Schuetzsack, I. Schuenemann, F. Renate Delfs Casting Deborah Congia Format HD, color, blow- Garvanos (photo © Rainer Elstermann) P. up to 35 mm, cs, Dolby Surround Ex Shooting Language German Shooting in Marl, Osnabrueck, April – June 2010

Contact Wueste Film GmbH · Bjoern Vosgerau Klang der Stille Schulterblatt 58 · 20357 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-40-4 31 70 60 · fax +49-40-4 30 00 12 Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Family Drama email: [email protected] · www.wuestefilm.de Production Company Polarlicht Filmproduktion/Berlin, in co- production with C-Films/Zurich With backing from SWR, Seventeen-year-old Eva suffers from Tourette’s. Sometimes her tics ARTE, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film Producers Ingo drive her mad, but Eva is basically a happy young woman. That’s Schuenemann, Pari Garvanos, Anne Walser Commissioning because everyone in her weird but loving family accepts her as she is. Editors Brigitte Dithard, Barbara Haebe Director Friederike Jehn But when her father loses his job, the family also loses its equilibrium. Screenplay Lara Schuetzsack Director of Photography Sten Together with her rough-diamond grandmother and screwball uncle, Mende Editor Ben von Grafenstein Production Design Ina Eva tries to help secure the family’s existence, which increasingly Timmerberg Principal Cast Sylvie Testud, Wolfram Koch causes chaos (How about a bank robbery, for example?!) until Eva Casting Ulrike Mueller, Jaqueline Rietz Format S16 mm, blow-up finally grows beyond herself and her illness and realizes it is time to to 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby SR Shooting Language German, lead her own life. Swiss German Shooting in Switzerland, Spring 2011

Director and scriptwriter Andi Rogenhagen was born in 1965 Contact and grew up in Marl, in Westphalia, where, coincidentally, filming is Polarlicht Filmproduktion also taking place. From 1989 to 1993 he studied Film Design in Dunckerstrasse 75 · 10437 Berlin/Germany Dortmund and from 1997 to 1998 Scriptwriting in Cologne. He has phone/fax +49-30-44 67 67 55 made several short films and his documentary about the final of the email: [email protected] soccer World Cup 1994, The Final Kick, won the Adolf Grimme www.polarlicht-film.com Special Award. His first feature length film, Die Frau die an Dr. Fabian zweifelte, played at various German festivals, including Saarbruecken Preparations are now underway for Klang der Stille (working and Luenen, before going on general release, while his first novel is title), the second feature film by Friederike Jehn, which will also due to hit Amazon and the bookshelves next year. mark the feature film production debut for the young Berlin production house Polarlicht Filmproduktion. Wueste Film, founded in Hamburg in 1989 by Stefan Schubert and Ralph Schwingel, produces films that aim to “The contact to Friederike came about after a recommendation from entertain, amuse, thrill even; such as 12 Meter ohne Kopf, Die Tuer, a story editor at Scripthouse,” recalls producer Ingo german films quarterly in production

2 · 2010 26 Schuenemann who established Polarlicht with Pari Garvanos three years ago.

“At the time, I was in the final stages of post-production on my debut Weitertanzen,” Jehn adds. “When the screenplay was offered to me, it immediately moved me and preoccupied me.”

Lara Schuetzsack’s screenplay follows the 14-year-old Wanda as she moves with her parents and young siblings from Berlin to a new life in Switzerland. The move is an attempt to patch up the breakdown in relations between her parents after her father’s infidelity. However, Kanwal Sethi (photoKanwal © Arthur Salewski) the distance between them becomes ever greater and more dange- rous until Wanda finally takes up the initiative to mediate. Holm Taddiken, Atta Yaqub,Christoph Franken, Atta Yaqub,Christoph Holm Taddiken,

As Jehn explains, she has worked together with Schuetzsack on developing the screenplay further, “but the core remains the same. Lara’s script is very original. I was attracted by the uniqueness of the atmos- Knotenpunkt phere, the particular nature of the characters and the special warmth with which a very dramatic family event is portrayed.” Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Buddy Movie Production Company Neufilm/Leipzig, in cooperation with “Above all, I was interested by the children’s perspective because this ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz With backing from Mittel - family drama is told through their eyes in a very special way.” deutsche Medienfoerderung Producer Holm Taddiken Director Kanwal Sethi Screenplay Leis Bagdach, Kanwal Sethi Director of The two roles of the parents have already been cast: the mother Photography Hanno Moritz Kunow Editor Peter Zorn Music Anna will be portrayed by the French actress Sylvie Testud, by Oleg Belolipetskiy Production Design Anne Schlaich known to international audiences from her performances in such films Principal Cast Atta Yaqub, Christoph Franken, Kulbushan as Beyond Silence, La Vie en Rose and Lourdes. Kharbanda, Karina Plachetka, Barbara Schnitzler, Pasha Bocari Casting Miriam Locker Format RED Cam/Canon D7, color, “She will speak in German and keep her accent since, in the story, her 1:1.85, Dolby SR 5.1 Shooting Languages German, Punjabi character comes from another country,” Jehn says. “This spontaneous Shooting in Leipzig and surroundings, February – March 2010 choice was the right casting – I visited her in Paris and she really likes the script!” Contact Neufilm · Holm Taddiken Meanwhile, the father Joachim will be played by Wolfram Koch Altenburger Strasse 9 · 04275 Leipzig/Germany who is mainly known for his appearances on the stage at the phone +49-3 41-35 00 35 80 · fax +49-3 41-35 00 35 85 Deutsches Theater, Volksbuehne and Vienna’s Burgtheater, but has email: [email protected] · www.neufilm.com also taken film parts in such productions as A Hero’s Welcome and 10 Seconds. The Pakistani hairdresser Haroon is an illegal immigrant in Germany while the insurance office worker Mark dreams of emigrating. A car Principal photography is scheduled for Spring 2011 at locations in accident and its unforeseen consequences throws these two very dif- Switzerland with the Zurich-based C-Films onboard as co-producer ferent people together for a night. At the end of an odyssey through along with public broadcaster SWR. the alien world of illegality, they both discover something that unites them: the longing for faraway places and things. “It is more like a chamber piece,” notes producer Pari Garvanos. “The story is concentrated on the world within the family’s home and when Christoph Franken, born in 1978, who plays Mark, trained at the we leave this hermetic space, we will not need many other locations Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, spent four years at the outside.” Staatsschauspiel Hannover and since the 2009/2010 season is now at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Known principally for his stage work, Meanwhile, Jehn’s second feature is likely to be a case of ‘never Franken was the naive Neo-Nazi in Brennendes Herz. change a winning team’ behind the camera: “I will try to have as many people as possible from the crew of Weitertanzen – costume design, To Knotenpunkt (“Junctionpoint”) Franken brings his strength and DoP, production design, music, editing,” she says. “It’s important for temperament but also his ability to convey sometimes the strange, me to carry on this family atmosphere because our work together is the scary, the tragic: his Mark is a young man whose suppressed life built on this.” force is enormous, juxtaposed with the everyday existence of an in - surance agent. A graduate of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Jehn saw her debut Weitertanzen win the Eastman Talent Award at the 2008 Hof Atta Yaqub, as Haroon, was born in 1979 in Scotland to Pakistani International Film Festival, the New Berlin Film Award at the Achtung parents. In Germany he is best known for his appearance in Ken Berlin! Festival and the Art of Film Award at the Festival of German Loach’s Just A Kiss. He is a gifted young actor who can transcend Film in Ludwigshafen last year. the cliché of a foreigner in western Europe to convey Haroon’s des- perate energy. MB

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2 · 2010 27 Polish-born Karina Plachetka studied at Berlin’s Ernst Busch stage school and is now in the ensemble at the Dresdner Staatsschauspiel. Her previous films include Martin Gypken’s Wir (2003) and Nichts als Gespenster (2007), and Whisky mit Wodka (dir: Andreas Dresen, 2009).

Knotenpunkt’s director and co-writer Kanwal Sethi was born in Amritsar/India in 1971. He acted and directed even while at Liebe” “Lena’s Scene from school, after which he founded an Afro-Indian theater group, directed and wrote for a literary and film magazine. In 1992 he moved to Germany and studied in Dresden, working regularly as a projectionist (photo © Erik Steingroever/noirfilm) and translator. In 1999 he moved to Leipzig, where he took script seminars at the university and the Deutsches Literaturinstitut. In 2000/2001 he was an assistant director at Leipzig’s Schauspielhaus, a role he continued as a freelancer while working on a documentary, Raga, about Indian classical music, as well as developing Knotenpunkt. This is, says Sethi, quite simply “a film about those Lenas Liebe people who do not stay home. It is also a film that poses the question … Where is home?” Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Art, Drama, Road Movie Production Company noirfilm/Karlsruhe, in co-produc- Producer Holm Taddiken studied Communication and Media tion with ZDF/Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg With backing from Science in Leipzig, working on many short films which played at festi- Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, vals around the world, including Munich, Dresden, Barcelona, New German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) Producers Nico Hain, Boris York and Palm Springs. After working in advertising he moved into Michalski Commissioning Editor Meinholf Zurhorst Director film, adding Scala Productions (London), Rheinfilm (Cologne), Tellux Didi Danquart Screenplay Didi Danquart, Stephan Weiland (Dresden) and Senator Entertainment (Berlin) to his CV. In 2003 he Director of Photography Johann Feindt Production Design opened his own shop, Neufilm, to concentrate on young German Myrna Drews Principal Cast Anna Stieblich, Martin Luettge, films with the emphasis on artistic quality. Wolfram Koch Format RED One/4K, color, cs, blow-up to 35 mm, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German Shooting in Zittau “Knotenpunkt,” Taddiken says, “is a film about people who dare and surroundings, Oswiecim/Poland, November 2009, May 2010 or have dared to take a giant step. It is about that kind of courage in which lives the magic of adventure. Migration as a lasting, popular Contact subject is what can make this film an audience success.” noirfilm filmproduktion gmbh & co. kg · Nico Hain Durlacher Allee 62/Filmhaus SK 76131 Karlsruhe/Germany phone +49-7 21-3 52 89 25 · fax +49-7 21-3 52 89 27 email: [email protected] · www.noirfilm.de

Director-producer Didi Danquart is currently ‘on the road’ be - tween Germany and Poland for the shooting of his latest feature film Lenas Liebe (“Lena’s Love”), based on Judith Kuckart’s novel of the same name.

Danquart, whose previous films include Offset and Viehjud Levi, had optioned the film rights to Kuckart’s novel in 2005 and then collabo- rated with writer Stephan Weiland on the screenplay.

40-year-old Lena Behsler has just lost her job as an actress when she learns of her mother’s death and decides to set off by car for Germany. There are another two passengers traveling with her: the cranky old Julius Dahlmann and the young priest Richard Frantzen.

In fact, their paths have not crossed here for the first time, yet the audience will only learn in the course of the film through various flash - backs why they are now together in the car between Poland and Germany. Three generations of German history are thrown together as they reflect on their past and delve into long suppressed memories.

“Memory is manifold: melancholic or joyful, black-and-white or color- ful,” Didi Danquart says. “Sometimes, you rummage around in your memories and other times you are deliberately looking for them without finding them. Or memories thrust themselves randomly on you

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2 · 2010 28 because something – a landscape or a piece of music – calls up a past event from one’s subconscious into the present.”

“The active memory helps to process past things. This is what our film is dealing with,” he explains. “A ‘traveling chamber piece’ with three ‘imprisoned’ protagonists who will face up to their memories.”

As producer Nico Hain recalls, financing for the film began in 2007 and it was originally planned to have a Polish partner onboard as a co- “Le Sacre du printemps” in “Pina” “Le Sacre producer. The funding of the film – with backing from MDM (who 2009) (photo © Donata Wenders, was onboard from the outset with script development and pre- production support), MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) and co-producers ZDF/ARTE – in the end prompted noirfilm to shoot more of the scenes set in Poland in Germany.

In a first block of shooting over seven days last November, “flash - Pina back” historical sequences of events from 1944 and the film’s opening scenes were filmed in and around the east German town of Zittau. Type of Project Documentary Genre Dance, 3D Production Company Neue Road Movies/Berlin, in co-production with The second block of the shooting of the car journey from Poland to Eurowide/Paris, ZDF/Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg, in association with Germany began at the end of April for 24 days. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Hain notes that thanks to the experienced Leipzig-based location Federal Film Board (FFA), CNC, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) scout and service company Soeren von der Heyde Filmdienstleistung, Producer Gian-Piero Ringel Co-Producers Claudie Ossard, locations were found in Saxony which enabled the production to Chris Bolzli Commissioning Editors Wolfgang Bergmann, shoot ‘Poland’ in Germany. Dieter Schneider, Gabriele Heuser Director Wim Wenders Screenplay Wim Wenders Choreography Pina Bausch 3D The role of Lena is Anna Stieblich’s latest film part after appear- Producer Erwin M. Schmidt Director of Photography Hélène ances in such films as Nana Neul’s Mein Freund aus Faro and Louvart Editor Toni Froschhammer Production Design Rolf Danquart’s 2005 film Offset, while the old man Julius is played by Borzik, Peter Pabst Format HD 3D, color, 1:1.85, Dolby 5.1 Martin Luettge (Verrueckt nach Paris) and the young priest Richard Shooting Language German Shooting in Wuppertal, by Wolfram Koch whose past film credits include Julie Delpy’s The October 2009 & April 2010 Countess, Nicolai Rohde’s 10 Seconds and Bastian Guenther’s Autopilots. World Sales HanWay Films Ltd. · Stephan Mallmann Meanwhile, Lenas Liebe will again see Danquart working with the 24 Hanway Street · London W1T 1UH/Great Britain cinematographer Johann Feindt who has lensed all of the direc- phone +44-20-76 36 22 51 · fax +44-20-76 36 22 61 tor’s feature films. In addition, noirfilm is building on its positive ex- email: [email protected] periences of working with the RED One digital camera and a tried- www.hanwayfilms.com and-tested workflow. MB Filmmaker Wim Wenders had been wanting to work with the world-renowned choreographer Pina Bausch on a film together for some time. But it was only with the latest advances in digital 3D technology that he was convinced that the appropriate medium had now been found for the choreographer's exceptional art.

“The two-dimensional cinema screen is just not capable of capturing Pina Bausch’s work, neither emotionally nor aesthetically,” Wenders says. “When I watched her dance for the first time 25 years ago, I was captivated and deeply moved. I was able to understand human movement, gestures and feelings in a whole new way. And this magic is what I would like to translate to the screen. 3D gives us the possibili- ty of taking the audience directly onto the stage, into the middle of the event.”

A screening of U2 3D in Cannes a couple of years ago convinced Wenders that the technology was at a level “where it would now be possible for the first time to present Pina’s choreography adequately on film and show the power and energy of her work,” producer Gian-Piero Ringel recalls.

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2 · 2010 29 Since the Tanztheater Wuppertal is such in demand, Wenders was looking at a “time slot” last September for the shooting of the film and began in earnest with the project’s financing.

Preparations for the film, however, were put on hold when Pina Bausch died suddenly at the end of June.

“We were in the middle of tests with the 3D cameras when we re - ceived the news of Pina’s passing,” Ringel says. “Later in the summer, (photo © Arsenal Filmverleih) after having been encouraged by her son Rolf-Salomon, the dancers and the company, we decided to restart the production of Pina. It

was common sense that this was going to become a different film than DoP Rainer Eran Riklis Klausmann, director the one planned together with Pina Bausch. All of the partners we had attracted to the project stayed onboard and supported the new concept.”

The shooting in two blocks – October 2009 and April 2010 – features Playoff extracts from four of Bausch's dances: Café Mueller, Le Sacre du Printemps, Vollmond, and Kontakthof. Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Production Company Egoli Tossell Film/Berlin, in co-production “Through Pina’s death, the film will be quite different,” Ringel explains. with Fidélité Films/Paris, Topia Communications/Tel Aviv With “It had been planned to observe her during her work. Now we intend backing from HessenInvestFilm, Eurimages, German Federal Film to use archive material with Pina Bausch and shoot with the dancers Fund (DFFF), German Federal Film Board (FFA) Producers Jens outside of the Tanztheater. These will be bridging elements between Meurer, Michael Sharfstein, Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc the individual dance pieces.” Director Eran Riklis Screenplay Gidi Maron, David Akerman, Eran Riklis Director of Photography Rainer Klausmann “When starting the preparation, we spoke with lots of people who Production Design Erwin Prib Principal Cast Hanns Zischler, had worked in 3D,” recalls the film’s 3D producer Erwin M. Max Riemelt Casting Kristin Diehle Casting, Sharon Howard-Field, Schmidt about the extensive groundwork undertaken in the pre- Patricia Guyotte Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby SRD paration for the film. “But many of these had experience of shoots Shooting Languages English, German, Hebrew, Turkish done in a classical way, with sets and controlled conditions. The par- Shooting in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, June – August 2010 ticular nature of this project, though, was that we were bound months ahead by this tight timetable of mere hours for shooting. We World Sales had to shoot during the limited number of evening performances and Elle Driver and Wild Bunch S.A. · Vincent Maraval only had as many takes as performances.” 99 rue de la Verrerie · 75004 Paris/France phone +33-1-53 01 50 20 · fax +33-1-53 01 50 49 Schmidt points out that there were various technical challenges to email: [email protected] master on this project: “As with a regular film, we wanted to see rush- www.wildbunch.biz es each day. It was technically a very complicated process to have the shooting day’s gathered data prepared in a form that we could Shooting begins this summer on the German-French-Israeli co-pro- screen the footage in 3D the next morning.” duction Playoff which is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel’s most famous ever basketball coach. “We also had to find a solution for the cameras where we could have as great a flexibility as possible without limiting the dancers in their In the screenplay by David Akerman, Gidi Maron and Eran movement on the stage. We decided to deploy a large telescopic Riklis, the basketball coach Max Stoller becomes a national hero crane in the theater above the audience, which allowed us to move when he makes Maccabi Tel Aviv into European champions in the late around freely and have the necessary depth of vision.” 70s. But he becomes a national traitor equally as fast when he then accepts the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West “The next challenge will be the post-production,” he explains. “We German basketball team – of all people – into European winners! could have done like other productions and edit in 2D on Avid and then check later in a 3D projection in a cinema. There was a lot of Max always insists that Germany means nothing to him and that train - experimentation before we arrived at an ideal workflow and decided ing their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. to set up our own 3D projection facility in the editing room.” But things aren’t that simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. When he discovers what happened to his own family Post-production will continue to the end of this year, with a premiere in Germany in the 1940s, it is not what he had expected… possibly staged at a festival in early 2011. MB “The French company Fidélité had been discussing working with us for some time and then pitched us this project by Eran Riklis,” Egoli Tossell Film’s Jens Meurer recalls. “We knew of Eran’s work because our distribution company Timebandits had released his film The Syrian Bride in Germany.”

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2 · 2010 30 “It is an interesting development for Eran because for the first time it takes him completely outside of Israel,” Meurer continues. “It is typi- cal for his directorial style because there are really dramatic elements. Moreover, it is a fun and feel-good movie as Klein gets this completely hopeless German basketball team even as far as the Olympics. And, of course, I expect that Eran’s good relationship with the actors will come to the fore – after all, he was the one who put Hiam Abbas on the map.”

“In fact, it is a very German story,” he observes. “And we have a great German cast lined up, including Hanns Zischler and Max

For Egoli Tossell Film, the 5 million Euro Playoff will be the first Majorkiewicz/Schlicht und Ergreifend Film GmbH) production that the Berlin-based production house has shot in Hessen. “Almost 100% of the shoot will be in Hessen and we have found the right kind of locations to recreate the late 1970s and early Wintervater 1980s,” Meurer explains. “In addition, we are working together with the Frankfurt Maccabi basketball team which originates from the Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Road Movie late 1970s, and some of the players will be appearing in the scenes of Production Company Schlicht und Ergreifend Film/Munich, in basketball matches.” co-production with Pokromski Studio/Warsaw, RBB/Potsdam- Babelsberg, BR/Munich, MDR/Leipzig, NDR/Hamburg, SWR/ Playoff is set to be the first feature film production to go before the Baden-Baden With backing from Kuratorium junger deutscher camera in what promises to be a busy year for Egoli Tossell Film. A Film, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board summer start is due for Katja von Garnier’s adaptation of the first of (FFA), Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, German Federal Film Fund the three Francois Lelord bestselling Hector’s Journey novels, which (DFFF) Producers Philipp Budweg, Mikolaj Pokromski Director will be shot at locations in Germany, China, France and South Africa Johannes Schmid Screenplay Michaela Hinnenthal, Thomas Schmid as a co-production with Warner Bros. Entertainment Germany. Director of Photography Michael Bertl Editor Thomas Kohler Music by Katrin Mickiewicz, Michael Heilrath Production In addition, the company is partnering with Jim Jacks, Stuart Pollock Design Dorothee von Bodelschwingh Principal Cast Ursula and Spain’s Morena Films on Iain Softley’s medieval action film Ivanhoe Werner, Nina Monka, Leon Seidel, Dominik Nowak, Katharina Marie which should shoot at locations in Middle Germany and Spain from Schubert, Maxim Mehmet, Merab Ninidze, Daniel Olbrychski, Julia the autumn. Kaminska Casting Daniela Tolkien, Piotr Bartuszek Format 35 SK mm, color, cs, Dolby SR Shooting Languages German, Polish, Russian Shooting in Jena, Weimar, Stettin, Gdynia, Gdansk, January – March 2010

Contact Schlicht und Ergreifend Film GmbH · Philipp Budweg Muellerstrasse 35 · 80469 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-28 67 31 31 · fax +49-89-28 67 31 33 email: [email protected] www.schlichtundergreifendfilm.de

An old woman, a young girl and a clapped-out barge on an unusual journey from Berlin to Poland. For 11-year-old Kattaka it’s an escape: she’s looking for her natural father, a Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored in Gdansk and whose existence her parents have kept secret until now. For 70-year-old Lena it’s a journey back: back to her home in Masuren, from which she fled in the Second World War. And back to her suppressed pain of having lost both parents. Only together can the mismatched couple regain the ground beneath their feet, and themselves.

“Wintervater is a road movie about friendship between different generations, but also between nations and the courage to face life,” says Philipp Budweg, the film’s producer and Schlicht and Ergreifend Film’s co-founder (together with Wintervater’s director Johannes Schmid).

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2 · 2010 31 at the Berlinale 2007 and won the Children’s Media Award The White Contact Elephant 2007, the main award at the Moscow International Neue Schoenhauser Filmproduktion GmbH Children’s Film Festival 2008 and the Vision Kino/KI.KA Kindertiger Neue Schoenhauser Strasse 19 2008 script award. 10178 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-34 39 10 21 • fax +49-30-52 13 56 49 A German-Polish co-production, Wintervater’s producing partner email: [email protected] is Mikolaj Pokromski (German-French Masterclass Program www.neueschoenhauser.de 2004/2005 at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg and La Fémis in Paris). “It’s like a dream come true – I have been waiting 15 years to be able to make a horror film like Zimmer 205 in Germany,” says Rainer The Pokromski Studio specializes in services and co-production of Matsutani, who was in the cinemas last year with Gangs. documentary and feature films with partners from Western Europe, and above all Germany. As well as with Schlicht und Ergreifend, it has Matsutani first got to know producer Boris Schoenfelder during also worked with Constantin Film, Magnolia Filmproduktion (Vienna) the Berlinale three years ago when he approached him with another and Globus Film (St. Petersburg). It has supplied art department ser- horror film project. Although that project did not materialize, vices to, among others, Der Untergang, Das Parfum, Die Faelscher, Die Schoenfelder came back to Matsutani when he acquired the German Perlmutterfarbe and most recently Das Weisse Band. remake rights to the Danish cult horror film Kollegiet by Martin Barnewitz. SK The adaptation by former journalist Eckhard Vollmar, who has worked with Matsutani on the TV movies Einladung zum Mord and Feuerlaeufer – Der Fluch des Vulkans in the past, departs from the Danish original in several important aspects: while the framing story is retained of the traumatized young Katrin (Jennifer Ulrich from The Wave) who is confronted by terrible events in a students’ residence hall, the character of Annika, the previous occupant of the fateful “Room 205”, has been interpreted anew and is completely different from the victim figure in Kollegiet. The dimension of evil is de - (photo © Katharina Simmet) (photo © Katharina cidedly more evil in Vollmar’s take on the story. Jennifer Ulrich in “Zimmer 205” “At first glance, the young Katrin Nadolny is sensitive and innocent,” Matsutani explains. “She skillfully hides the psychological wounds and her dark side and throws herself into student life celebrating a new life and her freedom from an overprotective father and a dark past. It almost seems as if she is desperately looking for a new identity.”

Life is a constant heady whirl of lectures and making new friendships Zimmer 205 by day, and parties, sex and drugs by night until Katrin is suddenly witness to some shocking events. Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Psychological Thriller Production Company Neue Schoenhauser Filmpro - She discovers disturbing video messages from Annika who dis - duktion/Berlin, in co-production with Filmaufbau Leipzig/Leipzig, appeared without a trace a year ago and begins to imagine that she is ARRI Film & TV Services/Munich, MedienKontor Movie/Berlin, herself being pursued by the former student’s ghost. Katrin’s in - SevenPictures/Munich With backing from Medienboard Berlin- creasingly strange behavior leads other students in the residence hall Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, German Federal to begin mobbing her. But when several of them then meet a grisly Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), ProSieben end one by one, the finger of suspicion is soon pointing at Katrin … Producer Boris Schoenfelder Director Rainer Matsutani Screenplay Eckhard Vollmar Director of Photography Jan “The finely balanced interplay between illusion and reality makes Fehse Editor Marco Pav D’Auria Production Design Carola Zimmer 205 into a extraordinary psychological horror film,” Gauster, Colin Taplin Principal Cast Jennifer Ulrich, André Matsutani adds, noting that his film follows in a tradition of European Hennicke, Julia Dietze, Marleen Lohse, Inez Bjoerg David, Florian Jahr, cinema stretching from recent Spanish films such as Iciar Bollain’s Te Timo Mewes Casting Uwe Buencker Casting Format 35 mm, doy mis ojos to Roman Polanski’s Repulsion and The Tenant and even color, cs, Dolby 5.1 Shooting Language German Shooting in further back to German silent classics like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Erfurt, Berlin and Brandenburg, January – March 2010 For producer Boris Schoenfelder, meanwhile, Zimmer 205 marks another foray into genre filmmaking – after Christian Alvart’s psycho - logical thriller Antibodies and Philipp Stoelzl’s mountaineering drama North Face – with the goal of delivering quality suspense and drama ‘Made in Germany’.

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Scene from “The 4th Revolution – Energy Autonomy” (photo © Sorin Dragoi (RSC)) creatively dealing with the perspectives oftheothers in creatively dealingwiththeperspectives vision andTheater expressionof inLódz–areadirect Schiller NationalSchooldents attheLeon ofFilm,Tele byPolish andfilmed masterclassstu- institut Leipzig/DLL) Ansichtssache 2 Creative Writing ProgramLeipzig(Deutsches Literatur plays –writtenbyup-and-coming writersattheGerman The screen- countries. promising creativetalentofboth countriesby involvingsomeofthemost film sceneinboth Six excitingshortfilmsprovide aninsightintothecurrent home …acalamitouscatparadise. for alostdaughter... akillercommandoinanoldfolks’ roads …amysteriousjourneythroughtimeyearning ayoungwomanatcross An accidentthatisnotso... and passion. Six German-Polish storieswithpoetry shortfilmsrecount with Germany. ofaremark cond edition Ansichtssache 2–AMatterofOpinion byworkingtogetheron thescreenplays. volved international understandingaswelltoopenupprofes- withtheaimofimproving associationOSTPOL, based sional perspectives forfuture internationalco-productions sional perspectives email: [email protected]: ·www.ostpol-leipzig.de hn 4- 192 90 a 4- 192 904 19 27 41-9 +49-3 03·fax 19 27 41-9 phone +49-3 · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales Shakespearestrasse 5·04107Leipzig/Germany OSTPOL e.V. · CathydeHaan (please contact) (please able experimentbytheLeipzig- is the se is these - - - - - Marklein for for Marklein & Kathrin Schadtfor Wojaczek, Tomasz Ziolkowski KathrinMarklein, Schadt Grjasnowa, MichaelFelker, IsabelleLehn,JudithKeller, Janko Warwas, MarkWegner Matej Bobrik,IgorChojna,PiotrLitwin,JustynaTafel, Bartosz Mark Wegner &OlgaGrjasnowafor NicolasVillegas, Remigiusz Czerwinski, JustynaWilczynski, Genre Digital, color, 16:9 Warwas &IsabelleLehnfor Morn JustynaTafel &JudithKeller for The directors andwritersare: Institut Berlin/Leipzig Institut,GoethePolnischesMedien, AdamMickiewicz Television andTheater/Lódz Film, in co-production withLeonSchillerNationalSchoolof Tatiana Wasilewska Tomasz Kucharski, JoannaMalicka,AnnaSieczych, Dorota Sztyler, Producers Saechsische Landes undneue Rundfunk privaten zentrale fuer Leipzig, Polnisches Filminstitut,Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, backing from Versions ing Cycle of Shorts Shorts Cycle of MatterofOpinion2 A – , PiotrLitwin&MichaelFelker Ballad for English, German SoundTechnology German English, The Stain Robert Glinski, AgataGolanska,MagdaBorowiec, Glinski, Robert Robert BoschStiftung,DeutschesLiteraturinstitut Robert Production Company House of Death House of Original Version Polish Year Production of . Directors Photography of The Black Cat’s PingPongThe BlackCat’s Tale Screenplay Producer Length Granny Tusia 90 minFormat , IgorChojna&Janko Cathy deHaan Cathy Igor Chojna,Olga OSTPOL/Leipzig, 2010 new german films german new Stereo , MatejBobrik Subtitled Directors , Bartosz With Jakub Co- HD A , 35

Scene from “A Morning” (photo © OSTPOL/Grzegorz Moskal) Potsdam-Babelsberg Company Simone Zimmermann Design Production BOUNDARIES Barriere Genre begins. down Awildrushoffeelings hotelwithverythinwalls. woman’s house,theyoungactorshave toliveinarun- for hisadaptationof from Switzerland islookingforthecastofleadroles camp inachurch Aformerlyrenowned filmdirector ruin. compete inaprovincial smalltown forasummertheater Nine youngactorsescapetheireveryday lifeinBerlinto Editor Andreas Kleinert Zschiesche, MatthiasHabich,Ransberger, Jessica Richter, Version 25, b&w, 1:1.78 Julia Gorr, Paul Preuss des Deutschen Films Mannheim-Ludwigs des DeutschenFilmsMannheim-Ludwigs 2010 hafen Screenings Jan Dose,ChristophHumnig,NoraRimAbdel-Masoud,MosesLeo,Jan email: [email protected] ·www.hff-potsdam.de email: hn 4- 162 56 a 4- 162 568 25 20 31-6 +49-3 64·fax 25 20 31-6 phone +49-3 Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11·14482Potsdam-Babelsberg/Germany · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales Hochschule fuer Filmund Fernsehen “KonradHochschule fuer ·Cristina Wolf” Marx Drama, Theater Till Ufer Myrna Drews,Myrna OleKloss, Karina Ferg, SimoneKreska, English English ohcuefe imudFrshn“ordWl ”/ FilmundFernsehen “KonradHochschule fuer Wolf Berlin 2010,Schwerin2010(InCompetition),Festival 2010 (please contact) (please Director Photography of Sound Technology Music by Original Version Principal Cast Director Producer Length Category Hamlet 96 min Daniel Dickmeis Andreas Kleinert . While hestays atanold Javelle Bauersfeld Bauersfeld Javelle Feature FilmCinema Format Klara Manzel,Volkram Dolby DigitalFestival German German HD Cam1080p Jakob Seemann Production Production Screenplay Subtitled Year of Year 1997), Innocence of the Name schaft includes: winning films Under Water Fremde kam Coming Home Kelly –GeschichteeinerHoffnung Bastian moechte Zeugnisablegen biszumLetzten (2008), andBoundaries nominated for aStudentOscar nominated for studiosandwas props attheDEFA assistantandintern feature film Andreas Kleinert Farewell, Joseph Film &Television with inBabelsbergfrom 1984-1989andgraduated of ”University Zschoche. HestudiedDirecting atthe“Konrad Wolf SimonandHermann like Rainer an assistantdirector tofilmmakers Paths intheNight , 1992), Outside Time , TV, 2005), ( Freischwimmer ( Mein Vater was born in1962Berlin.Heworkedwas born asa ( Lebewohl, Joseph Lebewohl, Lost Landscape ( Barriere Hurenkinder ( Wege indieNacht ® ( . A selection of hisotheraward- . Aselectionof Im Namen derUnschuld Im Namen ( , TV, 2003), Neben derZeit Neben , 2010). Haus undKind , 2007),Haus ( Verlorene Land , 1989),whichwas (TV, 2006), Stranger new german films german new , 1999), (TV, 2001), (TV, 1999), , 1995), Head ( Der Ich In - , 36

Scene from “Boundaries” (photo © J.Seemann/HFF Potsdam 2010) Meurer, Rae Douglas Bernstein, Robert PhilRobertson, Henson Sebastian Edschmid Black Death Genre … the horrorofhisrealjourneybegins her SatanicidentityandoffersOsmundhisheart’sdesire, reveals AfterLangiva Langiva. called mysterious beauty a youngwoman,Osmunddiscovers a thenecromancer, tolife.Tornback hislove ofGodandthelove of between abletobringthedead down –someone anecromancer Theirmercenaries toaremotemarsh. questistohunt with leadingafearsomeknight,Ulric,andhisgroupof Osmundischarged superstition, ayoungmonkcalled withfearand Black Inthisapocalyptic world,filled Death. EnglandhasfallenundertheshadowMedieval ofThe (Variety)of itsgenreparts.” “A savvy, stylishhorror-actioner that’smorethanthesum Production Company Year Pro of Screenplay hn 4-07 00 0·fx+42-29 751 ·www.hanwayfilms.com [email protected] email: 07 90 +44-20-72 50·fax 07 90 phone +44-20-72 Street24 Hanway ·LondonW1T1UH/Great Britain · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman HanWay FilmsLtd. ·Tim Haslam World Sales Medieval Mystery Thriller Mystery Medieval Pro duction Design Dario Poloni Director Photography of duction Editor 2010 Egoli Tossell Film/Halle Stuart GazzardStuart John Frankish John Frankish Category Director Music by Feature FilmCinema Christopher Smith Producers Principal Christian Jens Lindsay-Stewart, Silke KochLindsay-Stewart, Nixon, Nyman,JohnLynch, Andy Tim McInnerny Cast Dyer andLauraHarris. asanassistantproducer, with working films director andresearcher MA inFilmProduction hisown in1998.Hethencombinedmaking Medienboard Federal Berlin-Brandenburg,German FilmFund Digital Subtitled Version color, cs (1998), andBlackDeath 10000th Day include: miered atFrightFest inAugust2009.Hisothersfilms miered inToronto andwasreleased Danny intheUKandstarred USA. Hissecondhorror feature, premiered inToronto in2004andwas released intheUKand Creep film Norman's on Barry Christopher Smith Vorpommern (DFFF), ImpulsMedienSachsen-Anhalt,FilmLandMecklenburg- Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne, Kimberley Sean Bean,CaricevanHouten,EddieRedmayne, With backingfrom (2004), a horror starring FrankaPotente(2004), ahorror starring andSeanHarris Original Version (1997), graduated from Bristol University withan from BristolUniversity graduated Triangle German German Night The DayGrandad Went Blind (2010). Length English English for SkyTelevision.for feature, Hisfirst Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, Sound Technology Severance (2009), histhird feature, pre- Dubbed Version 106 min Format (2006), alsopre - new german films german new Casting German 35 mm, Dolby Karen The 37

Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne in “Black Death” (photo © Egoli Tossell Film) people, indanger… people, well untilHolgermakes amistake which putsKarl,ofall This allgoes women over with“revolutionary” secrets. love,cess about the1968 revoltsandhow onecanwin makings ofanamateursleuthandlearnsalotinthepro and suddenlyFisch-Winkler Holgerhasthe isdead. Spartacus fighterKarlWegner. Ottifallsinlove withKarl advances fromtheoldNaziFisch-Winkler andtheformer the sixthoneisnotlongforthislifewhenshereceives offtotheirmaker fivehusbands and Otti hasalreadyseen adventuresatEastBerlin’sBoxhagener Platz. very special Otti andher12-year-old grandsonHolgerhave theirown in theWest, Soviet tanksinPrague.Meanwhile,grandma BERLIN, BOXHAGENER PLATZ Boxhagener Platz Genre 1968 inEastBerlin:studentriotsandthesexualrevolu Pro Claussen+Woebke+Putz Film/Munich,inco-production with Torsten Schulz,basedonhisnovelwiththesametitle Wintgen, Andreas Schreitmueller Photography Florian Tessloff Florian Tessloff Schulz Christoph Fisser, CharlieWoebcken, HenningMolfenter, Torsten Jakob Claussen,NicoleSwidler, UliPutz email: [email protected] ·www.aktis-film.com [email protected] email: hn 4- 13 02 0·fx+934-50 619 26 00 41-35 +49-3 10·fax 26 00 41-35 phone +49-3 · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman Altenburgerstrasse 7·04275Leipzig/Germany Aktis FilmInternationalGmbH ·SteliosZiannis World Sales duction Commissioning Editors Tragicomedy 2009 Production Design Martin LangerEditor Martin Director Category Matti GeschonneckScreenplay Feature FilmCinema Production Company Lothar Holler Barbara Buhl,Rosemarie Dirk Grau Co-Producers Director of Producers Music by Year of Year tion - 35 mm,color, 1:1.85 Juergen Vogel Gudrun Ritter, MichaelGwisdek,SamuelSchneider, Meret Becker, Studio Babelsberg-BabelsbergFilm/Potsdam WDR/Cologne, RBB/Potsdam-Babelsberg, ARTE/Strasbourg, Polizeiruf 110 Der Rosenmoerder hat einekalteHand Geschlossene Akten andthecinemainclude: Moscow. television for Hisfilms trainingattheEisensteinInstitutein completed hisprofessional film FederalGerman FilmFund(DFFF),BKM Brandenburg, FilmstiftungNRW, Federal German FilmBoard (FFA), from Screenings Version Plan (1999), Freddyfuer Baker Matti Geschonneck (2009). Silber Nacht Mord Meer am (2000), hochzeit Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, Medienboard Berlin- Jenseits derLiebe (2007), English English Casting Berlin 2010(BerlinaleSpecial) Spaete Rache Entfuehrt Sound Tech (2005), (1998), (2003), Original Version Simone Baer (1995), (1997), (1998), Zeit zuleben (1993), Moerderkind was born in1952Potsdamwas born and Liebe nachdemTodLiebe (2008), and Der Schrei derLiebe Reise indieNacht no (2000), (2001), Ganz unten, ganz oben unten,ganz Ganz Endstation logy Length Ein moerderischer Die Mutter Boxhagener Platz Dolby SRD (2006), (1998), German German Principal Cast 102 min With backing new german films german new (1994), Duell inder Comeback Subtitled Festival Format Angst (1996), (1997), (2002), (2004), 38 Scene from “Berlin, Boxhagener Platz” (photo © Claussen+Woebke+Putz Filmproduktion) DETROIT –BETWEENUTOPIA ANDPERDITION Detroit Year Production of Genre inDetroit. again, change society,nottechnology. The future hasstarted They want to renunciation oftheconsumptiongoods. other hand,therearemanywhoputthefocuson Onthe prototypes, somearereadyforserialproduction. mobility. There arealready Carspowered bybatteries. Theformulais:electro- ture ofautomobiles. magic On theonehand,cleverinnovators searching forthefu nowruins, people search foranotherworldoftomorrow. Amongemptyfactorybuildingsandhigh-rise those days. of Era isstilltherebutalsothememoryofarrogance Theanywhere elseintheworld. memoryoftheGolden groundinDetroitthan breeding New ideasfindabetter ning ofwhatlife canbeinthe21st centurycity.” ageandthebegin- representsthe endoftheindustrial “Detroit Roland May Roland May Marc Accensi Lavafilm/Berlin Lavafilm/Berlin Stereo Original Version hn 4-02 33 0·fx+93-40 471 ·www.lavafilm.com [email protected] email: 34 03 +49-30-24 70·fax 34 03 phone +49-30-24 Zimmerstrasse 11 ·10969Berlin/Germany · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales Lavafilm GmbH · Roland May GmbH·Roland Lavafilm Music, RoadMovie Music, Director Photography of Producer (please contact) (please Length English, German German English, 2010 75 min Roland May Roland May Director Category Format wshnUoi n Untergang und Utopie Zwischen – Production Company Roland May Roland May Sound Technology Documentary Cinema Documentary Peter Klotz HDTV, color, 16:9 Screenplay Editor - Liebe Bahn Award), DieBagdad thetwo-parter Russisch Neubeginn auf Der allmaechtigeWarenfetisch Shanghai brennt!Shanghai Zwischen Utopie and Untergang Zwischen Utopieand Gleichschritt asadirector includes: hisfilms selection of ducer. 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Scene from “Detroit” (photo © Lavafilm/Peter Klotz) Director Nakata raphy Dialogues DOMINO EFFECT Dominó Efecto Genre foundatanycost. must be tothepointthataculprit chauvinist tendenciesareincited The situationescalates,as raped. looks like she'sbeen ataparkcloseby. andRamón It daughter ofMercedes Outoftheblue,amanfindsgrand- time gossiping. ofdominoswhilethewomenpass playing agame Acoupleofmenare Nighttime inaquarterofHavana. Rosario Bermúdez Rosario Bermúdez Havana Havana Medien Koelnfuer (KHM)/Cologne,inco-production withEICTV/ Alberto García,Alberto Yoset Puentes, ViolenaIsabelAmpudia,Samuel Claxton, Edwin Fernández, JorgeAli Claxton, Edwin López Lema email: [email protected]·www.khm.deemail: ·www.gabrielgauchet.com hn 4- 12 89 0·fx+922- 18 17 89 01 21-2 +49-2 30·fax 93 18 21-20 phone +49-2 Peter-Welter-Platz 2·50676Cologne/Germany · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales Kunsthochschule MedienKoeln fuer (KHM)·UteDilger Music by Christiane Buchmann Principal Cast Drama Gabriel Gauchet Francisco García Gonzáles Length (please contact) (please Category Marc Production Hupfeld Design Production Company 27 minFormat Alina Rodríguez,EnriqueMolina,Luis Short Short Editors Screenplay Year Production of Casting Manuel Iglesias, Leopoldo Director of Photog Director Photog of 35 mm,color, 1:1.85 Libia Batista,Eddy Gabriel Gauchet Kunsthochschule Niels de 2010 - at over 60 international film festivals. His films include: Hisfilms festivals. film at over60international Cine yTelevision beenscreened have Hisfilms (EICTV)inHavana. de inCologne.HealsostudiedattheEscuelaInternacional Arts Competition), Competition),Lille2010(International (International Efecto Dominó (2005), Shot theKankouran Media of byFilmstudiesattheAcademy Dakar/Senegal, followed 1999-2003 hestudiedAfricanStudiesinHamburgand Gabriel Gauchet Talent Award Lille2010 2010 Karlsruhe 2010,IndependentDays Roma IndependentFilmFestival Digital SRFestival Screenings French,English, Italian,Portuguese Original Version Awards Awards Die Kneipe Youth 2010,Young PrizeClermont-Ferrand Jury (2010). was born in1978Lorient/France.Fromwas born Spanish (2006, co-directed withAndrzejKról),and (2003), Subtitled Versions When Football isPainting Sound Technology Clermont-Ferrand 2010 Clermont-Ferrand new german films german new When I German, Dolby 40

Scene from “Domino Effect” (photo © KHM/Gabriel Gauchet) believed, integraltoahumanesociety.believed, During therestorativeclimateofAdenauer era,Bauer the penalsystem,humanizationofwhich was, he became the‘agentprovocateur oftheage’.Essaysbecame and forreformsto alsopushed Under hiswatch, FritzBauer that Eichmann could be brought totrialinJerusalem. that Eichmann couldbe FRITZ BAUER –DEATH BYINSTALMENTS –TodFritz Bauer aufRaten of the whereabouts of the ‘architect oftheHolocaust’so ofthe‘architect of thewhereabouts Israel’sintelligence agencyMossad Eichmann: heinformed animportantroleintheseizureofAdolfalso played the key initiatorintheFrankfurtAuschwitz Bauer trials. Attorney GeneralforHessen from1956–1968, hewas As to theilluminationandavengement ofNazicrimes. thesamefocus Heapplied modern ‘civilsociety’thought. This of conspirators. verdictmadehimapioneer cuted inrehabilitatingtheexe- Hitler. succeeded against Bauer July1944macy ofthecoup20 (OperationValkyrie) thelegiti- Lower trialregarding Saxonyinaspectacular for thisrightin1952 and1953 asAttorney Generalfor tostandup acts ofanarbitrarynature.Hewasprepared state that thenation’scitizenshadrighttoresistagainst andwasconvinced as a‘lawyer outofasensefreedom’ Hesaw Republichaseverhad. himself cutor theFederal themostrenowned stateprose- wasprobably Fritz Bauer End Came the Gas Chambers’ provokedEnd CametheGasChambers’ criticismnotonly talks withtitlessuch as‘Murderers Among Us’and‘At the from right-wing radicals but also middle-class audiences. from right-wingradicalsbut also middle-classaudiences. · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales hn 4-02 27 7·fx+93- 35 77 [email protected]: 59 13 +49-30-2 67·fax 71 62 phone +49-30-23 CV Filmproduktions GmbH Postfach 330152 ·14171Berlin/Germany (please contact) (please SR/Saarbruecken Production Company film Urlaub Reise nachTunesien: PsychischKranke machen (1990), thor anddirector includethedocumentaries: asawriterandproducer, Alsoactive asan au Frankfurt. her films - York, andFrance.ShestudiedinNew Germany Moscowand Ilona Ziok foerderung, FilmstiftungNRW der BRD, FESStiftung,OttoBrenner Stiftung,HessischeFilm - English 16:9 Kocambasi (2009), andFritz –Tod Bauer Raten auf Sounds of Silents–Willy Som Sounds of des Jurij Vlasov Berlin 2010 Ziok Productionof Genre The toanti-Semitism lifeofthisSwabian Jewwassubject in his Frankfurt apartment on 30 June1968.in hisFrankfurtapartmenton30 The circum- point towards anauthoritarianstate.Hewasfounddead heavy blow andfeltthatthiswasanirreparableturning German EmergencyActs inMay 1968 asaparticularly thepassingof and politicalhostility. perceived Bauer stances of his death have remained unsolved tothisday. unsolved stances ofhisdeathhave remained pianist Original Version Director Photography of Wo istdieStrasse, wo istdasHaus Sound Technology Biopic, History,Biopic, Thriller (1993), With backingfrom Producers was born inGliwice/Polandwas born upinEngland, andgrew (2006), Length 2010 Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1989), Der Junker und der Kommunist Director German/English German/English 100 min CV Films/Berlin,inco-production with Manuel Goettsching,IlonaZiok Du meinKazimierz,Shalom Category Stereo Format Ilona Ziok Informations- undPresseamt Informations- Jacek Blawut Blawut Jacek mer Festival Screenings feld, derStumm Subtitled Version DigiBeta, color/b&w Documentary Documentary Der zweite Sieg Screenplay (2010). new german films german new Editor (1999), (1991), Pawel Year The Ilona Die - 41

Scene from “Fritz Bauer – Death by Instalments” (photo © CV Films) mic society. home discovering theproblemsofawomaninpoliga- mass fullofmusicandspentaSunday withNdeyeather onSundayral, weprayed withGraceduringacolorful fune- forhimaperfect fatherandorganized her beloved asshelost spent workingaloneintheSavannah, Margaret weeks afterthree herhusband and Marciaembraced alostlove friendtalkingabout sitting homewithherbest rent momentsoftheirlives,forinstancewhenGracewas were allowed tofollow withthe camera inalotofdiffe- Africanwomenthatwe intimate portraitoffourspecial Mozambique. and Marcia,ahandcraftdesignerfrom from Uganda; aradiojournalist hospitalinLesotho;Margaret, special from Dakar;Grace,thefounderandmanagerofavery Good MorningAfrica! most difficult situations. This is a spectacular tripthrough Thismost difficultsituations. isaspectacular nists of Four womenfromfour Africancountriesaretheprotago- We struggle, hopeandlaughwithNdeyerepairingcar strength, which keeps one grounded evenwhenfacingthe strength, which onegrounded keeps their rightsinherdailyradioprogram,withGracefighting motors in Dakar, with Margaret informingwomenabout motors inDakar,withMargaret through her contagious optimism against AIDS and AIDS optimism against through hercontagious of theAfricancontinentwithpower ofalaugh,and anything intheirlives–welearntodealwiththetragedies Marcia teaching handcraftstowomenwhoneverlearned hn 4-02 33 0·fx+93-40 471 ·www.lavafilm.com [email protected] email: 34 03 +49-30-24 70·fax 34 03 phone +49-30-24 · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales Zimmerstrasse 11 ·10969Berlin/Germany GmbH·Chiara Sambuchi Lavafilm Good MorningAfrica! (please contact) (please Good MorningAfrica! : Ndeye,acarmechanic is averycloseand and Has A Thousand SecretsHas AThousand Director Category Genre Iraq numerous include: European broadcasters. Herfilms RAI inBerlinandhasdirected documentariesandreportages for in Berkeley. of Sheworked thecorrespondent office asaneditorfor inPesaroClassical Guitaratthemusicconservatory and FilmStudies BolognaandinBerlin,aswell of attheUniversity Philosophy Chiara Sambuchi from Version Portuguese,English, Sesotho, Shanga Luganda,Uolof, 83 min André Kotte Schuetze Director Photography of driving forcesofchange onacontinentwhich doesnot the Africancontinentbutabove allthroughthehopesand passively waitforhelpanymore. Good MorningAfrica! , European Commission Foreign Neighbours Format Adventure, Drama,Education,LoveStory, RoadMovie Music by English English Chiara Sambuchi Documentary Cinema Documentary Production Company Sound Technology HD, color, 16:9 was born in1975Pesaro/Italy.was born Shestudied Paolo Marzocchi , , amongothers. , Screenplay A Laptop Against Poverty Against A Laptop Locked Away Peter Klotz Year Production of Original Version Producers Lavafilm/Berlin Lavafilm/Berlin Stereo Chiara Sambuchi Editor With backing new german films german new , Nightmare My World Roland May, Subtitled Length Melanie French, 2010 , 42

Scene from “Good Morning Africa!” (photo © Peter Klotz/Lavafilm) time, isstillraw. cover thelegal forthiswronginSudetenland,showsvided the validity or invalidity of the “Benes de the validityorinvalidityof“Benesde TheCzechoslovakia. persistentdiscussioninEuropeabout Germanyand between Sudeten Germansontheborder 1937 and1945, known duetotheexcessiveex periodbetween hate withahistoricaltake onaspecific canturnfriendshipintomistrustand politics andideology that this subject, which has been taboo forsuch taboo along which hasbeen that thissubject, Habermann Production Genre Habermann bytheinsanityofWorldsteamrolled War … II heandhisfamilywillbe inpoliticsorideology, interested isnot AlthoughHabermann woman, whoishalfJewish. 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Aselec- author, films director andproducer of asan Berlinuntil1981.Sincethenhehasbeenactive of University andattheTechnicalAmerican Literature University atCornell Forced Benz atDaimler Labour – AmericaDiscovery of inBrazil Indians University.Cambridge andatCornell and HetaughtEnglish Heidelbergand of American Literature attheuniversities Eike Schmitz Versions color 1:1.33Letterbox (2009). Transsiberian A Treasure Hunt Ketchup inTuva – Devil’s the Chaplain? – Charles Darwin Forgotten Mummies Semjonov, AlexanderSevseev (2004), the SpiceIslands the Taj Mahal The MormonTrek Across America theGreatAlexander er II–Murderer ontheThrone Henry VIII– – ATranssiberian Treasure Hunt German, FrenchGerman, SoundTechnology , born in 1944, studied Classics and English and in1944,studiedClassicsandEnglish , born (2000), (1991), (2002), Original Version sar Among theChavantes Tsaamri – ac aGm the Questfor Vasco – daGama (1996), (1992), ogtClmu 2000 Years Forget Columbus– (1994), The Last Battle of theCelts The LastBattleof Length Tragedy atDevil’s Gate– The Star and ItsShadow and The Star Storm over Asia– 81 min (1992), (1998), English English Format The Castleof new german films german new Stereo Enigma of (2008), and Subtitled Beta SP, (2006), 45

Scene from “Ketchup in Tuva” (photo © Eike Schmitz 1994) Aimar, Patricia Dubois, Attila Muehl,NinaSchlothauer, Andy Cologne, ARTE/Strasbourg, ZDF/Mainz production withKunsthochschule MedienKoeln fuer (KHM)/ Kreyenberg Sandra Merseburger THE CHILDRENOFCOMMUNE Die KindervomFriedrichshof Screenplay Cinema Genre children, atthecommuneandex thefilmlooksback Through tosevenyearsin prison. theeyesofthese tenced Twentyhead. andsen yearslater,Muehlwasarrested intoatotalitariansystemwithOttoMuehlatits turned thesocialexperimentsoon collective, Setting outasafree fromthenuclearfamily”,anewhumanbreed. “unspoiled Vienna. toraisechildren Herehehoped thatwere a communeforlike-minded artistsandfriends,outsideof In 1972 theFriedrichshof, theartistOttoMuehlfounded amines what became ofthechildren ofthisutopia. amines whatbecame hn 4-047 29 0·fx+93- 37 820 98 72 ·www.kloosundco.de [email protected] email: 73 +49-30-4 10·fax 98 72 73 phone +49-30-4 Schlesische Strasse 29-30· 10997Berlin/Germany · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman Kloos Kloos &Co.MedienGmbH ·Stefan World Sales Year Production of Art, Educational, History Educational,History Art, Production Company Juliane Grossheim Editor 2009 Barbara Gies Director Photography of Director Category unafilm/Cologne, inco- unafilm/Cologne, Principal Cast Producer Juliane Grossheim Documentary Titus Nico - - Photography at the New School for Photography inBerlin,followed Photography Schoolfor attheNew Photography History,2003, shestudiedArt atthe Literature andMusicology GrossheimJuliane NRW (documentary, 2009). film and hergraduation Bescheidenheit isteineZier include: Her films Colognefrom MediaArts 2003-2009. of by studiesattheAcademy Berlin.From 2002-2003,shestudied Freie Universitaet Diocese Award Graz2010 Vancouver 2010 Cologne 2010,Sehsuechte2010(InCompetition),DOXA Leipzig Kassel 2009,Filmfest 2009,OneWorld RomaniaBucharest Simanowitz 2010, Diagonale Graz 2010, International Women's2010, DiagonaleGrazInternational FilmFestival Sound Technology Original Version Length Awards 83 min Vorspiel Vorspiel German German was born in1982Berlin.Fromwas born 2001- Stereo Die Kindervom Friedrichshof With backingfrom Format Honorable MentionKassel 2009, Subtitled Version Festival Screenings (documentary short, 2005), short, (documentary (documentary short, 2007), short, (documentary XDCAM HD, color, 16:9 new german films german new Filmstiftung English DOK 46

Scenes from “The Children of the Commune” (photo © Juliane Grossheim/unafilm) Screenplay Production Design Tuma Newman ANIMALS UNITED Konferenz derTiere Genre own callsoneverythingthat conference:elephantAngie So,theanimalsanswer tothiswiththeir environment. ofthe theprotection cians areholdingaconferenceabout Andofallplaces, itisherethatpoliti for aluxuryhotel. Smith hadahugedambuiltandiswastingallthewater taken over Thereserve hasbeen hotelowner byhumans. Buteventhislast lifeintheOkavangoa better Delta. Galapagos turtlestoAfrica,wheretheyarenow hopingfor aTasmanian akangaroo, apolarbear, led devil,andtwo encounter theGallicroosterCharles,whosingle-handedly loving lionSocratestake offinsearch ofwater. They The Billyandthepeace- and rhinos. brave littlemeerkat byferociousbuffaloes closelyguarded water holeisbeing worries continuetogrow, sincetheonlylittle especially Theirfrom amountaincanyonlongtimeago. thirstand has allthewatergone?Itshouldhave comegushingin The animalsintheAfricansavannah where areconfused: duction beastly tricks. beastly can run,fly,trampleorcrawl to defend themselves,in what becomes thekick-off toaturbulentoffensivefullof what becomes hn 4-- 46 705·www.timelessfilms.co.uk 07 67 94 phone +44-1-4 · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman Beaconsfield ·Bucks HP92HN/Great Britain House·27London End Canon Kamp Timeless Films·Ralph World Sales Character Design Family Family Animation Supervisors 2010 Oliver Huzly,Oliver Reinhard Klooss Category Directors Henning Ahlers 3D CGIAnimation Oliver Kurth, PeterOliver Oedekoven Reinhard Klooss, HolgerTappe Benedikt Niemann,Nicolai Sound Design Music by Year Pro of Stefan Stefan David - - mation film thatheandReinhard madetogether. Kloosshave mation film After berg andOdeonFilmbefore hejoinedConstantinFilmin2006. (1991), movies, andinternational including over 20German asaproducer,1986. Hehasparticipated authoranddirector on in radio, industry media.Heentered printandtelevision thefilm asafreelance working writer for and Londonbefore hestarted Reinhard Klooss FederalsehFonds German FilmBoard Bayern, (FFA) (DFFF), Nordmedia, LandNieder sachsen/N Bank,FilmFern - Wonderland ments, games, In1999,he cyber largeprojections andtradefairs. Pictures/Hanover Holger Tappe Busch was part of the General Management of Bavaria Film,StudioBabels Bavaria theGeneralManagement of of - was part Obelix vs.Caesar Dolby 5.1 ani mation film. film. ani mation Gaya production anddigitalpost-production. Hisfilm film specializingin3Danimation,CGI AmbientEntertainment, founded musicvideos,as aphotodesignerandcameramanfor advertise- MediaDesign.Hethenworked New of and theHanoverAcademy Holger Tappe ducer anddiretor. Animals United Original Versions co-production withAmbientEntertainment/Hanover, WhiteHorse Production Company Impy’s Island (2004) was the first completely digitally produced German digitally completely (2004) wasthefirst Mixing Comedian Harmonists Comedian With backingfrom (2008), Executive Producer After Impy’s Island Michael Kranz studied at the Berlin Academy of Photography of studied attheBerlinAcademy Length is histhird CGIanimationmovieaswriter, pro- studied Comparative Literature inMarburg studied Comparative (1999), and (2006) and German, English English German, Animals United Constantin FilmProduktion/Munich, in 90 min Impy’s Wonderland Producers Buffalo Soldiers Buffalo Format German FederalGerman FilmFund (1997), Sound Technology (2006) and Martin MoszkowiczMartin is thethird CGIani - 3D CGI,color, cs Reinhard Klooss, new german films german new Asterix and Go Trabi Go (2002). 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He’sconstantlywanderingoffandgettinginto Wolf livesnearCologne andsuffersfromAlzheimer’s Astrid isanartistandlivesaloneinCologne.Herfather email: [email protected] ·www.filmschule.de [email protected] email: hn 4- 192 88 a 4- 19 18 99 88 01 21-92 +49-2 80·fax 18 20 21-9 phone +49-2 Glueckauf-Haus ·WerderstrasseGlueckauf-Haus 1·50672Cologne/Germany · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales ifs internationalefilmschule koeln (please contact) (please - Dombrink Design Director of Photography Director Photography of German German Length Cast koeln, inco-production withBR/Munich filmschule Tobias Leveringhaus Dolby SRD5.1 2009 Genre and 2008), (short, 2007), short, (documentary include: from 2006-2009.Hisfilms inCologne ductions, filmschule hestudiedattheifsinternational andtheaterpro casting anddirecting variousfilm assistantfor - Lippok Joseph from 2010(InCompetition) Max OphuelsFestival UNLIMITEDCologne2009(RegionalCompetition), Film Festival Kriegerstock Director Elisabeth Degen,MichaelJoSchmitt,JoannaZenses Filmstiftung NRW Drama, Family Drama, Family Subtitled Version 27 min Edda Staubach,UttaHagen,Vaia Pangea Music by 89 undDuich Festival Screenings Format Joseph Lippok was born in 1983 in Berlin. 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Scene from “Kriegerstock” (photo © Benjamin Stoess) African politicians,like thepresidentofRwanda,discussing A LAPTOP AGAINST POVERTY Ein LaptopgegendieArmut Considered by the staff of OLPC as “the best, mostawe as“thebest, bythestaffofOLPC Considered Nicholas Negroponte with between important meetings tovery cameras fullaccesstotheirheadquartersinBoston, For dollars. costs aroundonehundred ofchildren. It fortheeducation the useoftechnology research on ofpedagogical afterdecades software, created children experience.Itusesspecial withnotechnology for inBoston ofMIT last fortyyearsinthelaboratories duringthe laptop, it’sahighqualitymachine, developed This isnotanormal dary orevenprimaryeducation. who wouldn’totherwisehave accesstoanyformofsecon- tion distributeslaptopsindevelopingcountriestochildren Hisnon-profitorganiza- ‘One LaptopperChild’(OLPC). of Nicholas Negroponte, chairman oftheorganization tothat”–thisisthephilosophy an importantingredient “You caneliminatepoverty andthelaptopis byeducation operation withOLPC. the deal,conditionsandfinancingforaco technology whenthecomputersuddenlyarrivesinits life. technology yetmade”, project documentaryfilmontheOLPC some andmostbeautiful what happensinthelifeofachild with noexperienceof hn 4-02 33 0·fx+93-40 471 ·www.lavafilm.com [email protected] email: 34 03 +49-30-24 70·fax 34 03 phone +49-30-24 · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales Zimmerstrasse 11 ·10969Berlin/Germany GmbH·Chiara Sambuchi Lavafilm A LaptopAgainstPoverty (please contact) (please A LaptopAgainstPoverty , OLPC allowed our , OLPC also shows - - and Has A Thousand SecretsHas AThousand Iraq numerous include: European broadcasters. Herfilms RAI inBerlinandhasdirected documentariesandreportages for in Berkeley. of Sheworked thecorrespondent office asaneditorfor inPesaroClassical Guitaratthemusicconservatory andFilmStudies BolognaandinBerlin,aswell of attheUniversity Philosophy Chiara Sambuchi Sound Technology Original Version Lavafilm/Berlin Lavafilm/Berlin Producers Editor Directors Photography of 2010 TV Cinema,Documentary Documentary Genre Good MorningAfrica! , Director Foreign Neighbours Adventure, Children andYouth, Education Elsa Kampen Schuetze Roland May, AndréKotte Length Chiara Sambuchi Spanish, English Spanish, English was born in1975Pesaro/Italy.was born Shestudied Stereo 52 min , , amongothers. , A Laptop Against Poverty Against A Laptop Locked Away Screenplay Music by Patrick Popov, NadjaKurtz Subtitled Version Format Production Company Year Production of HD, color, 16:9 Chiara Sambuchi new german films german new various artists , Nightmare My World Category English , 49

Scene from “A Laptop Against Poverty” (photo © Patrick Popow) Alaric Hamacher Level 3D Director Genre his cardisappear. andlets discovers magic thathisremotekey hasbecome shopping,whenhe A businessmanreturnsfromspeedy 30 min Monopol News/Munich Experience/Munich, Media andCommunication/Munich,Virtual Production Companies 3D Stereo MEDIA2009 logue hn 4-93 89 1·fx+98-24 266 [email protected]: ·www.virtual-experience.de ·www.mhmk.de 92 48 +49-89-32 61 ·fax 92 48 phone +49-89-32 Tengstrasse 27·80798Munich/Germany · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman World Sales MHMK Macromedia MedienundKommunikation Hochschulefuer ·Alaric &Jerome Hamacher Sound Technology Format Comedy Comedy Marcus Morlinghaus (please contact) (please 3D DCP, color, 1:1.85 Director Photography of Category Principal Cast Dolby Stereo Short Short MHMK Macromedia University for MHMK Macromedia University Screenplay Year Production of Original Version Festival Screenings Christian Pfeil Length Christian Pfeil Michael Leuthner, Michael Leuthner no dia - 2009 at art and film academies. His films include: academies. Hisfilms andfilm at art agenciesandhastaught aswelladvertising theater andtelevision andradio.television Asadirector andwriter, hehasworked for Asanactor,Bernhart. hehasworked theater, since1989for film, 6 inGraz/AustriaandDirectingthe StateAcademy underWilli Marcus Morlinghaus films. (2007-2009), Level 3D was born in1965andstudiedActingat was born , andnumerous educationalandimage Monopol News 1– Monopol News new german films german new 50

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Scene from “Life, Above All” (photo © Dreamer Joint Venture GmbH/Alsbrik, 2010) backing from Com 2010(International Animated FilmStuttgart petition) of 2010,Festival Competition), ViennaIndependentShorts 2010(Grand Zagreb Competition),Animafest 2010(Short Annecy Love &Theft Board (FFA), BKM dialogue Hermann Director Genre the grave Dylan) andthenuntoeternity.” (Bob withmeunto it’llbe cherished andsaved, now, it’sbeen “And it’sapartofme yougave, I’mstillcarrying thegift Length Steffen Heiko Maile Compositing email: [email protected]: ·www.filmbilder.de · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman 25 19 89 11-4 +49-7 27 ·fax 10 11-48 phone +49-7 Ostendstrasse 106·70188 Stuttgart/Germany World Sales Studio FilmBilder·Simone Fischer Animation Artwork Sound Technology 7 min Production Company Andreas Hykade Design &Animation Format (please contact) (please MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Federal German Film Christof Hoffmann, Tobias Hoffmann, Pfeiffer Christof Category Natalia Eck HD, color, 16:9Original Version Short Short Screenplay Stereo Producer Year Production of Studio FilmBilder/Stuttgart Andreas Hykade,Angela Festival Screenings Andreas Hykade Thomas Meyer- Music by With 2010 no & Theft(2010),amongothers. since 2003), Bread &Honey Slice of withStrawberry Jam Lived inGrass include: Design Kassel. Hisfilms and Arts AnimationattheSchoolof since 2000asaprofessor of and asafreelance1995. Since1992hehasbeenworking filmmaker by studiesattheBaden-Wuerttemberg from FilmAcademy 1992- followed inStuttgart, FineArts of 1990 hestudiedattheAcademy Andreas Hykade The Runt (1995), was born in1968Altoetting.Fromwas born 1988- (2006), Ring of FireRing of The KingisDead The Bunjes (2000), (2007), and new german films german new Tom &the (1990), (series, Love We 52

Scene from “Love & Theft” (photo © Studio Film Bilder) the original score by Gottfried Huppertz. scorebyGottfried the original Metropolis Genre on ofthefilmmusicbased together withthenewedition The versionof2010 fullyrestored experienced canbe stills inthepast. available previouslyoncensorshipcardsandinindividual minutesrunningtimethatwasonly 30 the film–about into almost allthepreviouslymissingtakes andsequences possibletore-insert meansthatithasnow been 2008 The sensationalfindinBuenosAires the UNESCO. world documentaryarchive “MemoryoftheWorld” by Thean intrinsicpart. 2001 intothe version wasadopted history inwhich itstraditionandrestorationhave played endur andalong- classic liesinitsopulent,visionarystaging The mythofFritzLang’ssilentfilm entirely reconstructed. 1927 butnow lostfordecades almost version,believed Metropolis tion withZDF&ARTE Sinfonieorchester Berlin,conductedbyFrankStrobel, incoopera - Original Musicby Directors Photography of Cinema, SilentYear Production of Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht Director hn 4-959 85 a 4-95 88 20 [email protected];email: · www.transitfilm.de [email protected] 85 98 +49-89-59 50·fax 88 99 phone +49-89-5 · 2010 2 german films quarterlygerman StrasseDachauer 35·80335 Munich/Germany Transit FilmGmbH ·Loy W. Arnold,Mark Gruenthal World Sales ing story as film material that became cinematic ing storyasfilmmaterialthatbecame Art, Fantasy,Art, ScienceFiction Fritz Lang returns to cinema screens intheoriginal, returns tocinemascreens Screenplay Gottfried Huppertz Gottfried Huppertz Constructions Sculptor Karl Freund, GuentherRittau Thea vonHarbou,FritzLang Walter Schulze-Mittendorf Category 1927 (2010:Restoration) Music by Otto Hunte,Erich Feature Film Rundfunk- UNESCO Memory of the World UNESCO of Memory der in Florence in from hisworkinGermany clude: viaFrancetotheUnitedStates. Hisbestknownfilms emigrating the politicalandsocialchangesof reactingRepublic, tothemassive Gemeinnuetziger Kulturfonds Frank RheinMain,VGF Verfurt Screenings Intertitled Versions 1:1.33 Nibelungen Destiny in1933, themintohiswork.HeleftGermany time andintegrating successduringtheWeimar Hills. 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German Films Service + Marketing is the national infor - German Films’ range of activities includes: mation and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide. It was established in 1954 under the name Export-Union of Close cooperation with major international film festivals, in - German Cinema as the umbrella association for the Association of cluding Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Locarno, San German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German Sebastian, Montreal, Karlovy Vary, Moscow, Nyon, Shanghai, Feature Film Producers and the Association of German Film Rotterdam, San Francisco, Sydney, Gothenburg, Warsaw, Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. Thessaloniki, Rome, and Turin, among others In 2004, the company was reorganized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Marketing GmbH. Organization of umbrella stands for German sales companies and producers at international television and film markets Shareholders are the Association of German Film Producers, the (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shanghai) German Producers Alliance, the Association of German Film Exporters, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the Stiftung Staging of “Festivals of German Films” worldwide (Madrid, Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Documentary Association, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Stockholm, Tokyo, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Filmstiftung NRW represent ing the Sydney, Melbourne) seven main regional film funds, and the German Short Film Association. Staging of the “German Premieres” industry screenings in New York, Rome, Copenhagen, and Stockholm Members of the advisory board are: Alfred Huermer (chairman), Peter Dinges, Antonio Exacoustos, Roman Paul, Ulrike Schauz, Providing advice and information for representatives of the Michael Schmid-Ospach. international press and buyers from the fields of cinema, video, and television German Films itself has 14 members of staff: Christian Dorsch, managing director Providing advice and information for German filmmakers and Mariette Rissenbeek, public relations/deputy managing director press on international festivals, conditions of participation, and Petra Bader, office manager German films being shown Julia Basler, project co ordinator/documentary film Christin Czarnecki, trainee Organization of the annual NEXT GENERATION short film Katherine Grzelak, managing director’s assistant/project co ordinator program, which presents a selection of shorts by students of Angela Hawkins, publications & website editor German film schools and is premiered every year at Cannes Barbie Heusinger, project coordinator/distribution support Nicole Kaufmann, project coordinator Publication of informational literature about current German Michaela Kowal, accounts films and the German film industry (German Films Quarterly), Kim Liebeck, PR assistant/festival coordinator as well as international market analy ses and special festival Martin Scheuring, project coordinator/short film brochures Konstanze Welz, project coordinator/television Stephanie Wimmer, project coordinator An Internet website (www.german-films.de) offering information about new German films, a film archive, as well as in- In addition, German Films has foreign representatives in nine coun- formation and links to German and international film festivals tries. and institutions

German Films’ budget of presently €4.8 million comes from film Organization of the selection procedure for the German entry export levies, the office of the Federal Government Commissioner for the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film for Culture and the Media, and the FFA. The seven main regional film funds (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig- Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV KINO program Holstein, Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG which features the latest German film releases and inter - Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, and Nord - national productions in Germany media) make a financial contribution – currently amounting to €324,000 – towards the work of German Films. Organization of the “German Films Previews” geared toward arthouse distributors and buyers of German films German Films is a founding member of the European Film Promotion, a network of European film organizations (including Unifrance, Swiss Selective financial Distribution Support for the foreign releases Films, Austrian Film Commission, Holland Film, among others) with of German films similar responsibilities to those of German Films. The organization, with its headquarters in Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint Organization with Unifrance of the annual German-French film projects for the presentation of European films on an inter national meeting level. In association and cooperation with its shareholders, German Films works to promote feature, documentary, television and short films.

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German Films Production Reports Martin Blaney, Simon Kingsley Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 16 Contributors for this issue Martin Blaney, Johannes Bonke, 80331 Munich/Germany Ruediger Suchsland phone +49-89-5 99 78 70 fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 Translations Lucinda Rennison email: [email protected] www.german-films.de Cover Photo Scene from “The City Below” (photo © Heimatfilm GmbH/Tom Trambow) ISSN 1614-6387 Design & Art Direction Werner Schauer, www.triptychon.biz Credits are not contractual for any of the films mentioned in this publication. Printing Office ESTA DRUCK GMBH, Obermuehlstrasse 90, 82398 Polling/Germany © German Films Service + Marketing GmbH German Films supports the use of paper from sustainable forestry. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of The pages of this magazine are made of PEFC certificated cellulose. this publication may be made without written permission. PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is the largest independent organization worldwide for securing and continuously improving a sustainable forest management and it guarantees ecological, social and economic standards. Currently there are 215 million PEFC/04-31-1180 hectares of PEFC certificated forest worldwide. german films quarterly foreign representatives · imprint

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