Bavaria Meets Western Cape Expo 2010 Artscape Theatre 10. 06. – 17. 06. 2010 Bayerische Staatsregierung 1 special thanks Bayerische Staatsregierung 2 Dear Capetonians, Film Fans and Soccer Friends, A piece of Bavaria and a taste of Munich are offered in The Story of Brandner Kaspar, Oktoberfest, and Grave Decisions. The Oscar-winner We would like to invite you to take part during our Bavarian film week from The Lives of Others represents contemporary German filmmaking on the 10. – 17. June 2010 in Cape Town. An excellent choice of award-winning, whole. mostly FFF-funded productions will be presented by FFF in Cape Town and we would like to share this unique event with you. Furthermore we present a large programme for children and young people.* In cooperation with our partners PowerChild, missio, and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern) has been funding films in Bavaria German School in Cape Town, we will be showing among others the since 1996. The fund consists of funding from five public and private Cornelia Funke screen adaptation Wild Chicks I-III, as well as the screen shareholders and the Free State of Bavaria. FFF supports the development, adaptation Lippel’s Dream by the famous German author Paul Maar, the production and distribution of TV films as well as movies and strengthens cult movies The Wild Soccer Bunch, The Crocodiles, and Vickie the mighty Bavaria as a film location. Viking. Our selected films for Cape Town tell stories about the world of soccer, the The Bavarian delegation will be in Cape Town from 9. – 15. June 2010 and African continent and Bavarian filmmaking. The directors, producers and is looking forward to participating in an exciting exchange of ideas with actors traveling with FFF to Cape Town will present their films personally to you. you and are eager to answer your questions. All of the selected films have already enjoyed success at the box offices and international festivals. Yours sincerely, The opening film, The Miracle of Bern – a film about the miracle of the Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer German national soccer team at the 1954 World Cup – will get you in the mood for the coming weeks. The sport is also the topic of the film Soccer Rules!. The Oscar-winning drama Nowhere in Africa was shot on the African continent and Themba, a movie from Stefanie Sycholt, a South *These Films have been highlighted in pink. African graduate of the “Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film” in Munich, The programme and latest information will be available at www.fff-bayern.de shows soccer as a motivation in the battle against AIDS. You are also very welcome to join the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern on facebook! 3 by Sönke Wortmann by Joachim Masannek 117 min., D 2003 89 min., D 2005 Cast: Peter Lohmeyer, Louis Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Klamroth, Lucas Gregorowicz, Sarah Kim Gries, Raban Bieling, Katharina Wackernagel Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Little Shark Entertainment, Uwe Ochsenknecht Senator Film Produktion SamFilm World Sales: Bavaria World Sales: Telepool In presence of Louis Klamroth In presence of Joachim Opening Film Masannek, Uwe Ochsenknecht, June 10, 5.00 pm Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton The Miracle of Bern The Wild Soccer Bunch II June 11, 11.00 am Das Wunder von Bern Die wilden Kerle II Summer, 1954. The Soviet Union is sending its prisoners of war home. Among Yeeeees! Great dribbling from Leon, there, right across the pitch! He’s going them is the father of the quiet, football-loving 11-year-old, Matthias, who lives to shoot! But no! He’s sold the defender the dummy! But what’s this? It’s little with his mother, sister and brother in a West-German mining town. The boy has Raban coming down the left wing! He’s taken the ball! He’s heading for the goal! long found a surrogate father in the local football player Helmut Rahn, who has He shoots and… GOAL! GOAL! That’s it! And THEEEEERE’S the final whistle! ”adopted“ Matthias as his mascot. The return of the boy’s father Richard casts a Clear the pitch! Lock up the referee! The most daring team of junior soccer shadow over the once-happy family: broken by his years in captivity, Richard has players to take to the hallowed green turf, The Wild Soccer Bunch, is back! trouble adapting to life in post-war Germany and alienates his family through his This time they not only have to defend the trophy of trophies, the Teufelstopf, severity. For Richard, football is pointless, and so is the World Cup that’s about and their command of the town against the dreaded skater gang, the to be held in Bern, Switzerland. Matthias, however, longs to be there with his Flammenmuetzen, but also – shock, horror, gasp – fight for Vanessa (a girl of all idol, who’s been chosen to play on the German team. Through his passion for things!) who’s fallen in love with their leader! the game and his fighting spirit, Matthias rekindles a love of life in his dad’s heart. The motto still applies: ‘If you want to be cool, you got to be wild’. And so, as the final match of the World Cup begins, a little miracle of love and Copyright: GermanFilms generosity leaps across borders to help another miracle occur – the victory of Helmut Rahn and the German team, the miracle of Bern. Copyright: GermanFilms 4 by Joseph Vilsmaier by Johannes Brunner 100 min., D 2008 104 min., D 2004 Cast: Franz Xaver Kroetz, Cast: August Schmölzer, Michael Bully Herbig, Barbara Rudnik, Peter Lohmeyer, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Peter Ketnath Branko Samarovski, Perathon Film- und Fernseh Gunnar Möller GmbH, Clasart Film Hager Moss Film World Sales: TMG International World Sales: Telepool In presence of June 11, 5.00 pm Joseph Vilsmaier June 11, 3.00 pm The story of Brandner Kaspar Oktoberfest Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar Boandlkramer (aka Death) hasn’t had such a difficult ‘client’ in long time! For Oktoberfest tells of people who meet on the last day of the Oktoberfest, lose one over a thousand years, he’s been traipsing through Bavaria, picking up his fellow another, then find each other again. These little and big stories track individual countrymen to bring them to ‘paradise’. But then he happens upon the stubborn destinies drawn to one another, converging at the festival. A handsome Italian falls Brandner Kaspar. madly in love with a Japanese woman he meets in a festival tent… Tamiko, who Brandner Kaspar definitely does not want to be taken off to all eternity just yet. happens to be on her honeymoon, realizes that her husband can’t hold his liquor… No, no, he is 69, way too young to leave now. Boandlkramer tries all his tricks to At the same time, the waitress Birgit has second thoughts about her marriage to get Brandner Kaspar to change his mind, but nothing works. Then Brandner pulls Max, a musician at the festival… Talla, a dishwasher from Cameroon, hopes that out some schnapps, really fine stuff, which seems to appeal to Boandlkramer. he will find the courage to admit his feelings to Birgit… 16-year-old Jenny has her So much so, that he doesn’t even realize that Brandner is cheating him at a card own problems. She loses her little brother Marc in the crowd. In her search she game. With a hangover and without Brandner, Boandlkramer makes his way back meets her father, who is there trying to end an affair with a student… While this to heaven. He put him off for 21 years and beat him at cards – if Petrus finds that is going on, Marc follows his new mentally-retarded friend Karl to the Haunted out, there is going to be trouble. Best thing to do is just not mention it at all. House… Edmund, Karl’s grandfather, knows that he doesn’t have much longer to Brandner Kaspar is reeling with glee, he beat out Death, who has now promised live… Wheelchair-bound Frank, who only pretends to be handicapped, can’t get not to return until his 90th birthday. Now the coast is clear, or so he thinks... out of his lie without hurting Rena’s feelings. Copyright: GermanFilms Copyright: GermanFilms 5 by Marcus H. Rosenmüller by Christian Ditter 105 min., D 2006 93 min., D 2009 Cast: Markus Krojer, Fritz Karl, Cast: Nick Romeo Reimann, Jule Ronstedt, Jürgen Tonkel Fabian Halbig, Manuel Steitz, Roxy Film GmbH Leonie Tepe, Axel Stein World Sales: Beta Cinema Westside Filmproduktion, June 11, 7.30 pm Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Constantin Film Produktion World Sales: Delphis June 12, 12.00 am Grave Decisions The Crocodiles Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot Die Vorstadtkrokodile I You can never be too young to be a murderer, thinks 11-year-old Sebastian, It appeared in 1977 as a novel, sold more than 800,000 copies, was issued as who’s convinced that he killed his mother at the age of 0. The proof is on her an audio book, is even used across the country in classrooms and has countless tombstone: she died the day he was born! Though his father Lorenz tries to calm fans across all age groups, Die Vorstadtkrokodile has impressed and fascinated a him, Sebastian is terrified by the thought of spending years in purgatory. Hoping to whole generation. Now, for the first time, this exciting book for young people is knock off a few years by doing good deeds, he sets out to find a wife for his dad. being adapted with a great deal of humor, action and adventure for today’s cinema The heavens must be listening, since Lorenz and Sebastian’s teacher Veronika screens.