Bavaria Meets Western Cape Expo 2010 Artscape Theatre 09. 06. – 18. 06. 2010

10. 06. – 17. 06. 2010 1 special thanks

Bayerische Staatsregierung

2 Dear Capetonians, Film Fans and Soccer Friends, by Stefanie Sycholt, a South African graduate of the University of Television and Film in Munich, shows soccer as a motivation in the battle against AIDS. We would like to invite you to take part during our Bavarian film week from 10. – 17. June 2010 in Cape Town. An excellent choice of award-winning, A piece of Bavaria and a taste of Munich are offered in The Story of mostly FFF-funded productions will be presented by FFF and we would like Brandner Kaspar, Oktoberfest, and Grave Decisions. The Oscar-winner The to share this unique event with you. Lives of Others represents contemporary German filmmaking on the whole.

Since its founding in 1996 and through its involvement with both public and Furthermore we present a large programme for children and young people.* private broadcasters, FFF Bayern has proven to be an accomplished and In cooperation with our partners POWER-CHILD CAMPUS, missio, and reliable partner to the film industry. Support is offered for the production of the German School in Cape Town, we will be showing among others the cinema and television films, screenplay and project development, as well Cornelia Funke screen adaptation Wild Chicks I-III, as well as the screen as sales and distribution. Particular interest lies in the support of up-and- adaptation Lippel’s Dream by the famous German author Paul Maar, the coming film talent. Support is also available to commercial movie theatres cult movies The Wild Soccer Bunch, The Crocodiles, and Vickie the mighty and other measures intended to further develop Bavaria as a media 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 is African continent as well as Bavarian traditions. The directors, producers and looking forward to participating in an exciting exchange of ideas with you. actors traveling with FFF to Cape Town will present their films personally to you and are eager to answer your questions. All of the films have already Yours sincerely, enjoyed success at the box offices and international festivals. Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer Siegfried Schneider The opening film, The Miracle of Bern – a film about the miracle of the Managing Director State Minister/Chairman of the Supervisory Board German national soccer team at the 1954 World Cup – will get you in the mood for the coming weeks. Soccer Rules! continues the topic and portrays *These Films have been highlighted in pink. enthusiastic soccer fans in Germany. Caroline Link’s Oscar-winning drama The programme and latest information will be available at www.fff-bayern.de was shot on the African continent and Themba, a movie 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: World Sales: Telepool Bavaria Film International In presence of In presence of Louis Klamroth Joachim Masannek Opening Film June 11, 11.00 am The Miracle of Bern June 10, 8.00 pm The Wild Soccer Bunch II 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 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 Leonie Tepe, Axel Stein World Sales: Beta Cinema Westside Filmproduktion, June 11, 7.30 pm Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Constantin Film Produktion World Sales: Delphis Films 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. both fall madly in love with each other. The only problem is: Veronika is married. Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, single mother wants to join the But since Sebastian already killed his mother, surely it’ll be easy to kill a stranger... coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile (“Suburban ’Gators”). But the Copyright: GermanFilms ‘entry test’ goes wrong and his life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too. But Kai is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. But when Kai witnesses a break-in, he suddenly becomes of great interest to the gang, being the only witness. He, in turn, will talk only if he can join. With his help and typically youthful imagination and courage, the group sets off to solve the case and take on the apparently unbeatable criminal gang. Copyright: GermanFilms

6 by Florian Henckel von by Caroline Link Donnersmarck 141 min., D 2001 137 min., D 2006 Cast: Juliane Köhler, Merab Cast: Ulrich Mühe, Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch Sidede Onyulo Wiedemann & Berg MTM Filmproduktions Filmproduktion World Sales: World Sales: Beta Cinema Bavaria Film International June 12, 3.00 pm June 12, 6.00 pm

The Lives of Others Nowhere in Africa Das Leben der Anderen Nirgendwo in Afrika East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East- Just before the outbreak of World War II, the German-Jewish Redlich family German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of manages to escape the Nazi terror at the very last moment. control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his Five year old Regina begins a new life with her parents, Jettel and Walter, on career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg a small isolated farm in Kenya, where they lead an impoverished existence far Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. removed from their roots in Germany. While Regina discovers the magic of After all, the “operation” is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn’t Africa, a foreign continent full of strange people, her parents become desperate anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target in the face of poverty and isolation. For Walter, his inability to cut Germany out also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in – in of his heart tortures him far more than their economic plight. This remains so love, literature, free thinking and speech – makes Wiesler acutely aware of the even when he becomes certain that the rest of his family in Germany has been meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life murdered by the Nazis. which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be Copyright: GermanFilms stopped. A dangerous game has begun… Copyright: GermanFilms

7 by Joseph Vilsmaier by Joachim Masannek 127 min., D 1994 93 min., D 2006 Cast: André Eisermann, Dana Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Vávrová, Ben Becker Sarah Kim Gries, Raban Bieling, Perathon Film- und Fernseh Nick Romeo Reimann GmbH SamFilm World Sales: Atlas Film World Sales: Telepool In presence of In presence of Joseph Vilsmaier and Joachim Masannek Janina Vilsmaier June 13, 12.00 am June 12, 8.30 pm Brother of Sleep Wild Soccer Bunch III Schlafes Bruder Die wilden Kerle III Based on Robert Schneider’s bestseller of the same name (now translated into 24 Wild Soccer Bunch splits up. languages), Brother of Sleep recounts the story of the musician Johannes Elias All of a sudden Fabi comes up with a new team: the Beastly Beasts. And they Alder, who brought an end to his life at the age of 22 after he decided not to sleep contest the Bunch as the world’s wildest soccer team ever. The Wild Soccer anymore. A mountain village cut off from the rest of the world is the setting for Bunch is up against their greatest challenge so far, an opponent more devious, the fate of this man whose musical genius overwhelms him like a catastrophe more dangerous, more diabolical, more than even they had ever imagined – because it prevents him from following his heart and being happy with the woman girls!!! And if it weren’t for Nerv, their greatest fan, the wildest of all showdowns he loved more than his own life. would not be happening. But watch out Beastly Beasts, “The Wild Soccer Bunch” Copyright: German Films is back and you’d better believe it: they’re wild, wild, wild! Copyright: GermanFilms

8 by Christian Ditter by Tomy Wigand 90 min., D 2009 97 min., D 1999 Cast: Nick Romeo Reimann, Cast: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Fabian Halbig, Leonie Tepe, Ralf Richter, Manuel Steitz, Javidan Imani Oscar Ortega Sánchez Westside Filmproduktion, Rat Novamedia Osiris, Hofmann & Pack Filmproduktion, Constantin Voges Entertainment Film Produktion World Sales: Beta Film World Sales: Delphis Films June 13, 4.30 pm June 13, 2.00 pm

The Crocodiles Strike back Soccer Rules! Vorstadtkrokodile II Fußball ist unser Leben Summer vacation, the first tender stirrings of romance and cool new gang Hans Pollak is a hard core fan of Schalke 04. Together with his best friend Mike, headquarters – life could be perfect for The Crocodiles, were there not strange he is member of the fanclub “Dios Knappen Gelsenkirchen”, named after their goingson in the plant where Ollie and Maria’s parents work. The factory is facing lay- idol, the (fictional) Schalke star player Pablo Di Ospeo . Pollak is so single-minded offs and maybe even closure, meaning their parents may lose their jobs, even their that he neglects the birth of his second child to watch his favorite club, and takes home. That would spell the end of the Crocodiles: if Ollie and Maria have to move, his family and girlfriend for granted. there would be no gang left for Hannes, Kai, Jorgo, Frank and Peter, either! So of One day, Pollak decides to bet his house that Di Ospeo will score in the next course the Crocodiles would do anything to get to the bottom of the mysterious game. He is shocked to see that his idol is addicted to cocaine, abducts him and series of accidents at the plant – including hair-raising stunts and chases, secretive chains him into his room to make him quit cold turkey. Then, Pollak’s neglected sleuthing, and even going so far as to get a makeover from Kai’s seriously annoying girlfriend has an affair and Pollak’s mother dies of a coronary; Di Ospeo has tried big-city cousin Jenny, so they can go undercover at the hippest nightclub in town. to rescue her but could not reach her because he was shackled. Desperate Pollak The Crocodiles put the pedal to the metal and race full speed ahead – on bikes and decides to hang himself so that his family – he assumes that his house is lost – souped-up wheelchairs – into their next adventure! will at least get his life insurance. But his friends save him from the gallows with Copyright: Constantin Film a Schalke flag, and a rehabilitated Di Ospeo scores the winning goal in the next game. Having won the bet after all, Pollak keeps his house and makes up with his girlfriend.

9 by Stefanie Sycholt by Lars Büchel 105 min., D/SA 2010 101 min., D 2009 Cast: Junior Singo, Cast: Karl Alexander Seidel, Patrick Mofokeng, Anke Engelke, Moritz Bleibtreu Emmanuel Soquinase collina Filmproduktion Zeitsprung Entertainment World Sales: Telepool In presence of June 14, 11.00 am Stefanie Sycholt June 13, 6.30 pm

Themba* Lippel’s Dream Lippels Traum Set predominantly in the spectacular Eastern Cape of South Africa, Themba, is Shy 11-year-old Philipp, whom everyone just calls Lippel, lives in a small town in the moving story of a young Xhosa boy who dreams of being a soccer star and Germany with his father, a famous gourmet chef. When his dad has to go away longs for his absent father to return home. His non-idyllic childhood in the rural on business for a week, he leaves Lippel in the care of his new housekeeper, Eastern Cape comes to an abrupt end when his mother is forced to look for work Mrs. Jakob. She seems very nice at first, but soon Lippel finds himself arguing in Cape Town after losing her job, and he and his sister are left in the care of with her over little household matters. It slowly turns into a domestic war, while her lover. After Themba is raped, he and his sister go to look for their mother in Lippel seeks escape in his dreams at night, fleeing into an oriental fairy-tale world. Cape Town even though his soccer team stands to win the Eastern Cape Junior There, his father is the lovable but weak king, whose children are at the mercy of championships. They find her dying of AIDS. Themba has to force the fact that he, his malevolent sister-in-law. The dreamworld double for Mrs. Jakob wants to do too, is infected. Against all odds, he realizes his soccer dream and plays for Bafana away with the children to take the throne herself. Soon Lippel finds himself living Bafana. This gives him the courage to take a public stand and tell the world that through incredible adventures in his dreams… he is HIV positive. Copyright: GermanFilms Written by Stefanie Sycholt

* not FFF-funded

10 by Joachim Masannek by Joseph Vilsmaier 111 min., D 2007 104 min., D 2010 Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Cast: Florian Stetter, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Andreas Tobias, Karl Markovics Sarah Kim Gries Perathon Film- und Fernseh SamFilm GmbH World Sales: Telepool In presence of In presence of Joseph Vilsmaier Joachim Masannek June 14, 6.00 pm June 14, 3.00 pm

The Wild Soccer Bunch IV Nanga Parbat Die wilden Kerle IV After the victory over the Beastly Beasts, the Wild Soccer Bunch was in top form Reinhold and Günther Messner dream of climbing the world’s highest steep and won all of their following matches. But they need one more victory to get face on the Nanga Parbat in the Himalaya since their childhood. In 1970 the two the “Pott”, the freestyle soccer trophy. And to get it, they have to beat Ragnarok young men are upon to fulfil their dreams in an international team guided by the Wolves. But the Wolves are no ordinary opponents. They have a dark secret - expedition leader Karl Maria Herligkoffer. Though, rivalries within the group and and in the background lurks a certain power that is stronger than all of them: a bad weather are everything else but ideal preconditions and at the attempt to clever girl named Horizon and the silver lights in mist. Marlon falls hopelessly for reach the peak the drama takes its course… Horizon. She, however, has one simple goal: to pull Marlon and Leon apart. A bitter struggle breaks out and threatens to break up the Wild Soccer Bunch. Will they be able to survive one of the greatest challenges of their lives? Copyright: GermanFilms

11 by Joseph Vilsmaier by Michael Bully Herbig 105 min., D 1997 87 min., D 2009 Cast: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Cast: Jonas Hämmerle, Ulrich Noethen Waldemar Kobus, Nic Romm Perathon Film- und Fernseh Rat Pack Filmproduktion GmbH World Sales:Timeless Films World Sales: June 15, 11.00 am Bavaria Film International In presence of Joseph Vilsmaier June 14, 9.00 pm The Harmonists Vickie the mighty Viking Comedian Harmonists Wickie und die starken Männer In 1927, the 20-year-old Berlin drama student Harry Frommermann makes up his The series’ main character is Vicky, son of Halvar, chief of the Viking village of mind to found a German singing group modelled on the feted American a-capella Flake. Unlike his village fellows - including most of the other boys of his age formation “The Revellers”. He places an advertisement and, very soon, he is - Vicky is blessed with a sharp and imaginative mind which helps him and his snowed under with candidates. After initial difficulties, the band’s first appearance fellow Vikings out of many tight situations, including rival Viking lord Sven the is a great success. A German tour follows and it’s not long before the Comedian Terrible. Certain results of his intellectual approach shown in the series and the Harmonists are on every-body’s lips. But the enormous success makes the young film adaptation include building a makeshift catapult to beat his father in a stone- men blind to the changing political situation. None of the six wants to take Hitler’s ferrying contest, fitting their longship with kites to make it glide through the air, rise to power seriously although three members of the troupe are Jews... Six and using a small sawfish to cut an escape hole through a wooden door. men, six voices, six fates – Joseph Vilsmaier’s film version of the rise and fall of the legendary Berlin ensemble Comedian Harmonists who started an international career at the end of the20s and fell victim to the National Socialist racial policy only a few years later. Copyright: German Films

12 by Chris Kraus by Maren Ade 111 min., D 2007 119 min., D 2009 Cast: Monica Bleibtreu, Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Hannah Herzsprung, Richy Müller Lars Eidinger Kordes & Kordes Film Komplizen Film with SWR/WDR/ World Sales: Beta Cinema ARTE June 15, 6.00 pm World Sales: Bavaria Film International June 13, 9.00 pm June 15, 8.00 pm

Four Minutes* Everyone Else Vier Minuten Alle Anderen Schubert, Mozart, Chopin and a bunch of killers. That’s life for 80-year-old piano On the surface, Chris and Gitti are lost in perfect amorous bliss during their teacher Traude Krueger. The old lady has been teaching music at the women’s getaway in their Sardinian vacation home. But amidst their playful romps, secret prison for ages. But she has never met an inmate like Jenny: a killer who beats rituals and silly habits belies an underlying tension. Full of verve, the idiosyncratic everything around her to a pulp just to amuse herself. However, she used to be a Gitti is fearless in expressing her love and devotion for Chris, while Chris is more great talent. A piano prodigy even. And beneath her fierce façade, she still is. With reserved in his outlook on life and sports, varying personal and professional Traude’s help, she could manage to win a prestigious piano contest. But a contest degrees of insecurity. is no challenge to those who want their lives to stand still. When they casually run into another, obviously happier and more successful, Copyright: GermanFilms couple that on top of it all appears to be modern gender role proof, their relationship destabilizes. In a silly attempt at lifestyle bootlegging, Chris begins to show his wilful girlfriend who is boss, with the result that Gitti’s faith in her partner takes a hard knock. She attempts to conform to his new ideal, but what begins as a playful experiment soon turns into a quiet struggle with her own personality. While Chris flourishes in his role as the stronger one of the two, Gitti begins to loosen up in a completely new way. * not FFF-funded Copyright: GermanFilms

13 by Caroline Link by Vivian Naefe 109 min., D 1998 109 min., D 2005 Cast: Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Cast: Michelle von Treuberg, Juliane Köhler Lucie Hollmann, Paula Riemann Peter Zenk, Uschi Reich, Bavaria Filmverleih- und Christoph Holch, Susanne van Produktions GmbH Lessen World Sales: World Sales: Bavaria Film International Bavaria Film International June 16, 3.00 pm June 16, 11.00 am

Annaluise and Anton Wild Chicks Pünktchen und Anton Die wilden Hühner Annaluise has rich parents who are so busy with social obligations that they Every girl needs a best girlfriend. And Sprotte has no less than three! Together, seldom have any time for her. Anton comes from a very poor background and they’re the “Wild Chicks,” the coolest girl gang of the pre-teen set. Though works every evening in a little ice-cream parlour as a stand-in for his sick mother. they’re as different as can be, they’re inseparable when the going gets tough. In spite of these social differences, the two are the best of friends. In the new Melanie raves about Robbie Williams, Trude loves Italian food, Frieda is socially film version of Erich Kaestner’s children’s book of the same name, Annaluise isn’t mega-committed and Sprotte herself secretly finds her teacher Frau Rose really selling matches this time to help Anton earn some money, but is instead singing cool. And then there’s Wilma, who still has to prove herself before being inducted in Munich’s town center while her parents are at the opera. Annaluise learnt into the gang. The biggest problem facing the girls is the rival boy gang, the the songs from her French aupair Laurence whom the eternally absent parents “Pygmies.” Next to its leader Fred, there’s the insatiable Torte, fortune-teller thought was the ideal chaperone for Annaluise. When Carlos, Laurence’s greasy Steve and the aggressive Willi. Then something incredible happens: Sprotte boyfriend, tries to break into Annaluise’s home, Anton is, fortunately, there again sounds the fox alarm! Grandma Slaettberg wants to slaughter her hens – even and the housekeeper, big fat Berta, has a great idea.... though Daphne, Kokoschka and the other feathered damsels are the gang’s Copyright: GermanFilms mascots. Only the Pygmies can help now... Copyright: GermanFilms

14 by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, by Marc Rothemund Thomas Grube 116 min., D 2004 104 min., D 2004 Cast: Julia Jentsch, Cast: Sir Simon Rattle, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs Berliner Philharmoniker, Goldkind Film, Broth Film Royston Maldoom World Sales: Boomtown Media, Cine Plus, Bavaria Film International RBB June 16, 8.00 pm World Sales: Boomtown Media June 16, 6.00 pm

Rhythm is it!* Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage Berlin, January 2003. In a former bus depot something amazing is happening. Munich, 1943. As Hitler wages a devastating war in Europe, a group of young 250 pupils from 25 nations are dancing to Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps, which people, mostly university students, resorts to passive resistance as the only they have rehearsed for nearly three months, trained by the British choreographer effective way to cripple the Nazis and their inhuman war machine. The White Royston Maldoom and accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Rose is formed, a resistance movement dedicated to the downfall of the Third its chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle. Reich. Sophie Scholl joins the group as its only female member – an innocent Through the eyes of three young protagonists we take part in the project’s young girl who matures into a committed and fearless anti-Nazi. On 18 February development, its ups and downs, doubts and enthusiasms, uncertainties and 1943, Sophie and her brother Hans are caught distributing leaflets at the university renewals of self-confidence. It is a fascinating journey into new, undreamed-of and arrested. Over the next few days, Sophie’s interrogation by the Gestapo worlds and reveals surprising facets of the protagonists’ personalities. Recorded officer Mohr evolves into an intense psychological duel. She lies and denies, with a breathtaking fidelity of sound, the film documents the stages of the Sacre schemes and challenges, lays down her arms and picks them up again, with project and offers deep insights into the rehearsals of the Berlin Philharmonic greater force, nearly disarming her opponent. Then, the crushing evidence, the Orchestra. Rhythm is it! is a delightful and moving record of the fascination of confession, and Sophie’s last, desperate attempt to protect her brother and the music, of the need for safeguarding education and training, of passion, diligence, other members of the White Rose. Moved by Sophie’s uncommon bravery, Mohr love, esteem and zest. even offers her a way out – but at the price of betraying her ideals. Copyright: GermanFilms * not FFF-funded Copyright: GermanFilms

15 by Vivian Naefe by Vivian Naefe 108 min., D 2007 112 min., D 2008 Cast: Michelle von Treuberg, Cast: Michelle von Treuberg, Paula Riemann, Jette Hering Lucie Hollmann, Sonja Gerhardt Bavaria Filmverleih- und Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH Produktions GmbH World Sales: World Sales: Bavaria Film International Bavaria Film International June 17, 11.00 am June 17, 3.00 pm

Wild Chicks II Wild Chicks III Die wilden Hühner und die Liebe Die wilden Hühner und das Leben Love sure is a tough nut to crack, and Sprotte, Frieda, Melanie, Wilma and Trude A class trip to an idyllic castle nestled in a lush countryside? Most kids would can tell you a thing or two about it. All the “wild chicks” are struggling with see it as a welcome opportunity to have fun, play pranks and plot romantic it, almost as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which they’re staging with their rendezvous. But other than Trude, who’s developing a crush on Steve, the Wild teacher Rose. Melanie is deeply hurt since Willi has left her for another girl, Nana, Chicks aren’t in the mood for any of the above. Sprotte is upset and confused who’s two years older than him. Frieda has a complicated weekend relationship that her Fred wants to rush their “first time”. Melanie has been in a foul mood for with Maik, whom she met at riding camp. Trude dreams of fellow student Ricky’s days now, and won’t tell her friends what’s wrong. Is she having problems with smoldering gaze. And Sprotte is still seeing Fred. In fact, everything would be her boyfriend Willi? Trying to mediate between the two, Frieda starts falling in love great between them if it weren’t for Sprotte’s jealousy. The wild chicks’ leader with Willi herself! Wilma can’t think of anything but her acting career. And to top also has another problem to cope with: her mother Sybille is planning to marry the it all off, Sprotte’s mom is going along on the trip as bus driver! The chicks and smart alec Thorben when Sprotte’s father suddenly turns up after twelve years their male counterparts couldn’t be bothered with exploring the wonders of nature and sets Sybille’s heart all aflutter... But the most difficult relation of all has to – they’re over their heads in exploring the wonders of young adulthood. And this be Wilma’s. Love, as the chicks come to realize, doesn’t always have to do with means letting go of cherished friends and comforting rituals as well as accepting boys. In spite of all the emotional turmoil, the clique manages to stick together – their own and others’ failings and strengths. which is just what you’d expect from these wild chicks! Copyright: GermanFilms Copyright: GermanFilms

16 by Doris Dörrie 127 min., D 2007 Cast: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl OLGA-Film World Sales: Bavaria Film International June 17, 8.00 pm

Plattln in Umtata On the other Side of Life Cherry Blossoms Auf der anderen Seite des Lebens Kirschblüten-Hanami In spring of 2007, three musicians Two young brothers under suspicion Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. It is from Bavaria – aka „Die Biermösl of murder in a township of Cape Town, up to her to tell him or not. The doctor suggests that they do something together, Blosn“– travelled fullpacked to Africa caught between the harsh realities of perhaps something they were long planning to do… Trudi decides not to tell her for a unique musical adventure: With their environment and the traditional husband about the gravity of his illness and to follow the doctor’s advice. She trumpets, alphorn and tuba, they initiation rituals of their forefathers. convinces Rudi to visit their children and grandchildren in Berlin. But once they took part in a rhythmical battle with Between modernity and tradition in arrive, they realize that their children are so busy with their own lives that they African musicians on the streets, in the South Africa. have no time for them. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated and has neigborhoods and townships. no idea what to do next. From his daughter’s girlfriend he learns that Trudi’s love by Stefanie Brockhaus & Andy Wolff for him had led her to forego the life that she had wanted to live. He begins to 88 min, D/SA 2009, Documentary see her with new eyes and vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks Brockhaus/Wolff on his last journey – to Tokyo, in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a by Peter Heller International Sales: autlook filmsales celebration of beauty, impermanence, and new beginnings… 93 min., D 2007 In presence of Bongani Nxele Copyright: GermanFilms Documentary (protagonist) and Tendeka Matatu World Sales: Kinowelt (producer) June 17, 6.00 pm June 15, 3.00 pm 17 Screenings, Address: Artscape Theatre Centre D F Malan Street, Foreshore, shown in the Arena of the Artscape Theatre. All films for free. Cape Town 8001

Thursday 10/06 5.30pm Haindling Concert, Darling Street, Grand Parade 8.00pm The Miracle of Bern / Das Wunder von Bern 4 117 min

Friday 11/06 11.00am The Wild Soccer Bunch II / Die wilden Kerle II 4 89 min 3.00pm The story of Brandner Kaspar / Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar 5 100 min 5.00pm Oktoberfest 5 104 min 7.30pm Grave Decisions / Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot 6 105 min

Saturday 12/06 12.00am The Crocodiles / Vorstadtkrokodile 6 93 min 3.00pm The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen 7 137 min 6.00pm Nowhere in Africa / Nirgendwo in Afrika 7 141 min 8.30pm Brother of Sleep / Schlafes Bruder 8 127 min

Sunday 13/06 12.00am The Wild Soccer Bunch III / Die wilden Kerle III 8 93 min 2.00pm The Crocodiles strike back / Vorstadtkrokodile II 9 90 min 4.30pm Soccer Rules! / Fußball ist unser Leben 9 97 min 6.30pm Themba 10 105 min 9.00pm Every One Else / Alle Anderen 13 119 min programme information available at: www.fff-bayern.de and facebook 18 Version: German with English subtitles. Films for children and young people

Monday 14/06 11.00am Lippel’s Dream / Lippels Traum 10 101 min 3.00pm The Wild Soccer Bunch IV / Die wilden Kerle IV 11 111 min 6.00pm Nanga Parbat 11 104 min 9.00pm Comedian Harmonists / The Harmonists 12 105 min

Tuesday 15/06 11.00am Vickie the mighty Viking / Wickie und die starken Männer 12 87 min 3.00pm On the other Side of Life / Auf der anderen Seite des Lebens 17 88 min 6.00pm Four Minutes / Vier Minuten 13 111 min 8.00pm Everyone Else / Alle Anderen 13 119 min

Wednesday 16/06 11.00am Annaluise & Anton / Pünktchen & Anton 14 109 min 3.00pm Wild Chicks / Die wilden Hühner 14 109 min 6.00pm Rhythm is it! 15 104 min 8.00pm Sophie Scholl – The Final Days / Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage 15 116 min

Thursday 17/06 11.00am Wild Chicks II / Die wilden Hühner und die Liebe 16 108 min 3.00pm Wild Chicks III / Die wilden Hühner und das Leben 16 112 min 6.00pm Plattln in Umtata 17 93 min 8.00pm Cherry Blossoms / Kirschblüten-Hanami 17 127 min BHP design www.bhp-design.de 04.2010 BHP design www.bhp-design.de 19 Bavaria: Germany’s top Film and Media Location

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