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33 Suck My Dick 6 Talent Made In Germany Oskar Roehler Talent Agencies in Germany 34 Der Tanz mit dem Teufel – Die Entführung des Richard Oetker 13 On People And The Times Peter Keglevic Portrait of directors Barbara and Winfried Junge 34 A Woman And A Half – Hildegard Knef Clarissa Ruge 14 Between The Private And The Political Portrait of director Margarethe von Trotta

17 Personal Contacts Count World Sales Portrait: Exportfilm Bischoff 36 German Classics

18 ”MEDIA LUNA, That’s My Passion!“ 36 Lissy World Sales Portrait: Media Luna, Ida Martins Konrad Wolf 37 Metropolis 20 ODEON FILM: The Makings Of Fritz Lang An International Player 38 Tag der Idioten Producer’s Portrait: Odeon Film DAY OF THE IDIOTS Werner Schroeter 22 KINO news

26 In Production 40 New German Films

26 Anam – Meine Mutter 40 100 Pro Buket Alakus Simon Verhoeven 26 Auf den Flüssen 41 Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte Gordian Maugg WHEN GRANDPA LOVED RITA HAYWORTH 27 Auf Herz und Nieren Iva Sˇvarcová Thomas Jahn 42 BERLIN – Du Fremde, Du Schöne 28 Caroline Ein Zyklus in sieben Filmen 1995-2001 Hannu Salonen BERLIN – YOU STRANGER, YOU BEAUTY 29 Flüchtige Bekannte A Cycle In Seven Films 1995-2001 Michael Baumann Manfred Wilhelms 30 Heaven 43 Berlin is in Germany AT BERLIN Tom Tykwer PANORAMA Hannes Stöhr 30 Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? 44 Duell – Enemy At The Gates

Horst Königstein AT BERLIN OPENING FILM Jean-Jacques Annaud 31 Love The Hard Way (OUT OF COMPETITION) Peter Sehr 32 Ramstein – Das durchstoßene Herz 32 Rave Macbeth Klaus Knoesel CONTENTS

60 Nancy und Frank NANCY AND FRANK Wolf Gremm

AT BERLIN 45 Eisenstein FORUM 61 Pinky und der Millionenmops Renny Bartlett PINKY AND THE MILLION-PUG 46 Emil und die Detektive Stefan Lukschy EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES 62 planet alex Franziska Buch Uli M Schüppel 47 Erotic Tales: Angela 63 Der schöne Tag Amos Kollek A FINE DAY AT BERLIN FORUM Erotic Tales: Powers – Thomas Arslan Magische Kräfte 64 Stiller Sturm POWERS SILENT STORM Petr Zelenka Tomasz Thomson 48 Feindliche Übernahme – 65 Tanz mit dem Tod – althan.com Der Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz Carl Schenkel DANCE WITH DEATH – 49 Girl THE UFA STAR SYBILLE SCHMITZ Piers Ashworth Achim Podak 50 HAWAiiAN GARDENS 66 Venus Talking AT BERLIN NEW GERMAN FILMS Percy Adlon Rudolf Thome 51 Invincible 67 Weiser AT BERLIN IN COMPETITION Werner Herzog Wojciech Marczewski 52 Jetzt oder Nie 68 Das weisse Rauschen Lars Büchel THE WHITE NOISE 53 Julietta Johann Weingartner Christoph Stark 69 www.vermisst-auf-dem-Oktoberfest.de 54 Küss Mich Frosch WWW.MISSING-AT-THE-OKTOBERFEST.DE KISS ME FROG Charly Weller Dagmar Hirtz H 55 Lieber Fidel – Maritas Geschichte DEAR FIDEL – MARITA’S STORY 70 Foreign Representatives Wilfried Huismann 56 Mein langsames Leben 74 Film-Exporters PASSING SUMMER AT BERLIN FORUM Angela Schanelec 78 Imprint 57 Mit IKEA nach Moskau TO MOSCOW WITH IKEA Michael Chauvistré 58 Mr. Boogie Vesna Jovanoska 59 My Sweet Home Filippos Tsitos AT BERLIN IN COMPETITION Talent Agencies in Germany xxxxxxx

TALENT Heike Makatsch, Moritz Bleibtreu, Nina Hoss MADE IN GERMANY Compared to other countries, the German talent agent scene as it now exists is quite a young one, since until April 1994, the few artists’ agencies which had survived from before the Second World War had operated with a license on behalf of the Federal Employment Office and they were the only ones allowed to Carla Rehm represent actors.

”The working conditions were very difficult“, recalls Sigrid Narjes, who established her Above The Line agency initially on an ”illegal“ basis at the end of the 1980s and then took legal proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany to bring about a reform of the regulations. ”Everything from the agency notepaper to the sign outside had to be approved by the employment authorities“.

However, 1994 then finally saw a reform which led to the 25-odd agencies under license being joined by a whole new generation of talent agents as companies sprung up all over Germany. According to some sources, the number of agencies now exceeds 250 although nobody really knows how many talent agents are now in business.

”There has been a real proliferation in agencies“, explains Mechthild Holter whose Players has been based in Berlin since 1996, ”there is no healthily evolved market structure. In a healthy scene like London you have a handful of agents – the

6 Talent Agencies in Germany three main ones, some literary agencies and a few specialising in decided to set up an operation with Eichborn outside of the theatre – and that’s it. Put in an exaggerated form: you need an publishing house to emphasise their closeness to the audiovisual agent when the market needs you. But this healthy relationship world. between the agency and the client doesn’t exist in Germany, every person who says they are an actor gets an agent and Indeed, other agencies have also changed their remit as they have people are with an agent before anybody has even got to know become more established in the market. As Munich-based agent who they are“. Marlis Heppeler observes, ”initially, I was exclusively handling actors, but it very soon transpired that it definitely made sense to use the existing network of contacts (to producers, distributors Agencies’ specialities and commissioning editors at the TV stations) to also act as a mediator for the work of directors and screenwriters“. ”Whereas in the past, agencies were classical actors’ ones, there are now agencies based on the Anglo-Saxon model which target ”What is different from America“, Hoestermann says, ”is that all professional groups in the arts“, Berlin-based Bernhard one still doesn’t have a producer being represented by an agent. An-Dorte Braker, Bernhard Hoestermann, Sabine Schroth An-Dorte Braker,

Hoestermann points out, ”they cater for writers, directors, In Germany, there is a very clear division - even when they are directors of photography, editors as well as actors and other so-called writer-producers – they see themselves as being ’on the talents“. other side’ as a rule“.

Hoestermann, for example, focuses on actors while Steffen Weihe’s Pegasus specialises in screenwriters and directors and Preparing the Package Tina Brandner in Munich handles job placement for crew members. Sigrid Narjes, on the other hand, covers the three At the same time, the idea of agents being involved in packaging main groups – actors, directors and screenwriters – at Above has increasingly become an issue in the German film landscape. The Line. ”We have a few agencies in Germany who try according to the foreign model to sell so-called packages“, explains Carla Rehm, Narjes has since added a new arm – ATL Books – to her whose Agentur Alexander can look back on over 40 years agency in collaboration with the Eichborn publishing house to of managing actors, ”i.e. to sell the screenplay, cast and director represent the film rights of novels and non-fiction material on as a overall concept“. the books at Eichborn. ”We will be active nationally and internationally offering film rights of books and will also acquire From the producers’ camp, though, ”this always results in rights from third parties“, she declares, adding that unlike annoyance and resistance because in Germany this is always Michael Töteberg at Rowohlt, Above The Line understood as blackmail“, Bernhard Hoestermann says,

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”along the lines of ’If you want to have my star, you’ll have to take those others as well‘“.

”Packaging in the correct sense of the word should be about bringing people together“, he continues.”about who can then really get a project on the way, who can help get a financing together quicker. In that sense, I don’t think any producer would have anything to fear“. Who wants to be a star?

Despite the efforts of such young talents as Franka Potente, Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu and Katja Jürgen Vogel, Franka Potente Riemann, the German cinema does not boast a long line of For Bernhard Hoestermann, the way people treat achieve- stars who are national household names in the same way as was ment and prominence in Germany is difficult in any case: ”It is perhaps the case during the German film industry’s halcyon days not easy to cultivate a star. In the USA, one’s achievement is in the post war years. acknowledged with great enthusiasm. In Germany, though, the basic attitude is more of one scepticism; the journalists here ”In the media, young talents don’t yet receive the necessary like to make people big and well-known, but they have even support and attention“, Carla Rehm declares. ”The real stars more pleasure in tearing them to pieces again. That’s a particular are rather sportsmen and show personalities. Germany’s film stars element which keeps the potential of becoming a star to a have continually attained their popularity through TV films and minimum here“. series, have thereby reached the largest audience and are only then interesting for the public“. Television is another matter as the incredible popularity of actors in daily soaps and other long running series show. As Marlis Meanwhile, Marlis Heppeler pinpoints another tendency over Heppeler points out, there are several elements working the past year ”that people like Zlatko (and other Big Brother together here. ”This could partly be connected with the fact that inhabitants) or figures, who do not exactly excel through acting the individual and, above all, private stations promote ”their achievements, but draw attention to themselves through little actors’“, she says, ”and it is certainly also due to the fact that private scandals, are made into stars by the media“. one can reach a very large audience figure with the medium of television, and that the TV stations – above all, the public ones – pursue a certain continuity in their work with actors as well“. International potential Béla Jarzyk, Mechthild Holter On the international level, the number of German actors and actresses coming through and making a career for themselves outside of their native country has been few and far between.

In the last 30 years or so, there were the actors from the Fassbinder films – such as Hanna Schygulla and Gottfried John - The Boat star Jürgen Prochnow, or Armin Mueller-Stahl. But it is two directors – Roland Emmerich and Wolfgang Petersen – who are probably the most well-known German film figures internationally.

That’s not to say that nothing has happening in recent years: after her

8 Talent Agencies in Germany success in Run Lola Mechthild Holter, ”when there Run, Franka are any, then it is because a home Potente graduated to country is internationally ‘present- the international stage able’. Films from people like Lars von last year with a series of Trier, Pedro Almodovar or Ken roles in American films: Loach or Mike Leigh have actors she starred opposite play that we get to know, they are Johnny Depp in Ted seen at festivals, win prizes and the Demme’s New Line films have an international release“. production Blow and then appeared with As Marlis Heppeler points out, Matt Damon in ”the stars are not least made Doug Liman’s The through their roles in the films and if Bourne Identity as these films find little or no attention well as taking a role in worldwide, this will naturally be Todd Solondz’s as- reflected in the stars’ popularity“. yet-untitled new feature, while Til Schweiger’s However, there are exceptions as success at home attrac- she found with one of her own ted US producers to charges – Franka Potente – after cast him in films as the resounding international success diverse as The of Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Replacement Run (Lola rennt). ”Here it was Killers, Judas Kiss, important to use her popularity at Punks and the right moment and to find suitable Investigating Sex. projects and partners abroad“, she recalls. Schweiger’s co-star in Der bewegte Mann, Having a good international network Katja Riemann of contacts is essential if one wants travelled to Canada to propel one’s talent onto the world to headline the film stage: as Sigrid Narjes points out, Desire by Colleen ”it is important to know who is doing Murphy, while Maria what where, to know the producers Schrader appeared and the casting directors, and to opposite Giancarlo Sigrid Narjes (photo © Uwe Völkner) know other agents“. Esposito in Rajko Grlic’s Josephine and Thomas Getting the Kretschmann has worked with Dario Accent Right Argento and Patrice Chereau in At the same time, Carla Rehm Europe as well having notes that ”it is difficult to place a part in the US block- German actors in foreign films buster submarine because of their accent. It is much drama U-571. easier there for directors and cine- matographers“. Furthermore, Moritz Bleibtreu was picked The language issue is a crucial one to play alongside as Berlin-based casting director Harvey Keitel and Annette Borgmann knows Stellan Skarsgard only too well having handled the in Istvan Szabo’s German actor casting for such latest feature Taking recent productions as Jean- Sides after the Oscar- Jacques Annaud’s Enemy At winning Hungarian The Gates (with Ed Harris, director saw his perfor- Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes), mance in Bakhtiar Peter Bogdanovich’s The Khudoinazarov’s Cat’s Meouw (with Kirsten Luna Papa, and Dunst and Eddie Izzard) and Peter Lohmeyer has Kurt Wimmer’s Librium (with developed a nice sideline Christian Bale and Emily in playing Germans or Watson). Swedes in Cuban comedies (Kleines ”It is very difficult to find good actors Tropicana, Playing who can speak an accent-free English Swede)! or an American English“, she reports, ”With the Annaud film, the ”In the main, there are Russians and Germans could have an few international stars in Uschi Keil accent as it is a historical film, but any country“, argues with the Peter Bogdanovich film

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that the French director was shooting in Germany spread like wildfire through the acting community with one actress saying that she’d be happy just walk through the frame to be able to work with him. In the event, Borgmann was able to bring more and more German talent to the production to the point where she could cast Eva Mattes for one of the supporting roles and have around 40 parts taken by local actors instead of the initially planned 10-15. Export-Union Promoting New Talent

One way, though, of introducing up-and-coming German acting talent to a wider international forum is the ”Shooting Stars“ initiative which was launched by the pan-European promotional body European Film Promotion (EFP) at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 1998.

In the three editions so far, the Export-Union of German Cinema as one EFP’s members selected six young actors and actresses – Franka Potente, Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Maria Schrader, August Diehl and Nina Hoss - to be introduced with their counterparts from other European countries to the assembled international film scene. This year will see Heike Makatsch and Benno Fürmann joining the lineup of the 4th ”Shooting Stars“ for 2001.

In addition, the stars of new German films are regular features at the Festivals of German Cinema organised by the Export-Union around the globe: for example, at the first such event in Los Angeles at the beginning of November, Christiane Paul was there in person for Fatih Akin’s In July (Im Juli) and Martin Eigler’s Friends (with Benno Fürmann) while Sabine Lutter Hannelore Elsner attended the screenings of her award- winning film No Place to Go (Die Unberührbare) for which she won the German Film Award last June. which is set in 1924, this is another matter and in Librium the audience is not even supposed to know that the film had been MB shot in Berlin“.

The Annaud project was an interesting case as, originally, she had only been called on to cast 10-15 day players. The news

August Diehl, Maria Schrader, Benno Fürmann

10 Talent Agencies (a selection)

Above The Line Players Goethestr. 17 · D-80336 Munich Sophienstr. 21 · D-10178 Berlin phone: +49-89-5 99 08 40 · fax: +49-89-5 50 38 55 phone:+49-30-2 85 16 80 · fax: +49-30-2 85 16 86 email: [email protected] · www.abovetheline.de email: [email protected] · www.players.de contact: Sigrid Narjes, Ulrike Weber, contact: Mechthild Holter, Béla Jarzyk Katerina Kolisch

pmc – PromotionManagementConception Above The Line Berlin Alter Militärring 8 · D-50933 Cologne Oranienburger Str. 5 · D-10178 Berlin phone: +49-2 21-49 97 80 · fax: +49-2 21-49 97 88 phone: +49-30-2 88 77 30 · fax: +49-30-28 87 73 10 email: [email protected] · www.pmc-gmbh.com contact: Sabine Lutter, Uschi Keil contact: Ica Souvignier, Hinrich Sickenberger

Agentur Alexander – Carla Rehm Carola Studlar – Internationale Agentur Lamontstr. 9 · D-81679 Munich Agnesstr. 47 · D-80798 Munich phone: +49-89-47 60 81 · fax: +49-89-4 70 71 21 phone: +49-89-1 22 35 10· fax: +49-89-12 00 18 18 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] · www.studlar.de contact: Carla Rehm contact: Carola Studlar

Agentur Doris Mattes Szenario – Agentur für Merzstr. 14 · D-81679 Munich Film und Fernsehen phone: +49-89-9 82 80 85 · fax: +49-89-98 15 18 Schwere-Reiter-Str. 35 Geb. 2b · D-80797 Munich email: [email protected] phone: +49-89-34 02 09 27 · fax: +49-89-38 39 86 89 contact: Doris Mattes email: [email protected] www.agentur-szenario.de contact: Inge Pudenz Agentur Hoestermann Gneisenaustr. 94 · D-10961 Berlin phone: +49-30-69 50 18 81 · fax: +49-30-69 50 18 88 Management Erika Goldschmidt email: [email protected] · www.hoestermann.de Damaschkestr. 33 · D-10711 Berlin contact: Bernhard Hoestermann phone: +49-30-3 23 62 94 · fax: +49-30-3 23 93 99 email: [email protected] www.managementgoldschmidt.de Agentur Jovanovic contact: Renate Landkammer Kathi-Kobus-Str. 24 · D-80797 Munich phone: +49-89-18 40 91 · fax: +49-89-18 40 93 contact: Elfie Thuy Uschi Drews Künstleragentur Schillerstr. 7 · D-10625 Berlin phone: +49-30-3 27 71 50 · fax: +49-30-3 24 93 73 Agentur Nicolai email: [email protected] (previously Agentur Mackeben) www.agentur-drews.de Gosslerstr. 2 · D-12161 Berlin contact: Uschi Drews phone: +49-30-8 24 40 48 · fax: +49-30-8 24 50 34 email: [email protected] www.agentur-nicolai.de contact: Ute Nicolai

ContrAct Talent Agencies’ Trade Associations Schwere-Reiter-Str. 35 Geb. 41 · D-80797 Munich phone: +49-89-30 79 86 00 · fax: +49-89-30 79 86 02 Verband der Agenturen für Film, email: [email protected] Fernsehen und Theater e.V. contact: Andrea Lambsdorff Kurfürstenstr. 33 · D-10785 Berlin phone: +49-30-2 30 81 90 · fax: +49-30-23 08 19 19 email: [email protected] · www.vda.fnw.de Heppeler Internationale Agentur contact: Bernhard Hoestermann, Dr. Marlis Heppeler, für Film-TV-Theater Marie-Luise Schmidt Steinstr. 54 · D-81667 Munich phone: +49-89-4 48 84 84 · fax: +49-89-4 47 09 95 email: [email protected] Verband Deutscher www.agentur-heppeler.de Schauspieler-Agenturen contact: Dr. Marlis Heppeler Isabellastr. 20 · D-80798 Munich phone: +49-89-27 29 35 13 · fax: +49-89-27 29 36 36 email: [email protected] Pegasus – A Literary and Talent Agency www.schauspieler-agenturen.de Neue Promenade 6 · D-10178 Berlin contact: Carla Rehm, Renate Landhammer, phone: +49-30-2 84 97 60 · fax: +49-30-28 49 76 76 Jochem Strate email: [email protected] contact: Steffen Weihe

11 Casting Directors (a selection)

Annette Borgmann Horst D. Scheel Lützowufer 11 · D-10785 Berlin Besetzungsberatung phone: +49-30-85 60 05 15 Hansaring 35 · D-50670 Cologne fax: +49-30-85 60 05 16 phone: +49-2 21-1 30 19 44 email: [email protected] fax: +49-2 21-1 30 19 45 email: [email protected]

Robert Drews Schillerstr. 7 · D-10625 Berlin Sabine Schroth & Risa Kes phone: +49-30-3 23 35 22 Mauerkircher Str. 16 · D-81679 Munich fax: +49-30-3 24 3094 phone: +49-89-98 10 50 50 email: [email protected] fax: +49-89-98 10 50 99

Nessie Nesslauer Rita Serra-Roll Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 9 · D-80331 Munich Plinganserstr. 15 · D-81369 Munich phone: +49-89-26 81 28 phone: +49-89-57 86 83 83 fax: +49-89-26 02 55 71 fax: +49-89-57 86 83 82 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Outcast Ebertplatz 21-23 · D-50668 Cologne phone: +49-2 21-97 32 60 · fax: +49-2 21-9 73 26 26 email: [email protected] · www.outcast.de contact: Clemens Erbach, Thomas Diehl

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12 Directors´ Portrait Barbara and Winfried Junge

Barbara Junge, born 1943 in Neunhofen. Study at the University of Leipzig. Diploma as an interpreter for English and Russian. From 1969 onwards, work in the DEFA studio for documentary films, initially responsible for foreign language versions of DEFA documentaries. From 1978 onwards, she supervised the archive documentation of the Golzow-cycle. From 1983, editing of all films by Winfried Junge. Co- director since 1992. Winfried Junge, born 1935 in Berlin. 1953, study of German at the Berlin Humboldt-University, 1954 transfer to the German Academy of Film Potsdam-Babelsberg. 1958, diploma in Dramaturgy. From 1961 onwards, work in the DEFA studio for documentary films, Berlin. Began the Golzow series with When I first go to school (Wenn ich erst zur Schule geh’). A total of 49 documentary films for cinema and television. In 1967 he produced Der tapfere Schulschwänzer, a feature film for children. From 1991 onwards, he worked as a director for JOURNAL Film Klaus Volkenborn KG, and after 1994 at the à jour film and television production company, where he continued the Golzow series. The Golzow cycle consists of six short films made before 1975, including Observations in a First Class (Nach einem Jahr, 1962) and Eleven Years Old (Elf Jahre alt, 1966), (Silver Dove at the Leipzig Documentary Film Week), as well as the later works Anmut sparet nicht noch Mühe (1979), Lebensläufe – Die Geschichte der Kinder von Golzow in einzelnen Porträts (1980, FIPRESCI prize Berlinale), Diese Golzower – Umstandsbestimmung eines Ortes (1984), Drehbuch: Die Zeiten (1992), The Life of Jürgen from Golzow (Das Leben des Jürgen von Golzow, 1994) The Story of Uncle Willy from Golzow (Die Geschichte des Onkel Willy aus Golzow, 1995), Was geht euch mein Leben an. Elke (1997), Da habt ihr mein Leben, Marieluise (1997), Brigitte and Marcel (1998), Ein Mensch wie Dieter (1999). ON PEOPLE AND THE TIMES For forty years, Winfried Junge has been making one huge film. At that time, in the late summer of 1961, DEFA sent him to the village Golzow in the Oderbruch, directly besi- de the German-Polish border. He was to observe a group of six-year-old children, their last moments in the sandpit, their introduction to school, the first lessons. The small, only 12- minute-film was called When I first go to school and was (photo © Winfried Junge) Barbara and Junge so well-received that Junge returned to the Oderbruch with his camera during the following summer. He has remained true to ”his“ Golzow villagers up until the present day, has followed their professional careers and their love stories, seen them set out and seen them fail, been a party to their hopes and dreams. Winfried Junge: ”We have constant, relaxed contact with the villagers of Golzow. alongside over thirty other films – which even gained them entry When a young woman was once asked what our relationship was to the Guinness Book of Records in 1985. Their ”Golzow“ series like, she answered: it’s like having relatives. We have known each is the oldest long-term documentation in international cinema. It is other a long time, and neither of us can fool the other for long.“ readily passed from one festival to another, from Vancouver in Canada to Yamagata in Japan. Now the documentation is looked Sixteen films have been made to date. Winfried Junge and his upon as the picture of an entire generation. Winfried Junge: wife Barbara, who supervises the archive of material and has ”Originally, it was to be about the first generation of GDR citizens been his co-director since 1992, have so created a life’s work – who grew up into Communism. But during the 80s at the latest, it

13 Director´s Portrait Barbara and Winfried Junge became clear that this idea was an illusion.“ Rather, the films Dieter, the technical drawer Elke and others. The story of the reflect ”normal“ reality, they dare to take a precise look at social poultry breeder Brigitte in Brigitte and Marcel (1998), was conditions. Again and again, the political led to the private, and the the first biography to come to a natural end: the twenty-nine year Golzow project advanced to become a fascinating document of old died of heart disease. The fall of the Wall and German the times, a source of discoveries for cinema enthusiasts, histo- unification played a role in all the individual portraits. The social rians and sociologists alike. changes proved to be a particular aid to dramaturgy: the life of the Golzow villagers, which had followed well-worn tracks until 1989, Winfried Junge’s real international success began after suddenly became exciting again. Lebensläufe (1980), a more than four-hour compendium of the material shot since 1961. After its showing during the Berlinale, And so what will the future bring? At present the Junges are Variety referred to the film as ”a unique milestone in film working on their seventeenth Golzow film, in which they tell the history“and Der Spiegel wrote: ”They show faces which it is tale of Jochen the dairyman. Winfried Junge: ”There could impossible to forget.“ The Junges then struck a new chord with be a further six portraits after that. Nine-tenths of the material is Drehbuch: Die Zeiten (1992), which could also be viewed already there.“ But there is no knowing whether film promoters during the ”international forum of young cinema“ at the Berlinale. and television stations will provide the financial support that would Here the directors introduced themselves as active participants, be necessary. Things are as open and uncertain as they have been reflecting on the role of the censor and that of self-censorship in for each of the recent Golzow films. the GDR. And they considered the moral questions raised by their work. Barbara Junge: ”Where were the limits whilst filming? Ralf Schenk spoke to Barbara and Winfried Junge The people whom we brought to the screen had to be able to go on living within their home circle after the film. If anyone could be injured because a particular scene had been shown publicly, we couldn’t go on making it.“

Since Drehbuch: Die Zeiten, the Junges have presented six individual portraits of ”their“ Golzow villagers; of the joiner

Director´s Portrait Margarethe von Trotta Between the PRIVATE and the POLITICAL ”First I had to create my own prison before I was able to compre- the next, and these are now 14 in number, the subjects become hend what had happened to me.“ Margarethe von Trotta’s more refined; more precise and subtle in their outlines, more first piece of independent direction, The Second Awakening mature and complex in their themes. of Christa Klages (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages), begins with this sentence, which ultimately contains the It would be wrong to categorise Margarethe von Trotta, entire programme of her films. All her works describe different who certainly played a pioneer role in the public process of attempts to escape from the prisons of life; they are about women’s emancipation during the 70s, as a feminist, woman wanting to break out, about fighting one’s way to freedom, filmmaker, at the same time viewing her films – in which she often escaping from a state of standstill. portrays politically motivated women – as purely political works. ”For me the universal and the individual have always been very It is not by chance that she names Bergman, Hitchcock and close together. At that time the women’s movement helped me to the French directors of the 60s as the most important, lasting realise that I was not alone.“ Her so-called political films, that is influences on her work. Breaking through narrowing limitations, The German Sisters (Die bleierne Zeit), Rosa both socially imposed regulations and barriers within a person’s Luxemburg, Zeit des Zorns and The Promise (Das soul – this is the subject matter of stories by this valiant and com- Versprechen), concern private and political aspects to an equal mitted author filmmaker. The private and the political; the shaping extent, so that personal story and history become one, impossible of the individual by social connotations, the shaping of roles, in to separate. And even in her more private, personal stories, that is particular those of women, within our modern socialisation. And Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (Schwestern the shedding of this role by means of so-called ”feminist“, or ra- oder die Balance des Glücks), Friends and Husbands ther: of emancipatory or even of completely individual female (Heller Wahn), Fearing and Loving (Fürchten und thought and feelings. These are subjects in Margarethe von Lieben) and L’Africana (Die Rückkehr), the overriding Trotta’s work. Over the years – her time as a réalisateur, as an social motif is also an essential note; the fact of social integration auteur encompasses the years 1977 to 2000 –, from one film to into a whole.

14 Director´s Portrait Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta was born in Berlin in 1942, the daughter of a Baltic Russian emigrant, Elisa- beth von Trotta, and the German painter Alfred Roloff. She lived in Berlin for only a few years, completing her school graduation in Dusseldorf and finally moving to Paris in 1960. There she graduated from her own school of vision – in the Cinémathèque Française and in the streets of Paris, where the filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague were shooting in every nook and cranny. A private school of acting in Munich was followed by theatre performances and work for over 30 cinema and television films, including three works by both Fassbinder and Achternbusch. This was one of von Trotta’s many facets. When she met her future husband Volker Schlöndorff, she began to work as a co-author (Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach, 1970; Strohfeuer, 1972), as a director’s assistant (Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass, 1971) and finally as a co-director The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, 1975). The determination to direct films on her own at some later date, which developed and matured over the years, finally came to fruition in 1977. And in the first film which she directed alone, The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages), the basic foundation for all her future work is already laid; the complete, fertile ground for von Trotta’s work. After what was perhaps the most private of all her films, Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder die Balance des Glücks, 1979), she made her international breakthrough with the vivid portrait of Ensslin, The German Sisters (Die bleierne Zeit, 1981). This was followed by Friends and Husbands (Heller Wahn, 1983), Rosa Luxembourg (1986) and three works made in Italy. She opened the Berlinale in 1995 with the dramatic German-German love story, Das Versprechen, and between 1997 and 2000 Margarethe von Trotta made four television films, the last of which was the tetralogy Jahrestage (ARD). (photo © T.W.) Margarethe von Trotta Margarethe (photo © T.W.)

Margarethe von Trotta, the former actress, a maker of aut- with it.“ There are von Trotta retrospectives in Cuba and San hor films for almost the past twenty-five years; after leaving Francisco, in Peru and Uruguay, in Hungary and in Portugal. It is Munich she lived in Rome from 1987 to 1994, and since then her only in Germany that the first complete retrospective has yet to permanent address has been in Paris. A wanderer between worlds take place. in Schubert’s sense, one of the homeless: ”As a stranger I came to you, as a stranger I leave“. This notion runs through her life like a Abroad – particularly at A-festivals like Cannes and Venice – she is leitmotif. For her television films – Winterkind, Dunkle internationally acclaimed, receives awards (Golden Lion for The Tage, Jahrestage - she came to Germany and filmed here. German Sisters) and positive criticism. Particularly in Italy and But she is still – and this she shares with names like Wenders, France, if you mention her name, the response is an admiring ”La Herzog, Fassbinder and Schlöndorff – regarded more Trotta“. At the same time, she is probably the only woman in her highly abroad than in her home country. profession to enjoy this lasting reputation. Thilo Wydra ”I am not alone in this. Hanna Schygulla lives in Paris today. Romy Schneider came here, too. There is something about The film journalist Thilo Wydra has recently published the book the Germans. There is a history to it all, you just have to put up ”Margarethe von Trotta – Filmen, um zu überleben“ (Filming to Survive) (Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2000, 288 pages, 48,- DM)

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Export-Union des Deutschen Films GmbH Tuerkenstrasse 93 · D-80799 Munich · phone +49-89-39 00 9 5 · fax +49-89-39 52 2 3 · email: [email protected] World Sales Portrait Exportfilm Bischoff

Year of foundation 1949 Offices/representatives abroad Barcelona President Jochem Strate Managing Director Mechthild Evenkamp Head of Sales Philip Evenkamp Main fields of activity world-wide distribution of feature films, documentaries and shorts. Regular participation at the following international TV and film fairs International Film Festival Berlin, film festivals of Cannes, Venice, San Sebastian and Thessaloniki Number of titles on offer around 6000 Percentage of German titles on offer around 60% Address Exportfilm Bischoff & Co GbmH · Isabellastraße 20 · D-80798 Munich phone +49-89-2 72 93 60 fax +49-89-27 29 36 36 · email: [email protected] PERSONAL CONTACTS COUNT Jochem Strate Philip Evenkamp

”Aurel Bischoff founded the firm as an independent subsidiary of Strate, who was working as a solicitor in Münster at that time, the old Constantin Film in 1949. At that time Exportfilm was brought to Exportfilm by the shareholders in 1979. ”Actually, Bischoff – according to the documents I have – was the biggest at that time I was only contracted to keep the firm going until as German export firm with a large number of employees, of whom much money as possible had run into it from the bankruptcy“. several later founded their own export firms or are still working for other firms in this field of business today“, says president But Jochem Strate saw things differently: ”I said then – I’m Jochem Strate, ”I myself joined them much later“. not interested in administrating something until it breathes its last breath. I only wanted the job if they allowed me to put the firm ”In any case, at that time Exportfilm Bischoff“, continues back on its feet and get it going again. And in the time that follo- Strate, ”had a large selection of films on offer, because each year wed, that is what I did“. the firm automatically received the whole batch for export from the old Constantin distributors“. Business flourished until the Basically, the new beginning meant completely reconstructing bankruptcy of old Constantin, which Exportfilm Bischoff, as the firm, with new contacts and new products. Strate aimed for an independent firm, was not directly involved in.“ specific niches in the market. A first great success was Frank

17 World Sales Portrait Exportfilm Bischoff

Ripploh’s Taxi zum Klo (1981). Exportfilm Bischoff In the 90s, the competition with other firms also searching for new sold films by directors such as Rosa von Praunheim, goods increased, too. ”It might be roughly compared with today’s Ulrike Ottinger, Herbert Achternbusch or Helke situation in the cinemas; the big multiplexes are also beginning to Sander. show film art, and are therefore taking these specialist wares away from the smaller concerns“. ”These new niche-films were difficult, but I found that exciting“, says Strate. ”And as I learnt with Taxi zum Klo: if a film Strate began to seek new niches, and ”in 1991 I took over the meets with interest, picks up on the signs of the times, then it is distribution of Greek films from the Greek Film Center“. Whilst possible to distribute it everywhere at any time. But if a film is the Greek episode is already a thing of the past for Exportfilm difficult, then you need excellent personal contacts“. (in the meantime the Greek Film Center has founded its own export firm), Strate now organises ”the export and import And how do you establish these contacts? ”With the goods we of Spanish films through a representative in Spain“. sell, personal relations count. I have always thought it better to visit my business partners in their offices and to get to know How does Strate – who has taken on more work in the solici- them privately – festivals without the pressure of sales fairs are tor’s office Strate and Zauleck in recent years, and is also a particularly suitable for that. You get to know the buyers and committed manager of film productions – see the future for their preferences, and you don’t bother them with films that Exportfilm? ”Today the firm is facing another new beginning. they are not going to be interested in“. In 1985, my partner – a Swiss bank – left the firm, and I was able to take over the remaining shares“, Strate says. But all the specialist knowledge in the world counts for nothing in face of changing trends. ”When the AIDS hysteria began, the ”A firm like ours“, he says, ”must be able, so to speak, to make, interest in Gay and Lesbian films died out from one day to the to measure or to attract the goods which it wishes to distribute next“. Exportfilm moved on to the sale of children’s and young successfully“. Philip Evenkamp, the company owner’s son, people’s films for the cinema. ”But unfortunately, not enough films has now come aboard. He has completed his studies at the of this nature were made for the cinema. In addition, the sales Munich Academy of TV and Film and is working successfully in film statistics were not really sufficient to secure a future for us (and production. The long-term aim is to produce the films which they for the producers)“. want to export themselves. Strate: ”These are tasks for the future, which Philip will be taking over more and more“. Hans Ernst

World Sales Portrait Media Luna, Ida Martins ”MEDIA LUNA, That’s My Passion!“

Ida Martins speaks from the heart. Indeed, without this ”I like the fact you can be a little bit crazy in Cologne!“ she says. passion events would have probably taken a different turn. ”It’s such a diverse city, has so many nationalities, it offered me the opportunity to feel at home. I wouldn’t live in any other place in ”When I first came to Germany”, she says, ”I had a job for life at Germany!“ Deutsche Welle. But after three years I realised this was not what I wanted to do, that I could achieve far more. So I started a And few people in the industry are as multicultural as Martins company to promote film culture.“ herself. Born in Brazil to Portuguese and Italian parents, she not only lived in all three countries but has studied in the United States She was, in fact, the first person to bring, among others, self- and Belgium. proclaimed screenwriting guru and screenplay-agent Robert McKee and screenplay-agent Julien Friedman to Germany. ”People like me don’t have a nationality,“ she states, ”we are the sum of many experiences and that makes us world citizens.“ Martins soon identified a market opportunity for a company that could sell films by giving personalised attention to both the And that’s a trump card she proudly plays ”because I can watch a product and the artist. In 1993 Media Luna was born. film from many aspects, something a person who has never lived anywhere else can. I can imagine a film being watched by North Eight years on, Martins says, ”we’re now a very nice company Americans or Latin Americans or Europeans. I can see things in and doing better and better!“ that film and see what would make other audiences appreciate it or not.“ She’s settled in Cologne, the capital of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, and waves the city’s flag proudly. In August of last year the company changed name, to Media

18 World Sales Portrait Media Luna, Ida Martins

Established in 1993 as Media Luna, from August 2000 Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG Managing Director Ida Martins Head of Sales Ida Martins Additional contact Monere Renoir Simpkins (Asst Sales Manager), Barbara Mientus (Controlling), Frederick Czernik (Accounts), Olaf Schaefer (Legal & Business Affairs), Daniel Marin (festival strategy) Main fields of activity World-wide distribution of all rights for films and TV programmes and formats (series, documentaries, entertainment) Regular attendance of the following film markets AFM, ATF, MIFED, MIP ASIA, MIPCOM, NATPE, EFM, MiF Number of titles on offer 30 features, 13 documentaries /several formats Percentage of German titles on offer 60% Buyers include First Run Features, N.Y., HBO Asia, HBO US, Longride (Japan), RTP, WDR, ZDF Most well-known current titles on offer Boy’s Choir (Ogata Akira), Gangster (Volker Einrauch), The Dream Catcher (Ed Radtke) Best-selling titles currently on sale Nico Icon (Susane Ofteringer), Der Einstein des Sex (Rosa von Praunheim), The Dream Catcher (Ed Radtke) Address Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG · Hochstadenstr. 1-3 · D-50674 Cologne phone: +49-2 21-1 39 22 22 · fax: +49-2 21-1 39 22 24 · email: [email protected]

Luna Entertainment, and took on several new production Media Luna Entertainment is now in a stage of transition. partners in order, says Martins, ”to grow horizontally, not verti- With a reputation for being “klein aber fein” (small and good) the cally. Our key activity remains theatrical features but we are now challenge is to grow while keeping “fein.” involved in new sectors such as TV-movies, documentaries, talk- shows and entertainment formats.“ Martins sees the key to success in maintaining the personalised approach. Those partners are Ziegler- Film Cologne, D&D Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH and Prima Productions. The idea being that while Martins travels the world, doing what she does best, distribution, she can pass interesting projects to her partners to do what they do best, produce. Those projects will (photo © Jörg Oswald) Ida Martins then find their way back to Martins.

”We like to work with producers at the script phase so we can advise on where the subject material can best find a market“, says Martins. ”Sometimes we can bring an input that makes it easier to sell. Then we like to watch the rough cut and discuss marketing strategies with the producers; decide where to premiere and which festivals to screen it in.“

The personal approach is at the core of Media Luna Entertainment’s activities as the As for the new media, “we cannot ignore its power. We always company develops and implements marketing strategies tailor- try to find the right media for the product and as the market made for each project. ”When we have a product to work with changes so must we. We are moving as fast as the market, in that we want it to have its own personality. We are not just licensing, respect.” we really take care of the marketing of each product“, she states. She has already signed up to the MIP Interactive on-line dealing Because she comes from an advertising background Martins platform, already done some Internet deals and, like many, is loves to develop promotional strategies which are different to the waiting until the on-line distribution technology has developed to usual postcards and flyers. the stage where “we can guarantee the film will download just in the territory where you are selling the rights.” ”For Requiem for a Romantic Woman, where we had the premiere in Cannes, instead of just doing a postcard with scree- “I try and I’ve been trying all my life not to be conservative but ning invitations we made fake snowballs with glitter and photos to be open for new ideas. Only with an open mind and market with the invitation on the back. All buyers received it in a box at knowledge can we cuccessfully face the challenges,”, says Martins. their hotel“, she says proudly. ”This is the kind of promotion we really love and if the film allows us to develop this kind of commu- SK nication that’s great.“

19 Producer´s Portrait Odeon Film

Listed on Germany’s Neuer Markt since April 1999, Odeon Film AG is active in three areas: TV production, feature film production and the Internet. The company leads the commissioned TV market in the crime-thriller segment with such series as Ein Fall für zwei, Wolffs Revier and SK Kölsch. In addition to involvement in such domestic productions as Franziska Buch’s Emil und die Detektive and Joseph Vilsmaier’s Leo & Claire, Odeon Film has been focussing over the last year on establishing itself as a key player in the European production scene. Production cooperations have already been forged with companies in France and the UK and have resulted in co-production of such internationally promising projects as Mortel Transfert, Triumph Of Love and Buffalo Soldiers. On the Internet front, Odeon was behind the launch of the web portal Filmstadt.de in September 1999 and has now gathered all of its web-related activities into the holding Odeon New Vision GmbH.

Odeon Film AG Bavariafilmplatz 7 · D-82031 Geiselgasteig phone: +49-89-64 99 30 70 · fax: +49-89-64 99 30 40 · email: [email protected] ODEON FILM: The Makings Of An International Player

It’s almost two years ago that Odeon Film AG became the first film and television production company to go public on Germany’s NASDAQ-style Neuer Markt stock exchange and heralded a new chapter in the history of the Bavaria Film Group in Munich.

Ahead of its flotation, Odeon had acquired the TV production house Monaco Film – one of Germany’s top producers of TV detective series with such programmes as Ein Fall für (photo © JanineKlooss Guldener) Reinhard Zwei, Wolffs Revier, SK Kölsch and Die Kommissarin to its credit – thereby establishing a key presence in the most important production centres throughout Germany.

Furthermore, in a previous incarnation as Bavaria Entertainment, Odeon had served as German co-producer on Claude Zidi’s live- action Asterix & Obelix Against Caesar which was a top box-office film in France and Germany in 1999.

On the feature film front, Odeon’s plans over the past two years have been to expand both through acquisitions and by establishing a platform system with outside producers.

”The capital from the IPO was the basis to create a broader corporate structure with additio- nally acquired companies“ explains Reinhard Klooss, Odeon’s management board member responsible for the feature film division. “We had acquired the Monaco Film Group before the flotation, but we didn’t acquire 20 Producer´s Portrait Odeon Film anything this past year because the prices the companies were Co-distribution mechanisms asking were just so high because of the overheating of the Neuer Markt“. However, now that things have cooled down, there is a As part of its strategy of internationalisaiton, Odeon has also likelihood that Odeon will make some announcements in 2001 embarked on the setting up of co-distribution mechanisms with, about taking stakes in other companies. initially, UK producer Jeremy Thomas’ Recorded Picture Company (RPC) and the world sales outfit Hanway as well Long-term cooperative agreements as with the British documentary company October Films.

At the same time, Odeon’s strategy of sealing long-term co- ”The relationship with Jeremy Thomas goes back to the time operative agreements with producers was launched in November in Babelsberg [where RPC shot Victory] when my management 1999 with news of a collaboration with Munich-based producer partners Kai May, Oliver Huzly and I were heading the Thomas Schühly to develop and produce large-scale European feature film production of Studio Babelsberg“, notes co-productions. Klooss about his decision to become involved in Clare Peploe’s latest film Triumph Of Love, which is produced Schühly and Klooss beat off stiff competition to acquire the by RPC with Bernardo Bertolucci’s Fiction Film and stars rights to controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s memoirs Ben Kingsley and Mira Sorvino. ”Odeon came onboard for a film about her life. Odeon Pictures has since produced a the international sales activity of Hanway with equity in return documentary with her and director Ray Müller as part of the for rights to the film because we want to become active in the painstaking preparation of the feature project. field of distribution“.

”The development has taken somewhat longer than we had In addition, Odeon acquired the German speaking rights for imagined“, Klooss admits, ”but we are aware of the high another film being handled by Hanway – Australian director responsibility and the fact that the project attracts a lot of Philip Noyce’s latest picture Follow the Rabbit-Proof attention. We don’t see it simply as a biopic, it is more of a Fence – although it will have the actual licensing handled by treatment of the issues of art and politics and power and the Hanway. role of women. We have to undertake a trapeze act to bring these points of tension together in a sensible manner. Moreover, Indeed, Odeon’s ambitions to become more intensively involved we want to give a more general, European view on these issues in the marketing of its products led it to found the inhouse than a purely German one“. theatrical distribution arm Odeon Filmverleih GmbH although Klooss is quick to point out that this subsidiary ” won’t As for Schühly’s other project, an adaptation of Ernst Jünger’s establish its own mechanism, but will work with partners already World War I diaries In Stahlgewittern, Klooss says this is now existing in the market“. being approached as a large-scale feature documentary. Made in Germany

International partnerships On the domestic front, Odeon’s soon-to-be-acquired subsidiary Lunaris Film has planned to follow the success of its Kästner After the successful collaboration with Claude Berri on adaptations of Charlie & Louise and Pünktchen & Anton Asterix, Klooss was keen to take Odeon further into the with an update of Emil und die Detektive, shot in Berlin international arena. The first fruits of this strategy were with Jürgen Vogel and Maria Schrader last summer and set production partnerships with French film director Jean-Jacques to be released by Constantin Film in spring 2001; and Beineix’s Cargo Films and London-based Rainer Grupe’s Odeon Pictures partnered Bavarian powerhouse Joseph Gorilla Entertainment. Vilsmaier to direct the DM 10 million pic The Jew and the Girl based on Christiane Kohl’s internationally acclaimed Odeon Pictures, Odeon Film AG’s feature film subsidiary documentary. served as co-producer on Beineix’s new feature Mortel Transfert, which was partly shot at the Bavaria Film ”This past year, the emphasis has been on the group’s inter- Studios in spring 2000, and holds the license rights to worldwide nationalisation and on projects of the magnitude of Mortel sales via its new label Odeon Pictures International in co- Transfert, Buffalo Soldiers or The Jew and the Girl“, operation with Bavaria Film International. notes Klooss, ”so much of our time and energies were tied up with these larger projects that we could not devote our Meanwhile, financing on the DM 33 million Buffalo Soldiers, attention to the smaller ones. However, this year we plan to directed by Gregor Jordan and based on Robert be involved in a series of German projects alongside the inter- O’Connor’s best-selling novel, was put together by Odeon and national ones, to enforce our partnership with European Gorilla Entertainment in no more than six months during companies and to build up our distribution“. last year along with Channel 4’s Paul Webster, Good Machine’s James Schamus, financier Grosvenor Park. MB ”We attracted a world-class cast for the shoot in Karlsruhe ranging from Joaquin Phoenix and Ed Harris through Scott Glenn and Anna Paquin to Elizabeth McGovern”, Klooss enthuses.

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FFF Bayern: Change-over operates with partners such as the Export-Union des Deutschen Films, with whom there are hopes for even closer at the Top cooperation in the future.

The end of 2000 saw FilmFernsehFonds Bayern’s first Since 1996 ”German Documentaries“ has been publishing a managing director Dr. Herbert Huber pass the baton of Catalogue which proves more and more important. This year responsibility over to his deputy, Dr. Klaus Schaefer. around 80 new films have been added to the already existing remarkable selection of documentaries, including all the docu- Dr. Huber will now begin a well-deserved retirement after mentary films from the programmes of the Berlin Film Festival almost three decades of shaping Bavarian media policy. Thus, 2001. The catalogue will be available at the ag continuity will be guaranteed since Schaefer has worked with dok/German Documentaries stand on the German Huber for many years within the Bavarian government be- Boulevard of the Berlinale, but it can also be ordered free fore they launched FFF Bayern in March 1996 and soon of charge from the following address: established the fund as one of the key public funding players in the German film landscape. Schaefer will now be joined ag dokumentarfilm by Gabriele Pfennigsdorf, managing director of the Schweizer Strasse 6, D-60594 Frankfurt Bayerisches Filmzentrum Geiselgasteig since 1992, as deputy phone: +49-69-62 37 00, fax: +49-61 42-96 64 24 managing director. Since 1996, she has served as a consultant email: [email protected] to the FFF for newcomers, project development and TV Of course those in a real hurry can also find the film descrip- funding categories and will now be responsible for these tions, scene photos and contact addresses on the Internet areas as funding executive as well as carrying out her duties under www.agdok.de/germandocumentaries as deputy to Klaus Schaefer.

Cinema from Germany at the centre of the Brussels Film Festival

Three German films in competition Retrospective: ”Young German Directors of the Nineties“. Volker Schlöndorff receives ”Golden Iris“ for his life’s work. Dr. Klaus Schaefer, Gabriele Pfennigsdorf Klaus Schaefer, Dr.

Cinema from Germany was at the centre of the 28th Brussels Film Festival (18.-27.01.2001). No less than 39 German films or films produced with German partners could be seen in the festival's various sections.

Three German films – England! by Achim von Borries; Sun Alley (Sonnenallee) by Leander Haußmann and the co-production 27 Missing Kisses by Nana Djordjadze – took part in the official competition which is reserved for European productions and includes attractive marketing measures in the Belgian market for the winner.

”German Documentaries“ – New Also screening in the competition, but ”out of competition“, catalogue available now were The Legends Of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuss) by Volker Schlöndorff, The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin) by Tom ”German Documentaries“, a label that had been created by Tykwer and Falling Rocks by Peter Keglevic. ”ag dok“, the professional organization of about 600 independent German film makers and documentary producers, has The ”Young German Directors of the Nineties“ blossomed into a much demanded address for directors, pro- retrospective featured Tom Tykwer with Deadly Maria gramme buyers, distributors and festival organisers. Since the (Die tödliche Maria), Wintersleepers (Winter- mid-nineties, the has been working ag dokumentarfilm schläfer), Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) and the short systematically to help direct more attention on the internatio- Epilog, Fred Kelemen with Fate (Verhängnis), Frost nal stage towards independently produced German documen- and Nightfall (Abendland), Fatih Akin with In July tary films. (Im Juli) and the shorts Getürkt and Sensin – Du bist es, Veit Helmer with Tuvalu and the shorts Surprise! ”German Documentaries“ is present at MIPDOC, at MIP-TV and Der Fensterputzer, Yilmaz Arslan with Langer and at the documentary film fair ”Sunny Side of the Docs“ Gang and Yara, Hans-Christian Schmid with It’s A in Marseilles. Elsewhere, ”German Documentaries“ now co- Jungle Out There (Nach fünf im Urwald) and 23,

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Petra Katharina Wagner with Oskar And Leni and Curious About German Cinema the short Hungry Hearts, Wolfgang Becker with Life – over 4,000 visitors at the 3rd Is All You Get (Das Leben ist eine Baustelle), Andreas Dresen with Nightshapes (Nachtgestal- Festival of German Cinema in London ten), Andreas Kleinert with Paths In The Night (Wege In Die Nacht), Dani Levy with Silent Night The 3rd Festival of German Cinema in London (Stille Nacht), Oskar Roehler with No Place To Go attracted more than 4,000 cinema-goers into the Curzon (Die Unberührbare) and Sebastian Schipper with Soho with its lineup of 17 films. This means that the atten- Gigantic (Absolute Giganten). dance figures have increased in the last two years by 40% – a result with which the Export-Union and its partners are very The ”short film“ night presented a special programme of satisfied. Erotic Tales featuring seven of the 24 international shorts produced so far by Regina Ziegler, including the German Eleven directors presented their films in person to the London shorts Elephants Never Forget by Detlev Buck and audiences from 30th November to 7th December, ”I always Die Nachtschwester by Bernd Heiber. had the feeling that the British audience could like Sun Alley. The fact that the film met with such curiosity and A Volker Schlöndorff retrospective was presented at enthusiasm pleased me very much“, says Leander Hauß- the Brussels Film Museum within the framework of the festival mann whose film Sun Alley (Sonnenallee) opened the since the director was honoured with the ”Golden Iris“ for his festival. It was not only the predominantly young audience life’s work. Previous recipients include Andrzej Wajda, who found much to enjoy in the varied festival programme, Bertrand Tavernier and Oliver Stone. British journalists and distributors also showed interest in the new cinema from Germany.

In addition to Sun Alley (Sonnenallee), the programme ”It’s full of energy“ – Philip featured Enlightenment Guaranteed (Erleuchtung Garantiert/Doris Dörrie), Friends (Freunde/ Gröning in Sundance for Martin Eigler), The Policewoman (Die Polizistin/ the second time Andreas Dresen), No Place To Go (Die Unberühr- bare) and In With The New (Silvester Countdown Two German-international co-productions in the /Oskar Roehler), Forget America (Vergiss ”World Cinema“ section Amerika/Vanessa Jopp) and Zoe (Maren-Kea Freese). Joseph Vilsmaier’s film Marlene and The internationally renowned Sundance Film Festival 2001 Maximilian Schell’s documentary Marlene were pres- (18. - 28.1.2001) presented Philip Gröning’s third feature ented as part of a Marlene special. In July (Im Juli/Fatih L’amour, l’argent, l’amour in its sidebar called Akin) was shown as the surprise film, and the third edition ”Frontier“. The work, ”a road movie, a love story, a film of the NEXT GENERATION short film programme about the coldness of machines, the coldness of prostitution, initiated by the Export-Union could also be seen. the coldness of love searching for warmth“, was first seen in the competition section of the Locarno Film Festival in August In addition, the film series entitled ”Zeitgeist“ and program- on the Piazza Grande; Sabine Timoteo was awarded a med by the Goethe Institut London presented five Bronze Leopard for the best female lead for her performance. current documentary film productions from Germany: December 1-31 (Dezember, 1-31/Jan Peters), For Philip Gröning (born in 1959) this was the second pres- Home Game (Heimspiel/Pepe Danquart), After tigious invitation to Sundance: he was there in 1993 to pres- The Fall (Nach dem Fall/Frauke Sandig and ent his second feature Die Terroristen, which had also Eric Black), Night Service Station (Nachttanke, been awarded a Bronze Leopard previously in Locarno. Samir Nasr) and Wash And Set (Waschen und Legen/Alice Agneskirchner). Gröning on his second appearance in Sundance: ”Sundance is so important because it is the American festival which has the For the first time, a part of the festival programme was also most energy, the festival where the best American indepen- shown in Scotland under the banner of ”German Film Festival dents can be seen. To be invited to go there is like being num- on Tour“. In cooperation with the Export-Union, the bered as one of the top European independents – and I think Goethe Institut Glasgow presented a total of nine that’s great!“ feature films and documentaries in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Two films produced by German companies with international Partners for the overall event were: the Federal Government partners were screened in the ”World Cinema“ section: Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and the Media, the German Angels Of The Universe by Fridrik Thor Federal Film Board (FFA), the six main regional film funds, the Fridriksson (German co-producer: Rommel Film, Berlin) Goethe Institutes in London and Glasgow as and Princesa by Henrique Goldman (German co-pro- well as Inter Nationes. The festival was supported by Wines ducer: Road Movies, Berlin). of Germany, Erdinger Weissbräu und Arri.

Germany has often been represented in Sundance in recent times – this year saw screenings of Gigantic (Absolute Giganten) by Sebastian Schipper and Oi! Warning by Benjamin and Dominik Reding.

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New nation-wide cinema campaign planned

”Summer Hit: Cinema“ and ”Cinema is the greatest“ – since 1996, under these two campaigns, there has been intensive advertising for cinema-goers in Germany. And now the industry is planning a new concept. ”This time we’ll concentrate on target groups rather than the broad spectrum,“ says Rolf Bähr, president of the German Michael Schmid-Ospach (photo © WDR) Federal Film Board (Filmförderungsanstalt, FFA). On the basis of an extensive cinema poll by the GfK-Panel Michael Schmid-Ospach: Services Consumer Research GmbH (under the commission of the FFA), the frequency of cinema attendance from 1993- New Managing Director of 1999 will be evaluated in relation to its effect on cinema atten- the Filmstiftung NRW dance through the year 2010. As with the other campaigns, the FFA will assume the financial and organizational respons- Michael Schmid-Ospach will assume the positon of new ibility – again in close cooperation with the Association of Managing Director of the Filmstiftung NRW in the spring Film Distributors in Germany and the Association of 2001. He succeeds Dieter Kosslick, who is taking over of Film Theaters in Germany. the direction of the Berlinale. As Advisory Board Director of the Filmstiftung and Director of Culture at WDR, he is well acquainted with the Film Promotion in Düsseldorf. Born in Heidelberg in 1945, he studied Theater, Germanics and Psychology in Cologne and worked as an editor for the Westdeutsche Rundschau and the epd/Kirche und Rundfunk. From 1977 to 1990 he headed up press and public relations at WDR, where he moderated the Kulturweltspiegel for ARD and was the ARTE-commissioner for WDR. Schmid-Ospach has also authored several books, including books about Else Lasker-Schüler and about the film Blaubart by Krzysztof Zanussi, based on the novel by Max Frisch.

2nd German Editing Prize awarded: Bettina Böhler wins DM15,000

On 18 November 2000, the Filmstiftung NRW and the film magazine Schnitt awarded the 2nd German Editing Prize at the Film Fest Lünen. Bettina Böhler, editor of Christian

The film industry is in agree- Rolf Junkersdorf Eberhard Bähr, and other participants of ”The Digital Future“ Petzold’s The State I Am In, was selected by a jury of experts (Martina Gedeck, Claudia Wolscht, Dominik Graf, ment – digitalization is Dieter Kosslick, Benedict Neuenfels) from 12 nominated spreading in all areas works at the editing party in Lünen. The DM 15,000 prize money was given by the Filmstiftung NRW in order to ”sup- ”In the future, chips instead of celluloid … e-cinema instead port this commitment so that the nice words about the mea- of c-cinema“ – this was the conclusion of the symposium ningfulness of film editing do not remain merely lip-service“, ”The Digital Future – A Challenge for the Film according to the Filmstiftung’s managing director Dieter Industry“, organized by the German Federal Film Kosslick. Almost all nominated editors were present as Bettina Board (Filmförderungsanstalt, FFA) in the fall of Böhler thanked the jury ”that the award went to a film where 2000 in Berlin. The Digital Future was the main topic for two days for about 180 representatives from the areas of film promotion, production, distribution, cinema, TV and politics as well as twelve national and international experts from the field. The main focal points were the dimensions of the digital future, particularly in reference to digital means of transport and transfer, and the industry specific effects on the areas of production, distribution and cinema. Legal aspects of copy- rights with regards to digital applications, protection of the young and the combat against pirating were also discussed at great length. A continuation of this event for the near future was welcomed by all. Reports about this topic as well as information about the participating delegates can be found on the FFA’s website under www.ffa.de.

24 Dieter Kosslick (Filmstiftung NRW), Nikolaj Nikitin (”Der Schnitt“), editor Claudia Wolscht, actress Martina Gedeck, award-winner Bettina Böhler, director Dominik Graf, DoP Benedict Neuenfels and Oliver Baumgarten (”Der Schnitt“) (photo © Shamrock photo/Norbert Kesten) Kino news relatively few camera perspectives and cuts were obviously still Plenty of Television from able to captivate the viewers. This gives hope in times of the popularity of pictures and the impatience of viewing.“ Before Germany in Biarritz the jury announced the winner, Dominik Graf reminded of editing’s importance in the filmmaking process, and considers it German TV formats represented in all of FIPA's the only true original film function, noting that ”actors and competitive sections directors have their origins in theater, writers in literature and camera direction in photography.“ Germany was represented in all of the six competitive sections The jury emphasized the basis of its decision upon the unseen at the 14th Festival International de Programmes that is made visable by the montage, the permanent tension Audiovisuels (FIPA, 16. – 21.01.2001) in Biarritz. of the main characters, the eeriness of the past that pervades across the German countryside like a veil. ”Editing shows: the Michael Verhoeven took part in the feature film competi- only thing that the figures of this film never find is their inner tion with his new film Enthüllung einer Ehe (SWR) which security.“ was already broadcast in Germany with great success. The Editing Award is organized by the Bochum film magazine Furthermore, invitations were extended to such Schnitt, which also celebrated its fifth birthday within the international co-productions with German partners as The framework of this gala event. Bookfair Murders by Wolfgang Panzer and Das Mädchen aus der Fremde by Peter Reichenbach.

Hamburg & Berlin-Brandenburg The competition for series saw Margarethe von Trotta at the Location Global Expo present her highly regarded four-parter Jahrestage (WDR). The competition for reportages presented Der Tag, der in Kerstin Peters, Director of the Location Office of the der Handtasche verschwand (WDR) by Marion FilmFörderung Hamburg since May 2000, will represent the Kainz. The American-German co-production The Location Office Hamburg as well as the Film Commission Turandot Project by Allan Miller was in the competi- Berlin-Brandenburg at this year’s Location Global Expo in tion for music programmes and performances. Los Angeles (23 – 24 February 2001). Her aim is to market film locations in northern Germany, Hamburg and Berlin- No less than three German entries were selected for the com- Brandenburg on an international level. ”We are continuing the petition for short films: Alles mit Besteck by Franziska tradition of cooperation with Berlin again this year in Los Meletzky, BSSS by Felix Gönnert Angeles. Our ’common double‘ creates synergy, punching and Tagebuch by Vuk Jevremovic. power and cuts costs on both sides“, says Eva Hubert, managing director of the FilmFörderung Hamburg. The selective TV market ”Fipatel“ – where one can only see works which have been invited by the festival director – presented no less than 23 German productions, including the series Deutschlandspiel (ZDF/ARTE) by H. C. Blumenberg, the documentary Hitler und die Frauen (BR) by Thomas Hausner, the portrait John Lee Kerstin Peters Kerstin Hooker (BR) by Jörg Bundschuh, the live reportage Körper by Brigitte Kramer and the literary adaptation Donna Leon: Vendetta (ARD/DEGETO/BR) by Christian von Castelberg.

Location Baden-Württemberg!

One of the biggest cinema productions in Germany at the moment has just been shot in Baden-Württemberg: until January 2001 military barracks in Karlsruhe were the setting for the international co-production Buffalo Soldiers with a budget of some DM 30 million. Starring in the film directed by the Australian Gregor Jordan (Two Hands) are Shooting Star Baden-Baden Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator), Ed Harris (Apollo 13, The Truman Show), Scott Glenn (The Player, The On November 25th, the first MFG ”Shooting Star“, a Silence of the Lambs) and Anna Paquin (The DM 100,000 prize for young directors, was given to Nicole Piano, X-Men). Weegmann, former student of the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, for her TV movie Wolfsheim which was The script is based on the best-selling novel with the same title produced by SWR. The young director from Karlsruhe re- by Robert O’Connor. MFG supported the film which was ceived the award from MFG director Gabriele Röthe- exclusively shot in the Rhine/Neckar area with its maximum meyer and director Detlev W. Buck (Liebesluder). amount of support of DM 2 million. The ceremony took place during the Fernsehfilm-Festival Baden-Baden in November 2000.

25 For them, Alakus, whose 1996 short Schlüssel (Keys) won prizes at festivals in Belgium and Italy, ”is a visual filmmaker who, if in doubt, prefers the image to a thousand words. Moreover, she relies on the closeness to her characters: she doesn’t know any apprehension about showing the feelings of her heroines. On the contrary: she is always with them, she never betrays them and she lets the audience participate in the inner life of the people she is depicting“.

They add that ”it’s been exciting and appealing to juxtapose the buddies from Fatih Akin’s Short, Sharp, Shock [which Wüste Film produced in 1998] with a clique of cleaning women who one wouldn’t immediately see as being a gang. And it is a great human satisfaction to see – as filmmakers and cinemagoers – that heroics cannot once and for all be reduced to the little boys who have armed their toy guns before stepping out onto the

Scene from ”Anam – Meine Mutter” © Wolfgang Lehmann ”Anam – Meine Mutter” © Wolfgang Scene from street with a grim expression“.

Following the experience with Lars Becker’s Schattenboxer (1992) and Akin’s film, Schwingel and Schubert are expecting that Anam will also be picked up for theatrical release. MB Auf den Flüssen

Original Title Auf den Flüssen Type of Project TV-movie Genre Roadmovie Production Company ö Filmproduktion, Berlin With backing from ZDF, Mainz Producers Frank Anam – Löprich & Katrin Schlösser Director Gordian Maugg Screenplay Gordian Maugg, Sabine Weber Director of Meine Mutter Photography Andreas Giesecke Editor Monika Schindler Original Title Anam – Meine Mutter Type of Project Principal Cast Renate Krössner, Cesary Pazura, Ullrich Feature Film Genre Melodrama Production Company Anschütz, Michael A. Grimm, Jutta Wachowiak, Dieter Montag, Wüste Filmproduktion, Hamburg in co-production with ZDF Karol Wroblewski Format 35 mm, colour, b & w, 1:1.66 – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Mainz, and Wüste Film West, Cologne Shooting Language German, Polish Shooting in Berlin, With backing from FilmFörderung Hamburg, Filmbüro NW Potsdam, Spreewald, Rügen German Distributor Pegasos and Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film Producers Ralph Filmverleih, Cologne Schwingel, Stefan Schubert Director Buket Alakus Screenplay Buket Alakus Director of Photography Marcus Lambrecht Contact: Principal Cast Nursel Köse, Saskia Vester, Audrey Motaung, Pegasos Filmverleih Navid Akhavan Format Super 16 mm/35 mm, colour, Dolby SR Ebertplatz 21, D-50668 Cologne Shooting Language German and Turkish Shooting in phone: +49-2 21-9 72 66 16 / +49-2 21-9 72 66 52 Hamburg from October 30 to December 6, 2000 fax: +49 2 21 9 72 66 17 Contact: www.pegasosfilm.de Wüste Filmproduktion email: [email protected] Schulterblatt 58, D-20357 Hamburg phone +49-40-4 31 70 60 · fax +49-40-4 30 00 12 email: [email protected] “The search for the perfect sojanka,” is how writer-director Gordian Maugg describes his latest project. Auf den Flüssen Shooting wrapped last autumn on Anam – Meine Mutter, (literally, On the Rivers) is a poetic roadmovie (or should that the first feature by Turkish-born Buket Alakus who studied be boatmovie?!) featuring a German-Polish love-triangle, set in Film Directing at the University of Hamburg’s Institute for Theatre, post-fall-of-the-Wall Germany and Poland, dealing with the eternal Musical Theatre and Film. themes of love, dreams and death. And sojanka, of course. Produced by Wüste Film’s Ralph Schwingel and Stefan Schmidt, Once tasted (and for many it’s a never to be forgotten experien- this ”small, big film“ centres on the life of the Turkish cleaning woman Anam who gets her colleagues to join in the struggle to ce) sojanka is a soup-come-stew. A traditional eastern German free her son Deniz from the world of drugs. and Polish speciality, the name covers a multitude of culinary sins, all the way from swill to something your grandmother would have As producers Schwingel and Schubert point out, ”at first glance, been proud to lovingly ladle. there may seem to be something joyless about these women, their past, present and future. One expects the usual little complaints Maugg’s latest film is set in the eastern German state of and wearying daily routine. It’s no surprise that cleaning women Brandenburg, ten years after the Berlin Wall came down. Old have hardly got a look-in to date as the protagonists in a feature values have vanished but sojanka remains. film. A new subject is overdue“.

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Contact: Senator Film Verleih GmbH · Christoph Ott Kurfürstendamm 65, D-10707 Berlin phone +49-30-8 80 91 70-0 fax +49-30-8 80 91 77 23 www.senatorfilm.de · email: [email protected]

They’re back! The dream team of Til Schweiger and Thomas Jahn!

Their first joint project, the 1996 hit Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, sold over three million tickets in Germany. And now they are continuing the teamwork with Auf Herz und Nieren (a German phrase which means to test or examine something as thoroughly as possible. Literally, to the heart and kidneys).

Once again, Schweiger and Jahn have stuck their characters in Scene from „AufScene from den Flüssen“ situations as absurd as they are funny as they are exciting. After all, what do the Pope, a suitcase full of baking powder, four not-so Renate Krössner plays Jutta Störmer, Ulrich Anschütz is intelligent friends and the Mafia-like trade in human organs got to the career-minded Erik Bundschuh. Both are top chefs from the do with one another? In Auf Herz und Nieren they’re the days of the DDR. Their lives have taken different turns but they key elements of a macabre and grotesque story, one with plenty of heart and black humour, as Ricco, Sigi, Dave and Glotze dream share an old, and failed, love for one another. Twenty years on of hitting the big time. Instead, they fall foul of a drug baron and and their paths cross again during a cooking competition. sinister organ dealers. Their one chance to emerge intact is to play Reunited, love brings them together and quickly makes them their opponents at their own game. competitors.

Each of them has battled their way through the preliminaries to win a place in the finals of the Dinner-Cup, and a crack at the DM 25,000 prize. But more importantly, to prove to the other who can cook the best.

Erik, who fled to the west in 1977, shines due to his reputation and experience gained working in some of the finest international restaurants and hotels. He’s moneyed, he’s successful, he drives a shiny new Jaguar.

While he was safely abroad, Jutta resisted the Communist dicta- torship in her own way, individually, and at great personal risk, interpreting Brandenburg’s regional cuisine. Her mode of transport is the complete opposite of Erik’s; a battered, run down boat. Together with her Polish colleague Janek she travels the waterways (the Spree and Havel rivers and canal systems). Xavier(photo Naidoo © Senator Film) Thierry van Werveke,

As she, Erik and Janek make their way, by car and by boat, metaphorically and literally, towards the Grand Final in Potsdam, they are on a journey that will change their lives.

Auf den Flüssen is another in the celebrated and prestigious series of ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel dramas (see Flüchtige Bekannte). SK Auf Herz und Nieren Original Title Auf Herz und Nieren Type of Project Feature Genre Comedy Production Company Mr. Brown Entertainment Filmproduction GmbH With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, FilmFörderung Hamburg, FFA, BKM This time Til Schweiger, one of Germany’s top film names, is Producer Til Schweiger Director Thomas Jahn Screenplay acting as the film’s producer. As an actor, known equally for his Jürg Brändli Director of Photography Peter von Haller rugged good looks, three-day beard and willingness to remove his Editor Thomas Jahn Music by Fetisch Bergmann Principal shirt should the plot call for it, he has starred in such comedy-dra- Cast Steffen Wink, Niels Bruno Schmidt, Martin Glade, Thierry matic hits as Men’s Flophouse (Männerpension,1995, directed van Werveke, Xavier Naidoo Format 35mm, cs Shooting by Detlev Buck), The Super-Wife (Das Superweib, 1995, Language German Shooting in Hamburg, Munich, Rome Sönke Wortmann) and the comedy of sexual confusion, Maybe, German Distributor Senator Film Verleih GmbH

27 Maybe Not (Der Bewegte Mann, 1994, director Sönke Twelve-year-old Caroline lives with her parents on a run down Wortmann). suburban housing estate. Her parents are themselves still young and their relationship is far from happy. Not so long ago they were Schweiger’s latest theatrical outing is the recently released gran- both still seventeen with their dreams ahead of them; dreams that nies-go-gangster caper comedy Jetzt oder Nie (director Lars were incompatible with the needs of a child. Now their lives have Büchel) and he can shortly be seen in playing alongside Nick Nolte become dull and routine, for which they subconsciously blame and Neve Campbell in Alan Rudolph’s Investigating Sex and Caroline. She longs for nothing more than for her parents to make with Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds in Renny Harlin’s up and stop fighting. Her one escape is the fantasy family world of Driven. her favourite daily soap opera, Reiterhof.

Thomas Jahn, Auf Herz und Nieren’s director, made a But when her mother is killed in a tragic accident Caroline is all dramatic screen entry as the writer and director of Knockin’ but torn apart. Her father is completely devastated and feels res- On Heaven’s Door. (That film was made by Schweiger’s own ponsible for his wife’s death. Unable to help his daughter he leaves production company, Mr. Brown Entertainment, as is Auf Herz her alone with her grief. Caroline increasingly takes refuge in her und Nieren.) In 1997 Jahn followed up his earlier success with fantasy world and decides to cut herself off from the adult world Kai Rabe vs. The Vatican Killers (Kai Rabe gegen die altogether. There, in her own reality, in Reiterhof, she finds the Vatikankiller), in which the film business is shown to be mur- warmth and affection she so desperately seeks. Before long she der. Literally! cannot, does not want to, distinguish between fantasy and reality. SK The borders have become blurred and nobody can bring her back.

Award-wining director Hannu Salonen was born in Finland in 1972 and made several shorts, documentaries and a music video before Caroline he had even collected his high-school graduation certificate! In 1993 he enrolled at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb). Original Title Caroline English Title Caroline Type of Project TV-Movie Genre Drama Production Company His first feature, Downhill City (1999), tells the story of six ndf - neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft, Munich, for RTL, Cologne people who are in the process of radically altering their lives and Producer Susanne Freyer Director Hannu Salonen whose paths cross and become absorbed in the big city - Berlin. Screenplay Peter Petersen Director of Photography eska Among the cast was Franke Potente, the heroine and title Editor Usch Born Music by Ina Siefert Principal Cast character of writer-director Tom Tykwer’s recent breathtaking Yasmin Asadie, Oliver Korittke, Julia Richter, Johannes Klaussner, hit, Run Lola Run. Downhill City enjoyed a theatrical relea- Jophi Ries, Ellen ten Damme, Henrike Fehrs Format 16 mm, se in Germany, Finland, France and Spain. colour, 24 frames/sec Shooting Language German Shooting in Hamburg Of the cast of Caroline perhaps the best known is German actor Oliver Korritke whose screen credits include playing the PR Contact: ndF Presse & Kommunikation, Munich less-than-hygienic cop, Dretzke, in Cologne’s Finest (Die Susanne von Kessel Musterknaben, director Ralf Huettner,1997) which also phone +49-89-9 58 26-153 starred Ellen ten Damme, and its sequel, Cologne’s fax +49-89-9 58 19 38 Finest 2 (Die Musterknaben 2, director Ralf Huettner, email: [email protected] 1998). Both films were also produced by ndf - neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft.SK SK Yasmin Asadie, Oliver Korittke Yasmin

28 in production Jonas Jägermeyr, Labina Mitevska Jonas Jägermeyr,

Flüchtige Bekannte

Original Title Flüchtige Bekannte (working title) English But what really makes Fleeting Acquaintances special is Title Fleeting Acquaintances (working title) Type of Project that it has been commissioned by the German national public Feature Film Genre Road-Movie Production Company broadcaster ZDF as part of the Das kleine Fernsehspiel series. Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH, Berlin, in co-production with ZDF, Mainz With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg Translated literally, Das kleine Fernsehspiel is “small theatre”. But Producers Helge Albers, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Konstantin behind the small title is, quite simply, the oldest (not far short of Kröning Director Michael Baumann Screenplay Michael four decades), most intelligent, highest-quality and internationally Baumann, Derek Meister Director of Photography Volker best-known series of productions (documentaries and TV-movies) Gehrling Editor Florian Köhler Music by Paul Lemp Principal in Germany. Cast Jonas Jägermeyr, Labina Mitevska, Paul Fassnacht, Michael Kind, Robert Viktor Minnich Format 35 mm, colour, 1:1.85 Das kleine Fernsehspiel first aired on the 4th April, 1963 and if Shooting Language German Shooting in Berlin, Rudnice there is a common ancestor of the German TV-movie, of TV- (Czech Republic), Dresden, Leipzig, Döbeln movies in Germany, this is it.

For someone just embarking, Baumann couldn’t have gained a PR Contact: Helge Albers greater a vote of confidence. And the man behind Fleeting Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH Acquaintances is joining some very auspicious company. Burgstrasse 27 · D-10178 Berlin phone +49-30-2 40 70 30 · fax +49-30-24 07 03 11 Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, Händler der vier email: [email protected] Jahreszeiten, was produced as a kleines Fernsehspiel. So, too, was Heinrich Böll’s satire, Nicht nur zur Weihnachts- In Fleeting Acquaintances, his graduation film from zeit (directed by Wojtech Jasny). Robert Wilson directed Potsdam’s Film & Television Academy (HFF/B), Michael his first video project under ZDF’s auspices. Rosa von Baumann (director and co-writer) tells the simple yet involving Praunheim is yet another filmmaker who made his debut in story of the seventeen-year-old Matthias (Jonas Jägermeyr), the “small theatre”. a reserved young man, who accidentally meets the young waitress, Iva (Labina Mitevska), in a small border town in the Czech All these years Das kleine Fernsehspiel has continued to hold its Republic. own against the pressure of ratings and large-scale productions. There is a German phrase, “klein aber fein”. It translates as “small On the spur of the moment she decides to take him with her to but good”. In this particular case that should be “small and very, Berlin. It’s a journey, by train and thumbing rides, which constantly very good”. lands the two of them in strange situations. SK

Matthias and Iva, simultaneously torn between their fascination for each other and their mutual dislike, and in keeping with the spirit of the road-movie genre, experience a transition both geographi- cal and emotional. It’s a journey during which they will separate and find each other more than once as they travel the road to adulthood.

29 Heaven Original Title Heaven Type of Project Feature Film me bathed in perspiration after only three pages and one which Genre Romantic drama Production Company X Filme immediately jumped out at me. That was the first time that I had creative pool, Berlin, and Miramax Films in co-operation such an experience: to read a screenplay by someone else and with Noe Productions, Paris, Mirage Productions, Los Angeles, have the feeling that it had somehow been waiting for me“. Miramax, New York With backing from Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmstiftung NRW Producers Maria Köpf, Stefan Arndt, Naturally, it could be daunting for Tykwer to presume to step Bill Horberg, Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela Director Tom Tykwer into Kieslowski’s shoes on this project, but he states that he is Screenplay Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz “really trying to be as free as possible. I am really thinking of the Director of Photography Frank Griebe Principal Cast script and am trying to take the screenplay as Kieslowski’s Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Mattia Sbragia, Alberto di Stasio, work and the film we are making of it as our work which must Remo Girone Format 35 mm, colour, 1:1.85 Shooting naturally speak our language and speak from our soul“. Language English and Italian Shooting in Turin, Bottrop, MB Naples and Montepulciano from July 13 to September 9, 2000 German Distributor X Verleih AG, Berlin

World Sales: Jud Süß – Miramax Films c/o Cedric Jeanson Ein Film als 99 Hudson Street, 5th Floor, USA-New York, NY 10013 Verbrechen? phone: +1-2 12-9 41 38 00 · fax: +1-2 12-9 41 38 36 www.miramax.com Original Title Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? Type of email: [email protected] Project TV-Movie Genre Docu-drama Production Company Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Hamburg Producers orddeutscher Rundfunk (in-house production) Director Horst Königstein Screenplay Horst Königstein, Joachim Lang Director of Photography Udo Franz Principal Cast Axel Milberg, Florian Martens, Esther Hausmann, Johannes Silberschneider, Alexandra Henkel, Siegfried Kernen, Wolf-Dietrich Berg Format 16 mm Digi Beta 16:9 Shooting Language German Shooting in Hamburg from October 9 to November 2

World sales: Fernsehallianz Studio Hamburg GmbH, c/o Ms Lamas-Torres, Jenfelder Allee 80, D-22039 Hamburg, phone: +49-40-66 88 51 25 · fax: +49-40-66 88 53 99 www.fernsehallianz.de e-mail: [email protected]

A star of the Third Reich, film director Veit Harlan, is at the centre of writer-director Horst Königstein’s latest docu-drama Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? when he defended himself (photo © X Filme creative pool GmbH) Giovanni Ribisi, Cate Blanchett in 1949 from claims of committing a crime against humanity with the anti-Semitic film Jud Süß.

After his four features Deadly Maria, Wintersleepers, No stranger to the period under National Socialism having made Run Lola Run and The Princess & The Warrior, leading such films as Das Beil von Wandsbek (1981) and German director Tom Tykwer has now made his first foray Reichshauptstadt – Privat (1987), Königstein uses the into the international arena with Heaven which also marks his trial and the production history of Jud Süß to reveal ”a mosaic first film shot in the English and Italian languages. of contradictory perspectives and opinions, a many-faceted study on the flexibility of the backbone, on moral schizophrenia, self- Based on the last screenplay by the late Polish filmmaker constructed half-truths and the bankrupt games of the assignment Krzysztof Kieslowski and his long-standing co-author of guilt“. Krzysztof Piesiewicz as part of an intended trilogy, Heaven is an exciting melange of a thriller, love story and moral drama Since there are no records of the trial’s actual proceedings, about fate, guilt, atonement and the all-enveloping power of love. authors Königstein and Joachim Lang relied heavily on newspaper reports for their melange of film extracts, interviews The story centres on the young English teacher Filippa (played by and re-enacted scenes. ”We have tried to remain as authentic as Cate Blanchett) who is arrested after four innocent people are the possible with the texts“, Königstein declares. ”But one has to victim of a bomb attack. She doesn’t deny the act, but is devasta- mould it, one has to find the inherent drama – and so it is also a ted as the bomb had been intended for a ruthless drugs dealer docu-drama in the true sense of the word“. who has her husband and several of her pupils on his conscience. The police suspect a political motive, except for the young officer Extensive research in the German national archives, the Document Philippo (Ribisi) who secretly believes that they were made for Center and Hamburg’s public prosecutor’s office as well inter- each other … views in summer 2000 with such contemporary witnesses as Veit Harlan’s widow Maria Körber-Harlan, actress Marianne ”It is a story which immediately grabbed me“, Tykwer declared Hoppe and writer Ralph Giordano preceded principal photo- during the shoot last summer, ”a screenplay which already had left graphy in Hamburg during the autumn.

30 Heaven in production

Shooting wrapped shortly before Christmas on location in New York on Love The Hard Way, the latest film by director Peter Sehr.

Starring Adrien Brody (Bread and Roses), Charlotte Ayanna (Dancing At The Blue Iguana), Jon Seda (Primal Fear), August Diehl (Cool Is The Evening Breeze) and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), the contemporary film noir is based on the Chinese novel Yi ban shi huo yan, yi ban shi hai shui by Wang Shuo and focuses on an unlikely love story between an innocent college co-ed and a hardboiled con man.

Brody plays Jack, the scam artist, who with his loyal partner Charlie (Seda) and two actresses, runs a seamless and profitable extortion racket victimizing foreign businessmen in midtown hotels. A true cad, Jack is careful not to let anyone get too close, until he meets Claire (Ayanna), a brilliant graduate student. Claire is smart enough to know that Jack is no good, but she is intrigued by Jack’s style, his surly demeanour and the obvious dan- Scene from ”Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen?“ ger that surrounds him. Jack, in turn, is taken by Claire’s innocence and curiosity about life. While he tries to ignore her, he cannot rid The response from actors – ranging from Axel Milberg as himself of her so easily and soon she becomes as dangerous to Harlan and Florian Martens as his defence lawyer Kramer him as the sharp New York City detective Linda Meir (Grier) through to Johannes Silberschneider as Joseph Goebbels – who is a step behind Jack and Charlie at every con and gaining wanting to appear in the staged sequences was overwhelming, fast … Peter Sehr is perhaps best known to international audi- according to Königstein: ”wonderful colleagues expressed inte- ences as the director of the accaliamed 1994 film Kaspar rest to be involved, right through to the smallest part, because Hauser: Crime Against a Man’s Soul, starring André everyone feels that the Third Reich – of which one believed it was Eisermann, which was distributed in Germany by Wolfram further than ever away – is in fact coming nearer again“. Tichy’s distribution outfit TiMe Filmverleih. Sehr followed this MB historical drama with the contemporary love triangle Obsession, starring Daniel Craig, Heike Makatsch and Charles Berling, – also distributed by TiMe – which was shot on location Love The in Berlin and Niagara Falls and screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. Hard Way MB

Original Title Love The Hard Way Type of Project Feature Film Genre Contemporary film noir Production Company Vif Filmproduktion 3. KG, Potsdam in co-production with P’Artisan Filmproduktion, Munich, Daybreak Pictures, New York, Open City Films, New York Executive Producer Wolfram Tichy Co-Executive Producers Grant Bradley, Craig Nodder Producers Wolfram Tichy, Peter Sehr, Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente Director Peter Sehr Screenplay Marie Noelle, Peter Sehr, based on the novel Yi ban shi huo yan, yi ban shi hai shui by Wang Shuo Director of Photography Guy Dufaux Principal Cast Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, Pam Grier, August Diehl Format 35 mm, colour Shooting Language English Shooting in New York from October 31 to December 19, 2000

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World sales: Storm Entertainment 225 Santa Monica Blvd., # 601 USA-Santa Monica, CA 90401 phone: +1-3 10-6 56 25 00 · fax: +1-3 10-6 56 25 10 email: [email protected] August Diehl, Adrien Brody (photo: Abbot Genser)

31 Roland, who has just gone to buy ice cream for his children, wat- ches helplessly as, just a few metres away, his wife and children are cut down by flying wreckage. For Roland Wenzel the 28th August is the day his family was wiped out in front of his eyes.

Based on actual events Ramstein - The Broken Heart tells the story of those people whose lives were dramatically affected by what took place that day, people who lost relatives or friends.

With its episodic structure the film revolves around a therapy group which, even today, allows victims of the disaster to meet and discuss how their lives have changed, while a fictional crash investigator provides a cool and technical perspective to guide viewers through the actual events.

Ramstein is not a film about the pros and cons of airshows.

Ramstein 1988 Instead, it tackles the problems posed by cruel blows of fate and coming to terms with them. And because no other air disaster has been so well documented as that at Ramstein it will be possible to merge fiction and documentary material to create a Ramstein – truly impressive film. Das durchstoßene SK Herz Original Title Ramstein - Das durchstoßene Herz English Title Ramstein - The Broken Heart Type of Project TV- Movie (90 minutes) Genre Drama Production Company JANUS Film GmbH, Berlin With backing from FilmFernseh- Fonds Bayern Producers Ivo Beck, Mirko Schulze Screenplay Holger Karsten Schmidt Editor Olli Lanvermann Music by Martin Todsharow Format 16 mm, colour Shooting Language German Shooting in Munich, Berlin and Rheinland-Pfalz Rave Macbeth World sales: Kirch Media GmbH + Co.Kga Original Title Rave Macbeth English Title Rave Macbeth Andreas Richter Type of Project Feature Genre Music / Drama Produc- Robert-Bürkle-Str. 2 · D-85737 Ismaning tion Companies Frame Werk Filmproduktion, Silhouette phone +49-89-99 56 27 56 Media Group Producers Stefan Jonas, Hans Peter Mack, Silvio fax +49-89-99 56 27 72 Astarita, Seijin Ki Director Klaus Knoesel Screenplay Harry Ki www.kirchgruppe.de Director of Photography Arturo Smith Editor Birgit Klingl email: [email protected] Music by Tom Novy, Phil Fuldner, Tomcraft (Tom Batoy / Mona Davis) Principal Cast Michael O. Rosenbaum, Nicki Aycox, Kirk Baltz, Jamie Elman, Marguerite Moreau Format SONY The 28th August 1988 is a beautiful day. Digital 24P (progressive) video Shooting Language English Shooting in Munich German Distributor Ambergate It’s an ideal day for going to the zoo or having a picnic. But today most people are heading to see something really spectacular. The Contact: Eddie Kalish Ramstein airbase is having another open day and, once again, has Phone +1 3 10-2 64 39 70 organised a display which, for the locals and guests from all over Email [email protected] Germany, promises to be one of the year’s highlights. World Sales: 310 entertainment 1801 Century Park East, Suite 2300, 300,000 visitors are expected and even by early morning all roads USA-Los Angeles, CA 90067 to Ramstein are already blocked. Among those on their way are phone +1-3 10-5 57 29 90 · fax +1-3 10-5 57 29 89 Roland Wenzel, his wife and their children, Rebecca and Sven. It’s www.310entertainment.com a special treat for all of them. Roland works hard but earns little email: [email protected] and there’s a mortgage that has to be paid. But today they’ve put that behind them and, picnic at the ready, are going to enjoy themselves.

Air Day at Ramstein. There’s a carnival atmosphere, ice cream and hamburgers to be eaten. The children are having a great time, especially Sven who, like most boys his age, is crazy about aircraft and the aerobatic and formation flying taking place above their heads.

The climax is a display by the crack Italian team, Frecce Tricolori. Their ten planes are performing a spectacular manoeuvre – the Broken Heart – when the unimaginable happens. Three machines collide in mid-air, one crashes in flames into the crowd.

32 in production

Rave Macbeth is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Oskar Roehler, director of the award-winning and critically Macbeth, this time set in a rave. It’s the story of Marcus and praised No Place To Go (Die Unberührbare), has come up Lidia (Macbeth and Lady Macbeth), consumed by ambition. Their with something completely different for his latest feature going grasp for power brings about the downfall of Dean (the king), under the salacious working title Suck My Dick which is their friends Troy and Helena and finally themselves. described as a modern version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic parable of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The story opens with the murder of drug boss Deans’ right hand man TC after Marcus and Troy give him the word TC has been Edgar Selge - known to many cinemagoers as one of the naively dealing behind his back. The two friends are promoted to Dean’s enthusiastic bankers in Helmut Dietl’s Rossini – plays the best- seconds-in-command. That night, they celebrate with their girl- seller writer Dr. Jekyll who recounts an incredible story to his friends Lidia and Helena. psychiatrist (portrayed by fashion designer Wolfgang Joop in his first major film role): he is afraid that the character from his But things take a mysterious twist when Marcus and Lidia en- novel and alter ego Mr. Hyde (Ralf Richter) is going to escape counter the Petry Girls (the witches or Weird Sisters). from his brain and take everything away that is dear to him. Just at the very point when he was trying to have his way with the The more ambitious of the two, Lidia, forces Marcus to question attractive Jeanny (Katja Flint). his friendship with his best friend, Troy, firstly by suggesting he’s hitting on her and then implying he’s secretly plotting with Dean. As the party drugs take effect Marcus becomes confused and when Lidia deliberately tells him the wrong time he arrives late to meet Dean, and is disconcerted to see him already in conversation with Troy. Lidia’s lies begin to take effect and she then engineers a Joop Wolfgang cloakroom encounter with Troy, knowing Marcus will see them kissing.

In a fit of jealous rage Marcus stabs his best friend to death. At that point Troy’s drugged-up girlfriend walks in on the bloody mayhem. Marcus and Lidia now have no choice. He will kill Dean, she will kill Helena with an overdose of Ecstasy.

Marcus makes his move against Dean outside the club, one-on- one, and in the ensuing confrontation Marcus stabs him.

Marcus and Lidia are now this close to taking power when it comes to a stand-off between them and Macduff, Dean’s chief bodyguard. Lidia is shot. Marcus flees the club carrying Lidia and he too is shot. The tragic couple die in each other’s arms.

Written by Canadian Harry Ki, Rave Macbeth is a modern musical drama set in the techno and house scene. The film’s leading characters, strongly paralleling those in Shakespeare’s original, run the gamut of envy, hate, love and intrigue – driving the story and suspense in the raw rave milieu. Age-old human behaviour is accompanied by a strong soundtrack and special effects, all captured using the unique capabilities of Sony’s latest film-quality digital video system. SK Suck My Dick Original Title Suck My Dick Type of Project Feature Film Genre Comedy Production Company Helkon Media Filmproduktion GmbH, Munich Producer Werner Koenig The shrink diagnoses an extreme case of midlife crisis but, the Director Oskar Roehler Screenplay Oskar Roehler very next night, Dr. Jekyll dreams that he has lost his manhood’s Director of Photography Charlie Koschnik pride and joy to the rival Hyde. Imagine his shock when he wakes Principal Cast Edgar Selge, Katja Flint, Ralf Richter Wolfgang up in the morning to discover that the nightmare was for real … Joop, Natalia Wörner, Eva Mattes, Hannelore Elsner, Sonja Kerskes, Dieter Laser, Nina Bagusat, Vadim Glowna Boasting an impressive cast which also includes No Place To Format 35 mm, colour Shooting Language German Go stars Hannelore Elsner and Vadim Glowna as well as Shooting in Berlin from 24 October to 8 December 2000 Natalia Wörner, Dieter Laser and Eva Mattes, Suck German Distributor Helkon Filmverleih, Munich My Dick is – on a superficial level – about a man’s fears of loss during his midlife crisis. World sales: Helkon Media AG, In fact, Roehler is more concerned here with sketching an exag- Rauchstraße 9-11, D-81679 Munich gerated picture of modern society where individuals increasingly phone: +49-89-99 80 51 00 have doubts about the purpose of their existence and find them- fax: +49-89-99 80 51 11 selves in ever more abstruse situations that hark back to the www.helkon.de · email: [email protected] comic moments of the early Woody Allen. MB

33 Tobias Moretti Tobias

Following its production of the East-West drama Der Tunnel early in 2000, TeamWorx embarked on another ”TV event“ for private broadcaster SAT.1 in the autumn with a two-parter - Der Tanz mit dem Teufel – Die Entführung des Richard Oetker - based on the real-life story of the kidnapping of indu- strialist son Richard Oetker in 1976. As producer Nico Hofmann points out, ”there are too few stories which look concretely at the psychology of the victims and the work of the criminal investigation“, but this was different with Rainer Berg’s screenplay which he describes as ”an extraordinarily passionate crime story“.

In fact, the realisation of the DM 11 million production had been a very personal matter for producer Ludwig zu Salm who had been developing the project during his time as head of Columbia TriStar Film und Fernseh Produktions GmbH.

”I had already known Richard Oetker before his kidnapping and always asked myself how he was able to mentally overcome this lifelong great misfortune“, zu Salm recalls. ”So I proposed after the ransom money was found that he tell his kidnap story as a crime film, but not from the usual perspective of the perpetrator or the police, but rather from the viewpoint of the victim“.

Zu Salm succeeded in getting his ”dream team“ of writer Rainer Berg, director Peter Keglevic, and actor Sebastian Koch (as Oetker) onboard the project which received the seal of appro- val from Oetker who acted as consultant to the project as did the detective Ludwig Bauer who had investigated the case.

The film, however, adds some other narrative strands to the central theme of the kidnapping and Oetker’s brutal incarceration. ”The film is not a 1:1 narration. It is about Richard Oetker’s point of view“, says director Keglevic, ”and therefore the film is also biased“.

The small screen premiere is scheduled for autumn 2001 over a Der Tanz mit dem Sunday and Monday night, and producer Ariane Krampe expects a ”strong international interest“ in the story, especially since Tobias Moretti who plays detective Bauer is very popular in France and Teufel – Die Italy. MB Entführung des A Woman And Richard Oetker A Half – Original Title Der Tanz mit dem Teufel – Die Entführung des Hildegard Knef Richard Oetker Type of Project TV two-parter Genre Drama Production Company TeamWorx Produktion für Original Title A Woman And A Half – Hildegard Knef Kino und Fernsehen GmbH, Berlin/Munich, in collaboration with English Title A Woman and a Half – Hildegard Knef Ludwig zu Salm, developed with Columbia TriStar Film und Type of Project Documentary Genre Biography Fernseh Produktions GmbH With backing from FilmFernseh- Production Company Lounge Entertainment AG, Munich Fonds Bayern Producers Nico Hofmann, Ludwig zu Salm, Producer Marieke Schroeder Executive Producers Stefan Ariane Krampe Director Peter Keglevic Screenplay Dr. Rainer Cantz, Roman Kuhn Director Clarissa Ruge Screenplay Berg Director of Photography Hans-Günther Bücking Clarissa Ruge, Matthias Zuber Director of Photography Principal Cast Tobias Moretti, Sebastian Koch, Christoph Walz, Martin Farkas Editor Edith Eisenstecken, Andreas Herzog Günther Maria Halmer, Sophie von Kessel Format 16 mm, Music by Till Brönner Principal Cast Hildegard Knef colour Shooting Language German Shooting in Munich Format 35 mm, b&w, 1:1.66 Shooting Language German and surroundings and London from September 19 to December Shooting in Atlantic Ocean aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, 12, 2000 German Broadcaster SAT.1 New York, Los Angeles, Berlin

World sales: Kirch Media GmbH + Co.Kga World Sales: Lounge Entertainment AG Andreas Richter Contact Marieke Schroeder Robert-Bürkle-Str. 2 · D-85737 Ismaning phone +49-89-99 81 83 00 phone +49-89-99 56 27 56 · fax +49-89-99 56 27 72 fax +49-89-99 81 88 29 www.kirchgruppe.de www.lounge.de email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

34 in production

Hildegard Knef. Legendary German film diva. An actress whose personality is as complex as the characters she has played, Knef is by turns irritable, impatient, charming, humorous, fascinating and enchanting. But behind the many masks is the temperamental woman, the Hildegard Knef who has weathered many of life’s blows; failure in Hollywood, cancer, lost loves, the enmity of the press and, finally, the horror of ageing. A Woman And A Half – Hildegard Knef is a portrait of the Knef who has become cynical and unpredictable in order to protect herself, but also the Knef full of warmth, humour and spirit.

Scenes in which she appears as the grand old Diva are inter-

cut with the realities of everyday life. Aboard the luxury (photo Knef © Lounge EntertainmentHildegard AG) liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, she travels with her husband, biographer, manager and the jazz musician Till Brönner from Southampton to New York. A few hours later she stands among the homeless and tourists, at night, in Times Square. Surrounded by the glittering lights her eyes begin to shine. Forty-five years ago she stood on this very spot, on the evening of her great Broadway premiere, gazing proudly at the neon sign which read ”Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche in Cole Porter’s ’Silk Stockings‘“.

This is a film about the one, true, international star Germany has ever had. It is a journey into her past and the portrait of a great and pugnacious woman.

Hildegard Knef ’s first made her name in Wolfgang Staudte’s 1946 classic, (The) Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns).

The first film to be made in the Soviet-controlled sector of Berlin, in what was to become East Germany, the film is deeply and masterly immersed in the aesthetic traditions of German expressionism and/or film noir. It stands out for its unusual angles, extreme lighting, twisted stairs, bombed-out buildings, a haunted and tormented protagonist, stark black and white atmosphere and shadows.

(The) Murderers Are Among Us was shot in the rubble of the capital of Hitler’s vaunted thousand year Third Reich and deals with the issue of German guilt, focusing less on the people who gave the orders and more on the many Germans who followed them blindly or with little protest.

Clarissa Ruge’s film is an exciting kaleidoscope of the past five decades in the life of the extraordinary Hildegard Knef, who remains active before the camera to this very day. SK NEW ADDRESS as of march 2001

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35 Lissy Vending machine restaurants on the streets, working-class housing in Wedding with the organ-grinder in the courtyard, and the fascist SA pub on the corner capture the authentic historical setting and mood of 1932 Berlin. Also the destiny of someone like Lissy – an eager girl from a working-class family who has a thirst for life and who marries a Nazi – was commonplace in Berlin in 1932 and belongs to the years which witnessed the rise of the National Socialist regime. However, Lissy soon realizes that financial security is not the sole basis of a decent and respectable life. The story of the German petty bourgeoisie in uncertain and troubled times, Lissy is a young woman caught up in the political turmoil of the early 1930s. Hans-Peter Minetti, Sonja Sutter Hans-Peter

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Konrad Wolf, son of the writer Friedrich Wolf, was Year of Production 1957 Director Konrad Wolf born in Hechingen in 1925 and died in Berlin in 1982. In Screenplay Alex Wedding, Konrad Wolf, adapted 1933, the family emigrated, arriving in the Soviet Union from the novel by F.C. Weiskopf Director of in 1934. At the age of eighteen, Wolf joined the Red Photography Werner Bergmann Editor Lena Army and came to Germany as a lieutenant in 1945. He Neumann Music by Joachim Werzlau Set Design studied Directing at the Moscow Film School in 1949 Gerhard Helwig Production Company DEFA- and was assistant director to Kurt Maetzig at the DEFA Studio für Spielfilme, Babelsberg Principal Cast Studios in 1953. His first film was Einmal ist kein- Sonja Sutter, Horst Drinda, Hans-Peter Minetti mal (1955). He then became director at the DEFA Length 89 min, 2425 m Format 35 mm, b&w, Feature Films Studios. From 1965 onwards, he was the 1:1.37 Original Version German Subtitled president of the GDR’s Academy of Arts. His major Version English Sound Technology Mono films include: Genesung (1956), Sonnensucher International Festival Screenings Karlovy Vary (1958), Sterne (1959), Der geteilte Himmel 1957 International Awards Third Prize, Karlovy (1964), Ich war 19 (1968), Goya (1971), Der Vary 1957 German Distributor Progress Film- nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz (1974), Verleih GmbH, Berlin Mama ich lebe (1977), Solo Sunny (1980), Busch singt (1982), a six-part television series for GDR-Television.

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36 Metropolis For decades, the film archives of many different countries have attempted to restore and reconstruct this film, without having found all the missing parts of the film or the original picture quality of the pieces that were found. Again, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation and the Federal Archives, in cooperation with the members of the Cinematic Association, have initiated another attempt to reconstruct the film as closely as possible to the original work. Sometime in the future. Johann Fredersen is mastermind of Metropolis, a gigantic high-tech city, under whose surface masses of workers lead an archaic slave existence. His son, Freder, is witness to the inhumane working conditions and rebels against his despotic father, discovering a spiritual community in the catacombs of the city: Maria, a young woman, preaches the virtues of love and reconciliation. But Fredersen discovers Maria as well and conjures up a sinister plan. He commissions the scientist Rotwang to develop a robot form of Maria, which he will use to gain influence over the workers. The plan works, but Freder and Maria are able to hinder the catastrophe in the last minute. The mass hysteria turns and directs its rage toward the robot Maria, who is burned at the stake. Freder and Maria form a new brotherly community among the classes – Fredersen offers his hand in reconciliation, true to the motto of the film: ”the mediator between the hand and the brain must be the heart“. Brigitte Helm

Genre Fantasy/Science-Fiction Category Feature Fritz Lang, born in 1890 in Vienna, was more than Film Cinema Year of Production 1925/26 just a great director. He was a man who staged himself Director Fritz Lang Screenplay Thea von Harbou and his life, who created the legend of his person, who Director of Photography Karl Freund, Günther wanted his private life to remain invisible in order to Rittau Editor Fritz Lang Music by Bernd Schultheis further launch his desired public image. He celebrated (new composition 2001) Set Design Otto Hunte, his first success during the Weimar Republic, reacting to Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht Production the massive political and social changes and integrating Company Universum-Film (Ufa), Berlin Principal them into his work. He left Germany in 1933, emigra- Cast Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, ting via France to the United States in 1934, where he Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, Erwin continued to tie political aspects into his work. His best Biswanger, Heinrich George Special Effects Eugen known films from his work in Germany include: Die Schüfftan Length 146.3 min (20 B/sec), 3341 m Spinnen (1919), Die Pest in Florenz (1919), Format 35 mm, silent, 1:1.33 Sound Technology Harakiri (1919), Das wandernde Bild (1920), Mono/Stereo International Festival Screenings Kämpfende Herzen (1920/21), Der müde Tod Berlin 2001 International Awards UNESCO (1921), Das indische Grabmal (1921), Dr. Ma- nomination Memory of the World German buse, der Spieler (1921/22), Die Nibelungen Distributor Transit Film GmbH, Munich (1922-24), Spione (1927/28), Frau im Mond (1928/29) and many more.

World Sales: Transit Film GmbH · Loy W. Arnold GERMAN CLASSIC MOVIE Dachauer Str. 35 · D-80335 Munich phone: +49-89-5 99 88 50 · fax: +49-89-59 98 85 20 www.transitfilm.de · email: [email protected]

37 Tag der Idioten DAY OF THE IDIOTS

Carol is an attractive but somewhat eccentric 20-year-old. Coming from a well-to-do family, she doesn’t have any financial concerns and could lead an easy life. But it is this daily indifference that dissatisfies her, makes her restless, and rouses in her ideas, fantasies, longings – all beyond the accepted norms. Carol demands a lot from her environment and herself. Because it is her life that is of concern, and no one else’s, she wants everything and she wants it immediately. But what could be the reason for a woman to do things which are radical and monstrous? Where does she get this totalitarianism that even destroys a love affair? Why does she ruin other people’s lives? Just because she does not succeed in living her own? What is it that Carol needs? Love? Devotion? Affirmation? Why doesn’t anyone give it to her, why must she find it all by herself? Why does she think she cannot live like others do? What causes her to enter the world of psychiatry and to look for the sincerity in life in this world of illusion? Isn’t her obsession partly self-destruction? Couldn’t her desire for an extreme life in fact be the extreme longing for death? Day of the Idiots asks all these questions and many others. And it also gives answers – answers which will astonish, surprise, and even frighten. Carole Bouquet Carole

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Werner Schroeter was born in Thuringia in 1945. Year of Production 1981 Director Werner He worked in the theater and staged his first opera Schroeter Screenplay Dana Horaková, Werner (”Lohengrin“) in Kassel in 1979. He made his first fea- Schroeter Director of Photography Ivan Slapeta ture film Eika Katappa in 1969 and followed it with, Editor Catherine Brasier Music by Peer Raben among others: The Death of Maria Malibran Set Design Czbynek Hlock Production (Der Tod der Maria Malibran, 1971), Golden Company OKO-Film Karel Dirka, Munich Principal Flakes (Goldflocken, 1976), Kingdom of Cast Carole Bouquet, Ida di Benedetto, Ingrid Caven, Naples (Neapolitansiche Geschwister, 1978), Christine Kaufmann, Tamara Kafka Length 110 min, Palermo or Wolfsburg (Palermo oder 3007 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.66 Original Wolfsburg, 1980), The Rose King (Der Version German Subtitled Version English Rosenkönig, 1985), Malina (1990), Love’s Dubbed Version Spanish Sound Technology Debris (Abfallprodukte der Liebe, 1996), and Mono Die Königin – Marianne Hoppe (2000).

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38 Service Production

Studio Babelsberg hat eine lange, erfolgreiche Art Department Tradition in der Filmproduktion und ist nach wie vor Dekorationsbau eines der besten Service-Center für Film und Fernsehen in Europa. Kostümstudio Requisitenfundus Eröffnungsfilm der Berlinale 2001: Enemy at the Gates Studio Service Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Studios für Film + TV Taking Sides Lichttechnik Director: István Szabó Aussendekoration The Pianist Postproduction Director: Roman Polanski Filmkopierwerk Videobearbeitung Tonbearbeitung

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Rainer Schaper CEO Studio Babelsberg Produktion Telefon +49 331 72 13151 Telefax +49 331 72 12525 [email protected]

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100 Pro tells the story of an unbelievable summer day, a more unbelievable summer night and an even more unbelievable summer morning in the lives of two young men, the nineteen- year-old womanizer and go-cart champion Floh and his best friend, the community service worker, Marcel. Floh has convinced Marcel to forsake his anniversary night with his girlfriend for a night out in the town’s noble disco with two underwear models. The only problem is that there is no way the bouncer is letting either of them in and their attempts to change this fate lead to a series of hysterical and sometimes heart-wrenching events. To make matters worse, Marcel’s girlfriend arrives in the arms of another man and then all hell breaks loose. Morning finds both men in the middle of nowhere in a stalled Mustang, Marcel with a broken heart, Floh with a broken nose, and their friendship about to face the ultimate test. Luca Verhoeven, Ken Duken Ken Luca Verhoeven,

Genre Drama, Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Simon Verhoeven was born in 1972 in Munich. Year of Production 2000 Director Simon He studied Performing Arts at the Lee Strasberg Verhoeven Screenplay Simon Verhoeven Director of Theater Institute in New York, Film Music at Photography Jo Heim Editor Nicholas Goodwin Set Berkley College of Music in Boston and Film Design Patrick Müller Producer Christine Ruppert Directing at the Tisch School of the Arts in New Production Company TATFILM Filmproduktion, York. He has appeared in numerous television and Munich, in co-production with Sentana Filmproduktion, feature films, including: Partygirl (1993), Mutters Munich, 7 Pictures, Munich Principal Cast Ken Duken, Courage (1994) – for which he wrote various com- Luca Verhoeven, Mavie Hörbiger, Max von Thun, Gisela positions, Vasilisa (1998), Star Star Star (1999), Schneeberger Length 92 min, 2806 m Format Super Abgedreht (1999), Vino Santo (1999) and Bride of 35 mm, color, 1:1.87 Original Version German Sound the Wind (2000). He has directed several music Technology Dolby SRD With backing from videos and short films, including: Water (1997), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) Phone (1997) and Nice Meeting You (1999), German Distributor Zephir Film GmbH, Cologne all three of which were Showcase Winners at NYU Film Festivals. 100 Pro is his first feature film.

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40 Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte WHEN GRANDPA LOVED RITA HAYWORTH

1969. The first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague. Just as three astronauts are flying to the moon, thirteen-year-old Hannah and her crazy, young parents land in the German economic wonderland. A rough landing, as though on a completely different planet. Kuba, the father, feels satisfaction in finding confirmation of his prejudices against the Germans, while Lida, the mother, loses herself in consumerism, and her little sister loses her ability to speak. Hannah wants nothing more than to return to her grandfather, Zikmund. But when Zikmund dies and Neil Armstrong sets the first foot on the moon, Hannah realizes that she too will have to make her own first great step … A melancholy comedy about being a stranger and growing up in the year of the first moon landing. Ewa Gawryluk, Karen Fisher, Veronika Albrechtová, Vladimír Hajdu Albrechtová, Veronika Ewa Gawryluk,Fisher, Karen

Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Iva Sˇvarcová was born in the Czech Republic Year of Production 2000 Director Iva Sˇvarcová and emigrated to Germany. After language studies Screenplay Iva Sˇvarcová Director of Photography in Munich and Madrid, she studied at the German Hille Sagel Editor Georg Janett Music by Annette Focks Film & Television Academy in Berlin (dffb) under Set Design Anne Schlaich, Thilo Mengler Producer Istvan Szabo and Wim Wenders. Active as a writer Malte Ludin Executive Producer Renée Gundelach and director, a selection of her films include: Viola Production Company Svarc. Film, Berlin, in co-produc- (1986) which opened the Video Screenings at tion with ZDF, Mainz, in association with Bernard Lang AG, Berlin in 1987, With love Rita (1988) – opening Zurich Principal Cast Vlastimil Brodsk´y, Karen Fisher, film and winner of the VHS Prize at Mannheim/ Ewa Gawryluk, Vladimír Hajdu, Charles Brauer, Dagmar Heidelberg in 1988, Die Frau seines Lebens Manzel, Veronika Albrechtová Casting Svarc. Film (1990) – her graduation film from the dffb and win- Length 90 min, 2462 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 ner of a German Short Film Award in 1991, Mulo Original Version Czech/German Subtitled Version (1992/1993) – winner of the Prix Futura in 1993, German/Czech Sound Technology Dolby SR Inter- and Blick durchs Fenster (1994) – winner of national Festival Screenings Cottbus 2000, Ophüls- the Golden Gate Award at San Francisco in 1995. Festival Saarbrücken 2001 Awards First Prize for Children’s Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte is & Youth Films, Cottbus 2000 With backing from her first feature film. Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmstiftung NRW, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, BKM German Distributor Basis Film Verleih, Berlin

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41 BERLIN – Du Fremde, Du Schöne Ein Zyklus in sieben Filmen 1995-2001 BERLIN – YOU STRANGER, YOU BEAUTY A CYCLE IN SEVEN FILMS 1995-2001

Berlin – You Stranger, You Beauty portraits, in seven films, the city of Berlin from 1995–2001, a city in the midst of great change, like no other city in the world. Heinrich Zille, Berlin’s great artist and photographer, wouldn’t recognize ”his Berlin“ anymore, it simply doesn’t exist. Seen from seven different perspectives, the films show old remnants of the city, how the most famous square in the world then became Europe’s largest construction site, music and street culture and the ever changing cultural and artistic face of the city. The author doesn’t describe the exotic beauty of distant islands, but rather the surrounding view of the city as seen through the eye of the camera, which – broken through history, stories, and the many construction sites – suddenly appears as a strange beauty. (photo © 2001 by Manfred Wilhelms, Berlin) Scenes from ”BERLIN – You Stranger, You Beauty“ You Stranger, ”BERLIN – You Berlin) Scenes from (photo Wilhelms, © 2001 by Manfred

Genre Art, Educational, History, Music Manfred Wilhelms was originally a painter and photographer Category (Semi-)Fictional Documentary before undergoing a complete metamorphosis into a self-taught Year of Production 1995-2001 filmmaker and cinematographer. As a part-time student, he took Director Manfred Wilhelms Screen- part in seminars given by Helmut Färber on the films of Griffith, play Manfred Wilhelms Director of Ozu and Renior. He has made short TV features – a minimal con- Photography Manfred Wilhelms cession to his professional career. Wilhelms lives in Berlin and has Editor Manfred Wilhelms Producer made the following films: Licht singt tausendfache Lieder Manfred Wilhelms Production (1985), Die Loreley (1988), Menschenrechte (TV, 1989), Company Lassoband-Filmproduktion, Rostige Bilder (1990-92), Route des Crêtes (1993), Die Berlin Length 770 min Format 16 mm Rennstrecke (1994), and Laufen um zu leben (1995). Blow up 35 mm, color, 1:1.37 Original His Berlin – You Stranger, You Beauty (1995-2001) Version German Sound Technology includes the following films: Berlin – Pictures of a City, Mono/Stereo A Tale of Two Cities, The Legend of Potsdamer Platz, Nightwalk, Street of Culture, Pictures Of A Veiling, and Where is the Flair. World Sales: please contact Lassoband-Filmproduktion · Manfred Wilhelms Fürbringerstr. 11 · D-10961 Berlin phone +49-30-6 93 84 42 · fax +49-30-6 92 53 22

42 Berlin is in Germany AT B E R L I N PANORAMA

Brandenburg penitentiary 2001: Martin Schulz is released after 11 years of imprisonment. As a former citizen of the German Democratic Republic, he experienced the fall of the wall from his prison cell. Upon release, he receives the items in his possesion at the time of his arrest: a blue East German identification card, an East German driver’s license, and a wallet full of East German money. Martin is full of hope when he returns home, but hardly recognizes East Berlin again. The ”New Berlin“ has already taken over and the ”Old East Berlin“ clings desperately to its last remaining traits. The eleven-year absence is like a time machine and Martin runs into one difficulty after another while finding his place in this ”new“ world. Jörg Schüttauf, Julia Jäger

Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Hannes Stöhr was born in 1970 in Hechingen- Year of Production 2001 Director Hannes Stöhr Sickingen. After studying European Law in Passau, Screenplay Hannes Stöhr Director of Photography he was awarded an Erasmus scholarship in Spain. Florian Hoffmeister Editor Anne Fabini Music by Florian He then studied Scriptwriting and Directing at the Appl Set Design Anke Bisten, Natalja Meier Producer German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. Gudrun Ruzickovà-Steiner Production Company Luna He has worked as a journalist, actor, projectionist, Film, Berlin, in cooperation with ZDF, Mainz, ORB, Potsdam lighting technician, editor, and assistant director for Principal Cast Jörg Schüttauf, Julia Jäger, Tom Jahn, film, television, varieté, theater and circus. His films Valentin Platereno, Robin Becker Casting Karen Wendland include: Biete Argentinien, suche Europa Length 95 min, 2600 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 (1995), Maultaschen (1996), and the documen- Original Version German Subtitled Version English taries Lieber Cuba libre (1997), and Gosh, Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing from Zirkusporträt (1998). Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg International Festival Screenings Berlin 2001 (Panorama)

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43 Duell – Enemy at the Gates While the German and Russian armies hurl rank after rank of soldiers at each other and the world fearfully awaits the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad, the celebrated Russian sniper, Vassili Zaitsev quietly stalks his enemies one man at a time. His fame, however, soon thrusts him into a duel with Germany’s best sharpshooter, Major Konig, and the two find themselves waging an intense personal war while the most momentous battle of the age rages around them. Unassuming and self-contained, Vassili is just an ordinary man who performs his duty with extraordinary skill. Realizing his value, Danilov, a Soviet political officer, builds Vassili into a much-needed national hero. After a string of defeats to the Germans, the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, and the loss of Stalingrad could ensure final victory for the Germans in Europe. Kruschev himself has been sent by Stalin to oversee the city’s defense. Vassili’s fierce example boosts the defenders’ will to go on fighting despite the overwhelming odds. Danilov, however, soon becomes jealous of the man he created, when, in the midst of war, they both fall in love with Tania, one of the many courageous women soldiers fighting alongside the men. The Germans send Major Konig to track down and kill Vassili. With exquisite patience and skill, each man stalks the other, fighting his war of solitude while countless men are dying all around them in the rubble of Stalingrad. Jude Law © 2000 MP Film Mgmt. DOS Prods. Distributed by Constantin Film Jude Law © 2000 MP Film Mgmt. DOS Prods.

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Jean-Jacques Annaud won an Academy Production 2000 Director Jean-Jacques Annaud Screenplay Award in 1977 for Best Foreign Film with his debut Alain Godard & Jean-Jacques Annaud Director of Photography feature Black and White in Color (La Robert Fraisse Editors Noelle Boisson, Humphrey Dixon Music Victoire En Chantant). His next feature was composed by James Horner Production Designer Wolf Coup de tête, followed by Quest for Fire, Kroeger Producers Jean-Jacques Annaud, John D. Schofield which earned him a Cesar Award as Best Director. Executive Producers Roland Pellegrino, Jörg Reichl, Alain He then directed The Name of the Rose, Godard, Alisa Tager Production Services Company Mandalay starring Sean Connery, which received a Cesar Pictures, in association with KC Medien and MP Film Management, in Award for Best Foreign Film. Annaud also co-wrote co-production with MP Film Management DOS Productions GmbH & the screenplays for the latter two films with his Co. KG, Swanford Films Ltd., Little Bird Ltd. Principal Cast Jude longtime collaborator, Alain Godard. In 1989, Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris Annaud received international acclaim and another Casting John & Ros Hubbard Special Effects Supervisor Cesar Award for The Bear. Annaud’s most recent Peter Chiang Length 128 min, 3502 m Format 35 mm, color, cs films include: The Lover, Wings of Courage, Original Version English Subtitled Version German Sound the first feature film made in IMAX 3-D, and Technology Dolby Digital International Festival Scree- Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt. nings Berlin 2001 (opening film) With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih GmbH, Munich

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44 Eisenstein

Eisenstein is the irreverent story of a man whose genius was too great to be controlled by any tyrant, even Stalin. The rise, fall and fatal redemption of Russian revolutionary filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein is an epic and moving story of wry humor and visionary images. Eisenstein goes beyond biography to become a modern fable about the struggle between Art and Power. Shot entirely on original locations in Russia, Ukraine and Mexico, Eisenstein is a visual treat. (photo © Vif Simon McBurney Filmproduktion/S. Overchenko)

Genre Drama, Biopic Category Feature Film Renny Bartlett was born and raised in Ottawa, Cinema Year of Production 2000 Director Canada. He was a sculptor before studying Film at Renny Bartlett Screenplay Renny Bartlett St. Martin’s School of Art and representing Director of Photography Alexei Rodionov Canadian film and television at the Canadian High Editor Wiebke von Carolsfeld Music by Commission in London. He began filmmaking Alexander Balanescu Set Design Susanne with two experimental short films, Between Dieringer Producers Regine Schmid, Martin Heaven and Earth and Dula. He then devel- Paul-Hus Executive Producer Wolfram Tichy oped a unique hybrid of archive film and story- Production Companies Vif Filmproduktion, telling in his film essay Arktikos, shot in Russia, Potsdam, Amérique Film, Montreal, in association Canada and Italy. He has also had a distinguished with TiMe Film- und TV Produktion, Potsdam career as a documentary filmmaker for Britain’s Principal Cast Simon McBurney, Raymond Channel Four Television. Both his two-part series Coulthard, Jacqueline McKenzie, Jonathan Hyde The Cold War Game, made with Noam Casting Sarah Bird Length 96 min, 2783 m Chomsky, and his 10-part series on photography Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Moving Stills, were nominated as Best Version English Subtitled Version German Documentary Series for the British Film Insitute’s Sound Technology Dolby SR International Greirson Award. He has also worked with Sally Festival Screenings Toronto 2000, Berlin 2001 Potter on the double Academy Award-nominated (Forum) feature Orlando, run the Praxis Screenwriting Centre in Vancouver and developed feature films with both British Screen and the European Script Fund.

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45 Emil und die Detektive EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES

When 11-year-old Emil travels to Berlin, his money is stolen by the crook Max Grundeis. While following the thief, Emil runs into Pony, the female leader of a gang of children, who offers to help him. Since Emil is supposed to be staying with a local pastor, the gang smuggles one of their members, Gypsy, into his place. While Gypsy is busy turning the pastor's house upside down, the hunt for Grundeis is on. What follows is a rip-roaring adventure. When Pony falls into the clutches of the evil Grundeis, and just as everything seems lost, the kids come up with a daring plan. (photo © Bavaria Film/Lunaris/v. d. Heydt) Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla d. Heydt) Tobias (photo © Bavaria Film/Lunaris/v.

Genre Family, Children’s Film, Literature Category Franziska Buch studied Philosophy and Literature in Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2000/2001 Stuttgart and Rome before studying at the Academy for Director Franziska Buch Screenplay Franziska Buch, Television & Film (HFF) in Munich, where she received a adapted from the novel by Erich Kästner Director of scholarship for screenplay-writing. Since 1991, she has been Photography Hannes Hubach Editor Patricia Rommel working as a freelance writer and director; in 1996 she began Music by Biber Gullatz, Eckes Malz Set Design instructing screenplay-writing at the Film Academy in Albrecht Konrad Producers Uschi Reich, Peter Zenk Ludwigsburg. Her films, for which she was responsible for Production Companies Lunaris Film, Munich, Bavaria both screenplay and directing, include: Die Ordnung der Filmverleih- & Produktions GmbH, Munich Principal Dinge (1987) which won the European Short Film Prize at Cast Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Berlin in 1987, Tod eines Idioten (1988), Die unge- Schrader, Kai Wiesinger, Maximilian Befort, David Klock, wisse Lage des Paradieses (1993), Mein Herz – Maurice Kumar, Tim Hansen, Sergei Moya, Tobias Unkauf Niemandem (1994) and Verschwinde von hier Casting Jaqueline Rietz Length 110 min, 3500 m (1999) which won the Max-Ophüls Prize and Director’s Prize Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version for the best feature film production at the Ophüls-Festival German Sound Technology Dolby Digital With Saarbrücken 2000. backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, BKM German Distributor Constantin Filmverleih GmbH, Munich

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46 Erotic Tales: Angela Manhattan – as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe his shrink is right: he should place an ad in the paper and just go out and look for someone. Someone like Angela. Because: This is New York … Anything can happen … The sky’s the limit …

Genre Erotic Category Short film Year of Production Amos Kollek, born in 1947, studied 2000 Director Amos Kollek Screenplay Amos Kollek Psychology and Philosophy at the Hebrew Director of Photography Ed Talavera Editor Sheri University in Jerusalem. Active in both writing Bylander Music by David Carbonara Costume Design and directing, he has written several novels and Catherine George Producer Regina Ziegler Production short-fiction and writes for Ms’ariv, La’Isha, The Company Ziegler Film GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, in co-pro- Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, and Die Zeit. duction with WDR, Cologne Principal Cast Victor Argo, His films include: the documentary Teddy Austin Pendleton, Valerie Geffner, Mark Margolis, Matthew Kollek (1996), and the features Worlds Powers Casting Caroline Sinclair Length 28 min, 763 m Apart (1979), Goodbye New York (1984), Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version English Forever, Lulu (1987), High Stakes (1989), Dubbed Version German (only Digi Beta) Sound Double Edge (1992), Whore 2 (Bad Technology Dolby SR International Festival Girls) (1994), Sue (1997), Fiona (1999), Screenings Mannheim-Heidelberg 2000 Fast Food, Fast Woman (2000). (photo © ZIEGLER FILM GmbH & Co. KG) Valerie Geffner, Victor Argo Geffner, Valerie KG) (photo © ZIEGLER FILM GmbH & Co. Erotic Tales: Powers – Magische Kräfte POWERS Peter has a dream job. He’s a popular magician in a posh Prague nightclub, whose act draws more applause than the strippers. He’s got an eye-catching assistant who is ready and willing to cuddle his frayed nerves whenever necessary. But he’s also got Sylvia on his neck: a pert, scatterbrained sister who forgets that a toss in the hay may just be worth a wedding ring. Things take a turn for the better – or worse? – when he discovers that he possesses extra – let’s say, supernatural – powers that enable him to see into the future, hear music by rubbing his fingers over a CD, and God knows what. The problem? Peter can’t control anything anymore like he used to – neither his magic act, nor his love life, nor his sister’s latest erotic fantasy.

Genre Erotic Category Short film Year of Pro- Petr Zelenka, born in 1967, studied Script-writing from 1986 - duction 2000 Director Petr Zelenka Screen- 1991 at the Prague Film School, FAMU. Between June 1990 and play Petr Zelenka Director of Photography March 1991, he worked as a script editor at the Barrandov Film Miro Gabor Editor Vladimir Barak Music by Here, Studios and for BBC-London on the 50-minute program Czech Nasˇrot, Slut, Freak Parade and others Producer Mate. From 1990 - 1996, four of his original television screenplays Regina Ziegler Production Company Ziegler Film were produced by Czech Television. His feature director’s debut GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, in co-production with WDR, Mnága-Happy End (1996) won an award at the Cottbus Film Cologne Principal Cast Ivan Trojan, Tomas Festival in 1996 and The Golden Kingfisher at the Pilsen Film Festival Pavelka, Nela Boudova Length 29 min, 817 m and was shown in cinemas in Germany and Holland. Buttoners Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version (1997), his second feature, has become a major Czech cult film of Czech Subtitled Version English Sound the decade, winning many local and international awards. Loners Technology Dolby SR International Festival (2000), for which he contributed idea and script, is a box office hit Screenings Cottbus 2000, Mannheim-Heidelberg in the Czech Republic and was recently awarded with the FIPRESCI 2000, Rotterdam 2001 Prize as well as the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg.

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The security and computer company Althan AG, headed by Robert Fernau, is being blackmailed. Right-wing terrorists have already taken one of Fernau’s colleagues and a friend hostage. The fanatics want to prevent the start up of new power stations. The real mastermind behind the plan is the stock market speculator Granitz, whose goal is a hostile takeover of Althan AG. To achieve this, Granitz installs a ”computer bomb“ in the main computer at Althan AG that is supposed to blow up all foreign power stations. The terrorists force Fernau to allow them access to the high-security central computer. In a dramatic life and death situation, Fernau tries to prevent the infernal catastrophe. Florian Martens, Thomas Kretschmann, Désirée Nosbusch Florian Martens, Thomas Kretschmann,

Genre Action/Adventure Category TV- Carl Schenkel, born 1948 in Bern, studied Movie (fiction) Year of Production Sociology in Frankfurt. During his studies, he wrote 1999/2000 Director Carl Schenkel short stories, reports and film critiques for various Screenplay Niki Müllerschön Director of newspapers. His cross-over into the film industry Photography Egon Werdin Editor Horst came after he directed an advertising spot for the Reiter Music by Harald Kloser Set Design city of Frankfurt. Thereafter, he worked from 1975- Ari Hantke Producer Susanne Porsche 1979 as an assistant director for such filmmakers as Production Company mps mediaproduc- Wolfgang Staudte and Hans W. Geissendörfer. He tions, Unterföhring Principal Cast Thomas then collaborated on screenplays with Roland Klick, Kretschmann, Désirée Nosbusch, Klaus among others. His films include: Kalt wie Eis Löwitsch, Florian Martens Special Effects (1981), Out of Order (Abwärts, 1984), Bay CA Scanline Production Length 96 min, Coven (1987), Silence Like Glass (Zwei 2500 m Format Super 35 mm, color, cs Frauen, 1989), The Mighty Quinn (1989), Original Version German Sound Knight Moves (aka Face To Face, 1992), Technology Dolby SRD With backing Exquisite Tenderness (1994), Beyond from Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), FilmFernseh Betrayal (TV, 1994), In the Lake of the Fonds Bayern, Landesförderungsanstalt Mün- Woods (TV, 1996), Kalte Küsse (TV, 1997), chen, Bayerischer Bankenfonds and Tarzan … And the Lost City (1998).

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48 Girl

Chris is a macho, in the true sense of the word: he loves fast cars, football, women, and above all, himself. When he has to be admitted to the hospital for a knee operation, he takes it stoically, like a real man. Shortly after his admission, he comes across Melody L’amoure, a captivatingly beautiful woman, who he would love to conquer. But Melody doesn’t even notice him. When Chris wakes up after the operation and sees the very serious look on Dr. Fahlmann’s face, he is devastated. Rather than a swollen knee, he seems to have ”swollen“ body parts – extremely feminine ones! Mr. Macho realizes: he is a woman! He tries everything he can to reverse the effects of the operation, but that is easier said than done … Katja Riemann, OliverKatja Petszokat

Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Piers Ashworth was born in 1957 in London Year of Production 2000 Director Piers and studied Modern History at Oxford University. Ashworth Screenplay Piers Ashworth, David He started work in publishing as an editor and Thomas Director of Photography Peter- went on to journalism as a freelance features writer Joachim Krause Editor Nana Meyer Music by and then into television as a researcher and assis- Detlef Petersen Set Design Maximilian tant producer for independent drama and docu- Johannsmann Producer Susanne Dembsky Co- mentary programs. In 1985 he began work in music Producer Christoph Ott Production videos – producing, writing and directing dozens of Company Sternbild Filmproduktion, Hamburg clips for bands including Black Sabbath, Madness, Principal Cast Oliver Petszokat, Katja Riemann, Bon Jovi and Janet Jackson. He subsequently Oliver Wnuk, Martin Semmelroge, Dietrich worked as a writer, rewriter and script doctor for Mattausch Casting Gitta Uhlig Special Effects Paramount, Universal, Tristar and MGM for such Spans & Partner Length 86 min, 2353 m films as Mission Impossible (1992) and Lawnmower Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Man (1994). He has also worked on such feature Version German Sound Technology Dolby films as Nostradamus (1995) and Pinocchio (1996) as SP With backing from FilmFörderung well as on the television films The Metaphysical Hamburg, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Policeman (1996), 5NY (1997) and The Big One Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) German (1997). Girl is his first feature film as a director. Distributor Senator Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin

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49 HAWAiiAN GARDENS In a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles county, a 17-year-old student finds her heart caught between a young German Internet gangster and her jealous old mentor. Baldi wants Shulzov. Rosa wants Baldi. Shulzov is jealous. Baldi is thirty. Rosa is seventeen. Schulzov is seventy. Rosa is a student. Baldi is a copyright pirate. Shulzov is a famous writer. Rosa’s passion is books. Baldi’s passion is money. Shulzov’s passion is Rosa. Rosa would rather sleep with Baldi. Shulzov would rather kill Baldi. Baldi would rather die for Rosa. Is Baldi a monster? Is Rosa a bitch? Is Shulzov an enigma? HAWAiiAN GARDENS is a triangled love and detective story about big time copyright fraud and a bigger time crush. André Eisermann, Valeria Hernandez André Eisermann, Valeria

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Year Percy Adlon, born in 1935 in Munich, studied Art, Theater and of Production 2001 Director Percy Adlon German Literature at the Ludwigs-Maximilian-University in Munich. Screenplay Percy & Eleonore Adlon Director After three years as a stage actor, he worked as a narrator and of Photography Rudolpho Paul Editor editor of a literature series for radio and television. In 1970, he Jochen Künstler Music by Bob Telson Set started his film work for television and made more than 150 docu- Design Bernt Amadeus Capra, Camilla Nagler mentaries about art and the human condition. His first feature film, Producer Eleonore Adlon Production Céleste (1981), drew international attention. His film Bagdad Company pelemele Film, Munich, in co- Café (Out of Rosenheim,1987) was a great success, winning production with Leora Films, Los Angeles, the Best Film Award at Rio de Janeiro and two Césars. Together with Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich Principal his wife, Eleonore Adlon, he has written and produced numerous Cast André Eisermann, Valeria Hernandez, films, including: Sugarbaby (1984), Rosalie Goes Shopping Richard Bradford Casting Paul Weber, Zora (1989), Salmonberries (1991) winner of the Grand prix des Dehorter, Risa Kes Length 107 min Format Amériques at Montreal, and the TV-movie The Glamorous DV PAL, 16:9 Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 World of the Adlon Hotel (1997). A series of 22 short films Original Version English/German Sound without words, Die Strausskiste (1999/2000), is among the Technology Dolby Stereo Adlons’ latest works. Percy and Eleonore Adlon live in Pacific Palisades, California, and run the Munich-based pelemele Film and the Santa Monica-based Leora Films. HAWAiiAN GARDENS, their 10th feature film, continues their line of German-American stories. World Sales: please contact LEORA FILMS · Eleonore Adlon 2601 Colorado Avenue · USA-Santa Monica, California 90404 phone +1-3 10-8 28 47 66 · fax +1-3 10-8 28 87 66 email: [email protected]

50 Invincible

Invincible is the true story of a young Jewish blacksmith from East Poland, Zishe Breitbart, who at the beginning of the 1930’s is lured to the world of the varietés in Berlin. In the dubious House of the Occult run by Erik Jan Hanussen, he plays the strongest man in the world, much to the displeasure of the rising Nazi establishment. Zishe’s story ends tragically due to his strong belief that he was sent as the new Samson and must protect his people. Tina Bordihn, Tim Roth Tim Bordihn, Tina

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Werner Herzog was born as W. H. Stipetic in Year of Production 2000 Director Werner 1942 in Munich. He grew up in a remote mountain Herzog Screenplay Werner Herzog Director village in Bavaria and never saw any films, television of Photography Peter Zeitlinger Editor Joe or telephones as a child. He started traveling on Bini Set Design Ulrich Bergfelder Producers foot at the age of 14. He made his first phone call Werner Herzog, Christine Ruppert, Gary Bart at the age of 17. During high-school, he worked Production Companies Werner Herzog nights as a welder in a steel factory to finance the Filmproduktion, Munich, TATFILM Filmproduktion, production of his films and made his first film in Cologne, LittleBird, Dublin Principal Cast 1961, at the age of 19. Since then, he has pro- Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth, Anna Gourari, Udo Kier, duced, written, and directed more than forty Max Raabe and his Palace Orchestra Length 135 films – such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God min, 4117 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 (1972), Nosferatu (1978), Fitzcarraldo Original Version English Dubbed Version (1981), Lessons of Darkness (1991), Little German Sound Technology Dolby SRD Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), and My Best With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, Fiend – Klaus Kinski (1999). He has also Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), BKM German published more than a dozen books of prose and Distributor Zephir Film GmbH, Cologne has directed many operas.

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51 Jetzt oder Nie

Eighty-year-old Carla, 76-year-old Lilli and 74-year-old Meta all live by very modest means: Carla is in a retirement home, where alcohol and cigarettes are strictly forbidden; Lilli lives with her daughter and three grandchildren in a dilapidated old house; Meta is terrorized by her son. They find their solace in playing cards, where the kitty has the specific purpose of fulfilling one last desire: a trip at sea! But as the ladies go to deposit their savings in the bank, the bank is robbed and everything is gone. The solution: rob a bank themselves! Easier said than done. The side effects of old age are not exactly conducive to such adventurous endeavors. An endearing tragicomedy about getting older, life and late-blooming love. Christel Peters, Elisabeth Scherer, Gudrun Okras Elisabeth Scherer, Christel Peters,

Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Lars Büchel was born in 1966 in Osthol- Production 2000 Director Lars Büchel Screenplay Lars stein. He studied Theater and Philosophy Büchel, Ruth Toma Director of Photography Judith at the Free University in Berlin and at the Kaufmann Editor Betina Vogelsang Music by Max Berghaus, Academy of Media Arts in Cologne KHM, Dirk Reichardt, Stefan Hansen, fetisch/meister Set Design Silke where he was a student of Dominik Graf Buhr Producers Helga Bähr, Til Schweiger Production and P. F. Bringmann. Active in both writing Companies Lichtblick Filmproduktion, Potsdam, Mr. Brown and directing, his films include: Iglu der Entertainment Filmproduction, Grünwald, in co-production with Kapiten (1990), Triumph des Spiels Senator Film Produktion, Berlin Principal Cast Gudrun Okras, (1991), Fritz & Erna (1992), Rosen Christel Peters, Elisabeth Scherer, Corinna Harfouch, Martin lügen nicht (1993), Bilder für Semmelrogge, Vladimir Weigl, Til Schweiger, Mark Keller Casting Deutschland (1993) and 4 Geschich- Tina Böckenhauer Length 94 min, 2572 m Format Super 35 ten über 5 Tote (1997) winner of the mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version Max-Ophüls Prize. English Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing from FilmFörderung Hamburg, Filmstiftung NRW, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), MSH Gesellschaft zur Förderung audiovisueller Werke in Schleswig-Holstein mbH, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film German Distributor Senator Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin

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52 Julietta A dramatic teenage love story set against the backdrop of Europe’s biggest party, the Berlin Love Parade. Julietta loves Jiri, Max loves Julietta and suddenly the earth starts to tremble. Julietta, a sheltered 18-year-old student from a wealthy family in Stuttgart heads to Berlin with her boyfriend Jiri, a Berlin medical student. Swept away by the ecstatic masses, they eventually lose sight of each other. Julietta wanders through the crowds trying to find Jiri when she finally collapses from exhaustion and the influence of designer drugs. She is res- cued by Max, a DJ, who is fascinated by the beautiful Julietta and, in a surreal state of mind, makes love to her while she is still unconscious. Six weeks later, Julietta discovers that she is pregnant and heads back to Berlin in search of Jiri, but instead runs into Max, who has since become friends with Jiri and once again appears to be Julietta’s guardian angel. Determined to ignore the growing attraction between them, she finally finds Jiri, who is shocked at first but then joyfully accepts fatherhood. Max, however, can no longer stand to keep the truth from Julietta and reveals everything. As a result, the three lovers are headed for a dramatic confrontation. Lavinia Wilson, Matthias Koeberlin

Genre Love story Category Feature Film Cinema Christoph Stark was born in 1965 in Esslingen. Year of Production 2000 Director Christoph After working in London on various music videos Stark Screenplay Jochen Bitzer Director of and advertising spots, he studied at the Academy Photography Jochen Stäblein Editor Sandy for Television & Film (HFF) in Munich. In addition Saffeels Music by Fetisch Set Design Josef to directing, he is also active in screen-writing and Sanktjohanser Producers Nico Hofmann, Bettina editing. He wrote two screenplays for the televi- Reitz, Sascha Schwingel Production Company sion series Die Feuerengel (1996/1997) as well as teamWorx, Berlin, in co-production with ZDF, for the feature film Der Bär ist los! (1998). Together Mainz, ARTE, Strasbourg Principal Cast Lavinia with Alex Berner, he edited the trailers for numer- Wilson, Barnaby Metschurat, Matthias Koeberlin ous documentary and feature films, including: Casting Rita Serra-Roll Length 93 min, 1040 m House of Spirits, Maybe – Maybe Not, Rossini, Die Format Super 35 mm, color, cs Original Rote Laterne, Schlafes Bruder, Comedian Harmonists Version German Subtitled Version English and Die Apothekerin. Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernseh- Fonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), MFG Baden-Württemberg German Distributor teamWorx Produktion für Kino & Fernsehen GmbH, Berlin

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53 Küss Mich Frosch KISS ME FROG

Lots of girls long for a fairy-tale prince to sweep them off their feet. Not Anna. She’d prefer to find her own path in life first, before some guy turns up out of the blue and turns everything upside down. But then her brother Raoul comes home one day with a frog. Before Raoul torments the little creature to death, Anna manages to rescue it and remembers the old fairy-tale about the prince who had been turned into a frog. In a light-hearted mood, she picks up the frog and actually kisses it … and something incredible occurs – the frog is turned back into a prince – into Prince Dietbert von Tümpelberg. Once Anna has recovered from the shock, she realizes that there are certain practical problems to be faced if you are suddenly responsible for a Frog Prince a thousand years old. For Dietbert, though, far more is at stake. He meets up again with the immortal wizard who put the spell on him, and learns something about the curse that he didn’t know before; after 1000 years it is no longer possible for a kiss to turn the frog back into a prince permanently. And in Dietbert’s case, those 1000 years are almost over. He can only be saved if he finds a pure young girl who loves him with all her heart. At first it seems as though Dietbert’s problems may be over; after all, Anna is the ideal candidate. But somehow it doesn’t work out so easily … Anja Knauer

Genre Children’s Film, Comedy Category Dagmar Hirtz was born in Aachen and studied Music in TV-Movie (fiction) Year of Production Munich. After an apprenticeship in a film processing lab, she 2000 Director Dagmar Hirtz Screenplay worked as an assistant editor, assistant director and production Thomas Brückner Director of Photog- assistant before editing such films as: Maximilians Schell’s Erste raphy Florian Ballhaus Editor Nicola Undritz Liebe, Der Fussgänger, Der Richter und sein Henker, Geschichten aus Music by Annette Focks Set Design dem Wienerwald, and his documentary film Marlene, as well as Heidrun Brandt Producer Dagmar Rosen- Margarethe von Trotta’s films Die bleierne Zeit, Heller Wahn and bauer Production Company MULTIMEDIA Rosa Luxemburg. Other films include: Der Mädchenkrieg by Alf Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Erfurt Principal Brustellin and Bernhard Sinkel, Trotta by Johannes Schaaf, Ödipussi Cast Anja Knauer, Matthias Schweighöfer, Rita by Loriot, Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland by Klaus Maria Russek, Rufus Beck, Kevin Leisner, Karoline Brandauer, Homo Faber by Volker Schlöndorff, Salz auf unserer Herfurth Casting Jacqueline Rietz Special Haut by Andrew Birkin and Das serbische Mädchen by Peter Sehr. Effects Effectory Filmeffekte GmbH Length 80 min, 878 m Format Super 16 mm, color, In 1984 she began directing, including the films: Unerreich- 16:9/Digi Beta Original Version German bare Nähe (1984), Moondance (1993), Through Roses Subtitled Version English Sound (1996), as well as the TV-movies Die Konkurrentin (1997), Technology Stereo International Awards and Schwiegermutter (1999). In 1996 she was awarded the Erich Kästner Television Award With backing Film Prize of the City of Munich for her extensive contribution to from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung German cinema. She was also awarded three German Film Awards for Best Editing for her work on Trotta, Der Richter und sein Henker, and Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland. World Sales: IGEL MEDIA AG · Marie-Line Petrequin Palmaille 124b · D-22767 Hamburg phone +49-40-30 68 96 20 · fax +49-40-30 68 96 22 www.igelmedia.com · email: [email protected]

54 Lieber Fidel – Maritas Geschichte DEAR FIDEL – MARITA’S STORY

In 1959, the 19-year-old Marita Lorenz fell madly in love with Fidel Castro when the victor of the revolution came on board the German cruise ship ”Berlin“. After eight months of love and happiness, Fidel loses interest in her. Her happiness turns into a nightmare when she loses her child because of a forced abortion in the sixth month of her preg- nancy. She lets herself be recruited by the CIA, which wants to get her to kill the revolutionary leader. But she betrays her mission – ”love was stronger,“ says the now 61-year-old Marita. She lands between the fronts of a dirty war. Working for the CIA, she gets to know later Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. She spies for the FBI, moves in high Mafia circles and constantly changes fronts. Now she lives as an impoverished pensioner in New York and wants to go back to Fidel. But what will Fidel say, will she be able to enter Cuba at all? Dear Fidel – Marita’s Story is a political thriller about a very personal, moving and bizarre journey through the turmoil of the Cold War from Bremen via New York and Miami to Havana.

Genre Drama, History Category Documentary Cinema Wilfried Huismann, born in 1951 in Godensholt (Germany), studied Year of Production 2000 Director Wilfried Huis- Social Science and History. In 1981 he began working as a freelance journal- mann Screenplay Wilfried Huismann Director of ist, his first book was Chile Reports. After that, he authored further books Photography Reinhard Gossmann Editors Margot and numerous radio features. Since 1987, he has been working for German Löhlein, Kirsten Becker Music by Klaus Doldinger television, specializing in background stories and critical reports. He is the Producers Yvonne Ruocco, Detlef Ziegert Production three-time winner of the Adolf-Grimme-Award, the most respected German Company SUR Films, Cologne/Bremen, in co-production television award. His films include: Franca Magnani – A Portrait with WDR, Cologne, SWR, Baden-Baden, Canal +, Spain (1988), The Hidden Camera (1990), Bremen-Baghdad – Deadly Principal Cast Marita Lorenz, Harold Austin, Henry K. Cargo (1991), Cold hearted? The President of the Treuhand – Ell, Dave Townsend Length 91 min, 2700 m Format Birgit Breuel (1992), winner of the Herbert Quandt Media Award in 1992 Super 16 mm, Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original and the Friedrich-Vogel Award for economic journalism, Raymond – The Version German/English/Spanish Subtitled Versions Boy with the Face of an Angel (1993), The Ship of the Dead English, German Sound Technology Dolby SR (Digital) (1994), Opposition in Cuba, Gambling with Power – Friedrich International Festival Screenings Mannheim/Hei- Hennemann and the Demise of the Vulkan in Bremen delberg 2000 With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, (1998), Death of the Pharao – Anwar Sadat and the Holy Filmbüro Bremen, BIA-Bremer Innovations Agentur Warriors (1998), Biedermann’s Reich – The International German Distributor Pegasos Film, Cologne/Frankfurt Tracing Service and the Nazi Victims (1999) as well as numerous reports for the television series In search of … .

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55 Mein langsames Leben PASSING SUMMER

An attempt to observe life from the outside – to gain distance, to not interfere, to just observe. Two young women sitting in a café on a summer day, a family arriving at the airport, an older woman sitting alone in a train, adult children standing in front of the hospital where their father is dying. Situations found everyday, a thousand times over. But what happens when you try to depict this normality? Ursina Lardi, Andreas Patton Andreas Ursina Lardi,

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Angela Schanelec, born in 1962, studied Year of Production 2000/01 Director Acting and trod the boards from 1984-91. From Angela Schanelec Screenplay Angela Schanelec 1990-95, she studied at the German Film & Director of Photography Reinhold Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. Active in writ- Vorschneider Editors Bettina Böhler, Angela ing, directing and producing, her films include: Schanelec Set Design David Hoffmann Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael geblieben (1993), Das Glück meiner Weber Production Company SCHRAMM Schwester (1995) – winner of the German FILM Koerner & Weber, Berlin, in co-production Critics’ Prize 1996, and Plätze in Städten with ZDF, Mainz Principal Cast Ursina Lardi, (Places in Cities, 1997/98) presented at Andreas Patton, Wolfgang Michael, Anne Tismer ”un certain regard“ Cannes 1998. Casting Simone Bär Length 85 min, 2326 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR International Festival Screenings Berlin 2001 (Forum) With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Branden- burg German Distributor Peripher AT BERLIN Filmverleih, Berlin FORUM

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56 Mit IKEA nach Moskau TO MOSCOW WITH IKEA

There are over 150 IKEA branches all over the world. And now Russia has one of its own. On 22 March 2000, Russia’s first IKEA opened its doors in the Moscow suburb of Khimki. Manuela and Ulf, both loyal IKEA employees, meet and fall in love in an IKEA store in Berlin. They leave their families and decide to go to Moscow. Lost in a world of heavy old furniture, they feel like pioneers bringing Russia its first taste of ”brighter living“. Ulf’s and Manuela’s entire lives are shaped by the world of IKEA – from the furniture in their apartment to their friends and colleagues. However, their new beginning has its difficulties. Manuela’s son has problems adjusting to his new life in Moscow; Ulf dreams of one day reuniting the family with the children who were left behind in Germany. But for Manuela and Ulf, the big day has arrived. After an entire year of planning, 37,500 people come to the grand opening – breaking all records in IKEA history. The film observes the chaos of the first day and accompanies Muscovite families home with their purchases to watch the well- known IKEA assembly procedure. The world of IKEA, it seems, is just what every Russian has been waiting for. (photo © Happy Endings Film) Manuela Geelhaar, Ulf(photo © Happy Endings Film) Manuela Geelhaar, Seemann

Genre Family Category Documentary Cinema Michael Chauvistré was born in 1960 in Aachen. Year of Production 2001 Director Michael He studied History and Philosophy in Aachen and Chauvistré Screenplay Michael Chauvistré Constance and Film at the Academy for Television & Directors of Photography Michael Chauvistré, Film in Munich (HFF). In 1988, he founded the pro- Stefan Tolz Editors Dorothea Brühl, Felix Haß duction company HAPPY ENDINGS FILM and began Music by Georg Fischer, Christoph Seil Pro- producing and directing his own films, including: the duction Company KOPPFILM in Brandenburg, shorts Eine zufällige Begegnung (1989), Potsdam-Babelsberg, in co-production with Amore (1990), and the documentaries Mal KOPPMEDIA, Halle (Saale), HAPPY ENDINGS sehen, was draus wird (1990), Die Zeit, die FILM, Munich, ORB, Potsdam-Babelsberg, ZDF/Das läuft (1992), Wenn dich keiner sieht und Kleine Fernsehspiel, Mainz Principal Cast keiner hört (1993), Barbara und Fenja Manuela Geelhaar, Ulf Seemann Length 94 min, (1993), Klein Hundorf (1993), and Schau mich 2572 m Format Digi Beta Blow up 35 mm, nicht so böse an (1997). He ended his studies at color, 1:1.85 Original Version German/English/ the HFF with Pax (1999) – a short story episode in Russian Subtitled Version German/English the feature film Midsommar Stories. Sound Technology Dolby SR International Festival Screenings Ophüls-Festival Saarbrücken 2001 With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

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57 Mr. Boogie

Ms. State Attorney Schumacher has a problem, a big problem. Her lover has a knife in his back, and as if that were not enough, he’s lying on her kitchen table. She’s got to get rid of the body, quickly and discreetly, so she hires a professional. But not just any professional, she hires Mr. Boogie – a private detective of the rare sort, a specialist for particularly difficult cases and a passionate dancer. But this case is more than meets the eye. Removing a body is one thing, disposing of it is another. Then there are the other small details that make Mr. Boogie’s life a living hell: Ms. Schumacher is expecting high-ranking guests in her home and has a very curious housekeeper and cook, who have everything but cooking and cleaning on their minds. But then lover number two shows up and the chaos is perfect. Mr. Boogie has to deal with a crying two-meter Swede, a Shakespeare-quoting Frenchman who can’t keep his hands off the housekeeper, let alone cook a decent soup, and all of Ms. Schumacher’s other demanding guests. And as though all that weren’t enough, even the dead body has a few surprises for Mr. Boogie. (photo © 2000 ENA-Filmproduktion) Sunnyi Melles, Zlatko Trpkovski (photo SunnyiZlatko © 2000 ENA-Filmproduktion) Melles,

Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Vesna Jovanoska studied Theater, Film, Year of Production 2000 Director Vesna Television, Slavic Languages, Sinology, and Japanese Jovanoska Screenplay Farhad Shahed Director from 1979 – 1984 in Cologne, Marburg and of Photography Peter Przybylski Editor Niko Moscow. Since 1984, she has been working as a Remus Music by Frank Stumvoll Set Design freelance screenwriter. In 1988 she began simulta- Frank Sander Producer Frank Dragun neous translating for television and produced and Production Company ena Film, Pulheim edited numerous film and television productions in Principal Cast Zlatko Trpkovski, Sunnyi Melles, Cologne. In 1991 she became director and produc- Ivan Desny, Rolf Kanies, Karin Seyfried Casting er for the German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere. Gitta Uhlig Special Effects Wolfgang Jäger She founded the production company ena Film in Length 95 min, 2600 m Format 35 mm, color, 1994. Active in both directing and producing, her 1:1.85 Original Version German Sound films include: the documentary Menschen Technology Dolby Digital With backing zweiter Klasse (1986) and Warum (1987), a from Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) German short film about the effects of child abuse. Distributor Highlight Communications AG, Pfäffikon, Switzerland

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58 My Sweet Home

A collection of tragicomical stories which take place during the failed ”Polterabend“ (the German traditional party on the night before a wedding) of an American exile and a German woman. Stories about people who have lost their aim in life: what they have, they don’t want, and what they want, they’ll probably never get. Realizing the absurdity of this trap, they celebrate their misfortune, at least for one night. My Sweet Home is about the search for a foothold in life, a solid ground to walk on, a place to call home. Nadja Uhl, Harvey Friedman

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Filippos Tsitos was born in Athens, Greece in Year of Production 2000 Director Filippos Tsitos 1966. He studied Marketing in Athens and worked Screenplay Filippos Tsitos Director of Photog- at the same time as a photographer, director’s raphy Hanno Lentz Editors Petar Markovic, assistant, editor for music documentaries and Nebojsa Stanojevic Music by Dr. Nelle Karajilic, producer for a radio program. Since 1991, he has Dejan Sparavalo Set Design Peter Weber been living in Berlin, where he studied Film Producer Thanassis Karathanos Production Directing at the German Film & Television Company Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Academy (dffb) under Nikita Michalkow, Dominik Berlin, in co-production with Pandora Film, Cologne, Graf, Jirí Menzel, Peter Lilienthal, Don Bohlinger, Ideefixe Productions, Athens, in cooperation with ZDF, Dick Ross and Richard Leacock. His films include Mainz, ARTE, Strasbourg, Hellenic Broadcasting the shorts: Prélude (1992), Der Hut meines Company (ERT), Athens Principal Cast Harvey Vaters (1993), Parlez-moi d’amour, winner Friedman, Nadja Uhl, Mario Mentrup, Monika Hansen, of the German Film Award in Gold, Komm’ Michael Schweighofer, Neil D’Souza Casting Andrea gleich wieder (1995), Charleston (1996), Frey, Foreign Faces Length 83 min, 2266 m Zeit fliegt (1996), and Griechische Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version Spezialitäten (1998). German/English Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Stereo International Festival Screenings Berlin 2001 (in competition) With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, AT BERLIN Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Eurimages, Greek Film Center German Distributor Pegasos Film, IN COMPETITION Frankfurt/Main

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59 Nancy und Frank NANCY AND FRANK

Adapted from the novel Beyond the Horizon by Hans Werner Kettenbach (Diogenes-Verlag), Nancy and Frank is a romantic urban love story, with road-movie elements, between the American student Nancy, financing her studies as an escort-lady, and the German businessman Frank in the melting pot of today’s New York. (photo © WDR/Dominique Conway) Hardy Krüger Jr., Frances Anderson (photo © WDR/Dominique Conway) Hardy Krüger Jr.,

Genre Comedy, Drama Category Feature Film Wolf Gremm, born in 1942 in Freiburg, has Cinema Year of Production 2000 Director collaborated closely with Regina Ziegler since his Wolf Gremm Screenplay Jonathan Brett, Wolf debut film I Thought I Was Dead (1973). In Gremm Director of Photography Egon the 1970s, he directed such successful cinema hits Werdin Editor Karola Mittelstädt Set Design as The Brothers, Death or Freedom and Eduard Krajewski Producers Regina Ziegler, the Erich Kästner adaptation Fabian. In the Elke Ried (Ziegler Film Köln), Rainer Bienger 1980s, he directed After Midnight, No (Cinerenta) Production Companies Ziegler Terraced House for Robin Hood, and the Film Köln GmbH, Cologne, Cinerenta/Cinefrank, science-fiction thriller Kamikaze (1989) with Potsdam & Munich, Ziegler Film GmbH & Co KG, Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the lead role. He has Berlin, in co-production with WDR, Cologne also written and directed several tele-features and Principal Cast Hardy Krüger Jr., Frances TV series - in addition to such dramas and thrillers Anderson, Robert Wagner, Gottfried John, Jamie as Appointment with Yesterday, I Want Harris Length 93 min, 2544 m Format 35 mm, to Live, Cliffs of Death, Californian color, 1:1.85 Original Version English Quartet, Die Inca Connection, Angel’s Dubbed Version German Sound Technol- Sin, Only a Dead Man is a Good Man, and, ogy Dolby SR With backing from Filmstiftung recently, A Vicious Couple. NRW, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) German Distributor Warner Bros. Film GmbH, Hamburg

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60 Pinky und der Millionenmops PINKY AND THE MILLION-PUG

Pinky, Monster, Princess, Wumm and Peng all live together with foster-parents, the Pommers. The five characters are – as their nicknames reveal – rather unusual orphans, which becomes obvious by Pinky’s determination to imitate the great detective Pinkerton. It takes quite some time though before the cranky and gruff old millionaire Jonathan Morgan warms up to him. But since the old man cannot deny his craziness, he soon needs Pinky's support to help him find his lost dog. The two are a pair that couldn’t be any more different: the old millionaire, lonely, mistrusting and eccentric, and the clever little orphan, who, together with his ”brothers and sisters“, is always coming up with new ideas. Together, you have a great story for all ages that covers the gamut of emotions – from sentimental to funny to goose-bump scary. Hans Clarin, Jaime Krsto

Genre Children’s Film Category Feature Film Cinema Stefan Lukschy studied Music, Philosophy, Year of Production 2000 Director Stefan Lukschy German and Journalism at the Free University in Screenplay Sybille Durian, adapted from the book Berlin and at the German Film & Television Detektiv Pinky by Gert Prokop Director of Photog- Academy (dffb) in Berlin. He works as a freelance raphy David Slama Editor Kerstin Kexel Music by writer and director. His films include: Krawatten Andreas Bick Set Design Dieter Adam, Heike Wolf für Olympia (1976), Valse Triste (1979), Producer Jürgen Haase Production Company Wer spinnt denn da, Herr Doktor? Provobis, Leipzig, in co-production with MDR, Leipzig, (1982), Beim nächsten Mann wird alles Tellux Film, Dresden, SWR, Stuttgart Principal Cast anders (1988) and Der doppelte Nötzli Jaime Krsto, Hans Clarin, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Tilo (1990). He has also co-directed numerous tele- Prückner, Winfried Glatzeder Casting Ulrike Haase vision movies, including: Loriot 1-6 (1975-1983), Special Effects Mitter, Leipzig Length 90 min, 2462 m Der Untermieter (1986), Harald und Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.37 Original Version Eddi (1989), Ach, Du fröhliche (1994/95), German Subtitled Version English Sound Technol- Die Camper (1995/96), several episodes of ogy Dolby SR With backing from Filmförderungs- Heimatgeschichten (1995-1997), and anstalt (FFA), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Filmboard Seitensprung ins Glück (1999/2000). Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFörderung Hamburg German Distributor Progress Film-Verleih GmbH, Berlin

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61 planet alex

Berlin Alexanderplatz 2000 – within 24 hours various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled. Love, murder, fairy tale, drugs, madness, humor and a lot of music – planet alex moves playfully through various genres. A sparkling firework of ideas that come together in a greater story. With its driving rhythm, the film sketches the seeming loss of orientation of Berlin’s city as a pulsating, shimmering network. (photo © de.flex-film) Baki Marie Zielcke, Davrak

Genre Drama, Adventure, Music Category Uli M Schüppel was born in 1958 in Odenwald. Feature Film Cinema Year of Production After numerous music clips and experimental films, 2000 Director Uli M Schüppel Screenplay he studied at the German Film and Television Charlotte Wetzel, Uli M Schüppel Director of Academy (dffb) in Berlin. His first feature film Photography Alex Fischerkoesen Editor Nihil (1987) was a big surprise at the Hof Film Elena Bromund Music by Jacki Engelken, Ulrik Days in 1988 and won, among others, the Special Spies Production Design Donia Hamdami Jury Award at the Festival des Ecoles du Cinéma in Producer Milanka Comfort Production Montreal (1988) and the 2nd Nino Rota Prize at Company de.flex-film, Berlin, in co-production Trento (1989). He graduated from the Film with ZDF, Mainz Principal Cast Marusha, Marie Academy in 1990 with the film The Road, to Zielcke, Nadeshda Brennicke, Baki Davrak, Ben God Knows Where, a documentary about Becker, Andreas Schmidt, Regine Zimmermann, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. His next feature Birol Uenel, Jochen Nickel, Meret Becker, Mario film, Vaterland (1992), won the OCIC Award in Mentrup Length 102 min, 2790 m Format 1993. His other documentary and music films also 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version received recognition at countless international film German Subtitled Version English Sound festivals (Berlin, Rotterdam, Montreal, Edinburgh, Technology Dolby Digital SR International New York, Leipzig): The Virus Breaks Festival Screenings Ophüls-Festival Saar- Through (music documentary, 1992), Frozen brücken 2001 (in competition), Rotterdam 2001 Stories (Jahre der Kälte) (1994), Sid & (in competition) Nancy – Ex & Pop (1996), The Place (1997). With planet alex, Schüppel combines, in a rather unusual manner, his experience from music clips, documentary essays and feature films. World Sales: please contact de.flex-film · schüppel-comfort Husemannstr. 33 · D-10435 Berlin phone/fax +49-30-4 42 94 57 www.planetalex-film.de · email: [email protected]

62 Der schöne Tag A FINE DAY

Der schöne Tag is, after the films Geschwister and Dealer, the third part in a trilogy about the living conditions of Turkish youth growing up in Germany. Deniz is 21-years-old, lives in Berlin, works as a dubbing speaker and wants to become an actress. Der schöne Tag describes a long, labyrinth-like day in the life of Deniz. A day in which she experiences everything that takes place around her with a feverish intensity. The separation from her boyfriend Jan, her relationship to her family, her work, the promise of a new friendship and summer in the city. Der schöne Tag is the story of a young woman’s search for happiness, her feelings and her ideas about love. (photo © Pickpocket Filmproduktion/Thomas Arslan) Serpil Turhan (photo Filmproduktion/Thomas © Pickpocket

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Thomas Arslan was born in 1962 in Year of Production 2000 Director Thomas Braunschweig and spent four years during his Arslan Screenplay Thomas Arslan Director of schooling in Ankara, Turkey. He studied Photography Michael Wiesweg Editor Bettina Germanics and History in Munich and Film at Blickwede Music by Selda Kaya, Morton Feldman, the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) Saul Williams Set Design Ulrika Andersson in Berlin. He has been working as a writer and Producers Martin Hagemann, Thomas Arslan filmmaker since 1992. His films include the Production Company zero film, Berlin, in co- shorts Eine Nacht, Ein Morgen (1984), production with Pickpocket Filmproduktion, Berlin, Test 2 (1986), Risse (1989), 19 Porträts ZDF, Mainz Principal Cast Serpil Turhan, Bilge (1990), Am Rand (1991), Im Sommer Bingül, Florian Stetter, Selda Kaya, Hafize Üner, (1992) as well as the features Mach die Hanns Zischler, Elke Schmitter Casting Simone Bär Musik leiser (1994), Geschwister (1996) Casting Length 74 min, 2025 m Format 35 mm, and Dealer (1998). color, 1:1.66 Original Version German Sub- titled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR International Festival Screenings Berlin 2001 (Forum) With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg German Distributor Peripher Filmverleih, Berlin AT B E R L I N FORUM World Sales: please contact zero film GmbH · Martin Hagemann Lehrter Str. 57 · D-10557 Berlin phone +49-30-3 90 66 30 · fax +49-30-3 94 58 34 www.zerofilm.de · e-mail: [email protected]

63 Stiller Sturm SILENT STORM

Anne is a young woman who lives in a big city, by a river. She has her own apartment, directly behind the zoo. Day and night, she hears the screams of the caged-in animals. Screams that are searching for something, not answers, but rather questions … In her heart, Anne is lonely but she is not alone. It is a summer of extremes. Her uncon- ventional best friend tries her best to pull Anne out of her lethargy. Four men cross her path and leave their mark on her life and her soul. But Anne is looking for something … for love, closeness and security. She is searching, but she doesn’t know what for. She finds it, but doesn’t even notice it. Her life is shaped by the loneliness of the masses, by motionlessness in motion. Anne wants to break out. It is Anne’s summer, Anne’s life – and in her heart a Silent Storm is brewing. (photo © SCREEN WORKS Köln GmbH) Jana Thies (photo © SCREEN WORKS Köln

Genre Drama Category TV-Movie (fiction) Year Tomasz Thomson was born in 1973 in Kattowitz, of Production 2000 Director Tomasz Thomson Poland. He went back to Poland from 1993-1997 to Screenplay Tomasz Thomson, Katrin Merkel study at the Academy for Film and Television in Lodz. Director of Photography Oliver Soravia From 1996-1997, he was an editor at Canal+ in Editor Christoph Galetzka Music by Jörg Burger Warsaw and from 1997-1999 was a director and pro- Set Design Guido Holz Producer Björn Klimek ducer at House of Promotion in Cologne. He has Production Company SCREEN:WORKS, been a freelance director since 1999. His films include Cologne, in cooperation with ZDF, Mainz Principal the shorts A Deep Breath (1994), And Also Cast Jana Thies, Christoph Bach, Marcus Born, the Flowers (1995), Wiola (1996), and 100 Gudrun Landgrebe, Henriette Thimig, Paul Fassnacht, Kilometers of Outskirts (1998). Jana Hora, Doreen Dietel Length 95 min, 2600 m Format Super 16 mm Blow up 35 mm, color, 1:1.66 Original Version German Sound Technology Stereo International Festival Screenings Ophüls-Festival Saarbrücken 2001 With backing from Filmstiftung NRW

World Sales: please contact SCREEN:WORKS Köln GmbH · Björn Klimek, Kerstin Lackmann Hildeboldplatz 15-17 · D-50672 Cologne phone +49-2 21-57 96 80 · fax +49-2 21-5 79 68 20 email: [email protected]

64 Tanz mit dem Tod – Der Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz DANCE WITH DEATH – THE UFA-STAR SYBILLE SCHMITZ

She was in over 30 films, half of which she starred in a leading role. She had prominent partners such as Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann or Gustav Gründgens: the actress Sybille Schmitz was considered the most beautiful face in German cinema during the 1930s. She was an exceptional figure, whose austere charm elevated her above the smooth salon ladies and the dance-crazy revue girls of the times. But she was also an outsider, with an air of mystery and melancholy. Her life was an enigma, particularly her fate after World War II and the circumstances of her suicide in 1955, which led R. W. Fassbinder to his film Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss. Based on Friedemann Beyer’s biography Schöner als der Tod – Das Leben der Sybille Schmitz (Belleville- Verlag), the film portraits the myth of Sybille Schmitz, showing the different phases of her life through interviews with relatives and colleagues and clips from her most important films. Sybille Schmitz

Genre Biopic Category Documentary TV Year of Achim Podak was born in 1967 in Stuttgart. He works as Production 2000 Director Achim Podak a television journalist for several leading German TV-cultural Screenplay Achim Podak, Friedemann Beyer Director magazines, including ARD-Kulturweltspiegel, Kulturreport, Titel, of Photography Thomas Repp Editor Beatrix Thesen, Temperamente as well as for the German-Austrian- Wilbert-Schieferstein Producer Loy W. Arnold Swiss broadcaster 3Sat’s Kulturzeit. He has also done several Production Company Transit Film, Munich, in co- feature productions for the German public broadcaster ARD operation with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, and ARTE. Film, literature and cultural politics are the main ZDF, Mainz, ARTE, Strasbourg Principal Cast Winnie focus of his work. Markus, Fritz Schmitz, Gyula Trebitsch, Willy Egger, Annemarie Wysbar, Christel Jacobs Length 60 min Format Digi Beta, color and b&w Original Version German Dubbed Version French Subtitled Version French German Distributor Transit Film GmbH, Munich

World Sales: Transit Film GmbH · Loy W. Arnold Dachauer Str. 35 · D-80335 Munich phone +49-89-5 99 88 50 · fax +49-89-59 98 85 20 www.transitfilm.de · email: [email protected]

65 Venus Talking

Venus, a writer in her early forties, takes a break from her everyday family life in the country – her publisher offers her a super modern studio with a view of the Spree River in Berlin as a refuge, where she starts writing her next novel, which is supposed to become a best-seller. On one of her nightly jaunts in the big city, she meets and has an affair with Fabrizio, who makes her feel young and free again. And then there’s Bernhard, a successful young entrepreneur, who also lands her in bed. But when her family catches her in the act (via a secretly installed video camera), she realizes that she is playing with the feelings of those she loves the most … Sabine Bach

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Rudolf Thome was born in Wallau/Lahn (now Year of Production 2001 Director Rudolf Biedenkopf) in 1939. He studied German Language Thome Screenplay Rudolf Thome Director and Literature, Philosophy and History in Munich of Photography Carsten Thiele Editor Karin and Bonn. He began writing film reviews in 1962 Nowarra Music by Wolfgang Böhmer Set for various newspapers and magazines. In 1964, he Design Reinhard Dietmann Producer Rudolf collaborated with Max Zihlmann and Klaus Lemke Thome Production Company Moana Film, on his first short film and became managing direc- Berlin Principal Cast Sabine Bach, Roger Tebb, tor of the Munich Film Critics’ Club in 1965. He Vladimir Weigl, Guntram Brattia, André Meyer founded his own production company, Moana Film, Length 95 min, 2599 m Format 35 mm, color, in 1977. In 1981, he received the Guild Award in the cs Original Version German Subtitled category second best German film for Berlin – Version English Sound Technology Mono Chamissoplatz and in 1989 he received the International Festival Screenings Berlin International Film Critics’ Award at Montreal for his 2001 (New German Films) film The Philosopher. He founded his own distribution company, Prometheus, in 1993. His film Paradiso (1999) won a Silver Bear at Berlin 2000.

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66 Weiser

During his childhood, Pawel befriends the mysterious outsider David, who not only kindles colorful explosions, but is also considered to be a philosopher. One day, during his most powerful explosion, David simply vanishes. No one believes Pawel’s story that David ascen- ded to heaven. Even as an adult, Pawel suffers from the memories. As a result, he under- takes a search to find David, whom he believes is still alive, but in another form. zone) Michael Mendel (photo: Piotr Buynowicz © 1999 Prawa autorskie zastrze´

Genre Literature Category Feature Film Wojciech Marczewski was born in 1944 in Lodz. After his studies in Cinema Year of Production 2000 History and Philosophy, he studied Directing at the Academy for Theater, Director Wojciech Marczewski Screen- Television and Film in Poland. He currently works as a graphic artist, play Toni Grisoni, Wojciech Marczewski screenplay writer, and film and television director. Since 1984, he has Director of Photography Krysztof been a member of the teaching faculty at the National Film and Television Ptak Editor Milena Fiedler Music by Academy in Copenhagen, and instructed at the National Film and Zbigniew Preisner Set Design Andrzej Television Academy of Great Britain from 1992-1994. He has led Kowalczyk Producer Iwona Ziulkowska numerous directing, writing and acting workshops in Germany, Holland, Production Company Filmowe Studio Switzerland, Denmark and Poland. In addition to his feature films, he has Tor, Warsaw, in co-production Vega Film, directed numerous television films. His films include: The Anatomy Zurich, Provobis, Berlin Principal Cast Lesson (1968), Travellers like other ones (1969), Departures, Marek Kondrat, Juliane Köhler, Krystyna Returns (1970-72), Easter (1975), Whiter than snow (1976), Janda, Michael Mendel Length 115 min, Nightmares (1977) – winner of the 2nd Prize in Silver at the Festival of 2747 m Format 35 mm, color Original Polish Films Danzig 1979, the OCIC at San Sebastian 1979, the Publisher’s Version Polish Subtitled Versions Prize 1979 from the magazine Film, and the Andrzej Munk Award for best English, German Sound Technology film 1979, Keyskeeper (1978) – prize winner at the TV Film Festival in Dolby Digital International Festival Olsztyn 1980, Shivers (1979) – winner of the 2nd Prize in Silver at the Screenings Berlin 2001 (in competition) Festival of Polish Films 1981, the Silver Bear at Berlin 1982, the FIPRESCI With backing from Eurimages 1982, and the CICAE at Berlin 1982, Escape from ”The Liberty“ Cinema (1991) – winner of the Grand Prize at the Festival of Polish Films 1991, the Publisher’s Prize 1991 from the magazine Film, un certain regard at Cannes 1991, Grand Prize at the International Film Festival Avoriaz, France 1992, and Grand Prize at the Film Festival Burgos, Spain 1994, and Time of Treachery (1997) – winner of the Special Jury Award at the Festival of Polish Films 1997.

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67 Das weisse Rauschen THE WHITE NOISE

Katja is tired of getting her schizophrenic brother out of serious trouble. But Lukas unwaveringly follows his self-destructive way of living. He is obsessed with the thought that the whole world is against him. Katja’s last and ultimate try to bring Lukas back to his senses ends with him jumping into a river. Just in time, a hobo appears and saves his life. At the vagrant’s side, Lukas is introduced to a whole new life, far away from the usual standard of today’s society. These people do not expect him to behave in a ”normal“ way. They accept him as he is and wants to be. He travels south with them, but tension rises as Lukas often endangers the group with this aggressive behav- ior. Finally, the situation escalates. Lukas dives into the sea and starts to swim. He is already very far out, before all sight of him is lost. He will never again endanger or hurt anyone … Das weisse Rauschen deals sensitively with the effects of schizophrenia without presenting a ”thesis play“. Although the main characters have to fight serious problems, they do not despair. They take on the challenge, developing tricks to succeed and get through life. Daniel Brühl

Genre Coming-of-Age Story, Drama Category Johann Weingartner was born in 1970 in Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2000 Feldkirch, Austria. After studying Physics, he Director Johann Weingartner Screenplay Johann earned a diploma as a Camera-Assistant from Weingartner, Toby Amann, Matthias Schellenberg the AAC Austrian Association of Cinematog- Directors of Photography Toby Amann, Matthias raphy and went on to study Neurology at the Schellenberg, Johann Weingartner Editors Dirk University of Vienna and the Neurosurgery Oetelshoven, Andreas Wodraschke Music by Marek Dept. of the Steglitz Clinic in Berlin. In 1997 he Goldowski Set Design Claudia Stock Producer began postgraduate studies at the Academy of Annette Pisacane Production Company Cameo Media Arts KHM in Cologne. His films include Film & Fernsehproduktion, Cologne, in co-production the shorts: Der junge Mann auf dem with the Academy of Media Arts KHM, Cologne blauen Sofa (1994), §263 (1995), Der Principal Cast Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Dreifachstecker (1994) – winner of sever- Patrick Joswig Casting Outcast Length 106 min, al prizes including the Short Film Prize at the 3095 m Format Mini Digital Video Blow up 35 mm, Filmfestival Emden, Split Brain (1997), and color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Sound Frank (1999). Technology Dolby Digital International Festival Screenings Ophüls-Festival Saarbrücken 2001 Inter- national Awards Max-Ophüls Prize With backing from Filmbüro NW, State of Voralberg, Austria

World Sales: please contact Cameo Film & Fernsehproduktion e.K. · Annette Pisacane Lübeckerstr. 6 · D-50668 Cologne phone +49-2 21-9 12 81 20 · fax +49-2 21-9 12 81 33 www.dasweisserauschen.de · email: [email protected]

68 www.vermisst-auf-dem- Oktoberfest.de WWW.MISSING-AT-THE-OKTOBERFEST.DE

Hanna Goebel and her daughter, Laura, left their home in Friedberg in Hessen on 16 September 2000, heading for the Oktoberfest in Munich, but never returned home. Three weeks later, a search initiative was started on the Internet under the website www.vermisst-auf-dem-Oktoberfest.de. Despite numerous tips, Hanna and Laura Goebel never turned up again. On 8 January 2001, a video camera was found in a strip of woods near Augsburg – the very camera the two had with them on their trip … Dietmar Mössmer, Maja Wolff Dietmar Mössmer,

Genre Family Category Feature Film Cinema Charly Weller was born in 1951 in Marburg an Year of Production 2001 Director Charly der Lahn. He studied Theology, Law and Journalism Weller Screenplay Charly Weller Director of in Berlin. During his studies, he completed the tele- Photography Charly Weller Editor Nicole vision documentary 4 Wochen ohne Fern- Ziegler-Vladarski, Charly Weller Music by sehen, which won the Adolf-Grimme Award in Martin Kern, Haunsdorfer Singers, Vinscher 1975. In 1980, he became an assistant director Dreigesang, Kreuther Klarinettenmusi Set under the guidance of Peter Fleischmann. He has Design Udo Poppitz Producer Charly Weller directed Wetzlar ist nicht Washington, Production Company Samurai Film, Munich, Favoriten, and Doberstein for the German in co-production with Odeonfilm, Munich public broadcaster ZDF. His short film The Only Principal Cast Maja Wolff, Marlina Pfefferer, Forgotten Take of Casablanca won the Prix Dietmar Mössmer, Markus Hering, Udo Poppitz, du Jury at Cannes in 1983, the Short Film Prize at Carlo Weller Length 92 min, 2478 m Format Figueira da Foz and was shown at over 20 festivals 35 mm, color, 1:1.37 Original Version worldwide. He won the Max-Ophüls-Promotional German Subtitled Version English Sound Award in 1991 for his first feature film Schlamm- Technology Dolby SR International beisser. He has directed more than 40 episodes Festival Screenings Ophüls-Festival of numerous television series, including: Ein Fall Saarbrücken 2001 (in competition) With für Zwei, Auf Achse, Schwarz greift ein, backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Im Namen des Gesetzes and Die Kommissarin.

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69 Foreign Representatives

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74 EXPORTERS

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[email protected] homepage: www.eaglegl.com The Export-Union of German Cinema – A Profile

The Export-Union of German Cinema is the national information EXPORT-UNION’S RANGE OF ACTIVITIES: and advisory center for the export of German films. It was established in 1954 as the ”umbrella“ association for the Association of Close cooperation with the major international film German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German festivals, e.g. Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Montreal, Toronto, Feature Film Producers and the Association of German Film San Sebastian, Tokyo, New York, Locarno, Karlovy Vary; Exporters and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. Organization of umbrella stands for German sales companies Shareholders in the limited company are the Association of and producers at international TV markets, e.g. MIP-TV, German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German MIPCOM, NATPE; Feature Film Producers, the Association of German Film Exporters and the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Staging of German Film Weeks in key cities of the interna- The members of the board of the Export-Union of German tional film industry (1999: Paris, London, Madrid, Buenos Cinema are: Jochem Strate (chairman), Rolf Bähr, Antonio Aires and Mexico-City); Exacoustos Jr. and Michael Weber.

The Export-Union itself has nine permanent staff: Providing advice and information for representatives of • Christian Dorsch, managing director the international press and buyers from the fields of • Susanne Reinker, PR manager cinema, video, TV; • Julia Basler, project manager • Angela Hawkins, publications editor • Cordula Ulrich, PR assistant Providing advice and information for German filmmakers and • Stephanie Weiss, PR assistant press on international festivals, conditions of participation and • Nicole Kaufmann, project coordinator German films being shown; • Petra Bader, office manager • Barbara Hirth, accounts Publication of informational literature on the current In addition, the Export-Union shares foreign representatives German cinema: KINO-Magazine and KINO-Yearbook; in eight countries with the Federal German Film Board (FFA). (cf. page 70)

The Export-Union’s budget of presently approx. DM 4 An Internet website (http://www.german-cinema.de) million (including projects, administration, foreign representatives) offering both information about new German films as well comes from the export levies, monies from the office of the Federal as a film archive; Government Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and the Media and the FFA. In addition, the six main economic film funds (Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, FilmFör- Organization of the selection procedure for the German derung Hamburg, Filmstiftung NRW, Medien- and Filmgesellschaft entry for the OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film. Baden-Württemberg and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) have made a financial contribution, currently amounting to DM 0.45 million, towards the work of the Export-Union. In 1997, the Export- The focus of the work: feature films; documentaries with Union and five large economic film funds founded an advisory theatrical potential and shorts that have been invited to the main committee whose goal is the concentration of efforts for the pro- sections of the major festivals. motion of German film abroad (constitution).

The Export-Union is a founding member of ”European Film Promotion“, an amalgamation of twenty national film-PR agencies (UNIFRANCE, Scandinavian Films, British Screen, Holland Film, among others) with similar responsibilities to those of the Export- Union. The organization with its headquarters in Hamburg aims to develop and realize joint projects for the presentation of European films on an international level. imprint

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Editors Susanne Reinker, Angela Hawkins

Production Reports Martin Blaney, Simon Kingsley

Contributors for this issue Martin Blaney, Hans Ernst, Simon Kingsley, Ralf Schenk,Thilo Wydra

Translations Simon Kingsley, Lucinda Rennison

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