German Films Quarterly 2 · 2008 AT CANNES Un Certain Regard WOLKE 9 by Andreas Dresen Cinéfondation GESTERN IN EDEN by Jan Speckenbach Critics’ Week DAS FREMDE IN MIR by Emily Atef PORTRAITS 90 Years of ARRI, Directors Pepe Danquart & Sylke Enders, Producer 23|5 Film, and Actor Andreas Schmidt GERMAN FILMS AND IN THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF In Competition In Competition In Competition PALERMO SHOOTING DELTA WALTZ WITH BASHIR by Wim Wenders by Kornél Mundruczó by Ari Folman Producer: Neue Road Movies/Berlin German Co-Producer: German Co-Producer: Razor Film/Berlin World Sales: HanWay Films/London Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris Un Certain Regard Cinéfondation Atelier TULPAN GESTERN IN EDEN WOMB by Sergey Dvortsevoy THE OTHER DAY IN EDEN by Benedek Fliegauf by Jan Speckenbach German Co-Producer: Pandora Film/Cologne German Producer: Razor Film/Berlin World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne Producer/World Sales: Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie (dffb)/Berlin Directors’ Fortnight Critics’ Week Critics’ Week SALAMANDRA DAS FREMDE IN MIR DER KLOANE by Pablo Aguero THE STRANGER IN ME by Emily Atef THE RUNT by Andreas Hykade German Co-Producer: Rohfilm/Leipzig & Berlin Producer: NiKo Film/Berlin Producer/World Sales: World Sales: Bavaria Film Studio Film Bilder/Stuttgart International/Geiselgasteig CO-PRODUCTIONS THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2008 In Competition Un Certain Regard Un Certain Regard LE SILENCE DE LORNA WOLKE 9 O’ HORTEN by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne CLOUD 9 by Andreas Dresen by Bent Hamer German Co-Producers: Mogador Film/ Producer: Rommel Film/Berlin German Co-Producer: Pandora Film/Cologne Frankfurt-Berlin & Gemini Film/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: Celluloid Dreams/Paris All photos courtesy of not contractual. Credits and world sales agents. producers Cannes Classics Midnight Special Directors’ Fortnight LOLA MONTEZ SURVEILLANCE LIVERPOOL by Max Ophuels by Jennifer Lynch by Lisandro Alonso German Co-Producers: Gamma Film, Oska-Film, German Producer: Lago Film/Berlin German Co-Producer: Black Forest Films/Berlin Union-Film/Munich World Sales: Arclight Films/Los Angeles World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: Les Films du Jeudi/Paris Critics’ Week Critics’ Week Critics’ Week BETTER THINGS LA SANGRE BROTA SNOW by Duane Hopkins BLOOD APPEARS by Pablo Fendrik by Aida Begic German Co-Producer: Flying Moon German Co-Producer: Neue Cameo Film/Cologne German Co-Producer: Rohfilm/Leipzig & Berlin Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Coach14/Paris & Barcelona World Sales: Celluloid Dreams/Paris German Films Quarterly 2 · 2008 6 portrait 90 YEARS OF ARRI MAKING YOUR VISION A REALITY directors’ portraits 12 ON THE BORDER A portrait of Pepe Danquart 14 CONTRADICTIONS & SANDCASTLES A portrait of Sylke Enders producers’ portrait 16 PART OF THE PROCESS A portrait of 23|5 Filmproduktion actor’s portrait 18 SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL A portrait of Andreas Schmidt 20 news in production 26 13 SEMESTERS Frieder Wittich 27 66/67 Carsten Ludwig, Jan-Christoph Glaser 28 FRAEULEIN STINNES FAEHRT UM DIE WELT Erica von Moeller 28 GEGEN DEN STROM Jan Fehse 29 GEORGE TABORIS MEIN KAMPF Urs Odermatt 30 DIE GESCHICHTE VOM BRANDNER KASPAR Joseph Vilsmaier 31 HANNA’S WORDS Andreas Struck 32 JERICHOW Christian Petzold 33 LIPPELS TRAUM Lars Buechel 33 DIE PERLMUTTERFARBE Marcus H. Rosenmueller 34 PINK TAXI Uli Gaulke 35 SCHATTENMENSCHEN Darioush Shirvani 36 THE THREE INVESTIGATORS – THE SECRET OF TERROR CASTLE Florian Baxmeyer 37 UNTER STROM Zoltan Paul 38 WERTHER Uwe Janson 39 DIE WUNDERSAME WELT DER WASCHKRAFT Hans-Christian Schmid 40 ZWISCHEN HEUTE UND MORGEN Fred Breinersdorfer new german films 42 ALLEALLE Pepe Planitzer 43 AUGE IN AUGE – EINE DEUTSCHE FILMGESCHICHTE EYE TO EYE – ALL ABOUT GERMAN FILM Michael Althen, Hans Helmut Prinzler 44 BERLIN AM MEER BERLIN BY THE SEA Wolfgang Eissler 45 COMEBACK Maximilian Plettau 46 DR. ALEMÁN Tom Schreiber 47 DWK 5 – DIE WILDEN KERLE THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH 5 Joachim Masannek 48 DIE ENTDECKUNG DER CURRYWURST THE INVENTION OF THE CURRIED SAUSAGE Ulla Wagner 49 DIE FRAU DES ANARCHISTEN THE ANARCHIST’S WIFE Marie Noëlle, Peter Sehr 50 DAS FREMDE IN MIR THE STRANGER IN ME Emily Atef 51 GESTERN IN EDEN THE OTHER DAY IN EDEN Jan Speckenbach 52 DIE HANDWERKER GOTTES GOD’S CRAFTSMEN Siegmar Warnecke 53 ICH WILL DA SEIN – JENNY GROELLMANN THE BALLAD OF JENNY G. Petra Weisenburger 54 IM JAHR DES HUNDES IN THE YEAR OF THE DOG Ursula Scheid 55 LAUF UM DEIN LEBEN – VOM JUNKIE ZUM IRONMAN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE – FROM JUNKIE TO IRONMAN Adnan G. Koese 56 LOVE, PEACE & BEATBOX Volker Meyer-Dabisch 57 MEINE MUETTER – SPURENSUCHE IN RIGA TWO MOTHERS – THE SEARCH BEGAN IN RIGA Rosa von Praunheim 58 MEIN TRAUM ODER DIE EINSAMKEIT IST NIE ALLEIN MY DREAM OR LONELINESS NEVER WALKS ALONE Roland Reber 59 MEMORY BOOKS Christa Graf 60 NOVEMBERKIND NOVEMBER CHILD Christian Schwochow 61 DIE OESTERREICHISCHE METHODE THE AUSTRIAN METHOD Florian Mischa Boeder, Peter Boesenberg, Gerrit Lucas, Erica von Moeller, Alexander Tavakoli 62 PLATTLN IN UMTATA SHOESLAPPING IN AFRICA Peter Heller 63 SOMMER SUMMER Mike Marzuk 64 SOMMERSONNTAG SUMMER SUNDAY Sigi Kamml, Fred Breinersdorfer 65 TROUBLE – TEATIME IN HEILIGENDAMM Mind Pirates 66 DER WEISSE MIT DEM SCHWARZBROT WHITE MAN WITH BLACK BREAD Jonas Grosch 67 WOLKE 9 CLOUD 9 Andreas Dresen 71 film exporters 75 foreign representatives · imprint August Arnold and Robert Richter The young filmmakersThe young and founders of the company: 90 YEARS OF ARRI MAKING YOUR VISION A REALITY The ARRI Group is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor development engineers, optimize the technology as well as the work- of motion picture cameras, digital intermediate systems and lighting flows. equipment. 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