GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:26 Seite 1 GFQ GER MA N F I L M S Q UA R T E RLY 7 THE FALL ISSUE 1 0 DIRECTORS NIELS LAUPERT & THERESA VON ELTZ 2 - PRODUCERS THOMAS KUFUS & VOLKER HEISE of ZERO ONE FILM 4 ACTRESS LIV LISA FRIES E U S S I GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:27 Seite 2 CONTENTS GFQ 4-2017 19 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 28 29 30 32 2 GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:27 Seite 3 GFQ 4-2017 CONTENTS IN T H I S ISSUE PORTRAITS NEW SHORTS A FRESH PERSPECTIVE FIND FIX FINISH A portrait of director Niels Laupert ................................................. 4 Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat ................................................... 30 AN EMPATHETIC STORYTELLER GALAMSEY – FÜR EINE HANDVOLL GOLD A portrait of director Theresa von Eltz ............................................. 6 GALAMSEY Johannes Preuss .......................................................... 30 MAKING A MARK LAB/P – POETRY IN MOTION 2 A portrait of the production company zero one film ....................... 8 various directors ............................................................................. 31 BRAINS, BEAUTY & BABYLON BERLIN DAS SATANISCHE DICKICHT – DREI A portrait of actress Liv Lisa Fries ................................................. 10 THE SATANIC THICKET – THREE Willy Hans ............................... 31 WATU WOTE – ALL OF US Katja Benrath .................................................................................. 32 NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 12 WO SIE IST WHAT IF Linda Gasser .................................................................. 32 NEW FEATURES UPCOMING FILMS BERLIN FALLING Ken Duken ........................................................................................ 19 BENJAMIN BLÜMCHEN Tim Trachte ............................................. 33 DIE EINSIEDLER CARAVAN Sebastian Schipper ........................................................ 33 THE EREMITES Ronny Trocker .................................................................................. 20 CLIMATE WARRIORS Carl-A. Fechner, Nicolai Niemann ............. 33 FIKKEFUCHS DEUTSCHLAND86 Florian Cossen, Arne Feldhusen ..................... 34 BEDBUGS Jan Henrik Stahlberg ...................................................................... 21 ELLA & NELL Aline Chukwuedo ..................................................... 34 DER HAUPTMANN FRITZI – EINE WENDEWUNDERGESCHICHTE THE CAPTAIN Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn .......................................................... 34 Robert Schwentke ........................................................................... 22 FÜNF FREUNDE – IM TAL DER DINOSAURIER HOT DOG Mike Marzuk ...................................................................................... 35 Torsten Künstler ............................................................................. 23 A HOME IN HOLLYWOOD DER LANGE SOMMER DER THEORIE Uli Gaulke, Agnes Lisa Wegner ........................................................ 35 THE LONG SUMMER OF THEORY Irene von Alberti .............................................................................. 24 ICH ICH ICH Zora Rux ...................................................................... 35 LOCKDOWN – TÖDLICHES ERWACHEN DAS JOSHUA-PROFIL LOCKDOWN Jochen Alexander Freydank ............................................................. 36 Bogdana Vera Lorenz ....................................................................... 25 KAHLSCHLAG Max Gleschinski ..................................................... 36 DAS PUBERTIER TEENOSAURUS REX KU’DAMM 59 Sven Bohse .............................................................. 36 Leander Haußmann ........................................................................ 26 LILIANE SUSEWIND Joachim Masannek ....................................... 37 SOMMERHÄUSER THE GARDEN SPIELMACHER Timon Modersohn ................................................... 37 Sonja Maria Kröner .......................................................................... 27 STORY OF BERLIN Erik Schmitt ................................................. 37 UNWIEDERBRINGLICH ENTFLIEHT DIE ZEIT – EINE CHRONIK NEW DOCUMENTARIES Carmen Treichel ............................................................................. 38 SCHUMANNS BARGESPRÄCHE WENDY 2 Hanno Olderdissen ..................................................... 38 SCHUMANN’S BAR TALKS Marieke Schroeder .......................................................................... 28 WUFF – FOLGE DEM HUND Detlev Buck ........................................ 38 STREETSCAPES Heinz Emigholz .............................................................................. 28 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 41 TOKIO HOTEL – HINTER DIE WELT Film Exporters ................................................................................. 42 TOKIO HOTEL – BEHIND THE WORLD Oliver Schwabe .............................................................................. 29 Imprint .............................................................................................. 43 3 GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:27 Seite 4 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 4-2017 r o h t o B s a i h t a M © A FRESH PERSPECTIVE A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR NIELS LAUPERT elcome to Blockbuster told on various levels of time, between Julian WHATEVER HAPPENS is the first film by “ Street”, says Niels (Fahri Yardim) and Hannah (Sylvia Hoeks) Jumpseat Filmproduktion, which Laupert Laupert, laughing as he have anything in common with what Laupert founded together with his close friend Wwelcomes me to the office calls “great German arthouse cinema.” Benjamin Grosch, a strategy advisor, in 2013. of his company Jumpseat Filmproduktion, However, it was actually born of necessity. located in a salesroom on one of Berlin- “Unfortunately, there is not much between There were problems (as yet) funding an - Mitte’s most idyllic streets. Two other film- those two poles in cinema here,” says the other, much more complicated project, not makers, responsible for some of the biggest filmmaker who has chosen to live in Berlin least due to its setting abroad during the mainstream hits of German cinema in recent and to adopt more of a middle approach. And period of the First World War. “That felt as years, live in the immediate neighborhood. in this case, that has nothing to do with doing though I had lost four years of my time,” “All just coincidence,” Laupert says in denial things by halves, but with the right perspec- Laupert says, who had a subsequent rethink when asked whether there is a connection tive. “I wanted to make a film that tells its and looked out for a small story that could between this choice of location and his col- story profoundly but also has light, enter - be realized with as few protagonists and leagues’ success. taining moments without ultimately slipping locations as possible. “I always see an op- into toilet humor. It was vital for me that the portunity when things don’t work out – and Laupert’s new film WHATEVER HAPPENS – characters take themselves seriously, and in every farewell, which is dealt with thema- the first since his debut with SEVEN DAYS I also wanted to show a baby that doesn’t tically in WHATEVER HAPPENS, of course.” SUNDAY ten years ago – tells a love story automatically pee in someone’s face the with no resemblance to the cheery comic minute it appears on screen. Nevertheless, In this case, the director also came across monotony with which German cinema often viewers ought to find the film accessible in his leading actors almost by chance. Initially, seeks to win over mass audiences. But nor ways that don’t just demand an intellectual he had not considered Yardim, who has does this view of the broken relationship, approach.” made a name for himself in films primarily 4 GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:27 Seite 5 GFQ 4-2017 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT as a joker recently. But once again, a fresh – and nothing is more important for film- intention is for Laupert’s skill in the unusual perspective helped. Rather than looking at makers than to keep on changing the way double function of director/author and pro- the demo-tape, Laupert watched a video on they look at things.” ducer to bear fruit beyond WHATEVER HAP- YouTube showing a laudatio the actor gave PENS. The question of what success means when presenting a prize for integration: Born in Frankfurt, he himself learned to exactly is also a question of perspective, of “I noticed then how much warmth and intel- enjoy changes in perspective during his course. “Naturally, as a filmmaker you ligence Fahri has – and that he usually plays study course at the University of Television dream about a big audience. To make films roles in which he doesn’t use his immense and Film in Munich. As from 1997 he studied just for yourself is the most expensive form abilities to the full.” He had already en - production there, only to re-register thanks of onanism, as one of my professors always countered Hoeks at the start of both of their to a special dispensation – after four years said to us in warning,” the 42-year-old decla- careers, at the film festival in Sofia/Bulgaria, and a successful diploma thesis entitled res, with a view to the future. “But there is a where Laupert was showing his crime “The Producer Between Businessman and difference whether you make films because drama