EXPORT-UNION OF GERMAN CINEMA 3/2000 At San Sebastian in Competition ALASKA.DE by Esther Gronenborn RENDEZ-VOUS AT LOCARNO: Philip Gröning, Romuald Karmakar and H.C. Schmid Beta Film: THE SALES FORCE THE SUBJECTIVE VIEW vs. THE ETHNOGRAPHER Portraits of Helke Misselwitz and Rudolf Thome Kino Scene from:“alaska.de” We make the best even better Subtitling Dubbing Post-Production DVD-Mastering Graphic Design tel:+49-2205/9211-0 fax:+49-2205/9211-99 www.untertitelung.de [email protected] www. german- cinema. de/ INFORMATION ON GERMAN FILMS. GERMAN CINEMA 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] KINO 3/2000 German Films at this Summer’s 6 Location: Germany 28 International Festivals German Regional Film Commissions: a Multitude of Services 12 The Subjective View Portrait of Helke Misselwitz 13 The Ethnographer Portrait of Rudolf Thome 15 The Sales Force Beta Film 16 The Stuff Of Fairytales Cine Aktuell 18 Two At The Top Wüste Film 32 German Classics 20 KINO news 32 Der geteilte Himmel THE DIVIDED SKY Konrad Wolf 33 Hitler – 22 In Production ein Film aus Deutschland HITLER – A FILM FROM GERMANY 22 Die Eiserne Stadt Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Fred Kelemen 34 Der Untertan 22 Emil und die Detektive THE KAISER’S LACKEY Franziska Buch Wolfgang Staudte 23 Der Felsen 35 Die wunderbare Lüge Dominik Graf der Nina Petrowna 24 Gott und die Welt THE WONDERFUL LIE OF Thorsten Wettcke NINA PETROWNA 24 Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman Ignatz Schwarz Heinrich Breloer 25 Oder/Odra Helke Misselwitz 26 Der Platz Jürgen Böttcher 26 Der Tunnel Roland Suso Richter 27 Venus Talking Rudolf Thome CONTENTS 52 Kalt ist der Abendhauch AT MONTREAL WORLD GREATS 36 New German Films COLD IS THE EVENING BREEZE Rainer Kaufmann 36 alaska.de AT SAN SEBASTIAN AT V E N I C E IN COMPETITION 53 Der Krieger und die Kaiserin Esther Gronenborn THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR DREAMS AND VISIONS 37 L’Amour, l’Argent, Tom Tykwer l’Amour AT LO CA R N O 54 Manila AT LO CA R N O IN COMPETITION IN COMPETITION Philip Gröning Romuald Karmakar 38 Anna Wunder 55 Marmor, Stein, Eisen Ulla Wagner LOVE NEVER FAILS 39 Der Boxprinz Hansjörg Thurn THE BOXING PRINCE 56 Models Gerd Kroske Mark von Seydlitz 40 Conamara 57 München – Geheimnisse Eoin Moore AT LO CA R N O einer Stadt CRITICS’ WEEK 41 Crazy AT LO CA R N O PIAZZA GRANDE MUNICH – SECRETS OF A CITY Hans-Christian Schmid Dominik Graf, Michael Althen 42 Desire 58 Die Polizistin AT MONTREAL Colleen Murphy THE POLICEWOMAN IN COMPETITION 43 Eine Hand voll Gras Andreas Dresen A HANDFUL OF GRASS AT MONTREAL IN COMPETITION 59 Tolle Lage AT KARLOVY VARY Roland Suso Richter PERFECT SIGHT ANOTHER VIEW 44 Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile Sören Voigt THE LONELINESS OF 60 Und das ist erst der Anfang THE CROCODILES IT’S JUST THE BEGINNING Jobst Oetzmann Pierre Franckh 45 England! AT SAN SEBASTIAN 61 Undertaker’s Paradise AT SAN SEBASTIAN NEW DIRECTORS’ COMPETITION NEW DIRECTORS’ COMPETITION Achim von Borries M. X. Oberg 46 Erkan & Stefan 62 Venedig – Als hätten THE BUNNYGUARDS wir geträumt Michael ”Bully“ Herbig VENICE – LIKE A DREAM 47 Falling Rocks AT MONTREAL Wolfgang Ettlich WORLD CINEMA Peter Keglevic 48 Freunde 64 Film-Exporters TRUST ME Martin Eigler 66 Foreign Representatives / Imprint 49 Gripsholm Xavier Koller 50 Im Juli IN JULY Fatih Akin 51 Die Innere Sicherheit THE STATE I AM IN AT V E N I C E Christian Petzold CINEMA OF THE PRESENT German regional film commissions: LOCATION: GERMANY , shot in Saxony-Anhalt Forget America Forget ”Fresh“ locations on ”Fresh“ When you think of Germany, the images of fairytale castles, New Locacions In the East Steins of frothy lager beer, enormous Wurst sausages and Fräuleins in dirndls against a picturesque Alpine landscape may Then, with the creation of new funds in former East Germany invariably come to mind. such as Filmbüro Mecklenburg Vorpommern, and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and the Filmboard The job of the film commissions and location offices dotted Berlin-Brandenburg, producers have had their eyes opened around the country is to persuade filmmakers that Germany to many new ”fresh“ locations with potential as the backdrop amounts to much, much more. for a film production. Following the North American model of the film commissions, A good example of locations which appear almost exotic to as gathered together in the Association of Film Commis- (West) German eyes are those appearing in young filmmaker sioners International (AFCI), a number of information Vanessa Jopp’s debut film Forget America (Vergiss offices has sprung up throughout Germany since the beginning of Amerika), which won this year’s HypoVereinsbank Young the 1990s, with the Bavarian capital of Munich being the first with Director’s Prize at the Munich Film Festival in June and was shot its Film Information Office. on location in the deepest East in Saxony-Anhalt. Given the federal structure of Germany and the healthy competi- But, as Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer points out, tion between the Länder, it was not long before a network of ”most of the (German) films are always being set in the same location offices was established, usually under the wing of one of old cities. That naturally has purely technical reasons for the the existing public film funds, such as Filmstiftung NRW, production; it is simply more complicated when nobody lives FilmFörderung Hamburg and FFF Bayern. in the place where you are shooting. That means that all of the crew have to be brought there and put up in a hotel. In Berlin, 6 a multitude of services. Contact Addresses Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission Rheinland-Pfalz August-Bebel-Str. 26-53 ArgeM - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medien D-14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg Fritz-Kahl-Straße 24 · D-57122 Mainz phone: +49-3 31-7 43 87 30 · fax: +49-3 31-7 43 87 99 phone: +49-61 31-328 55 00, F: +49-61 31-328 55 05 e-mail: [email protected] · www.bbfc.de e-mail: [email protected] www.boomtown.de Contact: Daniel Hasler Contact: Rainer Abendrot Filmbüro Franken Saarländisches Filmbüro Solgerstraße 6 · D-90429 Nürnberg Nauwieser Straße 19 · D-66111 Saarbrücken phone: +49-911-45 48 41/201 99 50 phone: +49-6 81-360 47, F: +49-6 81-37 46 68 e-mail: [email protected] Contact: Jörg Witte Contact: Sami Haidar Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH Film Commission NRW Bahnhofstraße 7 · D-86150 Augsburg Kaistraße 14 · D-40221 Düsseldorf phone: +49-8 21-5 02 07 33 · fax: +49-8 21-5 02 07 46 phone: +49-2 11-93 05 00 · fax: +49-2 11-93 05 05 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Contact: Gerda M. Rutsche www.filmstiftung.de Contact: Andrea Baaken Stadt Dortmund Büro für Medien- und Kommunikationswirtschaft FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Friedensplatz 1, Rathaus · D-44122 Dortmund Location Office phone: +49-2 31-5 02 20 20 · fax: +49-2 31-5 02 75 85 Schwanthalerstraße 69 · D-80336 Munich e-mail: [email protected] phone: +49-89-54 46 02 16 · fax: +49-89-54 46 02-23 Contact: Doris Zerber-Menze e-mail: [email protected] www.fff-bayern.de Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf www.location-bayern.com Werbe- und Wirtschaftsförderungsamt Contact: Anja Metzger Mühlenstraße 29 · D-40200 Düsseldorf phone: +49-2 11-8 99 55 01 · fax: +49-2 11-8 92 90 62 Film & Medienbüro Niedersachsen e-mail: [email protected] Lohstraße 45a · D-49074 Osnabrück Contact: Michael Kosiedowski phone: +49-5 41-2 84 26 · fax: +49-5 41-2 95 07, 2 83 27 e-mail: [email protected] FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH/ www.filmbuero-nds.de Film Commission Contact: Karl Maier, Kerstin Hehmann Friedensallee 14-16 · D-22765 Hamburg phone: +49-40-3 98 37 15 · fax: +49-40-3 98 37 10 Hessische Filmförderung e-mail: [email protected] · www.ffhh.de Am Steinernen Stock 1 · D-60320 Frankfurt am Main Contact: Kerstin Lüthje phone: +49-69-155 45 16, F: +49-69-155 45 14 Contact: Maria Wismeth Stadt Köln Amt des Oberbürgermeisters Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Servicebüro Film- und Fernsehproduktion e.V./Landesfilmzentrum Markmannsgasse 7 · D-50667 Cologne Röntgenstraße 22 · D-19055 Schwerin phone: +49-2 21-2 46 61 · fax: +49-2 21-2 64 06 Tel: +49-3 85-55 50 81 · fax: +49-3 85-51 27 71 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.stadt-koeln.de www.film-mv.de Contact: Andreas Füser Contact: Ruth Stegemann Stadt Münster MFG, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden- Filmservice Münsterland/Presse- und Informationsamt Württemberg mbH Stadthaus 1, Klemenstraße 10 · D-48143 Münster Huberstraße 4 · D-70174 Stuttgart phone: +49-2 51-4 92 13 80 · fax: +49-2 51-4 92 77 46 phone: +49-7 11-1 22 28 33 · fax: +49-7 11-1 22 28 34 e-mail: [email protected] Contact: Katja Walter www.muenster.de/stadt/filmservice e-mail: [email protected] · www.film.mfg.de Contact: Nicola Ebel MSH - Gesellschaft zur Förderung audio- Film Commission Region Stuttgart visueller Werke in Schleswig-Holstein mbH im Media Forum Stuttgart Schildstraße 12 · D-23552 Lübeck Rosensteinstraße 22 · D-70191 Stuttgart phone: +49-4 51-1 22 41 09 · fax: +49-4 51-7 19 78 phone: +49-7 11-2 59 44 30 · fax: +49-7 11-25 94 43 33 Contact: Andrea Kunsemüller email: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.film.region-stuttgart.de Contact: Marianne Gassner Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Hainstraße 19 · D-04109 Leipzig Stadt Wuppertal phone: +49-3 41-2 69 87 23 · fax: +49-3 41-2 69 87 65 Presseamt und Stadtmarketing www.mdm-locationguide.de Rathaus · D-42269 Wuppertal Contact: Manfred Schmidt phone: +49-2 02-5 63 51 25 · fax: +49-2 02-5 63 80 66 e-mail: [email protected] www.wuppertal.de Contact: Ernst-Andreas Ziegler 7 German regional film commissions: everybody simply just goes home in the evenings, and you save hundreds of thousands of Marks.