EXPORT-UNION OF GERMAN CINEMA 4/2001 AT TOKYO in Competition ANAM and MALUNDE THE STATE I'M IN Portrait of Christian Petzold DIGGING DEEP FOR THE ROOTS Portrait of Monika Treut SPECIAL REPORT Women Filmmakers in Germany Today Kino Scene from ”Anam“ (photo © Bavaria Scene from Film International) GERMAN CINEMA 6.–17. Februar 2002 http://www.berlinale.de www. german- cinema. de/ INFORMATION ON GERMAN FILMS. GERMAN CINEMA Export-Union des Deutschen Films GmbH Sonnenstrasse 21 · D-80331 Munich · phone +49-89-5 99 78 7 0 · fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 · email: [email protected] KINO 4/2001 6 Departure from the 32 Hundsköpfe ”Women’s Corner“ Karsten Laske Women Filmmakers in Germany Today 33 Pigs Will Fly Eoin Moore 14 ”The State I’m In“ 34 Solino Director’s Portrait Christian Petzold Fatih Akin 34 Väter 15 Digging Deep for the Roots Dani Levy Director’s Portrait Monika Treut 35 Vier Tunten für ein Halleluja Rosa von Praunheim 18 Personal Connections World Sales Portrait RRS Entertainment 20 Retaining the Cinematic Aesthetic 36 The 100 Most Producers’ Portrait Schramm Film Significant German Films (Part 3) 22 KINO news 36 Die Brücke THE BRIDGE Bernhard Wicki 37 Abschied von Gestern 28 In Production YESTERDAY GIRL Alexander Kluge 28 Baby 38 Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück Philipp Stölzl MOTHER KRAUSEN GOES TO HEAVEN 28 Ein Chinese mit dem Kontrabass Piel Jutzi Ullabritt Horn 39 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: 29 Dunkle Welten Der große Spieler, Ein Bild der Martina Reuter, Gavin Hodge Zeit (Teil 1) 30 Fickende Fische / Alles Positiv DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER: Almut Getto THE GREAT GAMBLER, A PICTURE OF 30 Ghetto Kids OUR TIME (PART 1) Christian Wagner Fritz Lang 31 Glaube-Liebe-Hoffnung 40 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: Iain Dilthey Inferno, Ein Spiel von Menschen 32 Die Hitlerkantate unserer zeit (Teil 2) Jutta Brückner DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER: INFERNO, MEN OF OUR TIME (PART 2) Fritz Lang CONTENTS 42 New German Films 42 New German Films 42 Anam 51 Das Sams AT TO KYO Buket Alakus THE SLURB IN COMPETITION 43 Ankommen Ben Verbong ARRIVE 52 Suck My Dick Axel Müller Oskar Roehler 44 Demonium 53 Thomas Pynchon Andreas Schnaas – A Journey into the Mind of P. 45 Escape to Life – The Erika and Fosco Dubini, Donatello Dubini Klaus Mann Story 54 Toter Mann Andrea Weiss, Wieland Speck Christian Petzold 46 Malunde – Eine Freundschaft 55 A Woman and a Half – wider Willen Hildegard Knef AT TO KYO IN COMPETITION MALUNDE – AN UNLIKELY Clarissa Ruge FRIENDSHIP Stefanie Sycholt 47 Marlene Dietrich – Her Own Song 57 Film Exporters David Riva 59 Foreign Representatives 59 Imprint 48 Mein Bruder der Vampir Sven Taddicken 49 The Navigators Ken Loach 50 Photographie und jenseits II PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND II Heinz Emigholz DEPARTURE FROM THE ”WOMEN’S CORNER“ Since last year, there has been no overlooking them: films by Spanish-Greek co-production, was made parallel to her work as a women directors are being shown in cinemas, winning prizes professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, and has just and getting themselves noticed. Esther Gronenborn had its premiere at the Montreal Film Festival. (alaska.de), Vanessa Jopp (Forget America/Vergiss Amerika, Engel & Joe), Connie Walther (Never Mind It would be possible to add many names. Vivian Naefe points the Wall/Wie Feuer und Flamme), Angela out that from her year at the Munich Academy of Television Schanelec (Passing Summer/Mein and Film the students Sherry Hormann, Ute langsames Leben) and Sandra Wieland, Liliane Targownik and she her- Nettelbeck (Mostly Martha/Drei self are repeatedly in the news, but nothing Sterne) belong to this series, but they is heard of the male colleagues who also include the Austrian directors graduated with them at the beginning Barbara Albert (Northern of the eighties. Skirts/Nordrand), Jessica Hausner (Lovely Rita) and The names of women television film Valeska Grisebach (Be My directors also make for a long list, Star/Mein Stern), whose including Gabi Kubach, Ilse graduation class at the Vienna Hofmann, Dagmar Damek, Academy of Film is now being © Jens Berger/TIP Verlag) Carola Hattop, Martina Esther Gronenborn (photo hailed as the ”Vienna School“. Elbert, Claudia Prietzel and many others. Up-and-coming generation directors Maria Speth (The Days Margarethe von Trotta resisted Between/In den Tag hinein) working for television for a long time. and Barbara Gebler (Salamander) However, for some years now – as she told have made graduation films with very per- her biographer Thilo Wydra – she has permit- sonal stories regarding their own generation, ted herself to become involved ”in a relaxed, opti- and are on the threshold of their professional mistic way“ with the smaller screen format and the diff- careers. The actresses Maria Bachmann (Thema erent production conditions it presents. Her most recent work to Nr. 1) and Nicolette Krebitz (Jeans) moved into direction be seen on television – last year – was a mini-series version of last year, and the latter is also offering support to the chances of Uwe Johnson’s novel Jahrestage. digital film as a producer. DEPARTURE FROM THE ”WOMEN’S CORNER“ Women Filmmakers in Germany Today by Claudia Lenssen Among the established women directors, Franziska Buch We shouldn’t forget the female documentary filmmakers who and Caroline Link have recently achieved successful statistics have followed the difficult road into the cinemas during the in the field of family cinema with their film versions of books by current year: Helga Reidemeister (God’s Cell/ Erich Kästner. Hermine Huntgeburth is presently Gotteszell) and Solveig Klaßen (Out of Tibet/ making Bibi Blocksberg, a fantasy film based on the famous Jenseits von Tibet), joined by Monika Treut series of children’s stories. And at the end of this winter, (Warrior of Light/Kriegerin des Lichts) with her Caroline Link’s new film Nowhere in Africa (Nirgend- portrait of a Brazilian woman who cares for street kids. And wo in Afrika), a story of youth in the Nazi period, will have its Karin Jurschick has won prizes with the portrait of her cinematic release. father It Should Have Been Nice After That (Danach hätte es schön sein müssen). Luzia Schmid Doris Dörrie, whose digitally-produced film Enlightenment from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne has just won the Guaranteed (Erleuchtung garantiert) ”seemed to work“ First Steps Award for her documentary film Groundspeed – – as she herself put it – in cinemas last year, is beginning new film in addition to Schmid, nominations also included the German work in October. Parallel to this, she is publishing a book on Film and Television Academy student Juliette Cazenave which her new, six-person comedy is based. Vivian Naefe, (Nicole & Jean) and the ”Konrad Wolf“ Academy student last seen in the cinemas with Four for Venice (Zwei Shaheen Dill-Riaz Ahmed (Sand und Wasser). Männer, zwei Frauen, vier Probleme) in 1998, has New films by Susanne Ofteringer (Nico-Icon) and finished making five TV films over the last two years, and is now Aelrun Goette (Ohne Bewährung) are also to be preparing a fantasy film for the cinema. Jeanine Meerapfel’s expected soon. new film Anna’s Summer (Annas Sommer), a German- 6 Kino 4/2001 WOMEN FILMMAKERS IN GERMANY TODAY forced into the ”women’s corner“, they want to make films ”for The Rule or the Exception? everyone“ (Link). They aim to produce ”films for people, not films for women“ (Huntgeburth), they want to avoid ”the role Are we looking at a chance boom which is likely to ebb again in of the underdog“ (Naefe), and be taken seriously ”as a person“ the near future? Or have women in the film world achieved some- (Gronenborn). But on the other hand, those questioned have thing which is far from the case regarding top positions in noticed, in general, that women in the industry are viewed the economy, politics and culture in Germany – in a different way to men. Are they entrusted with equality without quota systems and any noise the same budget as an equally experienced man? of battle? Can they afford the same habits - at work, in their handling of the opposite sex – as It is certainly true that there have their male colleagues? Do they have never been as many women working equal opportunities right from the as directors, screenplay authors and start? The most recent example, producers as there are today. In perhaps a signal for the next addition, there are considerably slackening of the boom: at the more women directors and produ- First Steps Award this year, more cers at the broadcasting companies women than men were nominated and on promotional committees in all categories – except the cate- by comparison with the first small gory of full-length feature films. In wave of new German films by this ”royal discipline“, the up-and- women about twenty-five years ago coming male directors remained – as yet, however, there is no precise Doris Dörrie (photoRocholl) © Karin among themselves. study concerning current developments. More women are making creative decisions A Look Back and directing proceedings within other artistic media, too. New impulses are coming from women in It is possible to describe what has really been achieved the theater, in the world of dance, and in music. Before this by taking a look back at history. Only during the last three of the overall background, women’s move to catch up in film, across almost eleven decades since cinema was invented have women the full range of specialist jobs and genres, resembles a long, made good their claim to become directors, at least in any quiet current no longer to be stopped by anything.