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photo © sabotage <strong>films</strong>/Pola Sieverding 2012<br />
IN PRODUCTION<br />
GLOBAL PLAYER DAS GLÜCK<br />
Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Director Hannes Stöhr Screenplay<br />
Hannes Stöhr Director of Photography Andreas Doub Cast<br />
Christoph Bach, Walter Schultheiß, Inka Friedrich, Ulrike Folkerts,<br />
Stefan Hallmayer, Rita Lengyel, Monika Wojtyllo, Jin Jin Harder, Kevin<br />
Chen, Harvey Friedman, Hans-Jochen Wagner Producers Karsten<br />
Aurich, Annedore von Donop, Hannes Stöhr Production Company<br />
Sabotage Films/Berlin, in co-production with Stoehrfilm/Berlin, ARD<br />
Degeto/Frankfurt, BR/Munich, ARTE/Strasbourg Original Version German<br />
Shooting Dates October-November 2012 With backing from MFG<br />
Baden-Württemberg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM, Filmund<br />
Medienstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund<br />
Director Hannes Stöhr, whose previous <strong>films</strong> include BERLIN CALLING<br />
and ONE DAY IN EUROPE, rediscovered his native roots in Baden-Württemberg<br />
and traveled to Shanghai for his latest film GLOBAL PLAYER.<br />
“After being 20 years away from my home town, it was a real eye-opener<br />
to see how tough the people are and that globalization is taking place<br />
in the provinces and not only in the big cities,” he remarks.<br />
While the film’s action is inspired by real-life events he has observed in<br />
his home town over recent years, the family textile company of Bogenschütz<br />
& Söhne is fictional, but he has achieved an authenticity to the<br />
setting by casting actors originating from the south-west corner of<br />
Germany – such as the veteran actor Walter Schultheiß as the 90-yearold<br />
patriarch, his son Michael, played by Christoph Bach, who is trying<br />
to negotiate a deal with the Chinese behind his father’s back to save the<br />
company, and one of the two daughters played by Inka Friedrich who<br />
are recruited by their father to stop the son’s plans – as well as local<br />
professionals from the Theater Lindenhof, and ’real’ people as the<br />
factory workforce.<br />
“That’s something I have always liked about Hannes’ <strong>films</strong> and this<br />
stylistic approach runs through them all,” says producer Annedore von<br />
Donop about the casting. “It is a refreshing mixture, and the authenticity<br />
of the real people – with their unforgettable faces – can be really surprising.”<br />
“In many respects, the film’s action is similar to Shakespeare’s King<br />
Lear and it is a very universal story,” Stöhr adds, while von Donop<br />
points out that the film also addresses the question of one generation<br />
handing over to another and the conflicts and confrontations flaring up<br />
within a family.<br />
As producer Karsten Aurich notes, shooting in China might seem a<br />
daunting proposition, but they were lucky to find a local service producer<br />
in Shanghai who not only knew the right locations, but had studied in<br />
Berlin and so spoke fluent German.<br />
MB<br />
World Sales<br />
Beta Cinema<br />
beta@betacinema.com<br />
www.betacinema.com<br />
Genre Drama, Tragicomedy Category Feature Director Fabian Möhrke<br />
Screenplay Fabian Möhrke Director of Photography Marco Armborst<br />
Cast Andreas Döhler, Carola Sigg, Levin Henning, Godehard Giese,<br />
Annika Ernst Producers Maxim Juretzka, Jost Hering Co-Producer<br />
Lucia-Milena Bonse Production Company BuntFilm/Berlin, in co-production<br />
with Cine Plus Filmproduktion/Berlin for ZDF/Mainz Original<br />
Version German Shooting Dates October-December 2012 With backing<br />
from German Federal Film Fund, CineTirol, FISA Filmstandort Austria<br />
There is only one way to know what cracking the lottery jackpot is like,<br />
and that is to win it! Statistically you have more chance of finding the<br />
money but hey! It’s voluntary and very hard to resist. True, a huge sum<br />
of cash all at once can wreck lives and relationships, but then again,<br />
maybe not.<br />
Dreaming of that big win is part of the fun. Will it be ponies for all your<br />
friends? A gold-plated helicopter covered in diamonds? A holiday home<br />
by the Baltic? Freeing a dear friend from a job they hate? But there are<br />
all the downsides too, starting with whom you tell, or not. Then all those<br />
begging letters. What is suddenly a good cause and what not? If you<br />
decide to keep it a secret, how best to stop it leaking out? Especially if<br />
there is suddenly a new Ferrari in the driveway and you take some extra<br />
holiday and return with a very fashionable tan. Oh yes, and you give up<br />
your job too! Perhaps moving to somewhere new would help, where nobody<br />
knows your name and face. But what about the people and life you<br />
have left behind? Put it this way, if somebody you know is suddenly €22<br />
million better off, would you shake their hand and congratulate them?<br />
This is the situation and these are the questions suddenly facing Torsten<br />
(end 30s), who was not looking for anything special, just a guy who<br />
bought a lottery ticket to keep the peace with his enthusiastic lotteryplaying<br />
colleagues at work. He might have been hoping to win the jackpot,<br />
deep down, but he was not expecting to.<br />
As always, the questions thrown up are also answered by more than one<br />
person. It might be Torsten’s ticket, but his wife Susanne has already<br />
decided where the money is going. His son Lutz has as well. Winning is<br />
the bombshell but now comes the collateral damage as Torsten’s<br />
orderly world is torn apart and he has to ask the most important<br />
question: who is he really?<br />
SK<br />
Contact<br />
BuntFilm<br />
info@bunt-film.de<br />
www.bunt-film.de<br />
GFQ 1-2013 16<br />
photo © BuntFilm
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