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IN PRODUCTION
Aus der Tiefe
des Raumes
Scene from ”Aus der Tiefe des Raumes“
(photo © schlicht und ergreifend)
Original Title Aus der Tiefe des Raumes Type of Project
Feature Film Cinema Genre Comedy Production
Company schlicht und ergreifend, Geiselgasteig, in co-production
with d.i.e film, Munich, ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, Mainz
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmstiftung
NRW, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film Producers Philipp
Budweg, Johannes Schmid, Dieter Ulrich Aselmann, Robert
Marcinak Director Gil Mehmert Screenplay Gil Mehmert
Director of Photography Bella Halben Editor Bernd
Schlegel Music by Alex Haas, Stefan Noelle Principal Cast
Eckhard Preuss, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Mira Bartuschek,
Sandra Leonhard Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Shooting
Language German Shooting in Bochum and surrounding
area, August - September 2003
Contact:
Schlicht und Ergreifend (Budweg/Schmid GbR)
Johannes Schmid
Bayerisches Filmzentrum
Bavariafilmplatz 7 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 98 11 38 · fax +49-89-64 98 13 38
email: info@schlichtundergreifend-film.de
www.schlichtundergreifend-film.de
In a style between Woody Allen and Aki Kaurismaeki, Gil
Mehmert’s debut feature is an absurd yet philosophical
comedy. Aus der Tiefe des Raumes tells the story of
Hans-Guenter, a shy young man, who is a passionate player of
Tipp-Kick, a tabletop football game. Together with his favorite
player, which proudly wears the number ”10“, he qualifies for
the national championships where he meets Marion, a photographer.
Their ensuing night of passion ends with number ”10“
taking an early bath – in Marion’s tray of photographic chemicals.
As always happens in films like this, powerful forces of
nature come into play and on that dark and stormy night, number
”10“ turns into a living, breathing soccer player. In fact, it
turns into the German football legend himself, Guenter Netzer.
”It sounds crazy,“ says Mehmert, ”but the excitement is making
a story out of such a crazy idea. Guenter Netzer was a childhood
hero of mine who had almost mythical status. He had an
aura, a mystique, which set him apart from all other players. He
was the first popstar of German football. He was to the game
what Miles Davis is to the jazz trumpet. One day I woke up and
thought he could only have come from a Tipp-Kicker!“ So you
can see, it does make perfect sense after all!
Mehmert, whose 1999 short, Ukulele Blues, won several awards,
is an accomplished and experienced theatrical director who,
interestingly, specializes in films adapted for the stage. ”I like the
American narrative art,“ he says. ”That of Woody Allen, Neil
Simon, the musicals. I like the way a film cuts and fades. That’s
the way I also like to narrate.“ Among his theater credits are One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Broadway Danny Rose, Harold and
Maude, On The Town, and Arsenic and Old Lace. As for the change
of medium, ”film is better suited to this story,“ Mehmert says.
”I’ve already got it mapped out in my head. The real fun will
come in the editing suite!“
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Bibi Blocksberg und das
Geheimnis der blauen Eulen
Original Title Bibi Blocksberg und das Geheimnis der blauen
Eulen English Title Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue
Owls Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Children’s
Film Production Companies Bavaria Filmverleih- &
Produktion, Munich, Kiddinx Film, Munich, in co-production
with BR, Munich, Gustav Ehmck Film, Munich With backing
from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung,
Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), BKM, Bayerischen
BankenFonds Producers Uschi Reich, Karl Blatz Director
Franziska Buch Screenplay Elfie Donnelly Director of
Photography Axel Block Editor Barbara von Weitershausen
Music by Enjott Schneider Production Design
Susann Bieling, Uwe Szielasko Principal Cast Sidonie von
Krosigk, Marie-Luise Stahl, Katja Riemann, Corinna Harfouch,
Ulrich Noethen, Monica Bleibtreu, Edgar Selge, Nina Petri
Casting Jacqueline Rietz Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85
Shooting Language German Shooting in Naumburg,
Munich, Bavaria Film Studios, Dachstein/Austria, August -
October 2003 German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih
GmbH, Munich
Contact:
Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH
Uschi Reich
Bavariafilmplatz 7 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 99 28 73 · fax +49-89 64 99 31 43
email: uschi.reich@bavaria-film.de
www.bavaria-film.de
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Edgar Selge, Corinna Harfouch (photo © Bavaria
Filmverleih- & Produktion/Constantin Film/Marco Nagel)