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Bolstered by the success of the first feature film outing of the adventures of the cheeky girl witch Bibi Blocksberg – it was the top German film in 2002 with over 2.15 million admissions and received several prizes including the Bavarian Film Award’s producer prize and a supporting actress German Film Award for Corinna Harfouch – producers Uschi Reich and Karl Blatz and screenwriter Elfi Donnelly didn’t waste a minute in beginning work on the development of a screenplay and putting the financing together for the €6.5 million budget for the sequel. Moreover, time was of the essence since the child actress who plays Bibi turned fourteen in September and is transforming into a young adult! Franziska Buch – who had worked with Reich on four previous productions including the Erich Kaestner-adaptation Emil and the Detectives – came onboard the project when Hermine Huntgeburth had to pass on reprising as director. However, many of the first film’s cast are back for a second time: Sidonie von Krosigk as Bibi Blocksberg, Katja Riemann and Ulrich Noethen as her parents, as well as Corinna Harfouch as the wicked witch Rabia von Katzenstein and Monica Bleibtreu as Walpurgia. New characters this time around are the headmaster shrouded in mystery Prof. Dr. Quirin Bartel (played by Edgar Selge), Bibi’s friend Elea (13-year-old Marie-Luise Stahl) and Elea’s aunt Lissy (Nina Petri). In this new chapter of adventures by Germany’s (female) answer to Harry Potter, more action, humor and special effects are promised as Bibi is packed off by her parents to a summer school in Castle Altenberg. Bibi had been so caught up in all of her sorcery that she had plain neglected her studies, but the school run by the eccentric Professor Bartel should remedy this. She makes friends with another girl Elea who has been confined to a wheelchair since an accident, and goes against the witches code to find a magical owl dust – the secret of the Blue Owls – to help Elea walk again. But all her plans could be scotched once Bibi’s arch-enemy Rabia re-appears on the scene … The digital post-production work will be shared between Reich’s regular facility Scanline and another VFX facility based in Prague. ”For me the sequel is a great challenge,“ Reich declares. ”I have the ambition to make everything even better.“ MB Derrick – Der Film Original Title Derrick - Der Film (working title) English Title Derrick - The Feature Film (working title) Type of (photo © UIP) Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Animation, Comedy Production Company TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion, Hamburg, for ndf neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft, Unterfoehring, ZDF Enterprises, New York With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, FilmFoerderung Hamburg, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), Irish Film Board Producers Matthias Walter, Ralph Christians, Horst Mueller Director Michael Schaack Screenplay Ralph Christians, Marteinn Thorisson, Jurgen Wolff Editor Sascha Wolff Music by Jens Langbein, Robert Schulte Hemming Voices of Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Shooting Language German German Distributor UIP GmbH, Frankfurt/ottfilm GmbH, Berlin World Sales: ZDF Enterprises GmbH · Fred Burcksen Lise-Meitner-Strasse 9 · 55129 Mainz/Germany phone +49-61 31-99 12 80 · fax +49-61 31-99 12 59 email: burcksen.f@zdf.de · www.zdf-enterprises.de ”Harry, get the car“ has to be one of the most famous sentences never spoken on German television! In over 280 episodes, over twenty-five years, Chief Inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his typical second-fiddle-playing partner Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper) brought the bad guys to book. They also regularly brought public broadcaster ZDF up to nine million viewers each week and, with fan clubs at home and abroad, the series has also been sold to 102 countries. But while the real life Derrick bowed out in October, it’s time for the animated satire Derrick to make his entrance: someone is killing the stars of the Eurovision Song Contest and they have got to be stopped. ”The idea came from Ralph Christians,“ says director Michael Schaack. “He convinced ZDF and now we’re taking the familiar elements of the series and exaggerating them: Derrick’s a lot stiffer, his toupee’s more prominent, that sort of thing. It’s good if you know the series but not necessary.“ For TFC Trickompany, says Schaack, ”parodying a TVseries is something completely new. There are a great many brands lying around and this could be a big opportunity for us.“ The company is perhaps best known for its series of Werner films, about the beer-swilling, babe-bothering, biker plumber of the same name, and Das kleine Arschloch (The Little Jerk), based on Walter Moers’ notorious comic-book child-from-hell. But look at TFC’s website and you’ll see a very broad range of production styles and subjects. This is because the company operates as a studio for hire, making films, says Schaack, ”for pocket money by many standards, but the audience wants jokes and we can make them cheaper! We aim for the national market and can make it work. When the film works here, we can sell it abroad. And since we have more freedom, as opposed to making international co-productions where everyone has to have their say, we have more fun.“ Derrick is traditional 2D animation. While Hollywood has now gone over to computer, or 3D, blaming its recent failures on the traditional process, Schaack insists, ”It all comes down to the material, the story and jokes. Pixar’s films would work just as well in 2D. The audience isn’t so bothered by the look of the film as by the content. Animation has to be fun.“ Derrick – The Feature Film promises to deliver fun in spades. SK kino 4 in production 2003 27
En Garde Original Title En Garde (working title) Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama, Coming-of-Age Story Production Company X Filme Creative Pool, Berlin, in coproduction with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, Mainz With backing from FilmFoerderung Hamburg, Filmboard Berlin- Brandenburg, Nordmedia Producer Maria Koepf Commissioning Editor Claudia Tronnier (ZDF) Executive Producer Sandra Harzer Director Ayse Polat Screenplay Ayse Polat Director of Photography Patrick Orth Editor Gergana Voigt Principal Cast Maria Kwiatkowsky, Pinar Erincin, Luk Piyes, Julia Mahnecke, Jytte- Merle Boehrnsen, Geno Lechner, Antje Westermann Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Shooting Language German Shooting in Hamburg and Lower Saxony, August - September 2003 German Distributor X Verleih AG, Berlin Contact: X Filme Creative Pool GmbH · Britta Knoeller Buelowstrasse 90 · 10783 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-23 08 33 11 · fax +49-30-23 08 33 22 email: britta.knoeller@x-filme.de www.x-filme.de ”Sometimes,“ says producer Maria Koepf, ”my assistant will tell me ’You have to read this!’ It doesn’t happen very often, given the amount of scripts we get, but that’s how it was with the first draft of En Garde. I’d never heard of Ayse Polat before.“ We could all soon be hearing a lot more of her. Born in Turkey in 1970, she moved with her family to Hamburg in 1978 and directed her first films, on video and Super 8, at the age of fifteen. Following a number of shorts, she made her feature debut with the 1999 road-movie, Auslandstournee. It screened at various international festivals, including Tokyo and in competition at Karlovy Vary in 2000, and won her the Newcomer Director’s Award at the 2001 Ankara film festival. In En Garde, she tells the story of the friendship between two extraordinary girls who, at first, have little in common except that they live in a home for Catholic girls. 16-year-old Alice keeps to herself. With her hyper-sensitive hearing she experiences the world differently than the people around her. She meets Berivan, a Kurdish girl, who is alone in Germany and lives in constant fear of being deported and the hope the authorities might grant her asylum. She slowly wins Alice’s trust but their friendship threatens to break when Berivan falls in love Cameraman Patrick Orth, director Ayse Polat with Ilir and Alice, for the first time, experiences what it is like to lose someone close. The situation escalates. ”The setting,“ says Koepf, ”a Catholic girls’ home, might lead you to think that this is going to be another of those oh-so-heavy social dramas. But it’s anything but. The conditions are accurately depicted but where the script triumphs is in weaving the wish and dream elements so the harshness of life reaches a second, subjective level, yet without becoming trivialized.“ Founded in 1994 by directors Wolfgang Becker, Dani Levy, Tom Tykwer and producer Stefan Arndt, X Filme Creative Pool has brought more quality, and more visitors, to modern German cinema than perhaps any other company. With credits such as Run Lola Run (Lola rennt, Tom Tykwer, 1998) and The Giraffe (Meschugge, Dani Levy, 1999), X Filme rewrote the rules, especially the one which says Germans don’t want to watch German films, with Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin!. And their latest production, coming-of-ager Learning to Lie (Liegen Lernen, Hendrik Handloegten) looks set to follow in its footsteps. Gestrandet Original Title Gestrandet (working title) Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Production Company Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Halle, in co-production with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, Mainz, RBB, Potsdam-Babelsberg, "Konrad Wolf" Academy of Film & Television (HFF/B), Potsdam- Babelsberg With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung Producers Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Annedore von Donop Director Susanne Zacharias Screenplay Sarah Esser, Ivan Dimov Director of Photography Daria Moheb Zandi Editor Philipp Stahl Music by Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Denis Principal Cast Hanno Koffler, Peter Kurth, Marie Roennebeck, Max Riemelt Casting Claudia Roesler, Joerg Prinz, Saskia Richter Format Super 16 mm, blow-up to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Shooting Language German Shooting in Halle and Leipzig, July - August 2003 Contact: Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH Roshanak Behesht Nedjad Grosse Brauhausstrasse 16 06108 Halle/Germany phone +49-34 5-6 82 33 60 · fax +49-3 31-7 04 25 11 email: halle@flyingmoon.com · www.flyingmoon.com kino 4 in production 2003 28 SK Scene from "Gestrandet" (photo © Flying Moon)
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