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Im Schatten der Macht
IN THE SHADOW OF POWER
In the Shadow of Power charts the last days of Willy
Brandt’s chancellorship in 1974 after his personal
assistant Guenter Guillaume was exposed as a spy for
East Germany. In the course of the investigations,
Brandt’s private life unexpectedly becomes the topic
of the inquiries. It remains unclear where the line between
fact and fiction should be drawn.
The Guillaume affair is regarded as one of the biggest
political scandals in the history of the Federal Republic
and has not lost its fascination almost 30 years later.
In the Shadow of Power is an absorbing scenario of
Brandt’s last days in office and delivers a multi-layered
and sensitive portrait of a politician who was a legend
in his own lifetime.
For some, Willy Brand was an idol, honored and
loved; for others, he was a traitor. Ziegler Film, in cooperation
with ARTE and NDR and with the support
of the Filmstiftung NRW, has also produced a documentary,
Willy Brandt - Eine Jahrhundertgestalt, by Peter
Merseburger and Juergen Bruehns - on the subject of
Brandt and his fight against two totalitarian systems:
Fascism and Stalism.
Genre Political Thriller Category TV Movie Year of
Production 2002/2003 Director Oliver Storz Screenplay
Oliver Storz Director of Photography Hans
Grimmelmann Editor Heidi Handorf Music by Klaus
Doldinger Production Design Eduard Krajewski
Producers Regina Ziegler, Winka Wulff Production
Company Ziegler Film, Berlin in co-production with NDR,
World Sales:
TELEPOOL GmbH · Marlene Fritz
Sonnenstrasse 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-55 87 60 · fax +49-89-55 87 61 88
email: fritz@telepool.de · www.telepool.de
Hamburg, MDR, Leipzig, ARTE, Strasbourg Principal Cast
Michael Mendl, Juergen Hentsch, Barbara Rudnik, Dieter Pfaff,
Matthias Brandt Length 2 x 90 min Format Super 16 mm,
color, 16:9 Original Version German Subtitled
Version English Sound Technology Dolby Stereo
International Festival Screenings Cologne Conference
2003, Nordische Filmtage Luebeck 2003 With
backing from Nordmedia
Oliver Storz was born in 1929 and studied German,
Romance and English Languages and Literature in Tuebingen.
He worked as a teacher before becoming a freelance literary
critic. From 1957-1959, he was a feature editor and theater
critic at the Stuttgarter Zeitung followed by work as a producer
and scriptwriter at Bavaria Atelier from 1960-1974. A selection
of his films includes: Der Stadtbrand (1984),
Beinahe Trinidad (1985), Das Viereck (1987), Ein
naheliegender Mord (1988), Der Unschuldsengel
(1992), Christina Seitensprung (1993), Three Days
in April (Drei Tage im April, 1994), Daybreak
(Gegen Ende der Nacht, 1998), and In the Shadow
of Power (Im Schatten der Macht, 2002/2003),
among others.
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Matthias Brandt, Michael Mendl (photo © Ziegler Film GmbH & Co KG)