GFQ 2-2007 - german films

Mikrofan
Sam is a rapper, so are his best friends. Around a soccer
field in Hamburg in the shadow of three skyscrapers they
live their lives and love their music. When one of his
friends starts an affair with Sam’s girlfriend Lisa, angry
silence starts, till the ‘mikrofan’ takes the word up …
Mikrofan is a milieu film about hip hop music, friendship,
love, morals, drugs, dealing, betraying and about talking
and not talking.
Genre Drama, Music Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2007 Director Matthias Staehle Screenplay
Matthias Staehle Director of Photography Sven O. Hill
Editor Tobias Peper Music by Starssindamarsch Production
Design Anke Spaeth Producer Matthias Staehle Production
Company Meerfilm/Hamburg Principal Cast Philipp Babing,
Julia Ehlers, David Stegemann, Johannes Schaefer, Renato Schuch,
Nadine Nollau, Rebecca Lina Casting Matthias Staehle Length
80 min, 2,200 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Versions English, French Sound
Technology Dolby SR With backing from HfbK Hamburg,
Mbf, Studio Hamburg, Kodak, VCC, Das Werk, Konken Tonstudios
World Sales (please contact)
Meerfilm · Matthias Staehle
Scheplerstrasse 1 · 22767 Hamburg/Germany
phone +49-1 72-7 15 49 42
email: mat@meerfilm.com · www.meerfilm.com
Matthias Staehle was born in 1975 and studied Visual
Communication in Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg.
After his studies, he worked as a freelance director and founded
the production company meerfilm and the audiovisual label musicfiction
(www.musicfiction.de). A selection of his films as a writer
and director include: the shorts Leaving (1999), Johnny’s Ark
(2001), 4 O’Clock (2002), 50 Euro (2003), Window to
Chile (2004), Advent, Advent (2004), Desertion (2005)
and the feature Mikrofan (2007).
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Scenes from “Mikrofan” (photo courtesy of Meerfilm)