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Habermann<br />
Genre Drama C<strong>at</strong>egory Fe<strong>at</strong>ure <strong>Film</strong> Cinema Year of Production <strong>2010</strong> Director Juraj Herz<br />
Screenplay Wolfgang Limmer Director of Photography Alexander Surkala Editor Melanie Werwie<br />
Music by Elia Cmiral Production Design Petr Fort Producer Karel Dirka Production Company<br />
ART-OKO <strong>Film</strong>/Munich, in co-production with Wega <strong>Film</strong>/Vienna, Werner Herzog <strong>Film</strong>/Vienna,<br />
Entertainment Value Associ<strong>at</strong>es/Munich, KN <strong>Film</strong> Company/Prague, ApolloMedia/Munich Prin ci pal Cast<br />
Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Hannah Herzsprung, Ben Becker, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht Length 104<br />
min For m<strong>at</strong> 35 mm, color, cs Original Version <strong>German</strong> Sound Technology Dolby SR Awards<br />
Bavarian <strong>Film</strong> Prize <strong>2010</strong> (Best Director, Best Leading Actor) With backing from <strong>German</strong> Federal <strong>Film</strong><br />
Board (FFA), <strong>Film</strong>FernsehFonds Bayern, <strong>Film</strong>stiftung NRW, <strong>German</strong> Federal <strong>Film</strong> Fund (DFFF), NRW.Bank,<br />
Commerz bank Munich<br />
Juraj Herz was born in Kezmarok/Slovakia in 1934. He studied Photography in Br<strong>at</strong>islava and Puppetry <strong>at</strong><br />
the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He then worked as a director and actor <strong>at</strong> the Semafor The<strong>at</strong>er in Prague<br />
before going to the Barrandov film studios in 1961 to become an assistant director. Active as an award-winning<br />
director, a selection of his films includes: The Junk Shop (1965), Oil Lamps (1971), Day for My Love<br />
(1976), Beauty and the Beast (1978), Bulldogs and Cherries (1981), The Magpie in the Wisp<br />
(1983), The Night Overtake Me (1986), The Frog Prince (1991), The Emperor’s New<br />
Clothes (1994), Lara – My Years with Boris Pasternak (1994), and Habermann (<strong>2010</strong>), among<br />
others.<br />
World Sales EVA Distribution GmbH · Philipp Riccabona, Kai Grueneke<br />
Widenmayerstrasse 18 · 80538 Munich/<strong>German</strong>y<br />
phone +49-89-20 00 15 50 · fax +49-89-2 00 01 55 19<br />
email: sales@eva-film.com · www.eva-film.com · www.habermann-film.com<br />
New <strong>German</strong> <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Screening:<br />
Monday, 17 May, 17:30 h, Arcades 3<br />
(priv<strong>at</strong>e screening, with listing only)<br />
1937, a small village in Sudetenland. The saw<br />
mill owner Habermann is the biggest employer<br />
in his village. He employs <strong>German</strong>s and Czechs<br />
alike and is deeply <strong>at</strong>tached to the country<br />
where both n<strong>at</strong>ionalities lived for centuries. He<br />
becomes married to Jana, a young and beautiful<br />
Czech woman, who is half Jewish. Although<br />
Habermann is not interested in politics or ideology,<br />
he and his family will be steamrolled by<br />
the insanity of World War II …<br />
Habermann is based on true events. The film<br />
shows how politics and ideology can turn friendship<br />
into mistrust and h<strong>at</strong>e with a historical take<br />
on a specific period between 1937 and 1945,<br />
known due to the excessive expulsion of<br />
Sudeten <strong>German</strong>s on the border between<br />
<strong>German</strong>y and Czechoslovakia. The persistent<br />
discussion in Europe about the validity or in -<br />
validity of the “Benes decrees”, which provided<br />
the legal cover for this wrong in Sudetenland,<br />
shows th<strong>at</strong> this subject, which has been taboo<br />
for such a long time, is still raw.<br />
In <strong>Cannes</strong> c/o <strong>German</strong> Pavilion<br />
phone +33-(0)4-92 59 01 80 · fax +33-(0)4-92 59 01 81<br />
Kai Grueneke · mobile +49-1 72-8 86 88 89<br />
email: sales@eva-film.com (please contact for screening listing)<br />
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