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Der alte Affe Angst Original Title Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Production Company Neue Bioskop Film, Munich in co-production with TV-60 Filmproduktion, Munich, BR, Munich With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Producers Eberhard Junkersdorf, Dietmar Guentsche, Bernd Burgemeister Director Oskar Roehler Screenplay Oskar Roehler Director of Photography Hagen Bogdanski Editor Uli Schoen Music by Martin Todsharow Production Design Birgit Kniep-Gentis Principal Cast André Hennicke, Marie Baeumer, Vadim Glowna, Hilde van Mieghem, Wolfgang Joop Format 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German Shooting in Berlin from 9 April to end of May 2002 Contact: Neue Bioskop Film GmbH · Dietmar Guentsche Rosenheimer Strasse 143d · 81671 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-4 09 09 20 · fax +49-89-40 90 92 20 email: info@bioskop.de Production is currently underway in Berlin on Oskar Roehler’s latest feature Der alte Affe Angst, starring André Hennicke (Something to Remind Me/Toter Mann, 2001), Marie Baeumer (Ode to Cologne/Viel Passiert – Der BAP Film, 2000/2001) and Vadim Glowna (No Place to Go/Die Unberuehrbare, 2000). As with Roehler’s No Place to Go, which was shown in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar two years ago and won countless prizes in Germany and abroad, the new film also borrows autobiographical elements from Roehler’s life and that of his family. While Roehler’s mother, the writer Gisela Elsner, provided the inspiration for the figure played by Hannelore Elsner in No Place to Go, one strand in Der alte Affe Angst with the successful film director Robert (Hennicke) getting in touch with his father Klaus (Glowna) after a gap of five years only to learn that he is suffering from prostate cancer, was based on Roehler’s own experience of being reunited with his father shortly before his death. 30 Marie Baeumer, Oskar Roehler (photo © Marco Meneen) Scene from ”Das fliegende Klassenzimmer“ (photo © Rolf v.d. Heydt/Bavaria Film/Lunaris) ”It is not exactly a continuation of No Place to Go, although there are some elements there“, Roehler says. “This film is closer to life, it is set in the present and will be narrated in a more realistic way“. ”The parallel story between the couple Robert and Marie (Baeumer) came about from my observation of a lot of situations and long-term relationships where one always had the feeling that men have difficulties committing themselves sexually to one partner“, Roehler explains, adding that ”there is a unconditional nature to this couple’s love and they are bound to one another by fate, but the male partner cannot hold out indefinitely“. ”For once, it will really be a quiet film for me. I want to have a relatively quiet and straightforward camera; there will be no black-and-white, no stylization and everything will be unobtrusive“, he continues. Der alte Affe Angst marks the second collaboration between Roehler and producers Junkersdorf and Guentsche – they had previously worked together on the RTL TV movie Latin Lover (1999) which also starred Marie Baeumer – and it is the first project under the roof of Junkersdorf’s new company Neue Bioskop Film. MB Das fliegende Klassenzimmer Original Title Das fliegende Klassenzimmer Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Family Production Companies Bavaria Filmverleih und Produktion, Munich, Lunaris, Munich, in cooperation with ZDF, Mainz With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA) Producers Uschi Reich, Peter Zenk Director Tomy Wigand Screenplay Henriette Piper, Hermine Kunka, based on the novel of the same name by Erich Kaestner Director of Photography Peter von Haller Editor Christian Nauheimer Music by Niki Reiser, Biber Gullatz (songs), Moritz Freise Principal Cast Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch, Piet Klocke, Anja Kling, Hauke Diekamp, Teresa Vilsmaier Format 35 mm, color Shooting Language German Shooting in Munich and Leipzig and surroundings from February to April 2002 German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih GmbH, Munich PR Contact: Just Publicity · Bianca Feilkas Erhardtstrasse 8 · 80469 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-20 20 82 60 · fax +49-89-20 20 82 89 email: info@just-publicity.de Kino 2/2002
World Sales: Bavaria Film International Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH · Thorsten Schaumann Bavariafilmplatz 8 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 www.bavaria-film-international.de email: bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de Producer Peter Zenk is quite a specialist in adapting the children’s classics of Erich Kaestner for the cinema after having also produced Joseph Vilsmaier’s Charlie & Louise (Das doppelte Lottchen, 1993), Caroline Link’s Annaluise and Anton (Puenkchten und Anton, 1999), and Franziska Buch’s Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive, 2001). But the latest adaptation – Das fliegende Klassenzimmer – posed a few challenges for producers and screenwriters alike as it didn't have ”a continuous, exciting storyline like in Emil and the Detectives“, as producer Uschi Reich points out. The story centers on young Jonathan who has already flown out of eight boarding schools and thinks it will be only a matter of time before he is sent packing from his new school at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. But the headmaster takes him under his wing and the boys in his dormitory accept him into their gang. All kinds of adventures are about to happen ... Casting the adult roles came together quite easily with such leading German actors as Ulrich Noethen (The Slurb/Das Sams, 2001) in the role of the headmaster and Sebastian Koch (The Tunnel/Der Tunnel, 2001) as the mysterious figure of the ’non-smoker’. But finding the right 10 to 12-year-olds for the children’s parts proved much harder. ”We definitely didn’t want to cast the parts with children who had already appeared in the last Kaestner films“, Zenk recalls. ”And the demands were extremely high because we are dealing here with big lead roles“. As a consequence, almost a thousand children passed through the casting sessions before the producers decided on a number of film debutants such as 12-year-old Hauke Diekamp for the part of Jonathan, alongside established child actors like Teresa Vilsmaier and Constantin Gastmann. The Euro 5 million production of Das fliegende Klassenzimmer marks director Tomy Wigand’s second outing into feature films after his award-winning debut Soccer Rules! (Fussball ist unser Leben), starring Uwe Ochsenknecht, from 2000. MB Gate to Heaven Original Title Gate to Heaven German Title Tor zum Himmel Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Love Story Production Company Veit Helmer Filmproduktion, Berlin, in cooperation with ZDF, Mainz, ARTE, Strasbourg With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA) Producer Ulf Israel Director Veit Helmer Screenplay Veit Helmer, Gordon Mihic Director of Photography Joachim Jung Production Designer Alexander Manasse Principal Cast Valera Nikolaev, Masumi Makhija, Miki Manojlovic, Udo Kier, Michael Chynamurindi, Sotigui Koyate Format 35 mm, color, cs Shooting Language English Shooting at Frankfurt airport from 11 June - 24 August 2002 German Distributor Prokino Filmverleih GmbH, Munich Kino 2/2002 Masumi Makhija in production World Sales: Bavaria Film International Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH · Thorsten Schaumann Bavariafilmplatz 8 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 www.bavaria-film-international.de email: bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de Production cranks up for 11 weeks at the beginning of June on Veit Helmer’s second full-length feature Gate to Heaven (Tor zum Himmel) at locations in Frankfurt’s international airport. This project, which had been gestating for the last seven years, sees Helmer collaborating with the Serbian screenwriter Gordon Mihic, whose screenplays including Emir Kusturica’s award-winning Time of the Gypsies and Black Cat, White Cat. ”Gate To Heaven is a love story set at an airport, a film about luggage handlers and cleaning women who dream of becoming stewardesses“, explains Helmer. ”It will be shot in English because people from all over the world will appear in the film and they will speak with an accent, but that is intended“. Helmer and Mihic researched together ”behind the scenes“ at the airport in Frankfurt, away from the check-in counters and departure lounges, with Mihic writing the screenplay in Serbian since he can speak neither English nor German. Helmer then wrote the last draft of the script with the support of the éQuinoxe script workshop and also participated in other European initiatives such as Moonstone and EAVE to hone and fine-tune the screenplay. ”I was interested in the international response and to see how the project was accepted“, he recalls. Although the project has been a long time in preparation – with a break for the production of Tuvalu (1999) –, Helmer says that the film’s story was ”always topical and is so more than ever. The film title has many meanings: on one level, it is means the dream of flying, of coming to Europe and Germany. But, sometimes, the characters in the film are up on the roof cleaning and look down on the passengers in the departure lounge - then heaven is below them!“ As was the case with Tuvalu, casting for his new film was also a marathon task with the director meeting actors in places as far apart as Los Angeles, London, Tashkent, Bombay and Moscow to find the right people for his acting ensemble. The lineup includes Kusturica-star Miki Manojlovic and Germany’s Udo Kier as well as the ”Bollywood“ actress Masumi Makhija, and Valera Nikolaev (U-Turn). 31 MB
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