Titel Kino 3/2002 - german films

Mein erstes Wunder MY FIRST MIRACLE
During holidays on the North Sea coast, Dole meets Hermann and they become very close
friends. But this is no ordinary friendship. Dole is eleven years old and Hermann is more than
thirty years her senior, married, with children.
Back home, both live near Mannheim, they see each other quite often. One day though, Dole’s
mother decides to move to France, but Dole has her own ideas. A short while later Hermann
answers a knock at the door to find Dole standing on his front step – she’s decided to run away
with him – and he goes with her. Pursued by Dole’s mother and Hermann’s wife, their journey
becomes a wild goose chase and brings them full circle, ending where it all began, at the coast.
But since their first encounter, a few things have changed: Dole has grown up, Hermann hasn’t.
Henriette Confurius (photo © Jost Hering Film)
Genre Coming-of-Age Story, Drama Category
Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2001
Director/Screenplay Anne Wild Director of
Photography Wojciech Szepel Editor Dagmar
Lichius Music by Maurus Ronner Production
Design Martina Bruenner Producer Jost Hering
Production Company Jost Hering Film, Berlin
Principal Cast Juliane Koehler, Leonard Lansink,
Henriette Confurius, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Casting Andrew Hood Length 90 min, 2,565 m
Format Super 16 mm Blow-up 35 mm, color,
1:1.66 Original Version German Subtitled
Versions English, French Sound Technology
Dolby Stereo International Festival Screenings
Munich 2002, Montreal 2002 (in competition)
With backing from MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg,
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Kuratorium junger
deutscher Film, Filmfoerderung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
World Sales: please contact
Jost Hering Filmproduktion · Jost Hering
Winterfeldtstrasse 31 · 10781 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-21 75 68 56 · fax +49-30-21 75 68 58
email: josthering@aol.com · www.josthering.de · www.meinersteswunder.de
Kino 3/2002
Anne Wild was born in 1967 in Bielefeld. She studied
German Literature, Philosophy and Art History at the
University of Freiburg from 1986-1988, followed by
Acting studies from 1988-1992 at the Academy of Music
and Applied Arts in Stuttgart. In 1994, she worked in
New York as a production assistant for advertisements,
music videos and feature films. She has also done text
writing for advertising agencies in Hamburg and Berlin,
and has participated in numerous screenplay seminars
including the Master School Seminar with Don Bohlinger
and the éQuinoxe Program, as well as the European Film
Academy’s directing seminar ”Ways of Seeing Actors“.
In 1999, together with Stefan Daehnert, she received the
first Baden-Wuerttemberg Script Prize for What to do in
case of fire? (Was tun, wenn’s brennt, 2001). Her other
films include the shorts Nachmittag in Siedlisko
(2000) and Ballet was Canceled (Ballett ist
ausgefallen, 2001) and her feature debut My First
Miracle (Mein erstes Wunder, 2001).
AT MONTREAL
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