Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films

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Jerichow Location motif from “Jerichow” (photo courtesy of Schramm Film) Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Pro - duction Company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber/Berlin, in co-production with BR/Munich, ARTE/Strasbourg With backing from Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), BKM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director Christian Petzold Screenplay Christian Petzold Director of Photography Hans Fromm Editor Bettina Boehler Music by Stefan Will Production Design Kade Gruber Principal Cast Benno Fuermann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Soezer, André Hennicke Casting Simone Baer Special Effects Mike Bols Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German Shooting in Wittenberge, April – June 2008 German Distributor Piffl Medien/Berlin Contact World Sales The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber Balthasarstrasse 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 91 0 email: info@matchfactory.de · www.the-match-factory.com “Never change a winning team” was the motto adopted by director Christian Petzold and the Berlin-based production outfit Schramm Film as they began their seventh collaboration this spring on the feature film Jerichow. “My crew has been almost identical now for 14 years,” says Petzold whose past successes include The State I Am In and the Berlinale compe tition films Ghosts and Yella. It goes without saying that he is working again with cinematographer Hans Fromm as well as make-up artist Monika Muennich, sound man Andreas Muecke- Niesytka and editor Bettina Boehler. Moreover, composer Stefan Will, production designer Kade Gruber, casting director Simone Baer and special effects wizard Mike Bols are also onboard. Meanwhile, Petzold’s ensemble of actors also has links with his previous films: Jerichow marks the fourth collaboration with Nina Hoss (after Something To Remind Me, Wolfsburg and Yella), and the second time he is working with André Hennicke (Something To Remind Me) and Benno Fuermann (Wolfsburg). Petzold had visited the small town of Jerichow while scouting for locations for Yella, “and I knew it as the setting for Uwe Johnson’s book Jahrestage,” he recalls, adding that he had always been fascinat - ed by the origin of these place-names which have “a mythical, almost legendary aura.” He explains that the plot for Jerichow was inspired in many ways by Vincent Minelli’s 1958 film Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley Maclaine and Dean Martin, “about love, honesty, deception and betrayal. For Jerichow, I thought we ought to begin like in Wolfsburg. There we had the Volkswagen factory in the first frame, but here there isn’t a factory anymore, it has been closed down. The question is what happens then. In the old stories, you had a character who wanted to go up in the world, become rich and marry the factory owner’s daughter, but that’s not possible now because every - thing is just in ruins. That is why we are shooting in Wittenberge and the Prignitz region and along the River Elbe where there is no longer any industry.” The filmmaker is succinct in his description of the new film’s plot: Thomas (played by Benno Fuermann) is at the end of his tether. He meets Julia (Nina Hoss). They fall in love with one another. Both be - lieve that they can only have a future if they murder Julia’s husband (André Hennicke). It seems to be about money. Or perhaps something else after all. They plan the murder … While Petzold sees a connection between Something To Remind Me, Wolfsburg and Jerichow – “in all three, it is about crime, passion and deep emotions, and deadly sins like revenge and greed” – he warns against interpreting these three as forming a trilogy in the same way as was done for The State I Am In, Ghosts, and Yella, and notes that "Jerichow will be a neo-realistic film.” “I have the feeling that Christian is drawing the essence out of all of his previous works and letting everything flow into Jerichow,” adds producer Florian Koerner von Gustorf. “It has something very solid and classical compared, for example, to Ghosts as far as the narrative structure is concerned.” “As in film noir, the characters here are driven by something that slips out of their grasp and they no longer have under their control,” Koerner von Gustorf explains. “From a certain point onwards, they are no longer prepared to face up to the question of guilt and both believe that they have the right to behave the way they do. What is really interesting about Jerichow is that the characters say: ’We must get rid of someone so that our life is better, we take what we believe we are entitled to.’” german films quarterly in production 2 · 2008 32 MB
Lippels Traum Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Children’s Film, Family Entertainment, Literature Production Company collina Filmproduktion/Munich, in co-production with BR/Munich, Uni - versum Film/Munich, Kinowelt Filmproduktion/Munich, element e film - produktion/Hamburg With backing from Filmfoerderungs - anstalt (FFA), Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Producer Ulrich Limmer Director Lars Buechel Screenplay Paul Maar, Ulrich Limmer Director of Photography Jana Marsik Editor Sandy Saffeels Music by Konstantin Wecker Production Design Frank Polosek Principal Cast Anke Engelke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Karl Alexander Seidel, Amrita Cheema, Steve-Marvin Dwumah, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Edgar Selge, Eva Mattes Casting Nicole Fischer Casting, Stefany Pohlmann Casting Special Effects Juergen Schopper Format 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby SR Shooting Language German Shooting in Munich, Passau, Morocco, March – May 2008 German Distributor Universum Film/Munich World Sales TELEPOOL GmbH · Anja Uecker Sonnenstrasse 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-55 87 60 · fax +49-89-55 87 62 29 email: cinepool@telepool.de · www.telepool.de Steve-Marvin Dwumah,Karl Alexander Seidel, Amrita Cheema (photo courtesy of collina Film) Producer Ulrich Limmer has assembled a top-notch cast and crew for Lippels Traum, the story of an 11-year-old boy, Lippel, whose father leaves for a week’s business trip, entrusting the boy to a new housekeeper. The two of them get on like honey and oil! Lippel’s days turn to nightmares and, to escape, he dreams of being in the Orient of 1001 Nights where he meets all the people from his real life again. With them, he masters adventures which help him to cope with his problems in the here and now. Limmer, who specializes in family entertainment, is best known for films such as Schtonk!, Rennschwein Rudi Ruessel, Comedian Harmonists, the Das Sams series, and Herr Bello. Writer Paul Maar is the other half of the team on this, their fourth joint outing, having worked with Limmer on such critical and audience hits as the Sams series and, most recently, Herr Bello. He also author ed the original book, Lippels Traum! Directing Lippels Traum is Lars Buechel. Among his credits is 2000’s Jetzt oder nie – Zeit ist Geld and Erbsen auf halb sechs (2003). Proving that family entertainment means more than just making a film for adults to suffer through, Lippels Traum boasts four of Germany’s most popular and recognized film and TV faces: Anke Engelke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Uwe Ochsenknecht (here making a guest appearance) and Christiane Paul. Lippels Traum, Limmer says, “is a song of praise to imagination and its healing effect in everyday life. The story is a magical game between reality and fiction by which an adventurous imagination prov es to be the best aid for dealing with the acute existential problems of a child’s real world.” collina Filmproduktion was founded by Limmer in 2002, follow - ing stints at Kinowelt and Bavaria Film. Along the way, he has picked up an Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination, two German Film Awards and two Bavarian Film Awards. SK Die Perlmutterfarbe Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Family Enter - tainment Production Company d.i.e. film/Munich, in co-production with Constantin Film Produktion/Munich With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), BKM, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Kuratorium junger deutscher Film Producers Robert Marciniak, Uli Aselmann Director Marcus H. Rosenmueller Screenplay Marcus H. Rosenmueller, Christian Lerch Director of Photography Torsten Breuer Editor Georg Soering Music by Gerd Baumann Production Design Johannes Sternagel, Doerthe Komnick Principal Cast Markus Krojer, Zoé Mannhardt, Dominik Nowak, Benedikt Hoesl, Thomas Wittmann, Brigitte Hobmeier, Sigi Zimmerschied, Gustav-Peter Woehler, Josef Hader Casting Franziska Aigner-Kuhn Special Effects Jens Doeldissen, Juergen Schopper Format 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German Shooting in Burghausen, Weidenberg, Plauen, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, February – April 2008 German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich Contact d.i.e. film gmbh · Sophia Aldenhoven Zentnerstrasse 42 · 80796 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-27 77 71 0 · fax +49-89-27 77 71 77 email: aldenhoven@diefilmgmbh.de www.diefilmgmbh.de german films quarterly in production 2 · 2008 33 Scene from “Die Perlmutterfarbe” (photo courtesy of d.i.e. film)
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