Titel Kino 1/2002 - German Cinema

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt
FINAL HOPE
Genre Drama Category TV-movie (fiction)
Year of Production 2001 Director Marc
Rothemund Screenplay Fred Breinersdorfer
Director of Photography Martin Langer
Editor Hans Funck Production Design Isolde
Rüter Producer Sven Burgemeister Production
Company TV60 Film, Munich, in cooperation with
NDR, Hamburg Principal Cast Anneke Kim
Sarnau, Axel Prahl, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Barbara
Philipp, Frank Sieckel Casting Lore Blössl, Walter
Speidel Length 89 min, 2435 m Format Super
16 mm Blow up 35 mm, color, 1:1.78 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Stereo
International Festival Screenings Hof 2001,
Berlin 2002 (German Cinema) German
Distributor NDR International, Hamburg
World Sales:
NDR International · Doris Heinze
Hugh-Green-Weg 1 · D-22529 Hamburg
phone +49-40-41 56 57 81 · fax +49-40-41 56 64 48
a policewoman. After two years of training, she starts
her new job in Hamburg with great enthusiasm
and turns her back on her small hometown and her
boyfriend Max, who is just as much against her new
profession as her parents are.
The shift work is hard but Corinna gives it her best
and doesn’t want to lose face in front of her boss,
Eddy Garbitsch. But when Garbitsch comes a bit too
close one day, her situation with him and her colleagues
becomes critical. And on top of it all, she
finds out that her best friend Tanja is pregnant from
Max.
Garbitsch’s insulted ego brings him into a vicious
circle of harassment toward Corinna. Although she
manages to keep her cool, she doesn’t have a chance
among her colleagues. Jens is the only one to tries to
keep Garbitsch off her back, but his help comes too
late. In her desperation, her only way out is to take
her own life.
Anneke Kim Sarnau (photo © NDR/Gordon Timpen) The 25-year-old Corinna Safranski wants to become
Marc Rothemund began working as an assistant
director in 1990 on commercials for such directors as
Gabriel Barylli, Nikolai Karo and Helmut Dietl as well
as on TV productions as varied as Bernd Eichinger’s Das
Mädchen Rosemarie, Vivian Naefe’s Nervenkrieg and
Dominik Graf ’s Sperling. In 1995, he served as the
German assistant director for Gérard Corbiau’s OSCARnominated
Farinelli and followed this a year later with
Dietl’s Rossini. He then made his directorial debut with
SAT.1’s Wilde Jungs and two episodes of the ZDF
series Anwalt Abel. His first film as a director for the
cinema was Love Scenes from Planet Earth (Das
merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer
Großstädter zur Paarungszeit, 1998) followed by
Just The Two Of Us (Harte Jungs) in 1999.
AT BERLIN
GERMAN CINEMA
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