Titel Kino 1/2002 - German Cinema

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Viel passiert –
Der BAP Film
ODE TO COLOGNE
Genre Music Category Documentary
TV/Cinema Year of Production 2000/01
Director Wim Wenders Screenplay Wim
Wenders Director of Photography Phedon
Papamichael Editors Moritz Laube, Igor Patalas
Music by BAP Producer Olaf Wicke
Production Company Screenworks, Cologne,
BAP Travelling Tunes Productions, Cologne, WDR,
Cologne Principal Cast BAP, Marie Bäumer,
Joachim Król, Willi Laschet, Anger 77, Wolf
Biermann Studio Shooting Blue Space, Hürth
Length 96 min, 2623 m Format Digital Betacam
Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital International
Festival Screenings Berlin 2002 (out
of competition) With backing from Filmstiftung
NRW German Distributor ott film GmbH,
Berlin
World Sales: please contact
Screenworks Köln GmbH · Kerstin Lackmann
Hildeboldplatz 15-17 · D-50672 Cologne
phone +49-2 21-57 96 80 · fax +49-2 21-5 79 68 20
www.screenworks.tv · email: infokoeln@screenworks.tv
Wim Wenders, Marie Bäumer, Wolfgang Niedecken (photo © Screenworks Köln GmbH)
Wenders and Niedecken: the internationally renowned
filmmaker and the successful rock musician got together
to make a rock ’n’ roll film that breaks all conventions.
A gripping collage of current concert recordings and
rare archive photos, enhanced by Niedecken’s unique
texts and commentaries, as well as guest appearances by
Wolf Biermann, Marie Bäumer, Joachim Król and the
rock band Anger 77 – a fascinating portrait of a band
that even after 20 years of ”Cologne rock“ is still at the
top. Ode to Cologne is a special kind of music film,
one that will excite not only BAP fans.
Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf in 1945. He attended
the Academy of Television & Film (HFF/M) in Munich from 1967-
1970. From 1968-72, he wrote articles for Filmkritik and the Süddeutsche
Zeitung and was a founding member of the Filmverlag
der Autoren. In 1975, he set up his own production company
Road Movies. Wenders has received many international awards,
including the Golden Lion (1982), Golden Palm (1984), and the Felix
(1988). His films include: Summer in the City (1970), The
Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1971), Alice in the
Cities (1973), Wrong Move (1974), Kings of the Road
(1975), The American Friend (1977), Hammett
(1978/82), The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas
(1984), Wings of Desire (1986), Until the End of
the World (1990), Faraway, So Close (1993), Lisbon
Story (1994), The End of Violence (1997), Buena Vista
Social Club (1998) and The Million Dollar Hotel
(2000), among others.
AT B E R L I N
OUT OF COMPETITION
Kino 1/2002