Quarterly 4 · 2006 - German Cinema
Quarterly 4 · 2006 - German Cinema
Quarterly 4 · 2006 - German Cinema
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Celebration of Flight: The Dream of a Pilot<br />
Celebration of Flight is about a very rare sort of adventurer<br />
you are unlikely to find today.<br />
A film about a pilot who flew sheiks and kings like Haille<br />
Selassie or the King of Yemen. A film about the oldest<br />
dream of mankind and the only remaining dream of an<br />
old man: at the age of 78, Daniel Rundstroem wants to<br />
build his own plane in the middle of the tropical forest, on<br />
Dominica, an island paradise in the Caribbean.<br />
It is also a film about a unique friendship between a 78year-old<br />
Swede and a 16-year-old native boy from the<br />
Caribbean Sea. They share one desire for which they are<br />
willing to sacrifice everything: to develop and build their<br />
very own aircraft.<br />
With it, they are planning to take part in one of the world’s<br />
biggest air shows for airplane designers in Florida and win<br />
a prize. Their only goal is success.<br />
For the boy, it is the beginning of all his dreams. For the<br />
old man, it is his very last dream. And it’s the legacy of a<br />
father-and-son relationship. However for Daniel it is not<br />
only the building of an airplane. It is much more: a review<br />
of his life, the reunion with his lost son and the memories<br />
of his past adventures …<br />
World Sales (please contact)<br />
Lombardo Films GmbH<br />
Tengstrasse 22 <strong>·</strong> 80798 Munich/<strong>German</strong>y<br />
phone +49-89-21 66 76 36 <strong>·</strong> fax +49-89-21 66 76 37<br />
email: info@lombardofilms.com <strong>·</strong> www.lombardofilms.com<br />
Genre Adventure, Biopic Category Documentary <strong>Cinema</strong><br />
Year of Production <strong>2006</strong> Director Lara Juliette Sanders<br />
Screenplay Lara Juliette Sanders Directors of Photography<br />
Ralf Leistl, Michael Boxrucker Editors Klaus Schaefer, Jean-Claude<br />
Piroué Music by Gary Marlowe Producer Lara Juliette Sanders<br />
Production Company Lombardo Films/Munich Length 78<br />
min Format DigiBeta, color, 16:9 Original Version English<br />
Sound Technology Stereo <strong>German</strong> Distributor Lombardo<br />
Films/Munich<br />
Lara Juliette Sanders studied Journalism and Business<br />
Management in Munich, followed by work as an editor and commissioning<br />
editor for several departments at the broadcasters WDR<br />
and tm3. Thereafter she began developing international series,<br />
magazines and features for Bavaria Films, ZDF and BR and started<br />
working in continuity and as an assistant director. Since 2000 she has<br />
worked as a junior producer and assistant director for Haifisch<br />
Entertainment/Munich, and as an assistant director on the series Ein<br />
Fall fuer zwei. Celebration of Flight (<strong>2006</strong>) marks her own<br />
directorial debut. She is currently directing, producing and co-producing<br />
for Lombardo Films/Munich.<br />
german films quarterly new german films<br />
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Scene from “Celebration of Flight” (photo © Lombardo Films)
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