Quarterly 4 · 2006 - German Cinema

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Die Koenige der Nutzholzgewinnung LUMBER KINGS In the comedy Lumber Kings, the lovely and charismatic loser Krischan comes back to his working class village Tanne, planning to hold a lumber jack competition there. He manages not only to overcome the massive resistance of his old friends Ronnie and Bert, but also transforms the whole village, saving it from a state of stagnancy and resignation. Genre Social Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2006 Director Matthias Keilich Screenplay Khyana el Bitar, Matthias Keilich Director of Photography Henning Stirner Editor Gergana Voigt Music by Neil Filby Production Design Petra Albert Producer Nicole Gerhards Production Company NiKo Film/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz Principal Cast Bjarne Ingmar Maedel, Frank Auerbach, Steven Merting, Barbara Philipp, Christina Grosse, Peter Sodann Casting Karen Wendland Length 94 min, 2,538 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung German Distributor Neue Visionen Filmverleih/Berlin World Sales (please contact) NiKo Film · Nicole Gerhards, Matthias Keilich Rungestrasse 22 · 10179 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-27 58 28 36 · fax +49-30-27 58 28 72 email: info@nikofilm.de · www.nikofilm.de Matthias Keilich was born in 1965 in Calw/Baden- Wuerttemberg. After his schooling, he worked as a sculptor in Stuttgart and Freiburg. In 1993, he enrolled in the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin where he studied Scriptwriting and Direction. During his studies, he made such films as Wer aussteigt hat verloren (1996), Tod in New York (1996) and Zu (1998). Neither Fish, Nor Fowl (Nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch, 2001) was his first feature-length film as well as his graduation film from the dffb, followed by Lumber Kings (Die Koenige der Nutzholzgewinnung, 2006). german films quarterly new german films 4 · 2006 46 Scene from “Lumber Kings” (photo © Mario Pfeifer)
Leben mit Hannah LIVING WITH HANNAH Life with Hannah is anything but easy. She is young and pretty, but also deeply mysterious and enigmatic. Floating between her bare apartment and gloomy photo lab, she has wrapped herself in a cocoon of inapproachability. Neither her work colleagues nor her partner, daughter or parents can pierce Hannah’s armor of rules, rituals and barriers. As this artificial sense of security is successively infiltrated by an anonymous stranger, Hannah’s life slowly but surely turns into a thriller that will blur the boundaries between real danger and her inner demons. In her quest to confront the invisible enemy, Hannah re-establishes contact with her past and her equally repressed present. Genre Melodrama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2006 Director Erica von Moeller Screenplay Soenke Lars Neuwoehner Director of Photography Sophie Maintigneux Editor Gesa Marten Music by Axel Schweppe World Sales (please contact) unafilm · Titus Kreyenberg Georgstrasse 15-17 · 50676 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-3 48 02 80 · fax +49-2 21-3 48 02 81 email: office@unafilm.de · www.unafilm.de Production Design Birgit Esser Producer Titus Kreyenberg Production Company unafilm/Cologne, in co-production with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg Principal Cast Nina Hoss, Isabel Bongard, Wolfram Koch, Matthias Brandt, Marie-Lou Sellem, Milan Peschel Casting Anja Dihrberg Length 85 min, 2, 325 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Optical Stereo Festival Screenings Hof 2006 With backing from Filmstiftung NRW Erica von Moeller was born in Wiesbaden in 1968. After studying Fine Arts at the University of Mainz, she went on to study Film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. A winner of numerous awards, her films include: mariemarie (short, 1999), Nora and Anna (1999), One Summer (short, 2002), Sainkho (documentary, 2002), For the Moment (short, 2004), Bittersweet Breath (2005), and Living with Hannah (Leben mit Hannah, 2006). german films quarterly new german films 4 · 2006 47 Nina Hoss in “Living with Hannah” (photo © Thekla Ehling/unafilm)
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