Quarterly 4 · 2006 - German Cinema

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Losers and Winners In the Ruhr Area, one of Germany’s key industrial regions, the famous “heartbeat of steel” has gone silent. A few years after the hypermodern coke plant at Kaiserstuhl, built at a cost of 650 million Euros, was shut down, 400 Chinese workers start breaking it down into manageable parts to ship them back to their homeland: disassembly in the West – reassembly in the Far East. Where up to 800 people used to work, the last 30 German employees are now supervising the so-called Shutdown Department. Communication between the two groups is difficult. Highly motivated people from a low-wage country come face-to-face with financially better-off workers in an industrialized nation who are now suddenly bereft of future prospects. Filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken watched as the gigantic industrial site was dismantled, documenting the stories that accompanied its disappearance. Two worlds collide. Who is ultimately the winner and who the loser when a whole region of Germany experiences first-hand the impact of globalization, while in the Middle Empire new visions come and go with each passing day? Genre Environmental/Ecology, Society Category Documentary Cinema Year of Production 2006 Directors Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken Screenplay Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken Directors of Photography Michael Loeken, Ruediger Spott Editor Guido Krajewski Music by Maciej Sledziecki Producers Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke Production Company filmproduktion loekenfranke/Cologne, in co-production with WDR- ARTE/Cologne, Goethe-Institut/Munich Length 96 min, 2,736 m Format DV Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German/Chinese Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Leipzig 2006, Duisburg 2006, Luenen 2006 With backing from Filmstiftung NRW German Distributor filmproduktion loekenfranke/ Cologne Ulrike Franke was born in 1970 in Dortmund and studied Theater, Film & Television Studies in Cologne. She then worked on several television and film productions as well as independent work in scriptwriting and documentaries. Since 1996, she has been active as a screenplay writer, director and producer. Michael Loeken was born in 1954 in Neviges and studied Theater, Film & Television Studies in Cologne. In 1981, he wrote the screenplay for and directed the documentary Ich hatte schon begonnen die Freiheit zu vergessen and worked as a recording supervisor for numerous documentary and feature films. Their films together include Und vor mir die Sterne (1998), Herr Schmidt und Herr Friedrich (2001), Soldatenglueck und Gottes Segen (2001), and Losers and Winners (2006). World Sales german united distributors Programmvertrieb GmbH · Bettina Oebel Breite Strasse 48-50 · 50667 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-9 20 69 31 · fax +49-2 21-9 20 69 69 email: bettina.oebel@germanunited.com · www.germanunited.com · www.losers-and-winners.net german films quarterly new german films 4 · 2006 48 Scene from “Losers and Winners” (photo © filmproduktion loekenfranke)
TKKG – Das Geheimnis um die raetselhafte Mind-Machine TKKG AND THE MYSTERIOUS MIND MACHINE Kevin is proud to be able to present his award-winning “mind machine” to his schoolmates and teachers. But after a few confused sentences, he runs off the stage of the auditorium. Then his friend Nadine disappears. There’s no time to lose – it’s a case for TKKG! Tim, Klumpling, Karl and Gabby take advantage of an outing to undertake a daring search for the lost children. They sneak into the empty, dilapidated house of Kevin’s parents, and what they discover there takes their breath away: a new prototype of the spectacular mind machine! The quartet begins to suspect that this could be the reason for the disappearances. But who’s behind all this? And what role is Mr. Manek, the biology teacher, playing here? Is Kevin conspiring with him? Their investigations take TKKG deeper and deeper into the mystery of the mind machine and on the track of a sinister experiment. It’s the beginning of an adventurous journey of discovery into a bizarre world of real and virtual surprises … Genre Family, Teens Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2006 Director Tomy Wigand Screenplay Marco Petry, Burt Weinshanker, based on the original work by Stefan Wolf Director of Photography Egon Werdin Editor Christian Nauheimer Production Design Uwe Szielasko, Pan Patellis Producer Uschi Reich Production Company Bavaria Filmverleih- & Produktion/Munich, in co-production with Lunaris Film/ World Sales Bavaria Film International · Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH · Thorsten Schaumann Bavariafilmplatz 8 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 email: international@bavaria-film.de · www.bavaria-film-international.com Munich, Constantin Film/Munich, BR/Munich Principal Cast Jannis Niewoehner, Jonathan Duemcke, Lukas Eichhammer, Svea Bein, Hauke Diekamp, Juergen Vogel, Ulrich Noethen Casting An Dorthe Braker Length 117 min, 3,195 m Format 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SRD With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, BayerischerBankenFonds, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich Tomy Wigand studied at the Academy of Television & Film in Munich from 1976-1979. He directed three shorts – Pangratz, Lotte and Unter Maennern – before making his TV film debut in 1981 with Ein bisschen was Schoenes. He served as the film editor on Roland Emmerich’s The Noah’s Ark Principle (1983), Joey (1985), and Moon 44 (1990), and wrote the screenplay for Hans W. Geissendoerfer’s adaptation of Duerrenmatt’s Justiz. Since 1993, Wigand has directed episodes for daily soaps (Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten and Verbotene Liebe) and TV action series (Alarm fuer Cobra 11) as well as Twiggy, Liebe auf Diaet (TV, 1997), Picknick im Schnee (TV, 1999), Soccer Rules! (Fussball ist unser Leben, 2000), Winter of Regret (Nicht heulen, Husky, TV, 2000), The Flying Classroom (Das fliegende Klassenzimmer, 2002), and TKKG and the Mysterious Mind Machine (TKKG – Das Geheimnis um die raetselhafte Mind-Machine, 2006). german films quarterly new german films 4 · 2006 49 Scene from “TKKG and the Mysterious Mind Machine” (photo © 2006 Constantin Film)
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