reisende sommer - republik 2005 dokumentation

ALL ABOUT TESLA
director: Michael Krause
producer: Peter Roloff, maxim film
We will visit the most important places in Tesla’s life. The journey stretches from
the United States, where he lived for more than 60 years as an American citizen;
to Lika in former Yugoslavia (nowadays Croatia). Here he was born into the
mythical world of the Balkans. Both Nikola Tesla as well as Rade Serbedzija are
from Serbian heritage. On our journey, Rade Serbedzija will meet with relatives,
biographers, researchers and scientists, who agree or disagree with Tesla’s ideas
and visions.
Visual elements of the film are: Rade Serbedzija’s journey; the Yugoslav TV-series
“Nikola Tesla”; archival material for the historical context; excerpts from other
films, such as “The secret of Nikola Tesla”, where
Orson Welles adresses Nikola Tesla. An important part
of the film will be shot inside Space Center Bremen.
Here we will show the inner world of Nikola Tesla. In
this cinematic recreation we will work with multiple
projections on a giant 360 degrees screen. It is the
head of Tesla. We will see Tesla’s visions,
prefabricated visual material showing Tesla’s eternal
mind.
Rade Serbedzija’s journey will be gently followed by our camera, with light
movements creating a cinematic expression for the “unsung poet of the electrical
age”. The camerawork of our DoP, Nyika Jancso, allows us to get very close to the
people in front of the camera. We will be gently touched by their presence.
ALL ABOUT TESLA was selected to take part in the MEDIA single project
development program. The project received further funding by nordmedia Lower
Saxony/Bremen (Germany) to complete pre-production funding. It was chosen to
take part in ExOriente workshop. HRT (Croatian TV) is already committed to the
project, consisting of archival rights, crew and equipment. RTS (Serbian TV) will
join the production to become the first Serbo-Croatian co-production after the war.
YLE Ateljee, Mrs. Outi Saarikoski has chosen ALL ABOUT TESLA for pre-buy.
There is enormous potential for ALL ABOUT TESLA to appeal to world-wide
audiences. It has a genius as hero, a charismatic actor as lead, a challenging topic
and a breath-taking story. These are the ingredients for an exciting, revealing and
highly entertaining film. It is dramatic, packed with conflict, great characters, full
of tragedy and humour of life.
© Michael Krause – maxim film 12/08/2005
+49 171 531 69 07
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