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A modern fairy tale,<br />
an exciting<br />
adventure and<br />
great<br />
entertainment<br />
PRODUCTION for the entire<br />
PROVOBIS Gesellschaft für <strong>Film</strong><br />
family.<br />
und Fernsehen mbH<br />
in co-production with<br />
TH E M Y S T E R Y O F M OR PH US - FI L M C R E W &<strong>EqX</strong><br />
rbb, MDR, BR, LANG FILM<br />
with backing from<br />
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,<br />
Deutscher <strong>Film</strong>förderfonds DFFF, 2008<br />
LENGTH 96 min.<br />
FORMAT 35 mm,<br />
1:1,78/ colour<br />
HEAD OF PRODUCTION Jürgen Haase<br />
CO-PRODUCER Bernhard Lang<br />
PRODUCER Thomas Teubner<br />
DIRECTED BY Karola Hattop<br />
SCRIPT Andrzej Maleszka<br />
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Sebastian Richter<br />
MUSIC Eike Hosenfeld,<br />
Moritz Denis<br />
SETTING Nicole Heidel<br />
COSTUMES Ingrid Weiß<br />
EDITOR Karola Mittelstädt<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Wolfgang Plehn<br />
LINE PRODUCER Jutta Paarmann<br />
CAST Jonas Hämmerle (Nicki)<br />
Michael Roll (Nicki’s father)<br />
Oliver Korittke (gangster Max)<br />
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey (gangster Kwapisch)<br />
Charlotte Crome (Nicki’s mother)<br />
Magali Greif (Marta)<br />
Nadine Schori (hotel manager) and many more<br />
THE MYSTERY OF MORPHUS – PRESS COMMENTS<br />
“A great modern fairy tale with a lot of music” “’The Mystery of Morphus’ is a good example of showing children how to approach<br />
classical music in a playful manner. Moreover, it broaches the issue of lacking self-confidence and how to deal with it.”<br />
(Thomas Lassonczyk, Blickpunkt: <strong>Film</strong>)<br />
“A captivating film about the struggle of imagination and brains against sheer greed. And about the power of friendship and music.”<br />
(spielen und lernen)<br />
“Cinema for the little ones was made here. The film started with the rating ‘suitable for all’ which shows that the target group was<br />
the young audience. And at various festivals where the film was shown it turned out that it worked. Even the slightly older kids,<br />
twelve years or older, enjoyed the film. …a mixture of mystery, crime and adventure suitable for children.”<br />
(Dimitrios Athanassiou, moviemaze.de)<br />
“The modern fairy tale with opulent music combines light entertainment with playfully making classical music accessible to children.”<br />
(dpa in yahoo.de, welt.de)<br />
WORLD SALES:<br />
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www.progress-film.de<br />
Oliver Korittke • Jonas Hämmerle • Michael Roll<br />
Amodern fairy tale, an exciting adventure and great entertainment for the entirefamily.<br />
A film by Karola Hattop<br />
produced by Jürgen Haase
S T O R Y L I N E<br />
&Eq X<br />
What happens<br />
when all of a sudden all people<br />
fall asleep and you are the only one who stays awake? This is what ten-year-old Nicki<br />
involuntarily experiences when the last composition called Morphus by the great<br />
composer Ludwig van Beethoven accidentally ends up in his schoolbag. The melody holds<br />
magic powers because everybody who listens to it falls asleep. Only few people know about this<br />
secret such as the gangsters Max and Kwapisch. On a trip with his dad into the snowy mountains,<br />
the gangsters follow Nicki and his father to steal the Morphus score. They want to use the magic<br />
force of the music for their racketeering. For the shy boy this is the start of a turbulent adventure.<br />
After arriving at the hotel Nicki learns about the magic powers of the melody<br />
when he starts playing it on his trumpet. He experiences that suddenly<br />
all people around fall asleep except for the gangster Max. Now he is<br />
completely alone and has to face the attacks and intrigues of the<br />
gangster. He has to fight for the Morphus score to save himself, his<br />
dad and everybody else from the evil doings of the villain. In this<br />
difficult situation, he makes substantial progress and changes<br />
from an anxious child into a self-confident boy.<br />
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY<br />
KAROLA HATTOP, born in 1949, studied at the German<br />
Academy for <strong>Film</strong> and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam Babelsberg.<br />
Afterwards she worked as director<br />
at the main television station of the<br />
GDR and at the DEFA Studios for Feature <strong>Film</strong>s. From 1990 to<br />
1994 she has been working as producer, director and author<br />
at Phantasios <strong>Film</strong>production. Since 1994 she works<br />
as free-lance author and director.<br />
Awards: ”Wer küsst schon einen Leguan?“: Golden<br />
Sparrow Award 2005, nomination Adolf Grimme Award<br />
2004, European Children’s <strong>Film</strong> Award and Audience<br />
Award 2003<br />
JONAS HÄMMERLE,<br />
born in 1998, so far acted in a television film<br />
called “Das Kuckuckskind” in 2007. In the film<br />
“The Mystery of Morphus” he acts the part of the<br />
young main character Nicki, a little music genius.<br />
He likes playing Cello and for his role he also learned to<br />
play the trumpet.<br />
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B I O G R A P H I E S<br />
MICHAEL ROLL,<br />
born in Munich in 1961, acted in a<br />
motion picture for the first time in 1982 in the<br />
film “Kraftprobe” with the well-known German actress<br />
Hannelore Hoger. Since 1983 he has been one of the busiest actors<br />
in Germany. In addition, he started his stage career in 1987. In 1989 he won<br />
the award as Germany’s most talented young actor for his acting in “Der Mann in Salz”.<br />
Afterwards he played in differ ent detective television series like “Tatort”, “Derrick” and “Der Alte”.<br />
His breakthrough came with the television series “Der König” (1994-1996) in which he played with the famous<br />
actor Günter Strack. Since that time, he is considered a component part in the German movie business.<br />
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OLIVER KORITTKE, born in Berlin in 1968, played at the age of 4 in the<br />
television series “Die Pulvermänner” (1972). Afterwards he also performed in the German Sesame Street.<br />
In 1984 he started to act in films. His breakthrough was the film “Die Musterknaben”, a detective comedy, in<br />
1997. In the year 2000 he won the Adolf Grimme Award for his performance in the film “Dunckel” (1999).<br />
Korittke loves music, he plays percussion and bass guitar, from time to time he accompanies a team of DJs<br />
around Germany.<br />
ARNDT SCHWERING-SOHNREY, born in Bad Tölz in 1968. He studied acting at the<br />
Hannover University for Music and Drama. After finishing his studies he started<br />
to perform onstage, for example at the State Theatre Hannover,<br />
Grips Theatre in Berlin, Sophiensaelen in Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer<br />
Berlin and at the Theatre Stuttgart. Since 1994 he has been<br />
acting in films for cinema and television. He is known for his<br />
performances in films like “The Counterfeiters“,<br />
“Anatomie” and “Good Bye, Lenin!”.<br />
Children’s films produced by<br />
JÜRGEN HAASE | PROVOBIS<br />
2008 “The Mystery of Morphus” (directed by Karola Hattop)<br />
2008 “Sleeping Beauty“ (directed by Arend Agthe)<br />
2007 “Rumpelstiltskin“ (directed by Andi Niessner)<br />
2001 “Pinky and the Million-Pug“ (directed by Stefan Lukschy)<br />
1997 “Lawrence in the Land of Liars“ (directed by Jürgen Brauer)<br />
1984 “Gülibik“ (directed by Jürgen Haase)