Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films

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Elefantenherz Original Title Elefantenherz Type of Project Feature Film Genre Coming-of-age story Production Company Cameo Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Cologne With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, WDR Producer Annette Pisacane Director Züli Aladag Screenplay Marija Erceg, Jörg Tensing Director of Photography Judith Kaufmann Principal Cast Daniel Brühl, Erhan Emre, Jochen Nickel, Manfred Zapatka Length 90 min Format Super 16 mm, color, Dolby SR Shooting Language German Shooting in Cologne from April 2001 Contact: CAMEO Film- und Fernsehproduktion Lübecker Str. 6, D-50668 Cologne phone +49-2 21-9 12 81 20 · fax +49-2 21-9 12 81 33 www.cameo-film.de · email: info@cameo-film.de Principal photography began at the beginning of April in North Rhine-Westphalia on Elefantenherz, the first full-length feature by Turkish-born director Züli Aladag, as part of the “Sixpack” initiative launched by broadcaster WDR and Filmstiftung NRW to support new directorial talents. The screenplay by Marija Erceg and Jörg Tensing is described by producer Annette Pisacane of CAMEO Filmund Fernsehproduktion as a “coming-of-age story” about a young boxer in the amateur league who dreams of going professional and has to learn what sacrifices he has to make if he wants to realize this ambition. The main role of the budding boxer searching for his own identity is played by the newcomer talent Daniel Brühl, who came to greater attention earlier this year through another CAMEO production – Hans Weingartner’s Das weisse Rauschen – while the part of his Turkish friend and fellow boxer was taken by Erhan Emre (known to audiences from his appearances in Martin Eigler’s Freunde and Miguel Alexandre’s Gran Paradiso). Other supporting roles have been cast with Jochen Nickel and Manfred Zapatka. 30 Daniel Brühl (photo © CAMEO) Philip Gröning (photo © Bavaria Film International) For Pisacane, the project follows in CAMEO’s tradition of working with young, first-time directors: in 1995, the Cologne-based outfit was a co-producer on the multi-award-winning documentary Nico Icon by Susanne Ofteringer who, like Aladag, was a graduate of the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne; and last year saw the company collaborate with another KHM graduate, Hans Weingartner, on his Max Ophüls prize-winner. Born in 1968, director Aladag has worked as a freelance filmmaker since 1995 and made a number of shorts and documentaries during his studies at the Academy from 1996, including the award-winning documentary Zoran and the short Listen (Hör Dein Leben) which was selected last year to screen in the Export-Union’s Next Generation showcase of new films by students from German film schools. La Grande Chartreuse Original Title La Grande Chartreuse Type of Project Documentary Film Production Company Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, Düsseldorf, in co-production with BR, Munich, ZDF, Mainz, ARTE, Strasbourg With backing from Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmstiftung NRW Producer Philip Gröning Director Philip Gröning Co-director Nicolas Humbert Director of Photography Philip Gröning Editor Philip Gröning Format Super 16 mm / Sony HD Shooting in La Grande Chartreuse, France in either summer 2001/winter 2002 or February - May 2002 Contact: Philip Gröning Filmproduktion Lohauser Dorfstraße 40e · D-40474 Düsseldorf phone +49-2 11-4 70 91 23 · fax +49-30-26 55 09 21 email: film_groening@compuserve.com Some sixteen years ago, filmmaker Philip Gröning (L’Amour L’Argent L’Amour) thought up the idea of a film about the Carthusian monastic order and researched the subject with MB
Nicolas Humbert, a fellow student from his days at Munich’s Academy of Television and Film (HFF/M). At the end of 1980s, Gröning made the acquaintance of one of the Carthusian priors who has since become the head of the La Grande Chartreuse monastery near Grenoble in the French Alps. They kept in contact over the following years, and Gröning has now received permission to be the first filmmaker to visit the monastery since 1960. ”In the 1960 film they were not allowed to show the monks’ faces and, since then, there were no films made there. This documentary will be extremely austere“, Gröning explains, ”there will be no interviews, not a single commentary. It will be like a meditation about the monastery. One won’t learn anything about the monks except that after 90 minutes of film one will have the feeling that one understands a lot about what life means to them. So it will be more on the emotional level than about receiving information“. Gröning plans to live in the monastery for three months, cut off from the rest of the world and without any team. He will have an editing suite set up in the monastery to work on the film, and codirector Humbert will join him for a week or so at a time to bring in another perspective. Gröning admits that ”it will be difficult to transport without words what contemplative life in the strictest sense is, and to show a life that is exclusively concerned with coming nearer to God“, but he hopes that immersing himself in the monks’ daily routine over such a long period will point up the rhythmic and repetitive quality of their lives. Halbe Treppe Original Title Halbe Treppe (working title) Type of Project Feature Film Genre Drama Production Company Rommel Film, Berlin Producer Peter Rommel Director Andreas Dresen Screenplay Andreas Dresen Director of Photography Michael Hammon Principal Cast Steffie Kühnert, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten Format Digital Video Shooting Language German Shooting in Frankfurt an der Oder from 16 January to the beginning of April 2001 Contact: Bavaria Film International · Dept. of Bavaria Media Bavariafilmplatz 8 · D-82031 Geiselgasteig phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 www.bavaria-film-international.de email: Bavaria.International@bavaria-film.de After being the German partner on several international co-productions, Berlin-based producer Peter Rommel worked together with director Andreas Dresen to produce his “Short Cuts”-style Night Shapes (Nachtgestalten) which was shown in the official competition of the Berlin Film Festival in 1999 and enjoyed a successful international festival career. MB in production Now, two years later, Rommel and Dresen are back together again on a new project with the working title of Halbe Treppe, which Rommel describes as ”an experimental feature with as little production ballast as possible“ using a Sony DV camera and a miniscule team – seven crew and four actors – for the story set in Frankfurt/Oder on the border with Poland. Commenting on the film’s title Halbe Treppe, Rommel says that they ”wanted to recount half of the life of normal people. What happens when one gets to halfway in life and then asks: ‘how does it go on?’. There was an initial storyline from Andi, but this was then reflected anew each day by the actors and crew, i.e. the story was developed further and altered on a daily basis“. ”Each of the protagonists in the film have their respective professions“, Rommel adds, ”that meant that, in the mornings, they often went to their ‘jobs’ and were then there for filming in the afternoons. And, sometimes, they were in their professions for one or two days in a row without any filming being done“. Working with digital video made the logistics of shooting at original locations much easier because, unlike on normal film shoots, “we could just say ‘Let’s go into a perfumery today and shoot’, and this was possible”, Rommel recalls. Moreover, the production had a special character since the team and actors all lived together in a hotel in Frankfurt/Oder for the duration of the two month shoot: “In that situation, you can’t switch off so easily because we were constantly together”, Rommel observes, “unlike normal film productions where everyone has a break away at some point”. 31 MB Axel Prahl (photo © Peter Hartwig)
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