Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
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Elefantenherz<br />
Original Title Elefantenherz Type of Project Feature Film<br />
Genre Coming-of-age story Production Company Cameo<br />
Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Cologne With backing from<br />
<strong>Films</strong>tiftung NRW, WDR Producer Annette Pisacane<br />
Director Züli Aladag Screenplay Marija Erceg, Jörg Tensing<br />
Director of Photography Judith Kaufmann Principal Cast<br />
Daniel Brühl, Erhan Emre, Jochen Nickel, Manfred Zapatka<br />
Length 90 min Format Super 16 mm, color, Dolby SR<br />
Shooting Language <strong>German</strong> Shooting in Cologne from<br />
April <strong>2001</strong><br />
Contact:<br />
CAMEO Film- und Fernsehproduktion<br />
Lübecker Str. 6, D-50668 Cologne<br />
phone +49-2 21-9 12 81 20 · fax +49-2 21-9 12 81 33<br />
www.cameo-film.de · email: info@cameo-film.de<br />
Principal photography began at the beginning of April in North<br />
Rhine-Westphalia on Elefantenherz, the first full-length feature<br />
by Turkish-born director Züli Aladag, as part of the “Sixpack”<br />
initiative launched by broadcaster WDR and <strong>Films</strong>tiftung NRW to<br />
support new directorial talents.<br />
The screenplay by Marija Erceg and Jörg Tensing is<br />
described by producer Annette Pisacane of CAMEO Filmund<br />
Fernsehproduktion as a “coming-of-age story” about a young<br />
boxer in the amateur league who dreams of going professional<br />
and has to learn what sacrifices he has to make if he wants to<br />
realize this ambition.<br />
The main role of the budding boxer searching for his own identity<br />
is played by the newcomer talent Daniel Brühl, who came to<br />
greater attention earlier this year through another CAMEO production<br />
– Hans Weingartner’s Das weisse Rauschen –<br />
while the part of his Turkish friend and fellow boxer was taken<br />
by Erhan Emre (known to audiences from his appearances in<br />
Martin Eigler’s Freunde and Miguel Alexandre’s Gran<br />
Paradiso). Other supporting roles have been cast with<br />
Jochen Nickel and Manfred Zapatka.<br />
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Daniel Brühl (photo © CAMEO)<br />
Philip Gröning (photo © Bavaria Film International)<br />
For Pisacane, the project follows in CAMEO’s tradition of working<br />
with young, first-time directors: in 1995, the Cologne-based outfit<br />
was a co-producer on the multi-award-winning documentary<br />
Nico Icon by Susanne Ofteringer who, like Aladag, was<br />
a graduate of the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne; and<br />
last year saw the company collaborate with another KHM graduate,<br />
Hans Weingartner, on his Max Ophüls prize-winner.<br />
Born in 1968, director Aladag has worked as a freelance filmmaker<br />
since 1995 and made a number of shorts and documentaries<br />
during his studies at the Academy from 1996, including the<br />
award-winning documentary Zoran and the short Listen (Hör<br />
Dein Leben) which was selected last year to screen in the<br />
Export-Union’s Next Generation showcase of new films by<br />
students from <strong>German</strong> film schools.<br />
La Grande<br />
Chartreuse<br />
Original Title La Grande Chartreuse Type of Project<br />
Documentary Film Production Company Philip Gröning<br />
Filmproduktion, Düsseldorf, in co-production with BR, Munich,<br />
ZDF, Mainz, ARTE, Strasbourg With backing from<br />
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), <strong>Films</strong>tiftung NRW Producer Philip<br />
Gröning Director Philip Gröning Co-director Nicolas<br />
Humbert Director of Photography Philip Gröning<br />
Editor Philip Gröning Format Super 16 mm / Sony HD<br />
Shooting in La Grande Chartreuse, France in either summer<br />
<strong>2001</strong>/winter 2002 or February - May 2002<br />
Contact:<br />
Philip Gröning Filmproduktion<br />
Lohauser Dorfstraße 40e · D-40474 Düsseldorf<br />
phone +49-2 11-4 70 91 23 · fax +49-30-26 55 09 21<br />
email: film_groening@compuserve.com<br />
Some sixteen years ago, filmmaker Philip Gröning (L’Amour<br />
L’Argent L’Amour) thought up the idea of a film about the<br />
Carthusian monastic order and researched the subject with<br />
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