Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
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Im Osten geht<br />
die Sonne auf<br />
Original Title Im Osten geht die Sonne auf English<br />
Title The Sun is Rising in the East Genre Documentary<br />
Production Company MGS Filmproduktion, Munich, for<br />
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich and ORB, Potsdam Producer<br />
Carolin Müller Director Wolfgang Ettlich Director of<br />
Photography Hans-Albrecht Lusznat Editor Monika<br />
Abspacher Length 90 min Format 16 mm, color, 1:1.77<br />
Shooting Language <strong>German</strong> Shooting in Cottbus<br />
Contact:<br />
MGS Filmproduktion<br />
Georgenstr. 121 · D-80797 Munich<br />
phone +49-89-1 23 64 65 · fax +49-89-1 23 64 99<br />
email: mgs@az-online.net<br />
For fans of soccer club Energie Cottbus, 29 May 2000 was the<br />
most important day after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Their team<br />
beat FC Cologne and won promotion to the first division. This<br />
time local skinheads had something new to chant. Most of the<br />
114,000 inhabitants also took to the streets, carrying the crossbar<br />
of the goal through which star player, Vasile Miritua, had put<br />
the winning shot.<br />
Miritua, a Romanian and once a mistrusted foreigner, had not<br />
only secured his team’s place, but had also become ”one of us.“<br />
And Cottbus, at least for a couple of days, could set aside its<br />
reputation as <strong>German</strong>y’s most foreigner unfriendly city. The<br />
underdogs had roared.<br />
Cottbus was long East <strong>German</strong>y’s ”Cinderella“ city and this was an<br />
opportunity to wave the flag of civic pride, so often tarnished by<br />
the city’s unenviable reputation for violence and intolerance. It<br />
hoped visiting fans would also bring opportunities for economic<br />
improvement and much needed outside investment.<br />
The city’s hoteliers, shopkeepers, souvenir sellers, restaurant and<br />
bars owners can certainly look forward to increased takings and,<br />
with unofficial unemployment somewhere between 20-30%, anything<br />
that creates new jobs is more than welcome.<br />
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Franklin Bittencourt<br />
But having made it to the first division, the question on everybody’s<br />
lips is ”for how long?“ Promotion was achieved through the<br />
efforts of the manager, former East <strong>German</strong> international Eduard<br />
Geyer, and his troop of foreign ”football legionnaires“, but the<br />
money for a truly top team is lacking.<br />
There are the players, such as Moussa Latoundji from Benin (who<br />
knows what it’s like to be a foreigner) and Franklin Bittencourt<br />
from Brazil, who’s been playing soccer in <strong>German</strong>y for over seven<br />
years.<br />
There are Michael and Simone, regular customers at the local<br />
kiosk on a run-down housing estate and Inge, who has waited<br />
tables for thirty years. If it weren’t for loyal customers and rock<br />
bottom prices, she’d have closed long ago.<br />
Team sponsor and local butcher Hartmut feeds the fans and, like<br />
Inge, hopes for new business. And there is Christian, gardener and<br />
loyal Energie supporter.<br />
Im Osten geht die Sonne auf looks at the last season, how<br />
the club’s rise has changed the life and political mood in the region<br />
and the effect it’s had on the people of Cottbus itself.<br />
Ninas<br />
Geschichte<br />
Original Title Ninas Geschichte (working title) English<br />
Title Nina’s Story (working title) Type of Project Feature<br />
Genre Tragicomic Love Story Production Company Bosko<br />
Biati Film, Berlin, in co-production with ZDF, Mainz With<br />
backing from Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und<br />
Medien (BKM), Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt<br />
(FFA), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)<br />
Producer Jörn Rettig Director Joseph Orr Screenplay<br />
Joseph Orr Director of Photography Stefan Wachner<br />
Editor Bernd Euscher Music by Bert Wrede Principal<br />
Cast Henriette Heinze, Simon Schwarz, Julia Bremermann<br />
Length 100 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Shooting<br />
Language <strong>German</strong> Shooting in Arnstadt, Thuringia<br />
Contact:<br />
Bosko Biati Film<br />
Auguststr. 34 · D-10119 Berlin<br />
phone +49-30-2 84 49 40 · fax +49-30-28 44 94 11<br />
If there is a thread running through Jörn Rettig’s one man<br />
company Bosko Biati Film’s productions it has to be their<br />
emphasis on the character of the lead figure, on a quite ordinary<br />
person, unassuming, modest even, who holds and fascinates<br />
through who, not what, they are.<br />
Take the company’s lyrical comedy Zugvögel … einmal nach<br />
Inari (Trains ’n Roses, 1997) for example. Under Peter<br />
Lichtefeld’s direction, Joachim Król turns in a fantastic performance,<br />
both humorous and moving, as the little man determined<br />
to make it to, of all things, the world railway timetable and<br />
route memorization championship in Finland. Hot on his heels is<br />
the detective (Peter Lohmeyer), convinced that Król has<br />
committed a serious crime.<br />
Nina’s Story is that of a woman who can see beyond reality<br />
and of her attempt to impart her gift, her knowledge, to the man<br />
she loves.<br />
SK