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

Tamara
Original Title Tamara (working title) Type of Project
Feature Genre Coming-of-age Story Production Company
Claussen + Wöbke Filmproduktion, Munich With backing
from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA),
Filmstiftung NRW Producers Jakob Claussen, Thomas Wöbke
Director Michael Gutmann Screenplay Michael Gutmann,
Hans-Christian Schmid Directors of Photography Pascal
Hoffmann, Klaus Eichhammer Editor Monika Abspacher Music
by Rainer Michel Principal Cast Tom Schilling, Alicja Bachleda-
Curus, Matthias Schweighöfer, Anna von Berg, Katharina Müller-
Elmau, Leonard Lansink Length 100 min Format 35 mm, color,
1:1.85 Shooting Language German Shooting in Frankfurt,
Munich German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih GmbH,
Munich
Contact:
Claussen + Wöbke Filmproduktion GmbH
Herzog-Wilhelm Str. 27 · D-80331 Munich
phone +49-89-2 31 10 10 · fax +49-89-26 33 85
email: zentrale@cwfilm.com
Jakob meets Tamara, a Polish au-pair working in a suburb of
Frankfurt. He’s been away for over a year, staying with his father
in Berlin after dropping out of school, unable to face his mother’s
painful death from cancer.
But things didn’t work out there, his highly pregnant sister is less
than enthused to see him again, and his efforts to find and hold a
job and make friends keep falling through due to his gruff and
confrontational manner.
Tamara is the exception. For Jakob it’s love at first sight and while
she’s not so keen at first, he perseveres and the two become
inseparable. But an au-pair’s life isn’t easy and Jakob immediately
sticks his oar in and appoints himself her protector. But she’s a
self-aware young lady and can stick up for herself, which means
Jakob’s efforts only lead to sometimes amusing, sometimes
unpleasant, situations with her friends and host family.
Finally Tamara has to return to Poland. Least of all because Jakob’s
talent for opening his mouth at the wrong time and acting without
thinking has finally made a bad situation worse. While the two say
their farewells at the bus station, uncertain if they’ll ever see each
other again, buses full of new au-pairs are arriving, young women
full of hope being welcomed by their smiling and laughing girlfriends.
Aimed at a male and female audience, aged 15-25 years, Tamara
appeals to those who enjoyed films such as Crazy (direction and
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Tom Schilling, Alicja Bachleda-Curus (photo © Claussen + Wöbke Filmproduktion)
script Hans-Christian Schmid, co-written by Michael
Gutmann), Lola rennt and Nach fünf im Urwald (script
and direction Hans-Christian Schmid).
And, unlike some films, Tamara is proud to wear its commercial
credentials on its sleeve. That’s because production company
Claussen + Wöbke (that’s Jakob Claussen and Thomas
Wöbke) is the name behind some of the country’s most recently
successful films. Not just coming-of-ager Crazy (1.5 million
admissions), Die Apothekerin, Nach fünf im Urwald
(with Franka Potente) but also, in co-production with
Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, for Anatomie.
Again starring Franka Potente, the medical horror/thriller
sold 2 million tickets, making it the most successful German film in
2000. It not only won the Audience Award of that year’s German
Film Prize but gained one of the highest honors the industry can
bestow – a sequel … so, look out for Anatomie 2!
Untitled
MTM Project
Original Title Untitled MTM Project (working title) Type of
Project Feature Film Genre Melodrama Production
Company MTM Medien & Television München, Munich, in
co-production with Constantin Film Produktion, Munich, and
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Zurich, in association with
Filmhaus, Vienna With backing from Filmboard Berlin-
Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt
(FFA) Producer Andreas Bareiß Associate Producer
Wolfgang Ramml Director Urs Egger Screenplay Jens Urban
Director of Photography Lukas Strebel Principal Cast
Mario Adorf, Bruno Ganz, Günter Lamprecht, Otto Tausig,
Annie Girardot, Nina Hoss Format 35 mm, color Shooting
Language German Shooting in Berlin and Vienna from
mid-February to end of March and in May 2001 German
distributor Constantin Film Verleih GmbH, Munich
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
”A chamber piece and a highly emotional drama“ is how producer
Andreas Bareiß describes Urs Egger’s new as-yet-untitled
project about three Jewish Holocaust survivors who come across
one of their tormentors from the concentration camp in the guise
of a Catholic priest some four decades later.
Bareiß recalls that the original screenplay was sent to him by
writer Jens Urban just at the time of the controversy
surrounding Martin Walser’s Holocaust speech in summer 1999.
”It is an extraordinarily important project“, he declares, ”if you
consider your profession as a producer not only as a profession
but also as a calling, then you have a certain responsibility for the
kind of films you make. This is certainly a film which will lead
to a discussion that concerns us all, i.e. about law and justice,
guilt and expiation. It will be a film that raises and discusses the
issue once more because there is no forgetting, no forgiving and
no liberation from guilt“.
When casting began for this prestige production, it became clear
to Bareiß and director Egger that there was only one actor in
the German speaking area who could play the central character
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