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

Drei Stern Rot
3 Star Red is the name of the flare and
the code name used by East German
border guards to signal an escape attempt
over the deadliest stretch of the Iron
Curtain. During the shooting of a feature
film in the winter of 2001, Christian
Blank, a man playing the bit part of an
East German border guard, goes berserk.
For no apparent reason, he attacks one of
the leading actors and tries to kill him.
He is taken to the psychiatric ward of a
hospital, where a tired but attractive
psychiatrist, Dr. Wehmann, treats him.
She is soon fascinated by what she hears.
Blank was, in fact, an East German border
guard in real life. He mistook the film
actor for the vicious and sadistic Major
Nattenklinger, his former commanding
officer. Blank delves into the depths of
his soul to reveal what he has gone
through. The more he tells, the more it
becomes clear that he is not as insane as
he first seemed.
3 Star Red is the almost unbelievable
story of a man who found out what true
horror was, who lost everything, including
the love of his life. Now, years later,
reality and ”insanity“ merge to form a
chilling narrative of dashed hopes, love
and betrayal, danger and the blunt desire
for revenge …
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2001 Director Olaf Kaiser
Screenplay Holger Jancke Director of
Photography Matthias Tschiedel Editor Sabine Brose
Music by Rainer Kirchmann Production Design
Anne-Katrin Hendel Producer Olaf Jacobs Production
Company Hoferichter & Jacobs, Berlin, in co-production
with ZDF, Mainz Principal Cast Rainer Frank, Petra
Kleinert, Meriam Abbas, Dietmar Mössmer, Bastian Trost
Special Effects Special Effects, Berlin Studio
Shooting Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam Length 88 min,
2490 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing from
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Kulturelle Filmförderung
Sachsen-Anhalt
World Sales:
Telepool – Europäisches-Fernsehprogrammkontor GmbH
Wolfram Skowronnek, Angelika Schulze
Sonnenstr. 21 · D-80331 Munich
phone +49-89-55 87 60 · fax +49-89-55 87 61 88
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Olaf Kaiser, born in 1959 in Berlin, studied at the
”Konrad Wolf“ Academy of Film & Television in
Babelsberg. From 1977-1979, he worked as a set
decorator, production assistant and volunteer in the
story department at the DEFA-Studio in Potsdam-
Babelsberg. From 1983-1984, he became an assistant in
the story department and from 1986-1990 was a script
doctor at the DEFA-Studio. Since 1991, he has been
working as a freelance script doctor, writer and director.
He has directed such films as Ich bin taub – aber
nicht stumm (short, 1991), Demokratie üben
(short, 1992), Deutschland im Glas (documentary,
1993), Wer anhält stirbt (1995) and wrote the
scripts for Der Benzintrick (1997), the Tatort-episode
Berliner Weiße (1997) and Benzin (1999).
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