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Kleinruppin Forever
Kleinruppin is a fictional small town in communist
East Germany where our protagonist, Tim, was born.
But soon after his birth, his career-oriented adoptive
parents fled with him to the West. He is now 19, an
arrogant snob, successful with the girls, the year is
1985, and he has a scholarship at a world famous tennis
academy in Florida. Before high school graduation,
Tim goes on a school field trip behind the iron curtain
entering the apparently gray and unfashionable East
Germany. There, he happens to run into his twin brother,
Ronny, who he didn’t know existed. The twin
brother asks to let him go back to the West with Tim’s
passport for only one day, but Tim only laughs at him
and eventually gets knocked out by his angry brother.
Tim wakes up in an East German hospital. He is now
stuck in a communist country where nobody believes
his absurd story, they all think he is Ronny. While
planning his escape and struggling with the system
and the cultural differences, he falls in love, learns the
true meaning of friendship and experiences family
warmth for the first time in his life. When he makes it
back to his home town in West Germany through a
swimming competition, he has to make a decision
that will ultimately change his life forever. Florida or
East Germany?
Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2003 Director Carsten Fiebeler Screenplay
Peer Klehmet, Sebastian Wehlings, Peter Kuehne
Director of Photography Bernhard Jasper Editor
Antje Zynga Music by Masha Qrella, Norman Nitzsche
World Sales:
Beta Cinema / Dept. of Beta Film GmbH · Andreas Rothbauer
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email: ARothbauer@betacinema.com · www.betacinema.com
Production Design Bjoern Nowak Producer Dirk
Beinhold Production Company Akkord Film/Berlin, in
co-production with SevenPictures Film/Munich Principal
Cast Tobias Schenke, Anna Brueggemann, Michael Gwisdek,
Uwe Kockisch Casting Tina Boeckenhauer Length 103
min, 2,833 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby SRD With backing from Filmfoerderungsanstalt
(FFA), Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Nordmedia
Carsten Fiebeler was born in 1965 and studied Directing
at the ”Konrad Wolf“ Academy of Television & Film in
Babelsberg. His graduation film 14/1 endlos was awarded
the Panther Prize and Camera Award at the Filmfest Munich in
1999. His short film Strassensperre won the Panorama
Short Film Award at Berlin in 1998. In addition to various
commercials, shorts and documentaries, he has also directed
the TV movie Himmlische Helden (2001), and the features
Home Truths (Die Datsche, 2002), and
Kleinruppin Forever (2003).
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Scene from ”Kleinruppin Forever“ (photo © Akkord Film Produktion GmbH)