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Lucy Director Henner Winckler (photo © Annette Hauschild) Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Production Company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber/Berlin, in cooperation with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz With backing from BKM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director Henner Winckler Screenplay Henner Winckler, Stefan Kriekhaus Director of Photography Christine A. Maier Editor Bettina Boehler Production Design Reinhild Blaschke Principal Cast Kim Schnitzer, Feo Aladag, Gordon Schmidt Casting Ulrike Mueller Special Effects Mike Bols Format 16 mm, blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby SR Shooting Language German Shooting in Berlin, September - October 2005 German Distributor Piffl Medien/Berlin Contact Arne Hoehne Presse · Arne Hoehne Boxhagener Strasse 18 · 10245 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-29 36 16 16 · fax +49-30-29 36 16 22 email: info@hoehnepresse.de · www.hoehnepresse.de The fact that both Henner Winckler and his co-author from Klassenfahrt Stefan Kriekhaus are currently both fathers of toddlers had more than a passing influence on their new project Lucy, which cranked up production at locations in Berlin at the beginning of September. “Since we both have small children, we tried to organize our writing around them,” explains Winckler, “and so it was somehow logical that we should include this subject of raising children into the new film, especially when you come to the kindergarten with the children and see other [parents] who are fifteen years younger than yourself who seem to be managing alright having children. It made us curious to know what kind of conflicts there could be.” Lucy focuses on the attempt of the 18-year-old Maggie to live together with her new boyfriend Gordon who, however, is not her child’s father. She tries to create a family situation with him, but comes to realize that the child is a problem for the new relationship. What should she do with the child? Give her to her mother to look after? What would be the best solution? Winckler recalls that he looked for some time for the right person to play the young mother and was then given a tip by casting director Ulrike Mueller to look at a short film which featured Kim Schnitzer. “Initially, I wasn’t so sure because she looks very young and wondered whether one would believe that she has a child,” recalls Winckler who enjoys the opportunity to work on a film based exclusively in Berlin. “I find it much easier to be shooting here,” he says, while admitting that “it is perhaps a bit more difficult switching between the roles of the film director and father when I come home from a day’s shooting. But I really know the places where we are shooting, I don’t have to drive three hours to have a look at them and then just get a superficial impression – these are places I drive by every day.” Lucy marks the second collaboration with the Berlin production company Schramm Film after Klassenfahrt and has already secured theatrical distribution for Germany through Piffl Medien. “I always hope that when you come out of the cinema, you’ll have the feeling of having gotten to know someone,” says producer Florian Koerner von Gustorf on what the audience could take away from the film. “I always think that is the nicest thing. It’s something we managed in Gespenster, Marseille and the other films, getting close to someone, but not in a pushy way.” MB Der Mann von der Botschaft Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Production Company Tatfilm/Cologne, in cooperation with ZDF/Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg With backing from Filmstiftung NRW Producer Christine Ruppert Director Dito Tsintsadze Screenplay Dito Tsintsadze, Zaza Rusadze Director of Photography Benedict Neuenfels Editor Katja Dringenberg Production Design Vaja Jalagania, Alexander Scherer Principal Cast Burghart Klaussner, Lika Martinova, Marika Giorgobiani, Irm Hermann Format 16 mm, color, blow-up to 35 mm, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital Shooting Languages German, Georgian Shooting in Tbilisi/Georgia, Cologne, July - September 2005 World Sales Sola Media GmbH · Solveig Langeland Osumstrasse 17 · 70599 Stuttgart/Germany phone +49-7 11-4 79 36 66 · fax +49-7 11-4 79 26 58 email: post@sola-media.net www.sola-media.net In Der Mann von der Botschaft (aka Sashka), writer-director Dito Tsintsadze tells the story of Herbert, a German embas- german films quarterly in production 4 · 2005 32 Scene from “Der Mann von der Botschaft” (photo © Tatfilm 2005)
sy official in Georgia living an empty existence doing his job by the numbers. His private life offers him no compensation. It is an encounter and subsequent relationship with a young girl, twelve-year-old Sashka, which enables him to rediscover laughter and a sense of responsibility for another person. But it also brings suspicions of pedophilia, corrupt policemen, burglary and violence. Then the embassy becomes involved. “I like it when stories bring not just people but also countries together,” says producer and Tatfilm founder Christine Ruppert. “We need to create bridges, not just finance for co-productions or tax write-offs but story connections.” “This particular story,” Ruppert explains, “continues our collaboration with Dito after Schussangst. He’s a very cinematic director, thinking in pictures. That makes it more exciting for me than, say, some of the directors who come from a television background because that has a different language.” Born in 1957 in Tbilisi, Tsintsadze attended the Tbilisi Theater and Film Institute, made his first short in 1990 and worked for the Schvidkatsa film company before coming to Berlin in 1996 to take up a NIPKOW scholarship. It was here he wrote and directed Lost Killers (his first film shot in Germany) that played in, among others, Cannes, San Sebastian and Torino. “It’s hard to put Dito into a category,” says Ruppert. “The film is a drama, it’s melancholic but he always has a sense of humor. It’s a very human story: The hero is resigned to the negative side of society but discovers his feelings and emotions.” Burghart Klaussner, who won the German Film Award 2005 for Best Supporting Actor in Hans Weingartner’s Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei, plays that hero, Herbert. As for Georgia, Ruppert is most effusive. “It’s a very beautiful country,” she says excitedly. “The people are warm-hearted and artistic, even though organization is not their strength! The young generation has great potential and cinematically they could be up there with Russia and Iran. Tbilisi is only four hours away by plane and could become the next Prague.” For collectors of trivia, Tatfilm takes it’s name from the German word “Tat”, which means a deed, action or act, and is also an acronym for “Tuchuss auf dem Tisch”, the Yiddish for “Arse on the Table!” – a phrase, says Ruppert, “commonly uttered by Jewish producers a week before a film went into production when it was too late to back out and one’s posterior was well and truly on the line, or table!” SK Reine Formsache Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Romantic Comedy Production Company Independent Players/Berlin, in co-production with Senator Film Produktion/Berlin, SevenPictures/ Unterfoehring With backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA) Producer Béla Jarzyk Co- Producers Benjamin Herrmann, Stefan Gaertner, Alicia Remirez Director Ralf Huettner Screenplay Béla Jarzyk, Ralf Huettner Director of Photography Hannes Hubach Editor Dirk Vaihinger Production Design Ingrid Buron Principal Cast Marc Hosemann, Christiane Paul, Bastian Pastewka, Floriane Daniel, Oliver Korritke, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Robert Schupp, Michael Gwisdek Casting An Dorther Braker Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital Shooting Language German Shooting in Berlin, Ruegen, July – September 2005 German Distributor Senator Film Verleih/Berlin Contact Independent Players GmbH · Béla Jarzyk Sophienstrasse 21 · 10178 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-28 51 68 0 · fax +49-30-28 51 68 6 email: mail@players.de Writer-producer Béla Jarzyk debuts with a romantic comedy that begins where romance normally ends; in the divorce court! Pola has had enough of husband Felix’s flings. Not that their friends Wito and Ada and Gustav and Effi are having an easier time of it. Making matters better/worse is Felix’s father, desperately trying to fan the flames of love! Taking his cues from Britain’s writer-director Richard Curtis and the U.S.’s Steven Soderbergh, Jarzyk says, he “wanted to tell a story from life and Reine Formsache is a larger than life story. It’s about problems I know, told with humor.” Jarzyk, who had already secured lead Christiane Paul and broadcaster Sat.1, then sent the script to Senator Film’s managing director and head of production and distribution, Benjamin Herrmann. Herrmann says he “found it a classic romantic comedy with a new touch where most don’t go – with the divorce. It has great dialogue and I knew it was going to be very entertaining and also touching. That’s why we took it.” Now all Jarzyk needed was a director! german films quarterly in production 4 · 2005 33 Team of “Reine Formsache” (photo © Nik Konietzny)
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