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Die Wilden Kerle III<br />
Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Children’s Film,<br />
Sports Production Company SamFilm/Munich With backing<br />
from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA),<br />
Bayerischer Bankenfonds Producers Ewa Karlstroem, Andreas<br />
Ulmke-Smeaton Director Joachim Masannek Screenplay Joachim<br />
Masannek Director of Photography Sonja Rom Editor Dunja<br />
Campregher Music by Bananafishbones Production Design<br />
Manfred Doering Principal Cast Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Wilson<br />
Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Constantin Gastmann, Uwe Ochsenknecht,<br />
Nick Reimann Casting Extras & Actors, Stefany Pohlmann, Anne<br />
Walcher Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital Shooting<br />
Language <strong>German</strong> Shooting in Bavaria, August - October 20<strong>05</strong><br />
<strong>German</strong> Distributor Buena Vista International (<strong>German</strong>y)/<br />
Munich<br />
Contact<br />
SamFilm GmbH · Hanna Stoll<br />
Rumfordstrasse 10 · 80469 Munich/<strong>German</strong>y<br />
phone +49-89-3 39 95 30 · fax +49-89-33 99 53 24<br />
email: contact@samfilm.de · www.samfilm.de<br />
Proving you can’t put a good franchise down, The Wild Soccer<br />
Bunch return for more soccer-related shenanigans!<br />
In their last outing, they defended their hold on the Teufelstopf trophy<br />
and saw off the skater gang, the Flammenmuetzen. But this time<br />
they’re up against their greatest challenge so far, an opponent more<br />
devious, more dangerous, more diabolical than even they had ever<br />
imagined – girls!!!<br />
There is an unwritten law in filmmaking, that of diminishing returns,<br />
that the higher the number after the title, the poorer the film. This is<br />
also known as sequelitis and is something producers Andreas<br />
Ulmke-Smeaton and Ewa Karlstroem, together with writerdirector<br />
Joachim Masannek, have taken great pains to avoid.<br />
“There aren’t many sequels in <strong>German</strong>y,” says Ulmke-Smeaton. “But<br />
we’ve noticed the admissions figures are going up with every film. The<br />
brand is growing and that’s because so many kids identify with ’Die<br />
Wilden Kerle’; girls just as much as boys.”<br />
“That’s why,” Ulmke-Smeaton continues, “we are making sure the<br />
girls are treated equally. In the last film there was a love interest. This<br />
time we’ve got a whole pack of ’em!”<br />
Director Joachim Masannek<br />
“Also what’s new,” says Ulmke-Smeaton “is that ’Die Wilden Kerle’<br />
no longer exist at the beginning of the film. They first have to be<br />
resurrected, hence the new character of Nerv, who ’saves’ them. We<br />
also have a new main actor, Nick Reimann.”<br />
SamFilm are also taking the franchise in another new direction.<br />
“We’re aiming for younger viewers, aged four to ten, as we’ve dis<strong>cover</strong>ed<br />
there is a whole younger fan-base out there,” says Ulmke-<br />
Smeaton.<br />
Since they first hit the shops in 2002, Masannek’s series of children’s<br />
books and audiotapes has sold more than one million copies. And just<br />
to recap: The first film won the Kinder-Medien-Award (2003), the<br />
Bavarian Film Award (2003), the Golden Gryphon in the KIDZ category<br />
at Giffoni – one of Europe’s largest festivals for children’s and youth<br />
films – and was nominated for the <strong>German</strong> Film Award. In July of this<br />
year, the second film also took Giffoni’s Golden Gryphon. The juries,<br />
made up of over 300 children aged six to nine, obviously knew quality<br />
when they saw it.<br />
SamFilm and ’Die Wilden Kerle’ prove it’s possible to go from<br />
strength to strength, even with sequels!<br />
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