Der Kuckuck und der Esel

Der Kuckuck und der Esel

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Der Kuckuck und der Esel

“Der Kuckuck und der Esel” tells the story of an obsessed author with wit, toughness and social relevance. He tells of the destructive influence of television channels on German cinema and of the furious power to rebel against it. The film also tells the story of the idiosyncratic Weitzmann family, who live in the countryside near Berlin. Ten years ago, after the death of his mother, the author Conrad Weitzmann, who until then had had little success, decided to make a film of his parents’ love story. For him, it is the greatest love story of mankind, the filming of which the ancient father should damn …

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Cast: Joost Siedhoff, Thilo Prothmann, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Marie Schöneburg, Gertie Honeck
Screenplay: Andreas Arnstedt, Horst Fichte
Director: Andreas Arnstedt
Camera: Moritz Anton
Composer: David Orlowsky Trio, Nicolette Richter
Editing: Sylvain Coutandin
Production design: Stefan Rohde
Props: Josef “Zeppy” Hausstätter, David Peichl
Costume: Marthe Labes, Sarah Marleen Methner
Mask: Ninette “Nini” Hennig, Gesa-Lina Wasle
Sound: Julian Cropp
Mix: Manfred Mvié Bauche
Production management: Stefanie Kömm
Co-producer: Andreas Arnstedt
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny
Production year: 2014

Preise

New German Cinema Award 2014

Festivalteilnahmen
  • Zurich Film Festival
  • São Paulo Int. Film Festival
  • Hof Film Days
  • Attention Berlin
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Große Lügen

Große Lügen

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Große Lügen

Devi, who is in her mid-thirties, is in a life crisis. She walks dogs in Prenzlauer Berg and has neither a husband nor a child, nor a stellar career. She is also researching her great childhood sweetheart “Jonny Miller”, of whom, however, she only knows that he lives in New York. The search is correspondingly unfruitful.

She feels her biological clock ticking, wants to change her life and therefore resolves not to take off the shoes she has just bought “until that happens”.

Devi decides to leave everything behind, sublet her “apartment with stove heating” and go straight to New York to look for “Jonny Miller.” But first she wanders through Berlin, meets all kinds of bizarre characters, gets to know Gregor, her mother’s new boyfriend, and tells her less than enthusiastic friend Undine about her plans.

But everything changes when she has to take care of the child of a mother friend for some time. Completely filled with this new task, her plans fall into the background.

A letter turns up and in psychological family constellations under the guidance of Gregor, she finally learns the shocking truth about “Jonny Miller” and her family. The situation escalates.

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Cast: Anna Thalbach, Natascha Bub, Claudia Mehnert, Sissy Höfferer, Michael Greiling, Johannes Brandrup

Screenplay: Jany Tempel
Director: Jany Tempel
Camera: Helmfried Kober
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Editing: Cetin Tutak
Production design: Carola Gauster
Costume: Elke Zetl
Make up: Kristin Eichhorn
Sound: Thomas Pfeiffer
Production Management: Gunnar Juncken
Producer: Martin Lehwald
Sponsor: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (film award funds)
Production year: 2005

Preise
  • Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2005
    Audience Award of the German – French Student Jury
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Muxmäuschenstill

Muxmäuschenstill

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Muxmäuschenstill

Mr. Mux has a mission: The self-proclaimed do-gooder wants to teach his fellow men ideals and a sense of responsibility again – and blows the whistle against missteps of all kinds: “Big Mux is watching you!” With his immaculately ironed shirt, the clean man pursues fare dodgers and swimming pool pinchers, parking violators and graffiti sprayers. Mux cleans up the streets of Berlin, always accompanied by his faithful sidekick, the ex-long-time unemployed Gerd, who documents the exploits with a video camera. But on his crusade against injustice and indifference, the legal situation soon becomes the western pocket sheriff’s own undoing …

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Cast: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Fritz Roth, Wanda Perdelwitz, Lydia Stange, Dieter Dost, Holger Gronemann, Rainer Adler, Sándor Söth, Ruth Petschke, Fleur S. Marsch, Mirko Schikanski, Ellen Rappus-Eichhorn

Screenplay: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Director: Marcus Mittermeier
Camera: David Hofmann
Composer: Julian Boyld
Editing: Daniela Boch
Production design: Andreas Hansch
Costume: Constanze Hagedorn
Make-up: Alexandra Skrzypczak
Sound: Sebastian Leukert
Production management: Conny Neetenbeek
Production management: Gunnar Juncken
Producer: Martin Lehwald
Production year: 2002/2003

Preise
  • German Film Award 2004 for Best Editing
    Nomination German Film Award 2004
    – best film
    – Fritz Roth as best supporting actor
  • Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2004
    – Award for the best screenplay
    – Best Film Award
    – Audience Award
    – Prize of the student jury
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Berlinale 2004 (Perspektive Deutsches Kino)
  • Gothenburg IFF
  • LA AFI
  • Chicago IFF
  • Montreal WFF
  • Vancouver IFF
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Bye Bye Berlusconi!

Bye Bye Berlusconi!

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Bye Bye Berlusconi!

If you make a film against one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe, you run the risk of ending up not in the cinema, but in court. Especially when it is the current Prime Minister of Italy.

Spring 2005. A young, dedicated film crew from Genoa is planning a serious political film about the kidnapping of Silvio Berlusconi. The goal of the kidnappers is to finally bring Berlusconi to justice in a fair and independent trial, which he has successfully evaded in real life for years. This film should shake up Italy and lead to the prime minister being voted out of office in April 2006. On the very first day of shooting, however, it becomes clear that the ambitious filming team has overstretched itself with this project. The film is threatened with cancellation, and in order to protect themselves from Berlusconi’s legal attacks and to make their film recognizable as a satire, they use an absurd trick: they move the story from Italy to Duckburg without further ado. Whether that will be enough to prevent a threatened ban on the film, no one knows. It is certain, however, that this film will drive Silvio Berlusconi up the wall.

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Cast: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Franco Leo, Fabio Bezzi, Pietro Bontempo, Pietro Ragusa, Tullio Sorrentino, Lucia Chiarla, Maurizio Antonini, Nina Mair

Screenplay: Lucia Chiarla, Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Director: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Camera: Nicolas Jorey
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Editing: Nicola Undritz
Production design: Carola Gauster
Costume: Elke Zetl
Mask: Samir Atar
Sound: Sebastian Riegel
Production management: Frank Zahl
Production management: Gunnar Juncken
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Sponsor: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (film award funds)
Production year: 2005/2006

Preise
  • Berlinale 2006, Femina Film Award for Best Production Design
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Berlinale 2006 (Panorama)
  • Festival Lubliana
  • Festival Sao Paolo
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A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy)

A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy)

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A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy)

Niko is in his late twenties and dropped out of law school a long time ago. Since then, he has lived in the day, drifting through the streets of Berlin and marveling at the people around him. With quiet curiosity, he observes them as they go about their daily lives, not noticing how he himself is becoming an outsider. But suddenly Niko is caught up in reality and confronted with the consequences of his passivity: his girlfriend draws a line in the sand, a psychologist attests to his emotional imbalance, his father cuts him off and there seems to be no more normal coffee in the whole town. When a strange beauty also shows up and confronts him with their shared past, the day takes a surprising turn.

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Cast: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Justus von Dohnányi, Michael Gwisdek, Katharina Schüttler, Arnd Klawitter, Martin Brambach, Andreas Schröders, Ulrich Noethen, Steffen C. Jürgens

Screenplay: Jan-Ole Gerster
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Camera: Philipp Kirsamer
Composer: The Major Minors, Cherilyn MacNeil
Editing: Anja Siemens
Production design: Juliane Friedrich
Costume: Juliane Maier, Ildiko Okolicsanyi
Make up: Dana Bieler
Sound: Magnus Pflüger
Production Management: Susanne Mann
Production management: Alexander Wadouh
Co-producer: Alexander Wadouh, Chromosom Filmproduktion
Producer: Marcos Kantis
Commissioning Editor: Hessischer Rundfunk, Jörg Himstedt
arte, Birgit Kämper
Production year: 2012

Preise
  • German Film Award 2013:
    – Best Feature Film in Gold
    – Best direction
    – Best Screenplay
    – Best leading actor
    – Best Supporting Actor
    – Best Film Music
    – Nomination: Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress
  • Bavarian Film Award 2013:
    – Best Actor
    – Best Screenplay
  • German Film Critics Award 2013:
    – Best Debut Feature Film
    – Best music
    – Nomination: Best Feature Film, Best Actor
  • Romy 2013:
    – Best Book Motion Picture
  • New Faces Award 2013:
    – Best Debut Feature Film
  • Munich Film Festival 2012:
    – Föderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino – Best Screenplay
  • International Film Festival Bratislava 2012:
    – Best Director Award
    – FIPRESCI Price
    – FEDEORA price
  • Oldenburg International Film Festival 2012:
    – German Independence Award – Best Film, Audience Award, Seymour Cassel Award
  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2012:
    – Red Herring Award
    – Audience Award
  • Festival premiers plans d`Angers 2012:
    – Special prize of the jury
    – Audience Award
  • Sofia Int. Film Festival 2012:
    – Focusfox Jury Prize
  • Int. Student Film Festival of the HFF Konrad Wolf 2013:
    – Best Feature Film over 60 minutes
    – Audience Award
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival
  • Munich Film Festival
  • Oldenburg Int. Film Festival
  • Leipzig film art fair
  • Zurich Film Festival
  • Film Art Days Saxony-Anhalt
  • Festival of German Cinema Paris
  • São Paulo Int. Film Festival
  • AFI Fest
  • Singapore German Film Festival
  • Univerciné Allemand – festival de cinéma
  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
  • plus Camerimage
  • Grand Teatret
  • German Films Go North
  • Marrakech Int. Film Festival
  • Tromsø Int. Film Festival
  • Festival premiers plans d`Angers
  • Int. Film Festival Rotterdam
  • ForumImages – Groningen
  • Cinequest Film Festival
  • Vilnius German Language Film Festival
  • Miami Int. Film Festival
  • Festival Int. de Cine en Guadalajara
  • Sofia Int. Film Festival
  • Festival International du Film d`Aubagne
  • Mamers en Mars festival de films européens
  • Lights Film Festival Frankfurt
  • International Istanbul Film Festival
  • Museum of Modern Art – New Films from Germany
  • Festival Prokino – Semaine du cinéma allemande
  • Sehsüchte – International student film festival
  • Attention Berlin – New Berlin Film Award
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