FILM SLATE  
PARADIES – Eine Spielfilmtrilogie von Ulrich Seidl  
Hysteria  
Brand  
The Tree  
Happy ever afters  
Within the Whirlwind  
Kill Daddy good night  
Ein Teil von mir  
Mediator  
Oliver Kahn und die Dinge des Lebens  
Monkeys in Winter  
The Man from the Embassy  
Last King of Scotland  
Hunt for Justice - The Louise Arbour Story  
Doubting Thomas  
Oliver Kahn und die Liebe zum Fußball  
Zeit nach der Trauer  
Schussangst  
100 Pro  
Making The Misfits  
Invincible  
Fashion Victim - The Killing of Gianni Versace  
The Crossing  
Relative Strangers  
My best Fiend  
Ordinary decent Criminal  
Waiting for Harvey  
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin  
St. Ives - All for Love  
Croupier  
Undressed  
The Writing on the Wall  
   
2012  
   
PARADIES – Eine Spielfilmtrilogie von Ulrich Seidl  
Feature Film Austria/ Germany/ France 2012
Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz, Helen Brugat, Gabriel Mwarua, Josphat Hamisi, Carlos Mkutano
   
PARADIES tells three stories - of three women, three vacations, and three loves.  
 
   
   
2011  
   
HYSTERIA
Feature Film France/ England / Germany
Script: Jonah Lisa Dyer, Stephen Dyer
Director: Tanya Wexler
Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Rupert Everett
   
HYSTERIA is a lighthearted romantic comedy based on the surprising truth of how Dr. Mortimer Granville came up with the world’s first electro-mechanical vibrator.  
 
   
BRAND
Feature Film, Austria/Germany
Script & Director: Thomas Roth
Cast: Josef Bierbichler, Angela Gregovic, Erika Deutinger, Denis Moschitto  
   
Brand is a thriller / drama in which the writer Brand is falling in love with Angela, the nurse of his wife who is fatally ill. He is getting involved in a spiral of passion and jealousy.  
 
   
2010  
   
THE TREE
Feature Film, France/Australia/Germany
Script & Director: Julie Bertuccelli, adapted from Our Father who Art in the Tree by Judy Pascoe
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas  
   
What could be more normal for a ten year old girl than to converse with her dead father on top of the tree in the garden? However, when the mother and brothers of young Simone join the night-time conversations, the family finds itself perched on top of the tree. Above the noise of the world, under the incredulous glances of the neighbours...  
 
   
2009  
   
HAPPY EVER AFTERS
Feature Film, Ireland/Germany, 2009
Script, Director: Stephen Burke
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Tom Riley
 
Two couples are getting married for the wrong reasons and end up in the same hotel to celebrate their weddings. Wrong place, right time ...
 
   
   
WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND
Feature Film, Germany/Belgium/France/Poland 2009
Script: Nancy Larson
based upon the memoir of Eugenia Ginzburg
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Benjamin Sadler, Agata Buzek
 
The story of Eugenia Ginzburg who spent ten years in a Siberian GULAG and survived through the power of poetry and love.
 
   
KILL DADDY GOOD NIGHT
Feature Film, Germany/Austria/ France 2009
Script, Director: Michael Glawogger
Cast: Helmut Köpping, Sabine Timoteo, Ulrich Tukur, Christian Tramitz, Itzhak Fintzi
 
Ratz, a non-political young man and son of an Austrian minister, accidentally gets to know the stories of three families and generations. Based on the novel by Josef Haslinger.
 
   
2008  
   
EIN TEIL VON MIR
Feature Film, Germany 2008
Script: Philippe Longchamp and Christoph Röhl
Director: Christoph Röhl
Cast: Ludwig Trepte, Karoline Teska, Julia Richter, Lena Stolze
   
A 16-year-old teenager, troubled by the experiences of adolescence, gets to know that he will soon become a father. EIN TEIL VON MIR tells the story of an initiation accompanied by longing and fear.
 
   
THE MEDIATOR (formerly known as: MURDER IN THE THEATRE)
Feature Film, Georgia/Germany 2008
Director: Dito Tsintsadze
Cast: Ewen Bremner, Merab Ninidze, Nutsa Kukhianidze
   
The story of a murder is told by several people. This gives it new details and special insights. The development of a psychological portrait of each of the characters becomes possible.
 
 
2006  
 

OLIVER KAHN UND DIE DINGE DES LEBENS

Documentary, Germany 2006
Director: Marin Martschewski
 
Continuation of the long-term documentary on Oliver Kahn.

 

MONKEYS IN WINTER

Feature Film, Bulgaria/Germany 2006
Director: Milena Andonova
Cast: Bonka Ilieva, Diana Dobreva, Angelina Slavova
 
Three women, as different as they could be, differing in generation, social level, and moral standards. Nevertheless, all of them are striving to find happiness in life.
 

THE MAN FROM THE EMBASSY

Feature Film, Germany 2006
Director: Dito Tsintsadze
Cast: Burghart Klaussner, Lika Martinova, Irm Herrmann
 
The unusual friendship between a German diplomat and a young refugee girl
in Georgia helps them rediscover a love of life. But their bond is
threatened by corruption, suspicion and violence.
   

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

Feature Film, Great Britain/Germany 2006
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington
 
By accident, young Scottish medical doctor Nicholas Carrigan becomes the personal physician of Ugandan president and dictator Idi Amin. Blended by his personality, he realizes too late that he has become a puppet in Amins power.
2005
 

HUNT FOR JUSTICE - The Louise Arbour Story

TV Movie, Germany/Canada 2005
Director: Charles Binamé
Cast: Wendy Crewson, Heino Ferch, Stipe Erceg, John Corbett, William Hurt
 
The Louise Arbour Story tells the heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she battles world politics and fierce opposition to indict Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity.

 

DOUBTING THOMAS


TV Movie, Germany/Ireland 2005
Director: Sigi Rothemund
Cast: Dieter Pfaff, Frank Giering, Uwe Kokisch
 
Max Walden, a popular German TV star has to travel to Ireland to rescue his son, who is under the suspicion of murder.
2004  
 

OLIVER KAHN UND DIE LIEBE ZUM FUßBALL

Documentary, Germany 2004
Director: Marin Martschewski
 
An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary goal keeper – Oliver Kahn.

 

ZEIT NACH DER TRAUER


Feature Film, Germany 2004
Director: Beate F. Neumann
Cast: Claudia Geisler, Daniel Morgenroth, Max Hopp, Jutta Wachowiak
 
The story of Imke and her husband, who have lost their daughter in an accident.
2003  
 

SCHUSSANGST

Feature Film, Germany 2003
Director: Dito Tsintsadze
Cast: Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Christoph Waltz
 
„Schussangst“ is a poetic thriller, depicting the desolation and disintegration of Lukas, a misfit. His life takes a strange turn for the worse when he becomes involved in an unrequited love affair with Isabella. In “Schussangst” we witness Lukas’ transformation from misunderstood admirer to unstable and unpredictable loner.

 
2001
 

100 PRO

Feature Film, Germany 2001
Director: Simon Verhoeven
Cast: Ken Duken, Luca Verhoeven, Mavie Hörbiger, Max von Thun
 
The story of an amazing summer day,an incredible summer night and an even more unbelievable following summer morning in the life of two Munich guys, that will change everything.

 

MAKING THE MISFITS


Documentary, USA/Great Britain/Germany 2001
Director: Gail Stevens
 
Reno, USA. 1960. Marilyn Monroe, Clarke Gable, Montgomery Clift, Arthur Miller and John Huston gather to make The Misfits, one of Hollywood's most adventurous and eventful feature film productions. Over 40 years later, this documentary revisits and recaptures this extraordinary film and examines its place in our cultural landscape.
 

INVINCIBLE


Feature Film, Germany/Ireland/Great Britain/USA 2001
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth, Max Raabe, Udo Kier
 
The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith's son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. He becomes convinced that he has been chosen by God to warn his people of the grave danger they face.
   

FASHION VICTIM - THE KILLING OF GIANNI VERSACE

Documentary, Germany/Great Britain/USA 2001
Director: James Kent
 
This documentary film visits fragments of the life, the death and dynastic aftermath of Gianni Versace, and the machinations of one of the most powerful fashion dynasties in the world.
1999
 

THE CROSSING

Feature Film, Netherlands/Germany 1999
Director: Nora Hoppe
Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi, Johan Leysen
 
Since Bâbak left Afghanistan twenty years ago, he has lived a quiet life in Europe as a railway track cleaner. Just when he is about to retire from his job he meets Sârbân, a new guest at the kitchen he frequents. They get to know each other at meal times and, bit by bit, a terrible secret unfolds.

 

RELATIVE STRANGERS


Fernsehfilm, Deutschland/Irland 1999
Director: Giles Foster
Cast: Brenda Fricker, Lena Stolze, Robin Laing, Dieter Pfaff, Leslie Malton, Mavie Hörbiger
 
When Maureen Lessing’s husband dies suddenly, she discovers that there was a lot more to his life than she knew. Maureen, an Irish woman who has been living in Germany for a number of years, travels to Ireland in an effort to piece together her late husband’s double life, but gets more than she bargained for in the process.
 

MY BEST FIEND


Documentary, Germany 1999
Director: Werner Herzog
 
In the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting the Munich apartment where they first met - and thrashed, and the various locations of their films.
   

ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL

Feature Film , Great Britain/Ireland/Germany 1999
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Helen Baxendale, Christoph Waltz
 
Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms.
1998
 

WAITING FOR HARVEY

Documentary, Great Britain/Ireland/Germany 1998
Regie: Stephen Walker
 
A 90-minute documentary film about the Cannes Film Festival, written and directed by Stephen Walker. Tracking the ups and downs of a few young, ambitious filmmakers, the picture is an up-close view of the irresistible combination of hype, wealth, decadence, sleaze and sheer glamour, which one can only find at the most famous film festival in the world.

 

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN


Documentary, Great Britain/Germany 1998
Director: Paul Yule
 
A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions of the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. Chatwin was hailed as the greatest novelist since Hemingway, and the foremost travel writer of modern times.
 

ST. IVES - ALL FOR LOVE


Feature Film, Great Britain/Ireland/Germany 1998
Director: Harry Hook
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Miranda Richardson, Anna Friel, Richard E. Grant
 
In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way.
1997  
 

CROUPIER

Feature Film, Great Britain/Germany 1998
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Clive Owen, Gina McKee, Alex Kingston, Alexander Morton, Kate Hardie
 
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet, and against his better judgement, he takes a job as a croupier. He finds himself drawn into the casino world and the job gradually takes over his life; his relationship with girlfriend Marion begins to deteriorate. Soon he meets a woman who seduces him and then encourages him to join her associates in a robbery scheme. He joins, however, he uses his experiences for the plot of his book, "I, Croupier".

 

UNDRESSED


Documentary, Germany/Great Britain/France 1997
Directors: Jaci Judelson, Gideon Koppel
 
The history of fashion through the decades - from 1920s Paris to 1960s London to 1990s New York.
1996
 

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

TV mini series, Great Britain/Germany 1996
Director: Peter Smith
Cast: Lena Stolze, Bill Paterson, William Macy, Dennis Haysbert, Herbert Knaup
 
When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets behind the terrorism, the more he finds himself immersed in dodgy goings-on in the corridors of power of NATO itself.