Berlin’s Komplizen Film won prizes for Radu Jude’s Scarred Hearts and Emin Alper’s forthcoming Sisters - Kiz Kardesler.
Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade’s tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, scored a double success during last week’s Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 29 - Oct 8), which had opened with Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral.
The Berlin/Munich production company was awarded the Hamburg Producers’ Award for European Cinema Co-Productions for Radu Jude’s adaptation of Max Blecher’s autobiographical novel, Scarred Hearts, which had premiered in Locarno in August where it won the Special Jury Prize.
Komplizen Film had served as the German co-producer for Ada Solomon’s Hi Film Productions on the production of Scarred Hearts, after the Romanian producer served as a production partner on Ade’s Toni Erdmann.
In addition, producers Jonas Dornbach and Janine Jackowski were awarded development support with their Turkish colleague Nadir Öperli of Liman Film for Emin Alper’s next...
Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade’s tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, scored a double success during last week’s Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 29 - Oct 8), which had opened with Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral.
The Berlin/Munich production company was awarded the Hamburg Producers’ Award for European Cinema Co-Productions for Radu Jude’s adaptation of Max Blecher’s autobiographical novel, Scarred Hearts, which had premiered in Locarno in August where it won the Special Jury Prize.
Komplizen Film had served as the German co-producer for Ada Solomon’s Hi Film Productions on the production of Scarred Hearts, after the Romanian producer served as a production partner on Ade’s Toni Erdmann.
In addition, producers Jonas Dornbach and Janine Jackowski were awarded development support with their Turkish colleague Nadir Öperli of Liman Film for Emin Alper’s next...
- 10/10/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Cologne, Germany -- "Inglourious Basterds" star Christoph Waltz could be trading his SS uniform for the shirt and tie of a police detective.
German regional public broadcaster Hr is courting Waltz to take over as the lead in its long-running hit crime series "Tatort," which airs on main national channel Ard.
Since winning the best actor prize in Cannes for his performance as "Jew hunter" Col. Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic, Waltz, a veteran TV actor, has been the top of every casting agent's wish list here
Liane Jessen, head of TV movies at Hr, confirmed the channel was in talks with Waltz, adding that he would only be interested in the role if he wasn't paired with another actor in a detective team as is usually the case in the "Tatort" series.
Another German A-lister, Ulrich Tukur ("The Lives of Others") has also enlisted for "Tatort,...
German regional public broadcaster Hr is courting Waltz to take over as the lead in its long-running hit crime series "Tatort," which airs on main national channel Ard.
Since winning the best actor prize in Cannes for his performance as "Jew hunter" Col. Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic, Waltz, a veteran TV actor, has been the top of every casting agent's wish list here
Liane Jessen, head of TV movies at Hr, confirmed the channel was in talks with Waltz, adding that he would only be interested in the role if he wasn't paired with another actor in a detective team as is usually the case in the "Tatort" series.
Another German A-lister, Ulrich Tukur ("The Lives of Others") has also enlisted for "Tatort,...
- 8/12/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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