€7m for 29 projects
Last week, the NRW (North-Rhine Westphalia) regional fund allocated €7m to 29 projects. The first of these was literary adaptation Das Vaterspiel by Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death), which was granted €1m. The Austrian/French/German co-production (Tatfilm) is based on Josef Haslinger’s bestseller and deals with father-son relationship difficulties.
Die Frauen der Anarchisten (lit. “The Anarchists’ Women”), a film about love and Spanish anarchism by Peter Sehr and Marie Noëlle, starring Nina Hoss and co-produced by Munich outfit P'Artisan (see news) received €500,000 from the NRW, €50,000 less than French/German co-production Capri 1934 (Heimatfilm, Integral Film, WDR, ARTE), an adaptation of an Alberto Moravia novel by Français Benoît Jacquot, which will star Julia Jentsch and Nina Proll.
Wholly German projects funded include Dr. Aléman, directed by Tom Schreiber and scripted by Oliver Keidel. The film will be about a young German doctor on a mission in the Colombian city of Cali and is expected to star August Diehl in the lead role. The 2pilots production was allocated €750,000.
Bernd Schadewald’s Lara – scripted by Franz Manfred Liersch and already in receipt of a NRW grant – received €280,000. The drama – which centres on a couple (Christiane Paul and Benno Fürmann) who have to make a shocking decision about their handicapped baby – will be produced in full in the region by Düsseldorf-based outfit EM + Cox Film.
NRW has also given its support to documentaries and television films, such as Ramstein – das durchstoßene Herz (lit. “Ramstein: The Piercing Heart”), directed by Stephan Wagner and starring Nadia Uhl (€700,000), as well as to scripts and releases.
The regional fund will also finance the release of Dani Levy’s eagerly-awaited satire Mein Führer – die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (lit. “Mein Führer: The Real Truth About Adolf Hitler”) through X Verleih on January 11, 2007, as well as Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ken Loach
interview: Rebecca O’Brien
film profile] (see Focus), opening through Neue Visionen on December 28.
(Translated from French)
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