PRODUCTION Germany
Atef’s strange pact in Töte Mich
by Bénédicte Prot
07/10/2010 - Director-screenwriter Emily Atef, who won acclaim for her first two features, Molly's Way [trailer] and The Stranger In Me [trailer], started shooting on Monday, October 5 on her new project. The road movie set between Cologne and Marseilles bears the hard-hitting title Töte Mich, meaning "Kill Me".
Co-written, like her two previous films, by Atef and Esther Bernstorff, Töte Mich revolves around a bizarre pact between two strangers.
Since her brother’s death, 15-year-old Adèle (Maria-Victoria Dragus, who was lauded for her supporting role in Haneke’s The White Ribbon [trailer]), feels stifled by her sad and lonely life on a remote farm with her parents. When she meets murderer-on-the-run Timo (Roeland Wiesnekker), she agrees to help him escape to Marseilles if he promises to release her from her painful life by killing her.
DoP Stéphane Kuthy will start lensing in North Rhine-Westphalia, before the team relocates to Marseilles and continues shooting until November 26.
Töte Mich is produced by Niko Film and Wüste Film West, in co-production with French agency Ciné-Sud Promotion, Swiss company Hugofilm and TV networks WDR and Arte France Cinéma. The project has received backing from the Franco-German Commission.
It will be released in Germany next year through farbfilm.
(Translated from French)
