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Schwochow shoots 1980s GDR-themed Der Turm

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After his award-winning film November Child [+see also:
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(2008), which looked back at events that occurred in the divided Germany of the 1980s, then Crack in the Shell [+see also:
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, an intense psychological drama which picked up two gongs at this summer’s Karlovy Vary Festival (see news), German screenwriter-director Christian Schwochow (33) started shooting the day before yesterday on his latest project, Der Turm (“The Tower”).

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The feature, produced by teamWorx (with broadcasters MDR and Degeto Film and regional networks NDR, BR, WDR, SWR and RBB), is an adaptation of best-selling novel Der Turm, which earned East German doctor and writer Uwe Tellkamp the German Book Prize 2008. It depicts the last seven years of the GDR before the fall of the Wall in the bourgeois setting of a residential area of Dresden.

The characters living in this closed world, sheltered from the socialist regime, will be played by Jan Josef Liefers (soon to be seen in the Swedish film Simon and the Oaks and Marc Rothemund’s upcoming film Man Tut Was Man Kann), Claudia Michelsen, Sebastian Urzendowsky (who stars in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Goodbye First Love [+see also:
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), Götz Schubert and Nadja Uhl.

Shooting will continue until the start of December between Dresden, Görlitz, Bad Düben, the Czech Republic and Berlin.

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(Translated from French)

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