04/07/2013 - After making his team travel from Morocco to Vienna via Paris and London, Ali Samadi Ahadi finished the filming of his movie on Tuesday, in Lower Saxony, with the explosion of a nuclear plant

It was with a scene depicting the explosion of a nuclear plant that filming ended on Tuesday in Lower Saxony of the spy comedy Die Mamba by Ali Samadi Ahadi (photo), director of the award-winning film Salami Aleikum [+see also:
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film profile] (2009) whose comic aspect was a cultural shock paired with a dose of identity confusion. Filming began in May in Morocco before continuing in all corners of Europe, from London to Vienna, with a stop in Paris.

Die Mamba’s screenplay, written by the director with Arne Nolting (who also co-wrote Salami Aleikum), offers Austrian comedian Michael Niavarani a double role: that of a harmless father who works in a biscuit factory and that of his look-alike, a dangerous terrorist known as Mamba. Sent on a mission to Casablanca, the ordinary man is confronted by a thousand perils, as he is chased by his fanatical doppelganger, as well as a neurotic CIA agent named Bronski (Christoph Maria Herbst). To make things worse, an attractive terrorist in the making believes he is a providential figure destined for great achievements. The cast is completed by Melika Foroutan, Monika Gruber and Proschat Madani.

Die Mamba is produced by Markus Pauser and Erich Schindlecker from the Austrian company e&a Film, with Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh and Armin Hofmann from the German company Brave New Work Filmproduktion and with funding from the ORF-Institute of Austrian cinema, the FISA, Filmfonds Wien, the Culture Fund of Lower Saxony, the Nordmedia Fund and the DFFF.

The film should be released in Austria by the end of the year. Senator Filmverleih will launch it on German screens at the beginning of next year. 

(Translated from French)