Gröning returns to narrative form
Having enjoyed success and won numerous awards (including the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, an EFA and Bavarian Film Award) with his documentary Into Great Silence [+see also:
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His new project – entitled Die Frau des Polizisten – centres on a couple living in a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia (whose regional fund are providing €350,000 in financial backing) who are trying for a baby. According to Gröning – who wrote the screenplay – the film also looks at "the virtue of love, as well as the virtue of joy and pain".
The film is produced by the director’s company Philip Gröning Filmproduktion.
(Translated from French)
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