28/08/2007

The Black Forest city of Freiburg will be the filming location for Connie Walther’s Schattenwelt from August 29, which will move to Berlin mid-September.

In her feature debut for cinema, Nevermind the Wall, Walther (acclaimed for her shorts and television films) tells of a girl from West Berlin and a young punk from the East.

In Schattenwelt, scripted by Ulrich Herrmann and Peter Jürgen Boock, a confrontation of a different kind takes place, when Red Army Faction head (Ulrich Noethen, Himmler in the recent hit comedy Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler [+see also:
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Also starring Uwe Kockisch, Tatja Seibt and Eva Matte, the feature is being produced by Tina Hegewisch for Gambit Film, in co-production with Next Film Berlin, ARTE and Bayerische Rundfunk.

Schattenwelt was financed by the MFG Baden-Württemberg and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg regional funds, Germany’s Ministry for Culture and the new DFFF fund.

(Translated from French)