Sophie Linnenbaum, the winner of the 2017 German Short Film Prize for her work Pix and the director of several episodes of the German series Deutscher, is currently working on her graduation film for the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Described as a tragicomedy, her debut feature will depict a world divided into three classes – a world that is run by “main characters” and supported by “side characters”, while the “outtakes” are marginalised and oppressed.

With a script penned by the director herself, together with Michael Fetter Nathansky, The Ordinaries [+leggi anche:
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Fine Sendel will star as Paula. Also among the cast are Jule Böwe, Henning Peker, Sira Faal, Denise M’Baye, Pasquale Aleardi and Noah Tinwa. Shooting wrapped in mid-April, and took place in Berlin, Hannover and Eisenhüttenstadt.

The Ordinariesis being produced by Bandenfilm (Laura Klippel and Britta Strampe) in co-production with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and Sophie Linnenbaum herself. The company Not, Sold GmbH will bring the film to German theatres.

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