• Meta

    • « | Home | »

    nordmedia Talk – Film Location Bremen

    By Ron Holloway | January 7, 2009

    From Peter Zadek’s Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame (1968), the first feature-length fiction film shot in Bremen, over Sommer in Lesmona filmed in the 1980s, up to such recent productions as Neele Leana Vollmer’s Urlaub vom Leben (2005) or Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (2007) – the nordmedia-Talk Bremen on 4 September 2007 showed just how versatile Film Location Bremen was and is.
    Moderator Jochen Coldewey greeted producer Klaus Maeck (Corazón International, Hamburg) as the first guest on the theater ship. He brought with him excerpts from Fatih Akin’s Cannes-competition-awarded film Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven). As reasons for the Bremen film boom over the past few years, Maeck sees above all the notable flexibility of the authorities and the easy access to motifs inside the city. The decision to shoot in the Hansestadt came right after a visit by Fatih Akin on the occasion of the premiere of his film Crossing the Bridge at the Schauburg venue. According to Maeck, the appealing visuals of the city pleased Akin. Decisive was also the fact that here, in contrast to Hamburg, streetcars are still underway, which play an important role in The Edge of Heaven.

    Reza Bahar (Giften Films, Ludwigsburg) made his decision based on the high degree of cooperation with all contact persons and, above all, the favorable site of the Bremen airport as a location site. His diploma film as producer at the Baden Württemberg Film Academy, Controlled Flight Into Terrain (director Daniel Karl Krause), plays for the most part in the vicinity of an airport and, according to Bahar, could not be reproduced in this form in any other city. The funding by nordmedia Fonds GmbH, as well as the possibilities for use of the infrastructure at Bremedia Produktion, offered further incentives for Bremen as production location.

    The Bremen producer and filmmaker Eike Besuden (Geisberg Studio, Bremen) allowed first insights into his current project Finnischer Tango, which, developed under the direction of Buket Alakus, was recently shot and will be shortly completed. He reported about the fascination but also the difficulties of shooting a film with challenged actors. Similar to his earlier film Verrückt nach Paris, some of the roles were cast from actors of the Blaumeier Atelier, a theater workshop for challenged persons in Bremen. However, the producer found the principle actors for his new project via casting in other German cities.

    Nicole Gerhards (NiKo Film, Berlin) spoke enthusiastically at the nordmedia-Talk about the shooting of her project Mutter-Liebe. The film deals with effects of post natal depression on a woman who stands in the middle of life. Besides Berlin, Bremen was chosen as the principle shooting location. According to Gerhards, the choice fell to Bremen because of its life-accepting, friendly atmosphere, for the dramatic story should not happen consciously against the backdrop of a city in which anonymity founds and feuls psychoses. The ZDF coproduction is funded by nordmedia Fonds GmbH, Deutscher FilmFörderFonds, and Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg. Shooting begins in Bremen on 25 September 2007.

    The close of the roundtable talk was contested by Bremedia business manager Martin Moll and Bremedia producer Claudia Schröder. Producer Claudia Schröder had just completed her second workday of shooting in Bremen after a very successful input for the ARD-Telenovela Rote Rosen. Moll and Schröder discussed with Jochen Coldewey future perspectives for film and TV serial production on the Weser River. The following Get Together on the deck of the theater ship offered room for further talk and discussion about the emerging or already existing Bremen film locations.

    Controlled Flight Into Terrain (director Daniel Karl Krause), plays for the most part in the vicinity of an airport and, according to Bahar, could not be reproduced in this form in any other city. The funding by nordmedia Fonds GmbH, as well as the possibilities for use of the infrastructure at Bremedia Produktion, offered further incentives for Bremen as production location.

    Topics: German Film, nordmedia | Comments Off on nordmedia Talk – Film Location Bremen

    Comments are closed.