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The Wagner Files – The Film on Tour and on TV
Ralf Pleger’s bold and compelling film “The Wagner Files” takes an in-depth approach to the fascinating yet disturbing relationship between the controversial composer and his second wife Cosima. Celebrating Wagner’s 200th birthday the film’s screening will be on Mai 22nd at 8:15pm on ARTE, screenings on SWR and SRF (Switzerland) are up next. In advance […]
“Farewell Comrades!” honored with the Grimme-Award
We are especially pleased to receive the renowned Grimme-Award 2013 for our 6-part TV series “Farewell Comrades!” within the category ‘Information & Culture’. We congratulate the award winners – the director Andrei Nekrasov, the author György Dalos, the producer Georg Tschurschenthaler and executive producer Christian Beetz – and thank everybody who was involved. The Grimme-Award is the most […]
“Saving the Titanic” shortlisted for British Independent FF
At this year’s British Independent Film Festival our co-production with Tile Film “Saving the Titanic” was nominated for four awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor and Best Feature Film. As a result the film will be shown on cinema screens in 12 locations in the UK. The award ceremony takes place on 4th […]
“Saving the Titanic” was honored twice as ‘Best Drama’
“Saving the Titanic” was honored with two awards in April: At the prestigious New York Festivals the film won the `Gold Award for best Drama-Doc´ and was up against drama-docs from 50 other countries. At the Celtic Media Festival in Wales the film has won the award for `Best Feature Length Drama´. Our congratulations go […]
„The Viking Women“ starts filming
Our two part documentary „The Viking Women“ directed by Judith Voelker goes finally into production. Our production team is going to Sweden in May, where near Stockholm the first documentary shots will be taken.
Chinese-German co-production with China’s biggest channel CCTV
Together with the Chinese production company Beijing New Century Media (BNCM) we are soon going to produce the stunning nature and society documentary „Snow Leopard“ for China’s biggest channel CCTV as well as NDR and NDR/arte. The director will be Zhou Bing – one of China’s most famous directors. The author will be Emmy Award […]
„A Letter to Nelson Mandela“ coming up on Arte
How do great politicians, civil rights activists, artists and writers interpret Nelson Mandela’s message of freedom, forgiveness and reconciliation within their own actual politico-geographic contexts? The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan or Joachim Gauck (only to name a few) shall explore this question in our German-South African co-production „A Letter to Nelson Mandela“.
“An Apartment in Berlin” at CoPro in Tel Aviv
While the filmshooting in Berlin is approaching, “An Apartment in Berlin” will also be represented at CoPro15 – The Israel Documentary Screen Market in Tel Aviv between May 26th and June 2nd. The film will be broadcast end of August 2013 on 3sat and November 2013 on RBB. The project is part of a greater […]
“Midsummer Night’s Tango” at DOKfest in Munich
“Midsummer Night’s Tango” by Viviane Blumenschein celebrates it’s German premiere at this year’s DOKfest. We are happy about the invitation to Munich and are looking forward to the screening on Saturday, 11th of May 2013 at 8.30 pm.
“Blood in the Mobile” nominated for Marl’s Human Rights Award
We are pleased to announce that our film “Blood in the Mobile” is nominated for the Marl’s Human Rights Award by Amnesty International. Together with two other finalists we are looking forward to the award ceremony on May 18th in Bochum. The Marl’s Human Rights Award honors projects which have an extraordinary focus on human […]
Presentation THE WAGNER FILES – Film & App at Visions du Réel in Nyon
Tonight Christian Beetz will present our crossmedia project THE WAGNER FILES at the filmfest Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. In addition to the preview of the feature film THE WAGNER FILES by Ralf Pleger, our Wagner-App will be showcased as a work-in-progress. The event will take place today, the 23 April at 10 pm at […]
„Farewell Comrades!“ Grimme Award Ceremony in Marl
Andrei Nekrasov, György Dalos, Christian Beetz, Georg Tschurtschenthaler and Kathrin Isberner receive a Grimme Award in the category “Information & Culture” for the 6-part TV-series “Farewell Comrades!” (ZDF/ARTE/rbb). Over six episodes, the series follows the 16-year countdown leading to the final collapse of the Soviet world and Socialist utopia – told from the perspective of […]
Wagner Graphic Novel published as a preprint at COMIX-Magazine
As a little teaser the first pages of the Wagner comic by Andreas Völlinger & Flavia Scuderi are issued in the new edition of the COMIX-Magazine. The whole Graphic Novel will be published in June at the Knesebeck publishing company. At the same time we are working on the competition of the Wagner-app.
“Farewell Comrades!” honored with the Grimme-Award
Just now we received the message that our 6-part TV series “Farewell Comrades!” was awarded with the renowned Adolf-Grimme-Award 2013 with the category ‘Information’. We congratulate and thank everybody who was involved. Over six episodes, the series follows the 16-year countdown leading to the final collapse of the Soviet world and Socialist utopia – told […]