BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ now in post-production
In post-production October 2018
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani, co-producer: EAVE graduate Léontine Petit is in post-production. The script transposes the original story (an adaptation of the classic 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin already made into a feature film by German director Phil Jutzi in 1931 and and 1980 ina TV series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) to modern-day Berlin. The main character, 30-year-old Francis is a refugee from Guinea-Bissau who finds himself in the German capital after illegally crossing the Mediterranean on a boat – ending up as the voyage’s sole survivor – and soon realises that making an honest living as a stateless refugee with no papers is virtually impossible. Francis first strives to stay on the right path, even after he meets the shady German drug dealer Reinhold. But the two men are “bound together by a cynical fate and destructive magnetism, friendship and betrayal, hatred and a dark eroticism, as well as by love and the abuse of this love”, and Francis thus gets sucked into the Berlin underworld. The movie is being produced by Sommerhaus Filmproduktion (Germany) in co-production with Lemming Film (Netherlands) and ZDF, in cooperation with ARTE, with the support of the German Film Board (FFA), the German Ministry of Culture and Media (BKM), the regional funds of Berlin-Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as Eurimages.
THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR by EAVE graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, co-producers: EAVE graduates Arnold Heslenfeld, Frans van Gestel and Laurette Schillings, Sébastien Delloye completed filming. The entire 21 day shoot took place on Brijuni Islands, famed as the summer residence of Tito, the popular Yugoslav President for Life. The story has the Belgian king, unexpectedly detained on the island, receiving news that he has been selected to become the first emperor of the nationalist New Europe. The producers are Entre Chien et Loup, Art Fest and Topkapi Films, along with Croatian co-producers of Propeler Film. The film received funding from the Croatian Audiovisual Center.
Page published 30 October 2018.
