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We are very happy to announce that our film “The House” has been invited to the competition of the section Große Freiheit of the Filmfest Hamburg 2021! We have produced this film with great effort of all participants in the past pandemic year. We are all the happier now that the film can be presented to an audience for the first time with this invitation. “The House” will then be released in cinemas throughout Germany on October 7.

Star journalist Johann Hellström (Tobias Moretti) is banned from writing after a source turns out to be a fake informer. Hellström suspects sabotage by the increasingly authoritarian government. Together with his wife Lucia (Valery Tscheplanowa) he withdraws to their fully digitized weekend retreat. While political conditions in the country continue to destabilize, the smart home takes on a life of its own. When two dissidents seek refuge there, the situation gets out of hand.

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“The Protector” celebrates its premiere at the 21st Filmfest Hamburg! We are very happy about the invitation in the Competition Television Films!

Bodyguard Schäfer must protect key witness Fiona Weibel and bring her to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg as the most important witness. The managing director of a Swiss shipping company is supposed to uncover a poison gas cartel with her insider knowledge and a statement in court. But Schäfer and his protective person are being pursued by people who are interested in her not giving her testimony. Schäfer must do everything to ensure that Fiona appears in court on time and, above all, alive…

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Over a period of 5 years, Andrei Schwartz accompanied a group of Romanian Roma who have been commuting between their home country and Hamburg for years.
Due to a lack of work in Romania, they earn a living for themselves and their children in Hamburg by begging. They sleep under bridges and in parks, in constant fear of being discovered and expelled. For the city authorities they are considered “voluntary homeless”, access to emergency programmes is denied them even in winter.
Every few months they go home, back to their children and relatives. To a home that has offered them neither jobs nor prospects since the fall of communism.
The two main protagonists, Maria and Tirloi, are the only ones who have managed to build a piece of normality for themselves. They form the bridge between the two worlds: He has work, she still goes begging. And they have a place to stay: a small flat in a community centre where they bicker and make plans after work. Perhaps a start, also for their granddaughter Ioana, who now attends school. The 13-year-old is the first in the family to be able to read and write.

A film about success and failure, and the price one pays for it.

Written and directed by: Andrei Schwartz / director of photography: Susanne Schüle / producer: Stefan Schubert / A Wüste Film Production / funded by BKM and MOIN FFHSH
PHOTO: Susanne Schüle

The international co-production ALMA UND OSKAR is being filmed under the direction of Dieter Berner until 10 August. The story of a love between Alma Mahler (Emily Cox), the widow of the world-famous composer Gustav Mahler, and the young artist Oskar Kokoschka (Valentin Postlmayr) is as passionate as it is threatening to her existence.
In addition to locations in Schleswig-Holstein, filming will take place in Vienna, Lower Austria, Prague and Switzerland. Produced by Wiener Film AG, Hamburg-based Wüste Film, Swiss Turnus Film and Dawson Films from Prague. Supported by MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, in cooperation with ZDF and distributed by Alamode.

Front from left: Valentin POSTLMAYR (OSKAR KOKOSCHKA), Emily COX (ALMA MAHLER), Anton von LUCKE (WALTER GROPIUS), Johanna ORSINI-ROSENBERG (MANON GROPIUS) Centre from left Stefan SCHUBERT (PRODUCER Wüste Film), Dara BREXENDORF (MOIN Filmförderung HH SH) Dieter BERNER (DIRECTOR), Jakub BEJNAROWICZ (CAMERA), Top from left: Johanna SCHERZ (PRODUCER Film AG), Alexander GLEHR (PRODUCER Film AG) Photo: Svenja von Schultzendorff

Investigative journalist Imke Leopold is on the trail of a supposedly illegal real estate deal on the island of Norderney. When she asks Thorsten Falke for help in clearing up the matter, the inspector of the federal police reacts skeptically at first. When Imke is the victim of an attack shortly afterwards, which she survives only by luck, Falke regrets his hesitation and asks his colleague Julia Grosz to investigate with him on the island. Does the attack have something to do with a large-scale construction project that was waved through due to the approval of some local politicians on the island? The Norderney-based lawyer and real estate agent who set up the deal and hinted at it to Imke unfortunately fails to turn up as an informant. Falke and Grosz find him beaten to death in his house…

On December 16, filming on the ARD Degeto thriller “The Protector” (WT) wrapped in Hamburg Altona under the direction of Philipp Osthus. The main roles are played by Tobias Oertel as bodyguard Jan Schäfer and Marlene Tanczik as opaque key witness Fiona Weibel. The ensemble is completed by Slavko Popadic, Sabrina Amali, Sascha Weingarten and many others. The script was written by Michael Ehnert and Oke Stielow. Frank Küpper was behind the camera.

About the content:
Jan Schäfer is a personal security officer at the BKA. Fiona – the key witness currently under Schäfer’s protection – has to testify before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. Particularly delicate: Fiona works in the management of a Swiss shipping company and is said to be using insider knowledge to heavily incriminate her own employer. The shipping company is accused of illegally transporting toxic substances, disguised as fertilizers, to Libya, where they are used to produce toxic gas.

To keep Fiona safe until the trial, Schäfer and his colleague Yannick take her into their custody. But as soon as they pick up the witness at the airport, they realize they are being followed. Through a clever diversionary maneuver, they manage to escape the pursuers. But is that enough to get Fiona to safety? Again and again, the trio is in danger of being discovered and the operation blown. Is the witness playing a double game? Or is there even a leak in the ranks of their own colleagues?

“The Protector” (WT) is a production of Wüste Medien GmbH (producers: Björn Vosgerau and Uwe Kolbe) on behalf of ARD Degeto for ARD. Carolin Haasis and Christoph Pellander (both ARD Degeto) are the commissioning editors.

We are very happy to announce the completion of the shooting of our future thriller “The House” (WT), starring Tobias Moretti and Valery Tscheplanowa!

Germany 2029: Star journalist Johann Hellström (Tobias Moretti) is banned from writing and retreats with his wife Lucia (Valery Tscheplanowa) to their luxurious vacation home on an island. As the political situation in Germany escalates, the smarthome transforms more and more from a peaceful refuge to a dangerous adversary…

The successful director Rick Ostermann (“Das Boot”, “Dengler – Fremde Wasser”, “Krieg” aka “Fremder Feind”) has filmed the future thriller “Das Haus” in Sweden near Stockholm and in Hamburg. The main shoot was from October 27 to December 7. Björn Vosgerau and Uwe Kolbe of Wüste Medien GmbH are producing the film in co-production with NDR, ARTE and rbb. Ostermann also wrote the screenplay together with Patrick Brunken (among others SWR “Tatort: Sonnenwende”). It is based on a short story by journalist Dirk Kurbjuweit. The story was published last year in the collection “2029 – Geschichten von Morgen” (“2029 – Stories of Tomorrow”), edited by Suhrkamp Verlag, NDR, SWR and Futurium. “The House” will be shown on ARTE and the German public broadcaster Das Erste next year, following a theatrical release distributed by not.sold Hamburg, and will be shown in the ARD Mediathek.

About the story: Germany 2029. Political journalist Johann Hellström is banned from his profession after an important source in his last article turns out to be a false informant. Hellström believes it was an act of sabotage by the increasingly authoritarian government, but also bitterly reproaches his editor-in-chief Paschke (Hans-Jochen Wagner) for not protecting him. Together with his wife Lucia, Johann retreats to their luxurious and fully digitalized weekend home on an idyllic island. While political conditions in the country continue to destabilize due to a terrorist attack, their “smarthome” develops more and more a life of its own. It manipulates the couple and plays them off against each other by revealing intimate secrets. Finally, when two regime critics, wanted throughout Germany, seek shelter with Lucia, the situation in the house escalates completely. Johann is torn between his love for Lucia and the feeling of having been betrayed by her: Who can he still trust?

Other roles are played by Lisa Vicari, Max von der Groeben, Samir Fuchs and Daniel Krauss.

Behind the camera was Stefan Ciupek, production design: KD Gruber, production management: Björn Eggert. The commissioning editors are Sabine Holtgreve (NDR), Andreas Schreitmüller (ARTE) and Verena Veihl (RBB). The production of “The House” was funded by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. The theatrical release is distributed by not.sold Hamburg, internationally the thriller is distributed by The Playmaker.

After 22 years we are happy to present Fatih Akins “Short Sharp Shock” on the big screen at Filmfest Hamburg! The screening will take place on Friday, October 02 at 22:30 in the Cinemaxx Dammtor 1.

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We are very pleased to announce the date of the first broadcast of our thriller IN THE ABYSS: Sat., 26.09.20 | 20:15 | Das Erste. A production by Wüste Medien GmbH on behalf of ARD Degeto for Das Erste. Director: Stefan Bühling, Screenplay by: Arndt Stüwe.

Starring Peter Kurth, Tobias Moretti, Tinka Fürst, Simon Schwarz, Florian Stetter, Jessica McIntyre, Odine Johne and many more.

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On the occasion of the anniversary this year, a screening of our Fatih Akin classic “Head On” will take place on 17 February 2020 at 7.30 pm at the Zoo Palast Berlin. We are especially looking forward to the following stage talk: Director Fatih Akin will tell Carlo Chatrian, the Artistic Director of the Berlinale, about the importance of the Bear and Lola for his further artistic work, how festivals can accelerate an international career and what he feels when he sees “Head On” on the screen 16 years later.

For more information click here: Berlinale and Deutscher Filmpreis.