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It was a glittering party! Many companions came: Old friends and esteemed colleagues. We were very happy about everyone who celebrated with us and of course about the many congratulations and great gifts we received! Many thanks to all of you on this way, if we haven’t had the opportunity to thank you personally. May you stay with us!

In this sense: To the next 30 years!

Your Wüste daughters and sons

We are very happy that our “Tatort: The Golden Era” (Screenplay: Georg Lippert, Director: Mia Spengler) will celebrate its premiere at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg in the Televisonen – Fernsehen mit Format section as part of the competition!
During investigations in Hamburg Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) is faced with his own past. Together with his colleague Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz), he is investigating against the superiority of criminal gangs in St. Pauli.

In other roles: Michael Thomas, Bogdan Iancu, Christian Redl, Jonathan Kwesi Aikins, Emma Drogunova, Deborah Kaufmann, Jessica Kosmolla, Levin Liam and many more.

Directed by Andrei Schwartz, the shooting of our documentary “Europapassage” has started in Hamburg. The film investigates the life of a group of Roma who have been oscillating between Hamburg and their Romanian village for years. Since the Hamburg social authorities decided to take drastic measures to counter the growing number of Roma and began to block access to the emergency winter programme for beggars from Romania, death from frostbite has been a constant threat. With the argument that they were not homeless at all, they were transported on buses to bring them back to Romania. Not everyone left. And most of them came back.

Andrei Schwartz will invite us to meet this group of Roma at eye level, to accompany them in their world on the fringes of both societies – in Romania and in Hamburg – and to get so close to them that we can discover ourselves in them.

The production was supported by the BKM and the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. Andrei Schwartz also received support for his research work from the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literary Colloquium Berlin as part of the “Grenzgänger” program.

On 11 July 2019 our co-production “Electric Girl” will start in cinemas all over Germany! Directed by Ziska Riemann after a book by Angela Christlieb, Dagmar Gabler, Ziska Riemann & Luci van Org. Poetry Slammerin Mia gets the chance to impersonate the anime superhero Kimiko as dubbing voice artist. She discovers more and more parallels between herself and this courageous young woman. Mia also suddenly has extraordinary powers and can accomplish superhuman actions: just like Kimiko, she sees electricity, can jump off roofs and save human lives. She decides to use these awakening powers to fight against evil in real life. As in anime, enemy forces plan to destroy all humanity. In her melancholic neighbour Kristof Mia finds a soul mate, and her co-hero. However, one thing becomes more and more clear – something is wrong with Mia. While in a manic rush no victim is too big for her to save the world, her own life gets completely out of balance: reality and delusion seem to merge dangerously.

In starring alongside Victoria Schulz are Hans Jochen Wagner, Svenja Jung, Björn von der Wellen, Oonavon Maydell and many others.

We are very happy to announce that our “Tatort: Querschläger” will be shown at the International Filmfest Emden/Norderney! “Tatort: Querschläger” is the sixth episode in which Wotan Wilke Möhring and Franziska Weisz investigate together. A breathtaking thriller drama in a truck driver’s milieu about law and justice, vigilante justice and the question of how far one can go for one’s family…

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Perhaps it never existed like this, “The Golden Era” of the Hamburg district between Reeperbahn and Hafenstraße. In the NDR “Tatort” of the same name, inspectors Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz) are investigating a contract murder in the red light district on the sinful mile. Mia Spengler (“Back for Good”, “Leg dich icht mit Klara an”) will direct the new episode of the crime series until 28 May in Hamburg-St. Pauli.

The book was written by Georg Lippert, in which a contract murder in the red light district shatters the Hamburg neighborhood. During the investigation, Thorsten Falke meets an old friend and neighbourhood veteran, Michael Lübke (Michael Thomas), and is faced with his own St. Pauli past as a young bouncer. In view of prostitution and modern human trafficking, his colleague Julia Grosz appears to be inappropriate for any nostalgic neighbourhood bond. Together they hunt down the killer and his backers before the smouldering war escalates in the red light district. Falke’s old friend and mentor Lübke turns out more and more to be a tricky antagonist …

Alongside Wotan Wilke Möhring and Franziska Weisz, Christian Redl, Michael Thomas, Bogdan Iancu, Roland Bonjour, Emma Drogunova, Levin Liam and Jonathan Kwesi Aikins are also in front of the camera.

Producers of “Tatort: The Golden Era” are Björn Vosgerau and Uwe Kolbe (Wüste Medien GmbH), camera: Moritz Schultheiß. Donald Kraemer is in charge of the NDR editorial office.

The first shows the “Tatort: The Golden Era” presumably in spring 2020.

On April 4th our co-production “Another Day of Life” will be released in German cinemas! Warsaw, 1975. Ryszard Kapuściński (43) is a brilliant journalist and an idealist. In the Polish press agency he persuades his boss to send him to Angola, where a bloody civil war rages on the eve of the country’s independence. On the battlefield he experiences the dirty reality of the war and discovers a previously unknown helplessness. His journey takes him right into a place of forlornness. Angola will change him forever: As a reporter he left Poland, as a writer he returns.

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We are happy to announce that our coproduction „Another Day of Life“ has won the European film award for „Best European Animated Feature Film“! We are overjoyed and would like to thank the European Film Academy for this great appreciation of the work of all participants!

The good news doesn’t stop. After “Another Day of Life” already received the Goya Award For Best Animated Feature at the beginning of February 2019, the film is now also nominated for the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards. We are proud and happy for the whole team!

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We are very happy that our co-production “Electric Girl” will celebrate its premiere at the 40th film festival Max Ophüls Preis and take part in the competition! Directed by Ziska Riemann after a book by Angela Christlieb, Dagmar Gabler, Ziska Riemann & Luci van Org . The film was produced by Niko Film in co-production with A Private View, Wüste Film and WDR in cooperation with Arte. The production was supported by the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and the nordmedia Film- und Mediengesellschaft. In starring alongside Victoria Schulz are Hans Jochen Wagner, Svenja Jung, Björn von der Wellen, Oonavon Maydell and many others.

When Mia dubs an anime superhero, she dives deeper and deeper into this world – and escapes her reality…