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When Grosz’s friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg’s left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator for the LKA, disappears without a trace, Grosz sets out to find her. Under a false identity, she enters the hedonistic and liberal milieu in which her friend had apparently lost herself in…

We are very pleased to present our “Tatort: Verborgen” at the 32nd International Film Festival Emden-Norderney!

Detectives Falke and Grosz dive into the world of the paperless – and soon have to realize that different rules apply here.
Jon is standing in the police station in Hanover, looking for his missing son Noah – but neither Jon, nor his son have papers: they are factually non-existent. Despite the danger of Jon and his family falling on the radar of the authorities, his desperation drives him to the police…

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We are very happy about the nomination of “Europa Passage” at DOC.fest Munich for the documentary film award of the Goethe-Institut!
Maria, Tirloi and their relatives have no choice: There is no work in their Romanian Roma village. To survive and provide for their families at home, they are begging in Hamburg. For five years, Andrei Schwartz follows them with respect and appreciation and shows us people full of dignity who do not give up, no matter how hard their situation is.

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“The House” wins two awards at the Fantasporto Film Festival 2022 for Best Screenplay, awarded by the JURI INTERNACIONAL CINEMA FANTÁSTICO and the Critics Award, PRÉMIO DA CRÍTICA/PRÉMIOS NÃO OFICIAIS!! We are very happy about these two awards at this special genre festival!

Experienced BKA officer Jan Schäfer (Tobias Oertel) is hired to protect a key witness at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. Fiona Weibel (Marlene Tanczik), an ambitious foreign employee of a Swiss shipping company, is to testify against her own company in an explosive trial. Fiona knows how dangerous their dark business in the Middle East is since an assassination attempt in Cairo, which the young businesswoman – unlike her boss Urs Beerenberg (Markus Graf) – survived. For the company heiress, Beerenberg’s daughter Claire (Anne Müller), there is a lot at stake in the court case: the idealistic justice worker Rasha (Sabrina Amali) wants to prove poison gas deliveries to war zones. A conviction and the future of the shipping company depend on Fiona’s testimony. For the whistleblower, the highest security level applies until the trial in Hamburg. Schäfer and his colleague Lansing (Slavko Popadic) are not the only ones waiting for her to arrive in Germany. On their way to the safe house, the experienced bodyguards have to realize that they are being followed by a killer gang that can hardly be shaken off with conventional methods. Schäfer, who follows “protocol” to the letter, must also recognize his limits when dealing with Fiona, who challenges him in an unusual way. The closer the trial and the persecutors get, the more unpredictable the state witness behaves.

“The Protector” (Original title: “Der Beschützer”) is a production of Wüste Medien GmbH on behalf of ARD Degeto for Das Erste.

The latest case takes the NDR “Tatort” duo Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz) into the world of people without official papers, who officially do not exist, at least from the authorities’ point of view, because they do not have valid residence documents. “Bis aufs Blut” (working title) is the name of the new “Tatort” episode by screenwriters Julia Drache (“Mein Freund, das Ekel,” “Tanken”) and Sophia Ayissi Nsegue. Director Neelesha Barthel (“SOKO Köln,” “Jenseits der Spree”) is shooting the film in Hanover and Hamburg until December 8. Behind the camera is Christian Marohl (“Walpurgisnacht,” “Hannes”). Das Erste is expected to show “Tatort: Bis aufs Blut” (AT) in fall 2022.
The “Tatort” episode is supported by Nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH.

Photo from l.t.r.: Björn Vosgerau, Alois Moyo, Neelesha Barthel, Franziska Weisz, Sophia Ayissi Nsegue, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Thomas Schäffer

Photographer: O-Young Kwon

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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