JE SUIS KARL


SYNOPSIS
Following a terrorist attack, survivor Maxi joins the beguiling student Karl and becomes part of a European youth movement – one that aims for nothing less than seizing power.

DIRECTORChristian Schwochow
YEAR2021
STATUScompleted
FESTIVALS AWARDSBerlinale Special Gala 2021

 
CASTLuna Wedler (Maxi)
Jannis Niewöhner (Karl)
Milan Peschel (Alex)
Edin Hasanović
Anna Fialová
Fleur Geffrier
Aziz Dyab
Marlon Boess
Victor Boccard
Mélanie Fouché
Elizaveta Maximová

 
CO PRODUCTION WITHPandora Film Produktion
in co-production with
Negativ Film (Czech Republic)
and
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
ARD Degeto
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
ARTE
SUPPORTED BYFilm- und Medienstiftung NRW
DFFF
Filmförderungsanstalt
BKM
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Czech Film Fund
///// script & development supported by
Filmförderungsanstalt
WORLD SALESThe Match Factory
GERMAN DISTRIBUTORPandora Film Verleih

 
LENGTH126 min.
FORMATDCP 2K
1:2.39 scope
colour
5.1. sound
SHOOTING LOCATIONNRW & Berlin (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
ORIGINAL LANGUAGEGerman with English, Czech, French

 
PRODUCERSChristoph Friedel & Claudia Steffen
(producers)
Pavel Strnad & Kateřina Černá (co-producers)
Andrea Hanke (WDR)
Claudia Grässel (DEGETO)
Cooky Ziesche (RBB)
Andreas Schreitmüller (ARTE)
(commissioning editors)
WRITERSThomas Wendrich
CASTINGAnja Dihrberg-Siebler
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYFrank Lamm
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTFee Buck (line producer)
Sebastian Fröhlich (production manager)
EDITINGJens Klüber
MUSICTom Hodge & Floex (original music)
Max Rieger (original songs)
SOUNDRainer Heesch
Martin Jílek
Tobias Fleig
Jan Šulcek
ART DIRECTIONTim Pannen (production designer)
Irena Hradecka (art director)
COSTUMESFrauke Firl
MAKE UP HAIRAstrid Weber
Hannah Fischleder

 
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