THE STRATOSPHERE GIRL
SYNOPSIS
18-year old blonde Angela (Chloé Winkel),with a passion for comics, plunges into her own comic adventure while working in a hostess club in Tokyo. The Stratosphere Girl blends European storytelling with Japanese anime cartoon power into a stylized action-mystery.
| DIRECTOR | M.X. Oberg |
| YEAR | 2003 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Panorama Berlinale 2004 |
| CAST | Chloé Winkel Jon Yang Rebecca Palmer Tuva Novotny Tara Elders Linda Steinhoff Filip Peeters Togo Igawa Burt Kwouk |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | PANDORA FILM (Köln) in co-production with PALOMAR (Rome) CLUBDEAL (London) DSCHOINT VENTSCHR (Zürich) PARADIS FILM (Paris) MOTEL FILMS (Amsterdam) WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK (Köln) SF DRS/ SRG SSR idée suisse |
| SUPPORTED BY | Filmstiftung NRW Filmförderung Hamburg Dutch FilmFund Filmförderungsanstalt Media II development |
| WORLD SALES | Bavaria Film International |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Rapid Eye Movies (Köln) |
| LENGTH | 85 min |
| FORMAT | colour 35mm 1:1.85 Dolby SRD |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | Tokyo (Japan) & Köln (Germany) |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | English |
| PRODUCERS | Christoph Friedel (producer) Karl Baumgartner (producer) Claudia Steffen (line producer) Andrea Hanke (co-producer) Carlo Degli Esposti (co-producer) Pierre Spengler (co-producer) Samir (co-producer) Jeroen Beker (co-producer) Marc Sillam (co-producer) |
| WRITERS | M.X. Oberg |
| CASTING | Pia Marais |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Michael Mieke |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Kenzo Horikoshi (associate producer Japan) Olaf Lehmann (unit prod. manager) Jochen Felthaus (prod. co-ordinator) Jon Older (1st assistant director) |
| EDITING | Peter Alderliesten |
| MUSIC | Nils Petter Molvaer |
| SOUND | Herman Pieete (sound designer) Bruno Tarriére (re-record. mixer) Maurice Hillier (sound recordist) |
| ART DIRECTION | Petra Barchi (prod. designer) Ann-Kathrin Otto (comics) Tim Pannen (art director) |
| COSTUMES | Sandra Fuhr |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Laura Schiavo-Loz |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | no |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes |
| LINKS | www.stratospheregirl.com; www.bavaria-film.de; www.motelfilms.nl; www.rapideyemovies.de |
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