German Newsletter

Esteemed clients, dear friends of ARRI,

Enclosed, please find the most recent edition of the ARRI Film & TV newsletter, this time to announce the theatrical release of two films. 4 Tage im Mai by writer/director Achim von Borries is a moving tale about the return of compassion after years shrouded in darkness, about forgiveness, respect, overcoming stereotypes and about friendship and love.

Also opening in theaters the same day is the documentary Whores' Glory by director Michael Glawogger, who, with powerful images, portrays women living in prostitution in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico. Showing these women at work, letting them speak for themselves and tell their own stories, Michael Glawogger succeeds at giving each of them their individual identities.

Enjoy the read!

All the best,

Angela Reedwisch and Josef Reidinger

Opening in German theaters SEPTEMBER 29, 2011: 4 TAGE IM MAI

Director: Achim von Borries Writer: Achim von Borries Editor: Antje Zynga Production Company: X Filme Creative Pool German Distributor: X Verleih   DI Producer: Kenneth Stiller DI Colorist: Rainer Schmidt VFX Producer: Nina Knott VFX Supervisor: Abraham Schneider Title Design: Lutz Lemke / Matthias Brauner     ARRI Services: Lab, Digital Intermediate, VFX, Title Design, TV Postproduction, Digital Cinema Mastering   ARRI Rental: Camera, Lighting and Grip Equipment

Director Achim von Borries' (Love in Thoughts) latest film is based on true events. Stefan Arndt, X Filme Creative Pool (The White Ribbon, Good Bye, Lenin!), produced the film in co-production with Aleksei Guskov (The Concert). Filming took place in the summer of 2010 on the island of Ruegen. X Verleih is releasing the film theatrically in Germany. 

X Filme once again relied on ARRI Film & TV during the production, as well as the postproduction of 4 Tage im Mai, for the following services: film developing and dailies (16mm), Digital Intermediate (Colorist: Silvia Kubisch), visual effects (VFX Supervisor: Abraham Schneider), title design (Lutz Lemke, Matthias Brauner), TV postproduction and digital cinema mastering.

ARRI Rental provided the production with camera (ARRIFLEX 16SR3, Ultra 16), lighting and grip equipment.

Left: Captain Kalmykov (Aleksei Guskov) and the young Peter (Pavel Wenzel) get to know each other. Right: The captain negotiates with the Germans with Peter's help. © X Verleih

Time stands still in the final four days of World War II in Germany. A Soviet captain and his reconnaissance team move into an orphanage near the Baltic Sea; a German army unit is holding out at the beach; a secret love affair is blossoming, defying all conventions. Everyone is tired of fighting; only a 13-year-old orphan, wanting to prove himself a hero, is trying hard to instigate a fight between the enemy units. Until he realizes that the real enemy is lurking somewhere else entirely, and that the alleged enemy is actually a fatherly friend. This time the line isn't drawn between friend and foe, but between good and evil. 

Opening in German theaters SEPTEMBER 29, 2011: WHORES' GLORY

Director: Michael Glawogger Writer: Michael Glawogger DoP: Wolfgang Thaler Editor: Monika Willi Production Company: Lotus-Film Vienna and Quintefilm German Distributor: Delphi Filmverleih   DI Producer: Alex Klippe DI Colorist: Manfred Turek VFX Producer: Nina Knott VFX Supervisor: Abraham Schneider Title Design: Matthias Brauner Project Coordinator Sound: Kenneth Stiller  Re-Recording Mixer: Tobias Fleig   ARRI Services: Digital Intermediate, VFX, Title Design, Sound, TV Postproduction, Digital Cinema Mastering, Lab   ARRI Rental: Camera Equipment

In Whores' Glory director Michael Glawogger documents his search for the many faces of prostitution using powerful and resonating images. The film completes his trilogy about the globalization of the working world, which also includes Megacities and Workingman's Death. Michael Glawogger received the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize for his documentary Whores' Glory at the 68. Venice Film Festival. The film reunited Glawogger with DoP Wolfgang Thaler, who also shot Megacities. Whores' Glory is an Austrian-German co-production of Lotus-Film Vienna and Quintefilm. Delphi Filmverleih is releasing the film theatrically in Germany. 

Quinte Film entrusted ARRI Film & TV with the entire postproduction, image and sound, including: Digital Intermediate (Colorist: Manfred Turek), visual effects (VFX Supervisor: Abraham Schneider), title design (Matthias Brauner), sound (Re-Recording Mixer: Tobias Fleig), TV postproduction, digital cinema mastering and lab.

ARRI Rental provided the production with camera equipment (ARRIFLEX 416, Ultra 16).

Left: Faridpur (Bangladesh) "City of Joy" - An enormous, multistorey brothel where between 600 and 800 sex workers live with their children. Right: Reynosa (Mexico) "La Zona" - In many urban Mexican centers legal prostitution is concentrated in so-called "zonas de tolerancia."

Left: Bangkok (Thailand) "Fish Tank" - Women sitting in a brightly lit display window. Clients choose by selecting a number. Right: "God gives us money, patience and everything that's beautiful ..." © Delphi Filmverleih

Whores' Glory is a cinematic triptych on prostitution, a film about female sex workers. Three locations, three languages, three religions. Beautiful, young women on display in a "Fish Tank" in Bangkok, only to later sell their customers a little bit of happiness. Women in Bangladesh, born or sold into the trade, living in a sex worker ghetto, encompassing an entire neighborhood, with no hope for a better life. Women in Mexico who have arrived at their final destination: "La zona de la tolerancia." A place where they survive on drugs and prostitution, always in the firm grip of santa muerta - Lady Death. Whores' Glory gives each of these women the chance to tell her own story: about her longings, hopes, and desires, about the harsh but also beautiful reality of her life  -  her own and that of the customers.