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 the German-American horror-thriller Urban Explorer from Andy Fetscher - director, DoP and editor. The film was shot mostly on original location below the city of Berlin, taking audiences to the dark side of the German capital. Urban Explorer is a chilling delight for all genre fans.

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All the best,

Angela Reedwisch and Josef Reidinger

OPENING IN GERMAN THEATERS OCTOBER 20, 2011: URBAN EXPLORER

Director, DoP & Editor: Andy Fetscher Writer: Martin Thau Music: Steven Schwalbe, Robert Henke Sound Design: Nigel Holland Production Company: Papermoon Films GmbH, Rialto Film GmbH German Distributor: Summiteer Films GmbH   Re-Recording Mixer: Christian Bischoff Project Coordinator Sound: Michael Huber     ARRI Services: Sound

Urban Explorer is the sophomore film of German-Rumanian director Andy Fetscher, who made his directing debut with Bukarest Fleisch, which was also his graduation film from the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. Andy Fetscher and his crew shot on impressive locations in Berlin's underground. It was risky and not always legal but the results are worth it. Fetscher was also the cameraman and editor on the film. Papermoon Films and Rialto Film produced Urban Explorer. Summiteer Films is releasing the film theatrically in Germany.

Papermoon Films entrusted ARRI Film & TV with the sound postproduction. (Re-Recording Mixer: Christian Bischoff, Project Coordinator Sound: Michael Huber). Not many horror films get made in Germany. Urban Explorer was therefore an exciting challenge for the ARRI sound team. "It was very interesting to work with elements of shock and to push the audience the limit of what is bearable," says Christian Bischoff from ARRI Sound.

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Berlin is currently Europe's most happening city. Anxious to explore the verboten world under Germany's metropolis, an international group of young urban explorers falls in with a local guide who leads them - via the basement of a wild techno disco - into an eerie maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications. Looking for the walled-up "Fahrerbunker", covered in banned Nazi graffiti, they encounter, first playfully, then more seriously, the relics of forbidden times before, during and after WWII. 

When their guide falls and breaks his thigh bone, the Korean and the French girl in the group frantically set off to seek help, while a young American honeymooner stays behind with his pretty South American wife and their unconscious guide. An affable passer-by in a strange uniform appears and offers to show them the way to the next emergency telephone in his subterranean "duty station". His name is Armin, he speaks only German and seems to have been an East German border guard. Instead of the help the youngsters are expecting to turn up at Armin's base, a catastrophe creeps up and inexorably descends upon them.