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 Sommer der Gaukler. Director Marcus H. Rosenmüller blends vivacious, modern cinema with the extravagance of baroque theater productions to tell a story including the historical encounter between Emanuel Schikaneder and Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Also opening in German theaters is Labirent from Turkish director Tolga Ömek. An action-packed spy thriller about a group of Turkish secret agents trying to prevent an attack by a terrorist organization.

Enjoy the read!

All the best,

Angela Reedwisch and Josef Reidinger

OPENING IN GERMAN THEATERS DECEMBER 22, 2011: SOMMER DER GAUKLER

Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller Screenplay: Robert Hültner, Klaus Wolfertstetter DoP: Stefan Biebl Editor: Georg Söring Production Company: gff sued geißendörfer film- & fernsehproduktion (coproduction with Moviepool, BR, ORF) German Distributor: Movienet   DI Producer: Alex Klippe DI Colorist: Manfred Turek VFX Producer: Katja Müller VFX Supervisor: Jürgen Schopper Title Design: Matthias Brauner     ARRI Services: DI, VFX,  Title Design, TV Post Production, Digital Cinema Mastering, Lab ARRI Rental: Camera, Grip

Sommer der Gaukler, the most recent film from the successful Bavarian director Marcus H. Rosenmüller (Grave Decisions, Summer in Orange), is a unique, historical production combining theatrical and cinematic elements and bursting with vigor, opulence and vitality.  DoP Stefan Biebl captured the lavish costumes and impressive sets. Hans W. Geißendörfer's gff sued GmbH produced Sommer der Gaukler, a coproduction with Moviepool, BR and ORF. Movienet is releasing the film theatrically in Germany.

Hans W. Geißendorfer, gff sued collaborated again with ARRI Film & TV which is responsible for the entire post production: Digital Intermediate (DI Producer: Alex Klippe, DI Colorist: Manfred Turek), visual effects (VFX Producer: Katja Müller, VFX Supervisor: Jürgen Schopper), title design (Matthias Brauner), TV post production, digital cinema mastering and lab. ARRI Rental provided the production with camera and grip equipment.

Left: Colorful characters and lavish costumes, Right: Markus H. Rosenmüller on stage © movienet

Summer 1780. On the way to Salzburg the theater group of Emanuel Schikaneder (Max von Thun) and his faithful wife and creative partner Eleonore (Lisa Maria Potthoff) gets stuck in a rustic village in the mountains near the Austrian border due to a lack of funds, ideas and engagements. In the village a conflict is escalating between the mine workers and the owner of the mine named Paccoli (Erwin Steinhauer), who, driven by greed, sends the hard working men into unsafe tunnels putting their lives at risk. One of the workers, Georg Vester (Maxi Schafroth), from a region called Allgau stumbles into this charged situation and becomes a savior for the humble miners. Schikaneder, witnessing this revolt in the making, immediately gets an idea for a new play. But not only the miners are rebelling: Schikaneder's ensemble soon rebells as well.

While  a scheduled outdoor performance of Schikaneder's ensemble, which none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Florian Teichtmeister) himself plans to attend causes major turbulences.

OPENING IN GERMAN THEATERS DECEMBER 22, 2011: LABIRENT

Director: Tolga Örnek   Screenplay: Tolga Örnek       DoP: Burak Kanbir Editor: Oguz Celik Production Company: Ekip Film, Stoked Film German Distributor: Kinostar   ARRI Services: Lab, DI (printing), Digital Cinema Mastering

Writer/director Tolga Örnek shot the Turkish spy thriller Labirent in Istanbul, Mardin and Frankfurt. Behind the camera was DoP Burak Kanbir. Labirent was produced by Ekip Film and Stoked Film. The film is released in Germany by Kinostar.

Stoked Film entrusted ARRI Film & TV with the lab work, the DI and the Digital Cinema Mastering.

© Kinostar

A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British are among them. The massacre sends shockwaves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack.  

The explosion is just the beginning.

"Labyrinth" is the code name of the operation conducted by Turkish intelligence to stop a second, more devastating attack that will plunge Turkey, the only democratic Muslim country in the region, into chaos and destroy the fragile balance of the Middle East.  After the initial attack, Turkey becomes a battlefront for terrorists and Turkish, British and American intelligence officers. Everyone has his own agenda in the fight that stretches from Istanbul to Eastern Turkey and from Frankfurt to Northern Iraq. 

The story revolves around a group of Turkish intelligence officers and their race to stop the terrorist organization. The group is led by Fikret, a veteran with nothing in his life but his career, and Reyhan, one of the best field operatives in the country who's also a single mom trying to balance her family life with a career in the shadows. Despite Fikret's reluctance to admit it, their common struggle and hardships bring them closer.