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 Offroad from director Elmar Fischer, who infused this warmhearted yet fast-paced comedy with a colorful array of oddball characters and absurd moments.

We hope you enjoy reading more about the film!

All the best, Angela Reedwisch and Josef Reidinger

OPENING IN GERMAN THEATERS JANUARY 12, 2012: OFFROAD

Director: Elmar Fischer Screenplay: Elmar Fischer, Susanne Hertel DoP: Philipp Kirsamer Editor: Eva Lopez Echegoyen Production Company: Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH, Dr. Wilfried Ackermann Filmproduktion GmbH, ZDF German Distributor: Paramount Pictures   Project Coordinator Sound: Kenneth Stiller Re-Recording Mixer: Tobias Fleig   ARRI Services: Digital Intermediate, VFX (collaboration) Sound, TV Postproduktion, Digital Cinema Mastering, Lab   ARRI Rental: Grip Equipment

From Director Elmar Fischer, who won numerous awards for his feature film debut Fremder Freund, comes the roadmovie Offroad, which he co-wrote with Susanne Hertel. Behind the camera was DoP Philipp Kirsamer. Offroad was produced by Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion in co-production with Dr. Wilfried Ackermann Filmproduktion and the ZDF. Paramount Pictures is releasing the film theatrically in Germany.

Claussen+Wöbke+Putz entrusted ARRI Film & TV with the film's postproduction including: Digital Intermediate and visual effects (collaboration), sound (Project Coordinator Sound: Kenneth Stiller; Re-Recording Mixer: Tobias Fleig), TV mastering, Digital Cinema Mastering and the lab work. ARRI Rental provided the grip equipment.

Left: Meike (Nora Tschirner) makes an unbelievable discovery. Right: Looking for their drugs: Ulf (Stefan Rudolf, r.) and his crony Julian (Thomas Fränzel, l.)

Left: The charming Salim (Elyas M'Barek) is on Meike's side. Right: The lawyer and Meike's fiancé, Phillip (Max von Pufendorf) © Paramount Pictures

Wouldn't we all like to do something that no one thought we'd do because it would be to crazy a think to do? Well Meike Pelzer (Nora Tschirner) does and she thinks she just did it  when she bought a beat-up Jeep that customs officials were auctioning off after confiscating it earlier near the Dutch border. Up until then her life had been more like the German Autobahn: straight, open and without unexpected curves. She had just graduated from business school, which means that marriage and taking over the family business are up next. But then she walks in on Phillip (Max von Pufendorf), her fiancé, and her best friend, Denise (Nora Binder), catching them in the act. Meike's plans for her future vanish into thin air. And so she decides, after finding 50 kilograms of cocaine behind the side paneling of her Jeep, to leave her old life behind and to venture out into unknown territory: she begins to sell drugs for the first time in her life. Needless to say, the business school grad applies the sound economic principles she's learned in college! But some people, most of all the actual owners of the drugs, don't like any of this. On her wild journey into a new and mysterious world she meets Salim (Elyas M'Barek), who helps her out in a number of dicey situations; yet she still experiences more crazy things then she cares to. But she also finds love in a place she never thought possible. And then, everything changes...