MOSTLY MARTHA
BELLA MARTHA
SYNOPSIS
MOSTLY MARTHA tells the story of the initial animosity/rivalry and then love between the severe female kitchen chef Martha and the charismatic Italian cook Mario. The film manages the rare feat of merging melancholy with joie de vivre, and this without splipping into kitch.
| DIRECTOR | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| YEAR | 2001 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Toronto 2001 |
| CAST | Martina Gedeck Sergio Castellitto Maxime Foerste Sibylle Canonica Katja Studt August Zirner Idil Ürner Oliver Broumis Ulrich Thomsen |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | Bavaria Film presents a Pandora Film production in co-production with T&C Films Prisma Film Palomar in association with SWR/WDR ARTE ORF SF DRS/SRG idée suisse Teleclub Rai Cinema |
| SUPPORTED BY | Filmförderung Hamburg Filmstiftung NRW Filmförderungsanstalt Eurimages Kuratorium Junger deutscher Film Österreichisches Filminstitut Eidgenössisches Department des Innern Media II development |
| WORLD SALES | Bavaria Film International |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Ottfilm |
| LENGTH | 109 min. |
| FORMAT | colour 35mm 1:1.66 Dolby SRD |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | Hamburg (Germany) & (Italia) |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | German |
| PRODUCERS | Karl Baumgartner (producer) Christoph Friedel (producer) Marcel Hoehn (co-producer) Heinz Stussak (co-producer) Carlo Degli Esposti (co-producer) Dschingis Bowakow (line producer) |
| WRITERS | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| CASTING | Heta Mantscheff |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Michael Bertl |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Andrea Oechsner (production manager) Gianfranco Barbagallo (prod. supervisor Italia) Jens Dybrowski (unit manager) Florian Michel (assistant director) |
| EDITING | Mona Bräuer |
| MUSIC | Manfred Eicher (music producer) with music by Keith Jarrett Arvo Pärt David Darling |
| SOUND | Luc Yersin (prod. sound mixer) Martin Langenbach (sound designer) Bernhard Maisch (re-recording mixer) |
| ART DIRECTION | Thomas Freudenthal (production designer) Sigrid "Boubou" Schroeder (art director) |
| COSTUMES | Bettina Helmi |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Katharina Erfman Martine Felber-Cordey |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | no |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes |
| LINKS | www.bellamartha-derfilm.de |
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