PAULA
SYNOPSIS
Worpswede, northern Germany, 1900. From the moment they meet, Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn sense a special connection. Their shared passion for painting grows into a great love. They marry, but the life they lead as a couple is far removed from the conventions of their time. It’s a relationship rendered in rich colors and bold strokes, and which bears battle scars. In fact, it’s just like the art of this young woman who boldly seizes life and who will go down in art history as Paula Modersohn-Becker. Against all odds, she lives out her vision of artistic self-fulfillment and her romantic image of marriage and love.
| DIRECTOR | Christian Schwochow |
| YEAR | 2016 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Piazza Grande - Locarno Film Festival 2016 |
| CAST | Carla Juri (Paula Modersohn-Becker) Albrecht Abraham Schuch (Otto Modersohn) Roxane Duran (Clara Rilke-Westhoff) Joel Basman (Rainer Maria Rilke) Stanley Weber (George) Nicki von Tempelhoff (Fritz Mackensen) Jonas Friedrich Leonhardi (Heinrich Vogeler) |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | Pandora Film Produktion/ Grown Up Films in co-production with Alcatraz Films (France) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Degeto Radio Bremen Arte |
| SUPPORTED BY | Film- und Medienstiftung NRW Deutscher Filmförderfonds Filmförderungsanstalt Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Nordmedia Centre National Du Cinema Et De L'Image Animee development supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW BKM |
| WORLD SALES | The Match Factory |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film Verleih |
| LENGTH | 123 min. |
| FORMAT | DCP 2K - 1:2 39 scope - colour - 5.1. sound |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | Germany & France |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | German with parts in French |
| PRODUCERS | Ingelore König & Christoph Friedel & Claudia Steffen (producers) Laurence Clerc & Olivier Théry Lapiney (co-producers) Barbara Buhl (WDR) Caroline Haasis (Degeto) Annette Strelow (Radio Bremen) Andreas Schreitmüller (Arte) (commissioning editors) |
| WRITERS | Stefan Kolditz Stephan Suschke |
| CASTING | Anja Dihrberg |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Frank Lamm |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Katja Christochowitz |
| EDITING | Jens Klüber |
| MUSIC | Jean Rondeau |
| SOUND | Rainer Heesch (sound design) Bruno Tarrère (re-recording mix) Jean-Paul Bernard (original sound) |
| ART DIRECTION | Tim Pannen |
| COSTUMES | Frauke Firl |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Astrid Weber & Hannah Fischleder |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | n/s |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | n/s |
| LINKS | www.paula-film.de ///// www.pandorafilm.de ///// www.the-match-factory.com |
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