The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe) will star German actress Karoline Herfurth and reunite the production team behind local box office hit Heidi.
Studiocanal is to co-produce and handle world sales on the first German live-action film adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s children’s classic The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe).
Published in 1957, Preussler’s tale centres on a witch who is a mere one hundred and twenty-seven years old and thus deemed too young to be allowed to dance with the others on the Hill of Witches during Walpurgis Night (30 April).
Before she can prove to the chief witch that she has what it takes to become a good witch, she must hone her magic skills, but she hadn’t reckoned with the mean weather witch Rumpumpel using every means to prevent her reaching her goal.
Studiocanal’s German production arm, Studiocanal Film, will co-produce with Munich-based Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and Switzerland’s Zodiac Pictures after last...
Studiocanal is to co-produce and handle world sales on the first German live-action film adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s children’s classic The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe).
Published in 1957, Preussler’s tale centres on a witch who is a mere one hundred and twenty-seven years old and thus deemed too young to be allowed to dance with the others on the Hill of Witches during Walpurgis Night (30 April).
Before she can prove to the chief witch that she has what it takes to become a good witch, she must hone her magic skills, but she hadn’t reckoned with the mean weather witch Rumpumpel using every means to prevent her reaching her goal.
Studiocanal’s German production arm, Studiocanal Film, will co-produce with Munich-based Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and Switzerland’s Zodiac Pictures after last...
- 4/29/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Hugofilm, W??ste Film West and Constantin Film are gathering their collective might to produce a film based on the 2006 novel Tann??d by German author Andrea Maria Schenkel. The story of the novel was based on a real event dating back to 1922 - Hinterkaifeck, where a family- a husband, his wife, their daughter, her two children and the maid- were all brutally murdered with a pickaxe. That crime remains unsolved. Schenkel used that event as inspiration for her own retelling of that story and sets it in post-war 1950s Germany.
Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli [North Wind and Late Bloomers] will be at the helm. Bettina also co-wrote the adapted screenplay with Petra L??schow. Near as I can tell from reviews of the book it reads more like investigative journalism; along with a straight narrative of the events it also includes transcripts as eye witness accounts are recorded, not witnesses of the murder - there were none,...
Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli [North Wind and Late Bloomers] will be at the helm. Bettina also co-wrote the adapted screenplay with Petra L??schow. Near as I can tell from reviews of the book it reads more like investigative journalism; along with a straight narrative of the events it also includes transcripts as eye witness accounts are recorded, not witnesses of the murder - there were none,...
- 7/23/2008
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
Palm Springs International Film FestivalCatpics Coproductions
PALM SPRINGS -- Switzerland's official foreign-language Oscar submission, which also is that country's biggest homegrown hit of the past three decades, is a certified crowd-tickler.
Late Bloomers is a genial social satire set in a sleepy Emmental village where a recently widowed octogenarian scandalizes her conservative neighbors by opening a sexy French lingerie shop.
While it could be viewed as a Swiss Calendar Girls with a sprinkle of Chocolat, it's definitely a gentler model, with any real edginess provided by the zesty performance of the film's 87-year-old lead, veteran television actress Stephanie Glaser.
Still, it offers female actors of a certain age (and then some) a real chance to strut their stuff, and given the response from mature Palm Springs International Film Festival audiences, this little film that could -- it was released on home turf by Buena Vista International -- packs the kind of universal appeal that could translate nicely in the hands of the right American distributor.
Having fallen into a depression after the death of her husband, Martha (Glaser) is shown at the outset of the film lying in her bed decked out in Swiss ceremonial garb, ready to join him.
But when she awakens the next morning alive and well, it's clear that there's some unfinished business on Martha's bucket list.
Prodded by three of her friends, including an energetic hairdresser (Heidi Maria Glossner) who had followed her dreams to America, the former seamstress admits a secret fantasy of opening a lingerie boutique.
Quicker than you can say "Frederick's of Trub," the deed is done, much to the outrage of many of her fellow villagers, especially her self-righteous vicar son (Hanspeter Muller-Drossaart).
Director Bettina Oberli, who penned the sprightly script with Sabine Pochhammer, allows the prevailing hypocrisies to reveal themselves without resorting to strained situations or overblown characters.
There's no need to force the issue when you've got an old pro like Glaser to take it the distance, turning in a masterfully rendered performance in which a sly twinkle in her eye and a mischievous upturn of the corner of her mouth do most of the heavy lifting to inspired -- and inspiring -- effect.
PALM SPRINGS -- Switzerland's official foreign-language Oscar submission, which also is that country's biggest homegrown hit of the past three decades, is a certified crowd-tickler.
Late Bloomers is a genial social satire set in a sleepy Emmental village where a recently widowed octogenarian scandalizes her conservative neighbors by opening a sexy French lingerie shop.
While it could be viewed as a Swiss Calendar Girls with a sprinkle of Chocolat, it's definitely a gentler model, with any real edginess provided by the zesty performance of the film's 87-year-old lead, veteran television actress Stephanie Glaser.
Still, it offers female actors of a certain age (and then some) a real chance to strut their stuff, and given the response from mature Palm Springs International Film Festival audiences, this little film that could -- it was released on home turf by Buena Vista International -- packs the kind of universal appeal that could translate nicely in the hands of the right American distributor.
Having fallen into a depression after the death of her husband, Martha (Glaser) is shown at the outset of the film lying in her bed decked out in Swiss ceremonial garb, ready to join him.
But when she awakens the next morning alive and well, it's clear that there's some unfinished business on Martha's bucket list.
Prodded by three of her friends, including an energetic hairdresser (Heidi Maria Glossner) who had followed her dreams to America, the former seamstress admits a secret fantasy of opening a lingerie boutique.
Quicker than you can say "Frederick's of Trub," the deed is done, much to the outrage of many of her fellow villagers, especially her self-righteous vicar son (Hanspeter Muller-Drossaart).
Director Bettina Oberli, who penned the sprightly script with Sabine Pochhammer, allows the prevailing hypocrisies to reveal themselves without resorting to strained situations or overblown characters.
There's no need to force the issue when you've got an old pro like Glaser to take it the distance, turning in a masterfully rendered performance in which a sly twinkle in her eye and a mischievous upturn of the corner of her mouth do most of the heavy lifting to inspired -- and inspiring -- effect.
- 1/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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