THE COMPETITORS – RUSSIA’S WONDERCHILDREN 2
A documentary by Irene Langemann
At June 22nd the shooting of the continuation of the new film started in Moscow. A love story and confession for music starts again.
When we began in early 2007 with the financing of the film, we would not have believed how difficult this turned out to be. At the end we did it.
We built some sequences of old and new footage to give you an idea of the film project!!
The piano and the pianist are symbols for the world of classic for utopias, longings, failed opportunities and for much more. The magic of the black and white keyboard can give great moments of pleasure, but it can also destroy human destinies. Irene Langemann already investigated this phenomenon in one of her past films. RUSSIA’S WONDER CHILDREN had been released in cinemas in the USA and Germany, broadcasted worldwide and awarded internationally.
Ten years have passed since the first encounter between the protagonist and her. It is known, that quite a few child geniuses lose their joy of playing a musical instrument during puberty or even lose their extraordinary talent. In some way it is the cause of the wearing process of practising, in other ways it is maybe that other, new interests awake. With these four, meanwhile young adults, this was not the case. All have stayed true to their music and still are heaped with awards, prizes and praise.
Yet what price have they paid for that? Has the scarcely liven childhood left traces in their psyches? Was the heavy work over many years worth it, so that at least one of them would be able to have a world career?
When we started in early 2007 with the financing of the film, we would not have believed how difficult this turned out to be. At the end we did it. With the initial support of Dagmar Mielke from RBB/ARTE we got Sabine Rollberg from WDR/1Festival – as HD broadcaster – into the boat, received fundings from Filmstiftung NRW, Medienbord Berlin-Brandenburg and from the new DFFF in Berlin. Furthermore we succeeded to get 7 presales ( CZ-TV, ERR Estonia, NPS The Netherlands, SF Swiss, TVP1 Poland, SKAI TV Greece and ERA from the Ukraine) Finally we got the support of the most powerfull distributor for music documentaries Euroarts/Medici
and are very optimistic about the funding through MEDIA TV distribution.
T he film will be produced in HD, the shootings will take place till summer 2009, the release is forecasted to December 2009.
Here you find the PDF of the film description: PDF
For your respond, contact Wolfgang Bergmann: wolf.berg@lichtfilm.de