“The Competitors – Russia’s Wonder Children 2″ premieres in Moscow.  The festival ARTDOCFEST screens the film at December 5th, 3 pm at cinema «Khudoshestvenny – Художественный» am Arbat. Irene langemann and the editor of the film Kawe Vakil will attend the screening. The Goethe Institut Moscow supports the presence of Irene Langemann.

This is the link for the Festival website: ArtDocFest

The film is produced by Wolfgang Bergmann and will be completed in the summer of 2011. In the fall of 2011, it will be cinematically released by Kölner W-Filmverleih. The film is being made in cooperation with WDR and ARTE (Sabine Rollberg and Jutta Krug) and has received support from MEDIA Development, the NRW Film Foundation, DFFF and the Hamburg Film Fund.

A film by Katja Schupp and Harmut Seifert, 90/60 min., HD

Every time when the annual removal of bulky refuse is ahead, dozens of old Mercedes sprinters with Polish number plates cue in the streets of the villages around Mainz, Germany. Drivers skim through the piles of garbage to find whatever can be used or sold again way back home. Piotr Liszcz and Jan Byczek from Southeastern Poland are two of them.
This documentary accompanies selected items – e.g. a children’s tricycle, a sofa – from the street of a German village via Piotr Liszcz’s Mercedes sprinter to his second hand shop in Poland and to the final new owner in Poland. Through the secret thread built up by these objects, the documentary tells the stories of the people met on the way and thereby shows a facet of a modern Europe between the poor and the rich, where prejudice are still common.

Authors and directors are Katja Schupp and Hartmut Seifert, Co-author is Alicja Schatton. The camerawork and editing has been done by Hartmut Seifert, an awarded cinematographer.

Co-production between VIDIFILM, Alicja Schatton, Poland and Lichtfilm GmbH, Wolfgang Bergmann, Germany.

The film has been funded by the Robert-Bosch Stiftung and commissioned by ZDF/ARTE, Martin Pieper. Copyright 2010

From left: Irene Langemann, Wolfgang Bergmann (producer), Dmitri Krutogolovy, Nikita Mndoyants, Irina Tschistjakowa,  Elena Kolesnitschenko

After long hand clapping the 4 played with 8 hands a variation of a music piece of Robert Schumann “Happy Fellow-conutryman coming back from Work”.

The film started in 7 cinemas in Germany and is still running. More on the German only website

The film relates to the outstanding role of the German breeder Clemens Freiherr von Nagel, here together with his famed Anglo-Arab Ramzes

This time Wolfgang Bergmann (producer, author and director) produces a film linked to the love of his youth: horse riding. In the 50th it was common to use heavy warmblood horses. Today Germany is the most successful nation in breeding high performance “noble” horses. The film tries to disclose this secret and reveals astonishing stories: Equestrians and breeders from National Socialist times built the background for those „revolutionary“ changes. Even „foreign and noble“ horses from Poland and Hungary, from Central Asia, Arabia and Great Britain were to leverage for the German rise in Horse Breeding.

If you want to join the preview of the film, organized by WDR/ARTE, come to the beautiful city Warendorf, the capital of German sport horses.

Monday the 19th of October at 19.30 to Scala & Studio Filmtheatre, Klosterstraße 5, 8231 Warendorf.
After the film  a discussion will take place with the horse breeders and riders. Some characters of the film will be present. So far Gabriele Pochhammer, Inge Theodorescu and Margo van den Hoogen.

The film presents highly personnel German-American family stories from “Little America”, Germany, against the backdrop of the Iraqi War. Again and again, the private sphere merges with the world of international events. Through the perceptive narrative flow and the close observation of the people involved, the question whether or not personnel happiness is possible in the shadow of a war is continually brought up for discussion.

In its first meeting of the year, Filmstiftung NRW decided to co-fund our documentary “Noble Breed” with 100,000,- EUR.

The film, produced in cooperation with Poland (EUREKA) and Hungary (TIVOLI) investigates the secret of Germany's dominant position in breeding high-performance horses, and discloses stunning and curious stories.

The film will be shot in Germany, Poland, Hungary and the Netherlands and Uzbekistan, starting spring 2009.

Irene Langemann and the whole crew is proud on this nomination.

First run has ARTE showing LIVERPOOL – Beat City at 10.35pm . 

Liverpool tries to reinvent itself as “European Capital of Culture 2008″. Hosting events like the concert of Paul McCartney, thousands of people came to see the city changing. But Irene Langemann is wandering besides crowded paths. She visits Liverpool based artists, who use the energy and power of the apsiring city. The most renowned band of Liverpool, “The Mersey Beatles”, will guide us through   the vibrant and exciting city.

Accordingly follows RUBLJOVKA – Road to Bliss at 11.20pm on RBB.

Often discussed and awarded, the film is a portrait of the new russian power elite. The film is fascinating and frightening the same time, but up-to-date as never before. A lot of the footage was shot with a hidden camera. After a long struggle the film finally was finished and very successful after theatrical release in 2007.

“fascinating portrait of the present Russian society.” epd Film; “A courageous Cologne director has managed to create a gripping cinema documentary” Spiegel; “Unflattering, unaffected, done with high artistry.“ International Filmfest Munich; “A documentary jewel …The filmmaker has made a road movie of quite a different kind, entertaining and staged with subtle humor.” Viennale