We wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year 2019! The picture shows the "Cheese Bell" in Worpswede, now a Friends of Worpswede Museum, etching by Emy Rogge, filming location for The Paradise Seekers (working title), an AnimaDoc project by Klaus Stanjek, development funded by nordmedia Niedersachsen / Bremen [...]
Experimental film shooting for the project development and a teaser for The Paradise Seekers (Die Paradies-Sucher - working title) in front of the "Cheese Bell" building (Käseglocke) in Worpswede in northern Germany on October 17, 2018. In the picture left, author and director Klaus Stanjek, Arnold Preuß (right) in the role of the writer [...]
A DVD of 1917 - The Real October is available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Amazon.de and in bookstores (ISBN 978-3-9812395-7-7). The DVD contains the English and German langage versions plus subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Croatian and Korean.
On September 8, the DIAF - German Institute for Animation Film - will open an exhibition in Dresden entitled The Animadocs by Katrin Rothe. The maxim co-production 1917 - The Real October will play an important role in the exhibit, which will close on April 28, 2019.
We are happy to announce that Klaus Stanjek's animated documentary project The Paradise Seekers (Die Paradies-Sucher - working title) has received a development grant from nordmedia Lower Saxony/Bremen. The film will have a look on the artist's village of Worpswede, close to Bremen in the north of Germany, and further on to Monte Verità in [...]
On September 1 an exciting new funding scheme for innovative media projects in Bremen was going public: CLOSEUP Bremen: Teams for New Media Formats. We had the pleasure to accompany the development process of the new program and will function as an "expert" for selected projects.
The project "mythen der moderne" (Myths of Modernism) about modernism architecture in the Ruhr area invites to an opening weekend in the Viktoria vicinity in Bochum, Germany, on June 23 & 24, 2018 from 4 to 10 pm. Directors Pia Janssen and Bettina Erasmy have created an audio walk with stories and myths from [...]
Special offer for German speaking night owls: the German broadcaster SWR presents the German language version of 1917 - The Real October on Friday, June 8 at 1:25 am.
From Moscow to Berlin via diplomatic post. Today the award statue for "1917 - The Real October" as Best Documentary at the International Film Festival "Russia Abroad" was handed over to director Katrin Rothe by Konstantin Nevedov, director of the consular department at the Russian Embassy in Berlin. Also present were editor Silke Botsch [...]
The Filmbüro Bremen - the Bremen Cultural Film Fund - and maxim film cordially invite to the Berlinale reception Bremen Coffee Cup at the maxim film office on Saturday, February 17, 2-4 pm, Chausseestr. 17, 10115 Berlin.
