Filmography – Daniel Zuta Filmproduktion and Brandstorm Entertainment

4 Tage bis zur Ewigkeit (2022)

Based on the mysterious legend of Idilia Dubb. Germany, 19th century, Middle Rhein Valley. The dreamy Idilia (Lea van Acken) awakes injured in the midst of a gloomy castle ruin and can’t remember anything that happened before. When she discovers in horror that there is no escaping the towering castle walls, she begins a grueling fight for survival. Only her nebulous diary can help her decipher the past, which exposes a secret romance with Abyssinian actor Caven (Eric Kabongo), a performer in a human zoo exhibition run by her fiancee Franz Hagerberg (André M. Hennicke). Idilia’s written record, however, blurs the lines between reality and fiction.

Co-Production with: Sternenberg Films; Clara Filmproduction; Fun De Mental; Spektrumfilm

Director & Writers: Simon Pilarski & Konstantin Korenchuk

Featuring: Lea van Acken, Eric Kabongo and André M. Hennicke

Welcome to Karastan (2015)

Washed-up Oscar winning British film director, named Emil Forester, gets invited to make a national epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic called Karastan.

Co-Production with: Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) (UK); 20 Steps(Georgia); Metra Films (Russia)

Director: Ben Hopkins

Writers: Pawel Pawlikowski and Ben Hopkins

Featuring: Matthew Macfadyen, Myanna Buring and Noah Taylor

Festivals:

Montreal International Film Festival 2014; Hamburger Filmfest 2014; Rio International Filmfetival 2014; LOCO London Comedy Film; Lichter Filmfest März 2015; Cleveland International Filmfest März 2015; Sofia International Filmfestival März 2015

Awards:

Best Co-producer Award at Hamburg Filmfest 2014

Producer’s Award European Cinema 2014

Nominations:

Montréal World Film Festival 2014, Grand Prix des Amériques, Ben Hopkins (Director)

A farewell to Fools (2012)

Second World War, somewhere in Transylvania. A German soldier is found dead near the village. Either the local authorities will find the murder, or 10 of them will be shot by the Nazis the next morning. The efforts to find the real murder are in vain, but there’s Ipu. Ipu the village idiot is their target. They promise him a funeral like for a hero if he will accept to die at their place.Will he accept?… the time is running…

Co-Production with: Film Location Guide SR (Romania); Minds Meet (Belgium)

Director: Bogdan Dreyer

Writer: A.Salamanian

Featuring: Gérard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel and Laura Morante

Bulb Fiction (2011)

“Bulb Fiction” is a film about light as a commodity and the business with it, about lobbies in the EU, how they work – and which possibilities exist to resist..

Director: Christoph Mayr

Writer: Christoph Mayr

Festivals:

Saarbrücken (Max Ophüls) 18. – 21.01.2012; FIPA in Biarritz 24. – 30.1.2012

Plastic Planet (2009)

Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. He takes us on a journey around the globe, showing that plastics have become a threat for both environment and human health.

Director: Werner Boote

Festivals:

Internationale Hofer Filmtage; Saarbrücken (Max Ophüls); Abu Dhabi, Leeds, Kopenhagen, Warschau, Rio de Janeiro and many other

Awards:

Romy Best Documentary Film Austria 2010

„Honorable Mention“ International Documentary Competition XIII. Environmental Film Festivals Cinemambiente

Nominations:

Warsaw International Film Festival, Best Documentary

One Day You’ll Understand (2008)

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Co-Production with: Agav Films, France 2, NDR

Director: Amos Gitai

Writers: Amos Gitai, Dan Franck and Marie-Jose Sanselme

Featuring: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot and Emmanuelle Devos

Nominations:

Valladolid International Film Festival, Golden Spike

Survivre avec les Loups (2007)

In 1942 after the parents the young Jewish girl Misha are captured by the Nazis. Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents, she lives and survives with pack of wolves and crosses Germany, Poland reaching Ukraine…

Director: Véra Belmont

Writer: Véra Belmont

Featuring: Mathilde Goffart, Yaël Abecassis, Guy Bedos and Benno Fürmann

Mathilde (2006)

In the arena of the war torn Balkans, in the last days of the Croatian campaign, a young and willful girl, Mathilde, and a jaded U. N. Colonel are forced to spend a night together by the exigencies of a military plan. But governed as well by another, more intangible „Plan“ – like the gods of the ancient Slavic ballads – they are thrust into the realm of the unpredictable by a love that is but cannot be…

Director: Nina Mimica

Writer: Nina Mimica

Featuring: Jeremy Irons, Nutsa Kukhianidze and Miki Manojlovic

Atina & Herakles (2005)

Director: Sebastian Harrer

Featuring: Raphael Tschernuth, Nadine Konietzny and Denise Strey

Festivals:

Filmfest Biberach 2006

Never Enough (2003)

Claudia, a young woman, just got the chance to run her own Live-TV show, and is been taken for hostage by one of her male candidates. Now the whole country is staring violently excited to the screen, expecting him to kill her any moment. But not everything they see is what it seems to be……

Director: Bogdan Dreyer

Writers: Bogdan Dreyer, Lia Bugnar and Ana-Valentina Florescu

Featuring: Rutger Hauer, Maria Dinulescu and Oana Pellea

Gebürtig (2002)

Director: Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepanik

Writers: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik and Georg Stefan Troller

Featuring: Peter Simonischek, Katja Weitzenböck, August Zirner and Corinna Harfouch

Festivals:

Karlovy Vary in competition 2002; Saarbrücken (Max Ophüls) opening film; Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, New York, Portland, Philadelphia, London, Porto, Jerusalem and many other

Nominations:

2003 Emden International Film Festival, Emden Film Award

2002 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Crystal Globe

Chacho Rom (2001)

Director: Ildikó Szabó

Writers: Gergely Fogarasi , Zoltán Jancsó and Ildikó Szabó

Featuring: Sándor Zsótér and Mariann Szalay

My Polish Valentine! (2000)

Director: Douglas Wolfsperger

Writer: Douglas Wolfsperger

Featuring: Verona Feldbusch, Ulrich Noethen and Ingrid van Bergen

Death in the Internet (1999)

Director: Mark von Seydlitz

Writers: Christine Hartmann and Tim Krause

Featuring: Jochen Horst, Janina Flieger and Gesine Cukrowski

Young Love, True Love (1999)

Director: Georg Kamienski

Writer: Douglas Graham

Featuring: Simone Thomalla, Klaus J. Behrendt and David Winter

The last Station (1998)

Young Nelu grows up in the poverty of the Romanian hinterland. When his grandfather dies, this marks the end of his youth. On the day after grandfather’s burial, Nelu sets off – weighed down with the hopes of his father – to the big city to learn a profession and increase the family’s standing.

Director: Bogdan Dreyer

Writers: Bogdan Dreyer, Massimo Bavastro and Piero de Bernardi

Featuring: Sergio Rubini and Marion Kracht

Le Bal Masqué (1998)

Co-production with MJM (Brussel) and Egmond Films (Netherlands)

Director: Julien Vrebos with Peter Van den Begin

Featuring: Peter Van den Begin, Alexandra Vandernoot and Olivier Gourmet

Festivals:

Toronto, Kairo, Mannheim and others

Awards:

1998 Joseph Plateau Award, Best Belgian Actress, Best Belgian Director and Best Belgian Film

Nominations:

1998 Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Hugo, Best Feature

1998 Joseph Plateau Award, Best Belgian Actor, Peter Van den Begin

Breakfast with Four (1997)

Director: Sven Severin

Writer: Annemarie Schoenle

Featuring: Sissi Perlinger, Siemen Rühaak and Rosemarie Fendel

The Loveslave (1997)

TV-production for RTL

Director: Maris Pfeiffer

Writers: Cynthia Allison and Hortense Ulrich

Featuring: Barbara Auer, Julia Jäger and August Zimer

The Truce (1996)

January 27, 1945, Auschwitz. The Red Army freed the last survivors of the extermination camps, which had been deserted by the National Socialists. Primo, a young Italian chemist, is among the liberated. For him and for some of his comrades, a long way back to life begins, a months-long odyssey through the war-drawn Europe. Primo is an ironic, humorous, but also distant observer of the experiences of the groups which, with a new courage to live, embark on a journey that confronts everyone with the vastness of the maltreatment they were subjected to and the pain coming from their opening souls…

Director: Francesco Rosi

Producers: Leo Pescarolo and John Turturro

Featurng: John Turturro and Massimo Ghini

Festivals:

Amongst others: Cannes 1997 official competition

Awards:

1997 David di Donatello Awards; Best Film, Best Producer and Best Director

1997 Golden Globes, Italy, Best Cinematography

1997 Palic Film Festival, Audience Award

1997 São Paulo International Film Festival, Audience Award, Best Feature

Nominations:

1998 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists; Silver Ribbon; Best Director and Best Cinematography

1997 Cannes Film Festival, Palme d’Or

1997 David di Donatello Awards; Best Music, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Migliore Attrice non Protagonista)

Crash Kids (1996)

Director: Petra Haffter

Writer: Petra Haffter

Featuring: Isabell Gerschke and Marek Harloff

Teacher’s Pet (1996)

TV-production for RTL

Writers: Flatley and Avra Douglas

Featuring: Jennifer Nitsch, Bruno Eyron

The Caucasian Night (1995)

Director and Writer: Gordian Maugg

Writers: Gordian Maugg and Tobias Kurzweg

Featuring: Winfried Glatzeder and Verena Plangger

Life is a Bluff (1995)

Director: Peter Zingler

Writer: Peter Zingler

Featuring: Ben Becker, Muriel Baumeister, Mario Adorf and Elke Sommer

Damn, He Loves Me (1995)

TV-production for ZDF

Director: Sven Severin

Writer: Annemarie Schoenle

Featuring: Corinna Harfouch, Timothy Peach and Hermut Berger

The Quality of Mercy (1994)

Director: Andreas Gruber

Writer: Andreas Gruber

Featuring: Elfriede Irrall and Rainer Egge

Festivals:

Festivals of Toronto, Saloniki, Göteborg, St.Petersburg,Turin, Viennale,Saarbrücken, Hof and Schwerin

Awards:

1994 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Special Prize of the Jury

Diagonale Salzburg „Prize of the Audience“

Amiens „Prize of the catholic Film Critics“

Nominations:

1995 German Film Awards, Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film (Bester Spielfilm)

1994 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Golden Seashell, Andreas Gruber

Thalassa, Thalassa; Return to the Sea (1993)

Director: Bogdan Dreyer

Writer: Bogdan Dreyer

Festivals:

World Premier in HOF 1994 Int. Festivals of Göteborg 95, Rotterdam, Berlin (deutsche Reihe)

Awards:

Rotterdam 95: Winner of the „Tiger Award“

Leni (1993)

Director: Leo Hiemer

Writer: Leo Hiemer

Featuring: Hannes Thanheiser and Christa Berndl

Festivals:

Montreal, Schwerin, Saarbrücken, Burlington-Vermont , Fort Lauderdale, Puerto Rico, Val de Marne, Santa Barbara

Awards:

Winner in Schwerin „Findling-Price“

Santa Barbara: best director

Fort Lauderdale: Audience-Price

Why We Are Here (1992)

Documentary with West German TV and BBC

Director: Sam Davis

Writer: Sam Davis

Festivals:

New York, London, Haifa

Angels of Mercy (1992)

Director: Annelie Runge

Featuring: Anne Kasprik, Nina Petri, Matthias Brandt and Martina Gedeck

Festivals:

World premiere in Hof, Saarbrücken, Dortmund, Schwerin and Filmfestival in Kairo/in Competition.

Two Small Bodies (1992)

Co-production with ZDF/Arte

Director: Beth B.

Writers: Beth B and Neal Bell

Featuring: Fred Ward and Suzy Amis

Festivals:

Intl. Competition Locarno, Intl. Competition Toronto, Intl. Festival London, Stockholm. Montréal, Rome, Hampton, Warszawa.

Nominations:

1993 Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard

All American Cops (1991)

Coproduction with Pandora Film, WDR (TV), BR (Bavarian TV); Documentary

Director: Fred Prase

Festivals:

Montreal (INPUT), Duisburg

Giants in White (1991)

Coproduction with West German TV; Documentary

Director: Fred Prase

The Grass Is Greener Everywhere else (1990)

Director: Michael Klier

Writer: Michael Klier

Featuring: Miroslaw Baka, Marta Klubovicz and Michael Krause

Festivals:

Salsomaggiore, Filmfest München, San Sebastian, Saarbrücken, Rotterdam, Göteborg, Berlin, New York

Awards:

1990 Adolf-Grimme-Preis in Gold

1990 German Film Critics Award, Best Film (Bester Spielfilm)

1990 Hessian Film Award, Feature Film (Spielfilm)

1989 Baden-Baden TV Film Festival, Teleplay Award

Producer, Director and Writer:

Der Fall Boran (1987)

Director: Daniel Zuta

Writers: Daniel Zuta and Bernard Rud

Featuring: Bernard Rud and Julien Schoenaerts

Der Strohhalm (1984)

Short Film

Director: Daniel Zuta

Writer: Daniel Zuta

Director:

Zeichen der Zeit (1981)

Neue Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG (Wiesbaden)

Short Film

Director: Daniel Zuta

Awards:

Bundesfilmpreis, HDF-Preis, Publikumspreis Oberhausen

Production Manager:

Miscellaneous News (1985/1986)

Kairos Film (München) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Mainz)

Director: Alexander Kluge

Writer: Alexander Kluge

Featuring: Marita Breuer, Rosel Zech and Sabine Wegner

The Assault of the Present on the Rest (1984/1985)

Kairos Film (München) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Mainz)

Director: Alexander Kluge

Writer: Alexander Kluge

Featuring: Jutta Hoffmann, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Hans-Michael Rehberg

Duo Valentianos (1983-1985)

Elefant-Film GmbH (Frankfurt am Main) and Sender Freies Berlin

Director: Gertrud Pinkus

Writer: Gertrud Pinkus

Featuring: Gilles Lotthé, Margarete Wiedstruck and Ulli Scholz

Pankow ’95 (1983)

Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH (Köln) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Mainz)

Director: Gábor Altorjay

Writer: Gábor Altorjay

Featuring: Udo Kier, Christine Kaufmann and Dieter Thomas Heck

Kassensturz (1982)

Hessischer Rundfunk (Frankfurt am Main) and Roxy Film GmbH & Co. KG (München)

Director: Rolf Silber

Writer: Rolf Silber

Featuring: Christoph M. Ohrt and Britta Pohland

The Power of Emotion (1981-1983)

Kairos Film (München) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Mainz)

Director: Alexander Kluge

Writer: Alexander Kluge

Featuring: Hannelore Hoger, Suzanne von Borsody and Barbara Auer

War and Peace. 11. Episode: Fahnen der Zeremonie (1981-1983)