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About Gretchenfilm

Founded in 2019 by Annegret Weitkämper-Krug, Gretchenfilm is dedicated to producing films that engage in profound dialogue with the realms of art, literature, music, and theater. Our debut feature, “Next Door,” starring Daniel Brühl, had its remarkable premiere in the Berlinale Competition in 2021, laying the foundation for our creative endeavors.

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Projects

  • Feature Film D 2023-2024
    Written and directed by
    Tom Tykwer
    Cast
    Lars Eidinger, Nicolette Krebitz, Tala al Deen a. o.

    In THE LIGHT, Tom Tykwer paints the portrait of a family caught between collapse and a new beginning and deals with the big issues of our time in a world that is reeling. Tim (Lars Eidinger), Milena (Nicolette Krebitz), their almost grown-up twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and Jon (Julius Gause) and their illegitimate son Dio (Elyas Eldridge) - this is the Engels family, who seemingly have nothing left to hold them together when housekeeper Farrah (Tala al Deen) enters their lives. The mysterious Syrian woman puts the Engels' emotional world to an unexpectedly wild test.

  • Musical Dramedy D 2023-2024
    Written and directed by
    Ido Fluk
    Cast
    Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus a. o.

    The young Vera Brandes (Mala Emde) is determined to conquer her place in the music world of the 1970s. As a concert organiser, she brings international stars to Germany, despite her parents' resistance and the challenges she faces as a woman in a male-dominated industry. Her passion for music drives her to risk everything for her dream. The culmination of her endeavours: The concert by the famous jazz pianist Keith Jarrett (John Magaro), which is due to take place at the Cologne Opera on 24 January 1975. But shortly before the evening begins, everything threatens to collapse and Vera is faced with the challenge of saving the concert, which will later go down in history as legendary.

  • Feature Film D 2023-2024
    Written and directed by
    Florian Frerichs
    Cast
    Nikolai Kinski, Laurine Price, Detlev Buck a. o.

    Berlin is a city of dreams and nightmares in equal measure. Behind the façades of the sometimes ruinous, sometimes futuristic buildings lie human heights and abysses. The streets and roads of the city are the nerve cords of a post-industrial Moloch, the bloodstreams of an urban world - superficially of beguiling beauty, but with the reverse side of a leper. ‘Traumnovelle’ is a modern adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's work, in which a woman explains to her husband that she has fantasies with other men, thus triggering in him the desire for his own adventures.

  • Comedy GER 2023
    Director
    Ngo The Chau
    Cast
    Christoph Maria Herbst, Yuna Bennett a. o.

    The Book Walker tells the story of a bookseller (Herbst) and a little girl (Bennett). Together, they embark on an unforgettable journey, discovering new friendships and giving Carl the opportunity to come to terms with his past and grow personally. The Book Walker comes to the big screen in 2024.

  • Feature Film D 2024
    Written and directed by
    Oskar Roehler
    Cast
    Oliver Masucci, Bella Dayne, Anne Rattle-Polle a. o.

    Written and directed by Oskar Roehler, BAD DIRECTOR follows Gregor Samsa, a washed-up director in his late fifties who is reviewing his life. Him having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn’t exactly add to his joy.

  • Biopic / Drama GER 2023
    Director
    Kilian Riedhof
    Cast
    Paula Beer, Katja Riemann, Jannis Niewöhner a. o.

    It tells the story of a young woman who dreams of a bright career as a swing singer on Broadway, longing for happiness and recognition. But Stella is Jewish and lives in Nazi Berlin.

    The film tells a breathtaking story, of frighteningly high topicality. It is about mechanisms of dictatorships, of indoctrination and violence.

  • Biopic GER 2023
    Director
    Marcus O. Rosenmüller
    Cast
    Vanessa Loibl, Vladimir Burlakov, Julian Koechlin a. o.

    An art house project of a special kind: It shows the years Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky spent together, an extraordinary pair of artists and passionate lovers. Both co-founders of the Blaue Reiter, one of the most famous loose groups of artists of Classical Modernism. The feature film is produced by Berlin-based CCC, Munich-based MZ-Film, Swiss Pamy Mediaproductions and us, Gretchenfilm.

  • Black Comedy GER 2023
    Director
    Robert Schwentke
    Cast
    John Malkovich, Tom Xander, Geraldine Chaplin a. o.

    Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes is a miniaturized epic comedy about one man’s very flawed attempt to become immortal through language and ideas. It is also about what happens when the most thinking and feeling people in the World butt up against real barbarians… who unmistakably and horrifyingly play to win.

  • Feature Film GER 2023
    Director
    Aelrun Goette
    Cast
    Marlene Burow, David Schütter, Sabin Tambrea a. o.

    East Berlin, 1988. Just before her final exams, 17-year-old Suzie is expelled from school and is forced to work in a factory. When a chance photo of her ends up on the cover of SIBYLLE, the ‘Vogue’ of the East, it thrusts her into the glamorous fashion world and gives her an opportunity to flee from socialist factory life.

  • Biopic / Fiction GER 2023
    Director / Screenplay
    Marie Noëlle
    Cast
    Wanja Mues, Hannah Herzsprung, Sascha Geršak a. o.

    He was a pop star of his time: Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. An obsessive, hedonist, visionary, networker and self-promoter, an eternal doubter and admonisher, a lover and seeker, in short: a modern man, far ahead of his time. Director Marie Noëlle (“Marie Curie”, “Ludwig II”) has staged a high-quality, gripping docudrama that alternates between fiction and reality of Albrecht Dürer (Mues) and his wife Agnes (Herzsprung).

  • Documentary GER 2023
    Director
    Pepe Danquart
    mit
    Daniel Richter a. o.

    The film follows the artist Daniel Richter over a period of three years, captures his artistic development, celebrates his major exhibitions in New York and Paris with him, observes him uncommented and for a long time in his studio: painting, listening to music, thinking. The result is a film about art that wants to be political and yet, in the best sense, remains what it is: painting!

  • Black Comedy GER 2021
    Director
    Daniel Brühl
    Cast
    Daniel Brühl, Peter Kurth a. o.

    Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut is spot-on: Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. When this summer day is over, nothing will ever be the same again. Only Daniel doesn’t know that yet. The protagonist of this tragicomic scenario is as unsuspecting as he is accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and nanny has the children under control. Popping into the bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification’s losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target.

  • Comedy GER 2020
    Director
    Alexander Schubert
    Cast
    Bjarne Mädel, Erkan Acar, Sina Tkotsch a. o.

    A police station in the middle of a peaceful German town with a comparatively high number of foreigners is threatened with closure due to a lack of local crime. Tina, the commissioner, is sent by a superior authority to get it shut down as quickly as possible, but local police officers Deniz, Rocky, Annette and Hagen will not stand for it. To convince her of the “imperative” of their station, they make a snap decision to simply fake a few crimes themselves and also simulate some strenuous investigative work.

  • Thriller USA 2020
    Director
    Alexander Bruckner
    Cast
    Ben Dahlhaus, Andrew Garrett, Gaelle Gillis, Randy Hernandez

    Based on a short story by Stephen King (Rest Stop), The Passenger is a psycho-thriller about two very different friends who make a fateful stop one night at a rest area on the deserted stretch of the Desert Highway. The decisions they make will change their relationship forever…

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🎉 Happy Birthday, Albrecht Dürer!

Wenn jemand schon im 15. Jahrhundert ein echter Popstar war, dann er: Albrecht Dürer – Künstler, Selfmade-Brand und Meister der Selbstinszenierung. 🧠✨

In DÜRER (Regie: Marie Noëlle) zeigen wir sein Leben zwischen Kunst, Krisen und Kupferstichen – und ja, seine Frau Agnes (gespielt von @hannah.herzsprung) war dabei mehr als nur Managerin.
Mit dabei: @wanja.mues als der große Dürer himself. Intensiv, bildgewaltig und emotional direkt. 🎬

📺 Abrufbar in der @ardmediathek. Reinschauen und eintauchen in eine Zeit, die düster war – und doch so voller Visionen.
🎬✨ Heute Abend ist es soweit: Zum 75. Mal wird der Deutsche Filmpreis verliehen – und wir freuen uns riesig, dass unsere Produktionen gleich 7-fach nominiert sind! 🏆

Wir gratulieren allen Nominierten herzlich:

💥 Beste weibliche Hauptrolle – Mala Emde für „Köln 75“ @malaemde @koeln75.derfilm
💥 Beste weibliche Nebenrolle – Anne Ratte-Polle für „Bad Director“ @annerattepolle @baddirectorfilm
💥 Beste männliche Nebenrolle – Alexander Scheer für „Köln 75“ @alexander_scheer 
💥 Beste Tongestaltung – „Das Licht“
💥 Beste visuelle Effekte – „Das Licht“
💥 Bester Schnitt – „Köln 75“ 
💥 Bester Spielfilm – „Köln 75“ 

Danke an alle Kreativen, Partner:innen und Kolleg:innen – es ist uns eine Ehre, Teil dieser Projekte zu sein!

📺 Live ab 19:00 Uhr in Web & App des zdf
📺 Im TV ab 23:30 Uhr

Drückt uns die Daumen – wir fiebern mit! 💛
🎉 100.000 Kinobesucher*innen für KÖLN 75! 🎉

Was für ein Meilenstein – und was für eine Reise! Die Hommage an den Mut und die Musik der jungen Vera Brandes begeistert weiter die Kinosäle im ganzen Land.

Außerdem - es kann nicht oft genug erwähnt werden:
🎬 Vier Nominierungen für den Deutschen Filmpreis 2025!
🏆 Beste weibliche Hauptrolle – @malaemde
🏆 Beste männliche Nebenrolle – @alexander_scheer
🏆 Bester Schnitt – Anja Siemens
🏆 Bester Spielfilm – @sol.bondy & @fred.burle 

On top: @koeln75.derfilm hat das Istanbul Film Festival eröffnet – was für eine Ehre! 🌍💫

Danke an alle Unterstützerinnen, Partnerinnen, und vor allem an EUCH – das Publikum.
Ihr macht diesen Film lebendig. ♥️

@one_two_films @wdr @arte.tv @filmedienrw @eurimagescoe @medienboard @fffbayern @bundeskultur @media.filme @banksidefilms @alamodefilm @idofluk @fred.burle @sol.bondy @malaemde @j_magaro @movermano @joerdis_triebel @ulrichtukur_ @alexander_scheer @mchernus @berlinale @thesewaters_ @polyfilmverleih @elena_nikopolitou @boesendorferofficial
📚✨ 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝-𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐞 !

Wir gratulieren herzlich zum Audience Award Best Feature Film beim 29. @berlinbeyond Film Festival 2025 in San Francisco:
DER BUCHSPAZIERER (THE DOOR-TO-DOOR BOOKSTORE) von @ngothechau!

Ein berührender Film über Begegnungen, Bücher und das Leben – getragen von einem großartigen Cast: Christoph Maria Herbst, @edin__hasanovic, @hannahilsdorf, @yuna_bennett, @ronaldzehrfeld uvm.

Gretchenfilm freut sich, als Ko-Produzentin Teil dieses besonderen Projekts zu sein – und über diese wunderbare Würdigung durch das Publikum.

Danke an das ganze Team – und Glückwunsch an alle Beteiligten! 🎉

📽️ Produktion: Daniel Hartmann & Björn Vosgerau @wueste_film
Internationale Vertretung & deutscher Verleih: @studiocanal / @studiocanal.de
📷 © Wüste Film / Studiocanal
🇩🇰 𝕋𝕐𝕊𝕂𝔼 𝔽𝕀𝕃𝕄𝔻𝔸𝔾𝔼 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝 
Noch bis 10. April feiert das Festival des deutschen Films wieder seine Highlights in Dänemark – und wir freuen uns sehr, dass gleich zwei Gretchenfilm-Koproduktionen im diesjährigen Programm vertreten sind! 💛

🎬 „@koeln75.derfilm“ von @idofluk – energiegeladen, mitreißend, charmant. Eröffnungsfilm am 6. April und ein weiteres Mal am 10. April zu sehen.

🌠 „Das Licht“ von Tom Tykwer – der diesjährige Berlinale-Eröffnungsfilm, kraftvoll und poetisch. Gezeigt am 9. April.

Beide Filme feiern das Kino als Ort der großen Erzählung – und sind das Ergebnis starker, kreativer Allianzen:

🎞️ 𝗞Ö𝗟𝗡 𝟳𝟱 (@one_two_films)
Mit Unterstützung von:
@wdr @arte.tv @filmedienrw @eurimagescoe @medienboard
@fffbayern @bundeskultur @media.filme @banksidefilms @alamodefilm
@fred.burle @sol.bondy @malaemde @j_magaro @movermano
@joerdis_triebel @ulrichtukur_ @alexander_scheer @mchernus
@thesewaters_ @polyfilmverleih @elena_nikopolitou @boesendorferofficial

🌟 𝗗𝗔𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗧 
Eine Produktion von:
@xfilme in Koproduktion mit @zdfstudiios @arpselection @goldrush_pictures
@gretchenfilm @b.a.filmproduktion
Gefördert von:
@dfff @ffa @medienboard @filmedienrw
Internationaler Vertrieb: @betacinemaofficial

📍 Spielorte: @grandteatret (Kopenhagen), Øst for Paradis (Aarhus), Café Biografen (Odense)
🎟️ Tickets & Infos: grandteatret.dk | paradisbio.dk | cafebio.dk

Dänemark, wir sehen uns im Kino – kommt vorbei und taucht mit uns ein in zwei ganz besondere Filmerlebnisse!
Unsere Projekte wurden beim Deutschen Filmpreis insgesamt 7 Mal nominiert!!!

Beste weibliche Hauptrolle- Mala Emde für 'Köln 75' (@malaemde)

Beste weibliche Nebenrolle- Anne Ratte-Polle für 'Bad Director' (@annerattepolle)

Beste männliche Nebenrolle- Alexander Scheer für 'Köln 75' (@alexander_scheer)

Beste Tongestaltung- 'Das Licht'

Beste visuelle Effekte- 'Das Licht'

Bester Schnitt- 'Köln 75'

Bester Spielfilm- 'Köln 75'

Wir freuen uns riesig und drücken die Daumen! 

Quellen: 
Videos von @filmpreis sowie aus den Projekten '@koeln75.derfilm' und '@baddirectorfilm '
Musik 'Smooth Vibes' von VN Video Editor