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About Gretchenfilm

Gretchenfilm, founded in 2019 by Annegret Weitkämper-Krug, pursues the clear goal of producing films in intensive dialogue with art, literature, music and theatre. The starting point was the impressive directorial debut “Next Door” by and with Daniel Brühl, which premiered in competition at the 2021 Berlinale.

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Projects

  • 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.

  • Comedy GER 2023
    Auf dem Foto (von links nach rechts): Daniel Hartmann (Wüste Film), Andi Rogenhagen (Drehbuch), NgoThe Chau (Regie), Christoph Maria Herbst als Carl Kollhoff, Yuna Bennett als Schascha, Annegret Weitkämper-Krug (Gretchenfilm) und Björn VosgerauHartmann (Wüste Film). Foto: Wolfgang Ennenberg
    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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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).

  • 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…

  • Series Concept GER 2023
    Series Concept by
    Cynthia Buchheim and Isabel Grand
    Adapted from
    Klaus Mann’s novel “Mephisto – Novel of a Career“

    “Black Swan” in the Third Reich: A local actor from Hamburg, is reaching for the stars. He’s determined to get a job at the Berlin State Theatre. He works hard to the point of physical and psychological exhaustion. While rehearsing Faust, a devil mask awakens his diabolical self, which will become his constant companion…

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🌟 Was für eine aufregende Woche für Gretchenfilm! 🎉 

Unser Herzensprojekt "𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀. 𝐄𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐄𝐍." hat den glänzenden SILVER BIZNAGA Audience Award beim @festivalmalaga abgeräumt! 🏆 Ein wahrer Meilenstein, der zeigt, wie sehr eure Unterstützung und unsere Leidenschaft zusammen Großes bewirken können.
🎬 Und ab heute ist es auch in Teilen von Südeuropa soweit: "STELLA. EIN LEBEN." erobert die Kinos in Spanien!🇪🇸 Wir sind überglücklich, unseren spanischen FeundInnen diese bewegende Geschichte näherbringen zu dürfen und warten gespannt auf eure Eindrücke. Und die Reise geht noch weiter: Am 22. März feiert unser Film dann seine Premiere in Italien 🇮🇹 beim Bif&st-Bari International Film&TV Festival – seid gespannt! @bifest 
📽️ Ein herzlicher Dank geht an unser kreatives Genie hinter dem Film: @kilian.riedhof, Jan Braren und Marc Blöbaum, deren brillante Arbeit dieses Drehbuch zum Leben erweckt hat. Und natürlich an die unglaubliche @paulabeer__, unterstützt von einem erstklassigen Cast wie @katjariemann und @jannisniewoehner_official, die die Geschichte einer mutigen jungen Frau im Widerstand gegen Ungerechtigkeit erzählt.
👀 Wir blicken außerdem mit Spannung auf die Deutschen @filmpreis Nominierungen 2024 am 19. März und hoffen, dass unser Film die Anerkennung erhält, die er verdient.
🌈 Zudem freuen wir uns auf die anstehenden Bekanntgaben der @Moin Filmförderung. Es ist immer spannend zu sehen, welche kreativen Projekte gefördert werden, und wir können die Entscheidungen kaum erwarten…aus Gründen 😉
🎬 Großartige Neuigkeiten! „STELLA“ hat den SILVER BIZNAGA AUDIENCE AWARD beim @festivalmalaga gewonnen, MOSAICO: PANORAMA INTERNACIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION. Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle, die uns unterstützt haben!

Ein besonderer Dank gilt @kilian.riedhof für seine herausragende Arbeit als Regisseur. Außerdem @katjariemann @damianhardung @lukas_miko_actor @majestic.film @jannisniewoehner_official @paulabeer__ @studio.hamburg.produktion @contrastfilm.ch @joelbasmanofficial @nadja_sabersky und vielen mehr. Euer Engagement macht den Unterschied. 🌟

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