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Paris Calligrammes

Deutschland Frankreich 2018-2020 Dokumentarfilm

From a topographic perspective, Ulrike Ottinger’s cinema is mostly located between Berlin and remote places in the Far East or the Far North. In "Paris Calligrammes", she explores the landscape of her memories of the city that she called home for 20 years and that helped shape her beginnings as a painter and filmmaker. Ottinger moved to Paris in her twenties and immersed herself in the cultural scene of the 1950s populated by heroes of the avant-garde and a new generation of artists and intellectuals. Meandering between bookshops, concert halls, theatres, cinemas, museums and cafés, Ottinger presents her personal pantheon, and at the same time maps a decisive era both in art – as Dada and Surrealism gave way to Situationism and Pop Art – and in politics where, in-between post-war hopes, the Algerian conflict and the student movements of 1968, there was much to discuss. Nonetheless, the film maintains its intimate stance throughout, assembling a rich and emotionally charged repertoire of film clips, news reports, photos and songs with the same meticulous affection that people used to stick newspaper clippings and photos in a diary so they could write around them.

Source: 70. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Ulrike Ottinger

Screenplay

  • Ulrike Ottinger (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Ulrike Ottinger

Editing

  • Anette Fleming

Production company

  • zero one film GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Thomas Kufus
  • Kornelia Theune

Alle Credits

Director

  • Ulrike Ottinger

Screenplay

  • Ulrike Ottinger (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Ulrike Ottinger

Production design

  • Aurore Vullierme

Editing

  • Anette Fleming

Sound design

  • Detlef A. Schitto

Sound

  • Timothée Alazraki

Audio mixing

  • Detlef A. Schitto

Production company

  • zero one film GmbH (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Idéale Audience (Paris)
  • Institut national de l'audiovisuel (Paris)
  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) / 3sat (Mainz)

Producer

  • Thomas Kufus
  • Kornelia Theune

Co-Producer

  • Pierre-Olivier Bardet
  • Gérald Collas

Producer (TV)

  • Udo Bremer (ZDF/3sat)

Line producer

  • Corina Ziller
  • Claire Lion

Original distributor

  • Real Fiction Filmverleih (Köln)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Centre National du Cinéma (Paris)

Shoot

    • Paris
Duration:
129 min
Format:
DCP 2K
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 22.02.2020, Berlin, IFF - Berlinale Special;
Kinostart (DE): 05.03.2020;
Aufführung (DE): 11.06.2020 [Wiederaufführung]

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Paris Calligrammes

Versions

Original

Duration:
129 min
Format:
DCP 2K
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 22.02.2020, Berlin, IFF - Berlinale Special;
Kinostart (DE): 05.03.2020;
Aufführung (DE): 11.06.2020 [Wiederaufführung]

Awards

Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis 2020
  • Preis der Norbert Daldrop Förderung für Kunst und Kultur
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/paris-calligrammes_89ebbb18b734465ea27e37052bededf9