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Kochschule Schwarz

Deutschland Österreich 2025/2026 Spielfilm

Munich, 1938. After his traditional Jewish restaurant is destroyed during the Nazi pogrom of November 1938, restaurateur Richard Schwarz teams up with the charismatic jack-of-all-trades Edgar Enders to hatch a daring plan: they open an ambitious Jewish cooking school. While Edgar, who is not Jewish, uses the venture to gain access to high-ranking Nazi circles, Schwarz is able to use the school to help Jewish people flee the country - since some potential host nations only accept Jews with formal vocational training. At first, Edgar manages to charm the local Nazi leadership into granting a permit. But it doesn't take long before their bold scheme starts to spiral out of control: chaos reigns in the kitchen, Edgar is secretly supplying the students' meals to Nazi officials, and the Gauleiter's wife is suddenly determined to reinvent herself as the school's star chef. Before Richard and Edgar realize what's happening, they find themselves in way over their heads - and in very real danger.

Credits

Director

  • Dani Levy

Screenplay

  • Alexander Costea
  • Tristan Fiedler
  • Dani Levy
  • Stefan Betz

Director of photography

  • Leena Koppe

Editing

  • Ulrike Kofler

Cast

  • Florian David Fitz
    Edgar Enders
  • Andreas Giebel
    Richard Schwarz
  • Hannah Herzsprung
    Antonia Goldberg
  • Josef Bierbichler
    Richard
  • Petra Berndt
    Elisabeth Schwarz
  • Sabin Tambrea
    Lothar
  • Gregor Bloéb
    Heinrich Lorenz
  • Sunnyi Melles
    Frau des Gauleiters
  • Franz Zeller
    Taxifahrer
  • Daniel Holzberg
    SA Truppenführer

Production company

  • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH (Berlin)
  • Warner Bros. Filmproduktion GmbH (Hamburg)
  • nevermind pictures (München)
  • new!move films (München)
  • Wega Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH (Wien)

Producer

  • Josephine Blume (X-Filme Creative Pool)
  • Margret Mackuth (Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany)
  • Nikolas Hannack (nevermind pictures)
  • Christian Hofer (new!move films)
  • Luca Verhoeven (new!move films)
  • Christian Bachmann (Wega Film)
  • Stefan Arndt
  • Tom Tykwer
  • Veit Heiduschka
  • Julia Heiduschka

Alle Credits

Director

  • Dani Levy

Assistant director

  • Michael Siebert
  • Georg Mayrhofer

Script supervisor

  • Nina Mayrhofer (Script Supervisor)

Screenplay

  • Alexander Costea
  • Tristan Fiedler
  • Dani Levy
  • Stefan Betz

Script editor

  • Martin Walz (Dramaturgische Beratung)
  • Oliver Ziegenbalg (Dramaturgische Beratung)
  • Florian David Fitz (Dramaturgische Beratung)

Director of photography

  • Leena Koppe

Assistant camera

  • Camillo Foramitti

Still photography

  • Hendrik Heiden
  • Petro Domenigg

Lighting design

  • Thomas Klicka

Key grip

  • Paul Kölbl

Production design

  • Martin Reiter
  • Marlene Oberneder (Assistenz)

Set design

  • Kevin Jagschitz
  • Isabel Eichinger

Property master

  • Melanie Burgard (Assistenz)
  • David Eder
  • Jenny Fischer (Assistenz)

Stand-by props

  • Martin Czerniak

Make-up artist

  • Kurosch Oliver Akhavan
  • Monika Fischer-Vorauer
  • Karoline Strobl
  • Andreas Meixner

Costume design

  • Tanja Hausner
  • Johanna Pflaum (Assistenz)
  • Andrea Hölzl (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Ulrike Kofler

Sound

  • Max Vornehm

Sound assistant

  • Julia Sternthal

Casting

  • Franziska Aigner

Cast

  • Florian David Fitz
    Edgar Enders
  • Andreas Giebel
    Richard Schwarz
  • Hannah Herzsprung
    Antonia Goldberg
  • Josef Bierbichler
    Richard
  • Petra Berndt
    Elisabeth Schwarz
  • Sabin Tambrea
    Lothar
  • Gregor Bloéb
    Heinrich Lorenz
  • Sunnyi Melles
    Frau des Gauleiters
  • Franz Zeller
    Taxifahrer
  • Daniel Holzberg
    SA Truppenführer
  • David Ketter
    Rabbi Laupheimer
  • Meikel Engelmann
    Schweizer Grenzer
  • Rudy Ruggiero
    Italienischer Botschafter B. Attolico
  • Maria Lüthi
    Junge Mutter

Production company

  • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH (Berlin)
  • Warner Bros. Filmproduktion GmbH (Hamburg)
  • nevermind pictures (München)
  • new!move films (München)
  • Wega Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH (Wien)

Producer

  • Josephine Blume (X-Filme Creative Pool)
  • Margret Mackuth (Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany)
  • Nikolas Hannack (nevermind pictures)
  • Christian Hofer (new!move films)
  • Luca Verhoeven (new!move films)
  • Christian Bachmann (Wega Film)
  • Stefan Arndt
  • Tom Tykwer
  • Veit Heiduschka
  • Julia Heiduschka
  • Magdalena Prosteder

Line producer

  • Julian Berner
  • Martin Hämer

Unit production manager

  • Igor Orovac
  • Rolf Seyfried

Location manager

  • Daniel Fürst Zoffel
  • Oliver Alber
  • Sibylle Follmer (Motiv)
  • Mathias Mayer (Set)

Production assistant

  • Oliver Kerschbaum
  • Emanuel Straßburger

Production coordinator

  • Marija Burtscher
  • Andrea Held

Original distributor

  • Warner Bros. Pictures Germany GmbH (Hamburg)

Funding

  • Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF) (Berlin/Ost)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH (FFFB) (München)
  • Österreichisches Filminstitut (ÖFI) (Wien)

Shoot

    • 07.04.2025 - 05.06.2025: Wien, München, Nürnberg

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Kochschule Schwarz

Versions

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