Skip to main content
Home
Published on filmportal.de (https://www.filmportal.de)

Wie Feuer und Flamme

Deutschland 2000/2001 Spielfilm

Never Mind the Wall

Berlin 1982. Seventeen-year-old Nele was born and raised in West Berlin, with the ever-present Wall. The other side looked grey and empty until the day when she first crossed through the Iron Curtain and met the young Punk, Captain. A fleeting moment, an exchange of glances - for Nele it’s love at first sight.

Captain is an East Berliner, a man from another world, yet when this girl from the West meets the rebel from the East, they both know this is it. But the divided city has no place for the young lovers, who find themselves united against the world on both sides. Captain’s father can’t accept her, his gang doesn’t trust her, and Nele’s best friend is jealous of their love. But the real danger comes from the Secret Police, who see Captain and his gang as a subversive element. After a raid, Nele is expelled from East Germany, with no hope of ever seeing Captain again. But when she learns of his arrest, she desperately seeks a way to slip back into the East and rescue her lover.

A film from the makers of "Run, Lola Run", with a script by Natja Brunckhorst - famous for her real-life role in the film "We Children from Bahnhof Zoo", sensitively brought to the screen by Connie Walther and starring talented newcomers Anna Bertheau und Antonio Wannek.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Connie Walther

Screenplay

  • Natja Brunckhorst

Director of photography

  • Peter Nix

Editing

  • Ewa J. Lind

Music

  • Rainer Oleak
  • Katrin Erichsen

Cast

  • Anna Bertheau
    Penelope "Nele" Kaufmann
  • Antonio Wannek
    Captain
  • Tim Sander
    Hacki
  • Carmen Birk
    Kopfi
  • Michael Krabbe
    Tremmel
  • Nora Tschirner
    Anya
  • Luise Helm
    Bax
  • Aaron Hildebrand
    Meise
  • Andreas Hoppe
    Neles Vater
  • Karin Mikityla
    Tante Helene

Production company

  • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH (Berlin)
  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)

Producer

  • Maria Köpf
  • Stefan Arndt

Alle Credits

Director

  • Connie Walther

Assistant director

  • Claudia Beewen

Screenplay

  • Natja Brunckhorst

Director of photography

  • Peter Nix

Assistant camera

  • Uli Schmidt

Visual effects

  • Jürgen Schopper

Set design

  • Birgit Hein
  • Matthias Hein
  • Gabriele Wolff

Prop master

  • Dorothea Schiefeling
  • Henrik Richter

Make-up artist

  • Ljiljana Müller
  • Grit Kosse

Costume design

  • Simone Simon

Editing

  • Ewa J. Lind

Sound design

  • Arno Wilms
  • Elmar Wilms

Sound

  • Jörg Höhne

Research

  • Michael Konstabel (Archivrecherche)

Special effects

  • Gerhard Voll

Music

  • Rainer Oleak
  • Katrin Erichsen

Cast

  • Anna Bertheau
    Penelope "Nele" Kaufmann
  • Antonio Wannek
    Captain
  • Tim Sander
    Hacki
  • Carmen Birk
    Kopfi
  • Michael Krabbe
    Tremmel
  • Nora Tschirner
    Anya
  • Luise Helm
    Bax
  • Aaron Hildebrand
    Meise
  • Andreas Hoppe
    Neles Vater
  • Karin Mikityla
    Tante Helene
  • Hermann Beyer
    Captains Vater
  • Kathrin Waligura
    Captains Mutter
  • Joachim Schweizer
    Herr Hesselberger
  • Roland May
    1. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Roland Kuchenbuch
    2. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Henning Peker
    3. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Hans-Gerd Sonnenburg
    4. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Lutz Teschner
    5. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Manfred Gorr
    6. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Steffen Gräbner
    7. Staatssicherheitsbeamte
  • Maja Remstedt
    1. Grenzbeamtin
  • Roland Schuster
    Grenzbeamter
  • Eva Medusa Gühne
    2. Grenzbeamtin
  • Esther Esche
    Vollzugsbeamtin
  • Harald Arnold
    Vollzugsbeamter
  • Robin Gooch
    UPS-Dame
  • Andreas Herder
    Erik

Voice

  • Dascha Lehmann

Production company

  • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH (Berlin)
  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)

Producer

  • Maria Köpf
  • Stefan Arndt

Co-Producer

  • Stefan Arndt

Producer (TV)

  • Caroline von Senden

Line producer

  • Stefaan Schieder

Unit production manager

  • Ralph Remstedt

Location manager

  • Anina Marsen

Original distributor

  • X Verleih AG (Berlin)

Funding

  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH (FFFB) (München)
  • Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (Potsdam)

Shoot

    • 24.05.2000 - 16.07.2000: Berlin, Ostsee
Duration:
2801 m, 102 min
Format:
16mm - Blow-Up 35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby SRD
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 29.05.2001, 87678, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 14.06.2001

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Wie Feuer und Flamme

Versions

Original

Duration:
2801 m, 102 min
Format:
16mm - Blow-Up 35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby SRD
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 29.05.2001, 87678, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 14.06.2001

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 2002
  • Deutscher Filmpreis, Bestes Drehbuch
Deutscher Kamerapreis 2002
  • Deutscher Kamerapreis
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/wie-feuer-und-flamme_ea43d4a6ac5f5006e03053d50b37753d