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ADDICTED TO ACTING / Die Spielwütigen

Germany, 2004, 108′, color, documentary,

Director - Andres Veiel

Script - Andres Veiel

Camera - Pierre Bouchez, Claus Deubel, Johann Feindt, Rainer Hoffmann, Jörg Jeshel, Lutz Reitemeier

Music - Jan Tilman Schade

Producers - Alexander Bickel, Heike Hempel, Klaus Volkenborn

Production - Journal Filmproduktion

We meet Stephanie, Karina, Constanza and Prodromos while they are preparing for their acting school auditions. The selection procedure takes months; it is a trying, nerve-racking time spent vacillating between hope and anxiety. All four make it into the school, but their initial euphoria is soon followed by deflation in the face of merciless criticism of even the slightest shortcoming by their tutors. In this way, their passion for their chosen vocation is constantly put the test.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Berlin ’04 – Panorama Audience Award

Program

20.09.2021
GOETHE-INSTITUT - 19.00 часа

Andres Veiel

Andres Veiel is born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1959. Whilst taking a degree in psychology he also studied directing and dramaturgy at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin under Krzysztof Kieślowski. He directed his first documentary A Winternight's Dream in 1992, followed by Balagan (1994) and Black Box BRD (2002, winner of German Film Award and European Film Award). The Kick (2006) won the Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel. His feature film debut If Not Us, Who? premiered in the Berlinale in 2011 and won the Alfred Bauer Prize.

FILMOGRAPHY

1992 Winternachtstraum – TV doc.
1994 Balagan – doc.
1996 The Survivors (Die Überlebenden) – doc.
1999 Drei von Tausend - Wer schafft die Schauspielprüfung? – TV doc.
2001 Black Box Germany (Black Box BRD) – doc.
2004 Addicted to Acting (Die Spielwütigen) – doc.
2006 Der Kick – doc.
2011 If Not Us, Then Who (Wer wenn nicht wir)
2017 Beuys – doc.
2020 Ökozid