We are proud and happy that our WDR production “Saubere Sache” has been selected for INPUT 2023. The international professional conference for public television takes place in a different city every year, this time in Taipei from May 14-18. Our series will be seen and discussed by an international audience of experts.
More info about INPUT 2023 can be found HERE

“Baghdad in my Shadow” will be shown on 14th February 2023 for the first time on TV at 10:55 PM on 3Sat. Or you can watch the movie HERE.
You can watch an interview on the programme “Kulturzeit” with the director Samir HERE (in German).

We are in the race for the
JUPITER AWARD 2023
you can vote >>>HERE<<<
until February 28, 2023

S A U B E R E   S A C H E
is nominated in
3 categories

SAUBERE SACHE
Beste Serie National

CRISTINA DO REGO
Beste Darstellerin National

BEN MÜNCHOW
Bester Darsteller National

EVERY VOTE COUNTS!
Thank you for your support!

JUPITER AWARD 2023
Deutschlands größter Publikumspreis für Kino und Fernsehen vergeben von CINEMA und TV SPIELFILM

Director ANDRÉ ERKAU
Script MICHAEL GANTENBERG,
D.O.P. FEE STROTHMANN
Production Design KATJA KANDZIORA,
Costume DANIELE GOSSENS-DOMMEL, MINSUN KIM, SARAH RAIBLE,
Make up JENNIFER PORSCHENG
Music DANIEL HOFFKNECHT,
Cutter SEBASTIAN GUTTE
ANKE BERTHOLD,
Editor WDR ELKE KIMMLINGER,
Producers CHRISTINE KIAUK, HERBERT SCHWERING

At the film festival Max Ophüls Preis in January 2023 the Tribute will be dedicated to the brilliant Sandra Hüller. In this context, our production “Brownian Movement” (director: Nanouk Leopold) will be screened on Sunday, 29th January 2023 at 11:00 am at Kino achteinhalb. On the 28th will be a public workshop talk with Sandra Hüller. More info about the events and Sandra can be found HERE (in German).

Our wonderful production designers Katharina Wöpperman from Vienna and Nina Mader from Zurich win an award in Hungary at the Film Fesztivál in Szolnok for their outstanding production design! We congratulate from the bottom of our hearts and are happy that Katharina was in Szolnok personally to present MONTE VERITÀ and to receive the award.
At the Augenblick Film Festival currently held in Alsace, the young audience jury gave their award to MONTE VERITÀ, and at the Swiss Film Days in Montpellier, the historical drama directed by Stefan Jäger won the Audience Award. These days MONTE VERITÀ will be screened at the Torino Film Festival.

Our feature film “Do you sometimes feel burned out and empty?” will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec 3rd 2022 at 8:15 pm on WDR. Actress Lina Beckmann won the German Film Critics Award for her role in this comedy (Script/ director: Lola Randl).
More on this film HERE (in German)

Nur noch 7 Tage – der Countdown läuft!
Wenn Ihr PAULA und JURI im Waschsalon wiedersehen wollt,
dann votet bis 30.06.2022 beim
>>> Voting JUPITER AWARD 2023

S A U B E R E   S A C H E
vornominiert in 3 Kategorien

SAUBERE SACHE
Beste Serie National

CRISTINA DO REGO
Beste Darstellerin National

BEN MÜNCHOW
Bester Darsteller National

DENN JEDE STIMME ZÄHLT!
Danke EUCH!

JUPITER AWARD 2023
Deutschlands größter Publikumspreis für Kino und Fernsehen vergeben von CINEMA und TV SPIELFILM

SAUBERE SACHE
>> Short Dramedy – Serien für zwischendurch << in der ARD Mediathek
Die 8teilige Serie SAUBERE SACHE dreht sich um Paula (Cristina do Rego) und Juri (Ben Münchow). Sie sind Ende 20 und treffen sich wöchentlich im Waschsalon. Die beiden kennen sich noch nicht lange und verhandeln in jeder Folge die „großen Fragen des Lebens“ mit Blick auf die rotierende Wäsche.

Regie ANDRÉ ERKAU
Drehbuch MICHAEL GANTENBERG,
Kamera FEE STROTHMANN
Szenenbild KATJA KANDZIORA,
Kostümbild DANIELE GOSSENS-DOMMEL, MINSUN KIM, SARAH RAIBLE,
Maske JENNIFER PORSCHENG
Musik DANIEL HOFFKNECHT,
Schnitt SEBASTIAN GUTTE
ANKE BERTHOLD,
Redaktion WDR ELKE KIMMLINGER,
Produzenten CHRISTINE KIAUK, HERBERT SCHWERING

We are very happy to announce that our web series SAUBERE SACHE directed by André Erkau with CRISTINA DO REGO and BEN MÜNCHOWwill be available in the ARD Mediathek starting TODAY 03/23/2022!
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The eight-part series “Saubere Sache” is about Paula (Cristina do Rego) and Juri (Ben Münchow). They are in their late 20s and meet weekly at the laundromat. The two haven’t known each other long, and in each episode they negotiate the “big questions of life” with an eye on the rotating laundry. The conversations between the two are funny, the dialogues often take a surprising turn, slip from fun into seriousness, and increasingly there is a sizzle between the couple.

Finally SAUBERE SACHE, our new web series (8×10 min.) will start on March 23, 2022 in the ARD Mediathek under the ARD label “Short Dramedy – Serien für Zwischendurch”. “Saubere Sache” had won in the challenge “WDR goes Series” in an online voting, associated with this was the production of the first season with CRISTINA DO REGO and BEN MÜNCHOW in the leading roles. Thanks to scriptwriter MICHAEL GANTENBERG (Phoenixsee, Unter Verdacht etc.), director ANDRÉ ERKAU (Gott du kannst ein Arsch sein!, Happy Burnout etc.), our WDR editor ELKE KIMMLINGER and our fantastic team with whom we developed and shot this great format.

Once a week Paula (CRISTINA DO REGO) and Juri (BEN MÜNCHOW) meet at the laundromat. Purely by chance, of course. They haven’t known each other for long, but it’s a bang when they start their verbal sparring. Once the laundry is in the machine, it’s all about topics: prejudices or clichés, sex or love, fame or fake? Paula and Juri lie to each other constantly, unintentionally of course, but with humor and depth. And they are regularly interrupted by numerous surprise guests, top-class casts including cinema stars such as BENNO FÜRMANN, SAMUEL FINZI, MARGARITA BROICH or TV stars and comedians such as TIMUR BARTELS (Club der roten Bänder), ZSÁ ZSÁ INCI (Fack ju Göthe 2), KHALID BOUNOUAR (Rebell Comedy), CARO FRIER (Queens of Comedy) and FELIX VÖRTLER (Phönixsee).

It is a great pleasure for us that after the world premiere in Locarno, our feature film co-production MONTE VERITÀ – Der Rausch der Freiheit directed by STEFAN JÄGER starring MARESI RIEGNER, HANNAH HERZSPRUNG, JULIA JENTSCH, MAX HUBACHER, JOEL BASMAN, PHILIPP HAUSS will be released in 70 cinemas nationwide starting December 16, 2021!!!! We thank the distributor DCM for their great commitment to bring our film to theaters during this difficult time. Thanks also to the cinema operators and all the viewers who will soon be intoxicated by “Monte Verità” in front of the screen.

“Monte Verità is as modern as its founders”. – Sueddeutsche Zeitung
“A journey through time to rediscover the curiosity and desire to see what was tried there” – ZDF Aspekte
“A film that brings utopia to life” – NDR Kultur

MONTE VERITÀ The thrill of freedom
1906. The young mother Hanna Leitner (MARESI RIEGENER) wants to escape the bourgeois corset and her husband Anton (PHILIPP HAUSS), who sexually harasses her. Hanna follows her doctor and psychoanalyst Otto Gross (MAX HUBACHER) to Monte Verità, a dropout commune in southern Switzerland, where she discovers a fascination with photography. Along with the young Hermann Hesse (JOEL BASMAN) and the feminist Ida Hofmann (JULIA JENTSCH), it is the psychic Lotte Hattemer (HANNAH HERZSPRUNG) who casts a mystical spell on Hanna there and urges her to make a decision. The historical drama MONTE VERITÀ, based on true events, raises the very topical question of how much self-determination a woman is allowed to have in her life without being criticized by society for it.

Director STEFAN JÄGER, Script KORNELIJA NARAKS, DOP DANIELA KNAPP, Production design KATHARINA WÖPPERMANN, NINA MADER, Costume design VERONIKA ALBERT, Make up Design HELENE LANG, Editor NOEMI PREISWERK, Composer VOLKER BERTELMANN

in co-production with Tellfilm (Zurich), KGP Filmproduktion (Vienna) und MMC Movies (Cologne), supported by  Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and DFFF, released by DCM Film Distribution, sales The Playmaker

How nice that we meet again in the cinema!
How nice that the Film Festival Cologne takes place in “real”!
How nice that we can watch films together and talk about them!

We are represented with three programs at this year’s festival:

Sunday, October 24 at 6 p.m. in the program “WDR goes Series” we will premiere an episode of our 8-part short series “SAUBERE SACHE”, which we just finished. The director ANDRÉ ERKAU will be present as well as the leading actress CRISTINA DO REGO, who plays alongside BEN MÜNCHOW. Other roles will be played by SAMUEL FINZI and comedian KHALID BOUNOUAR.

Monday, October 25 at 2:30 p.m. COIN FILM will present a case study about our new co-production “LOST TRANSPORT” (directed by SASKIA DIESING) with the Netherlands and Luxembourg as part of the “BeNeLux meets NRW” meeting together with the Luxembourg production Amour Fou as a contribution to the discussion about the current situation of European co-productions.

Monday, October 25 at 7 p.m. in the Filmpalast Cologne we celebrate the NRW premiere of our current feature film “MONTE VERITÀ” (director: STEFAN JÄGER). In summer the film already had its premiere at the IFF Locarno and will be released in cinemas in Germany from December 16th distributed by DCM. In addition to the director STEFAN JÄGER, the main actors MARESI RIEGENER and the actors MAX HUBACHER and PHILIPP HAUSS will be present.

We are looking forward to exciting festival days in Cologne with you!
>>> COME AND SEE <<<

Filmmaker Samir launches his latest feature film BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW nationwide on 30 September. To kick things off, Samir celebrated the cinema launch at METROPOL in Düsseldorf in the best of storytelling moods.

Further dates:
Oct 01 | 19.00 h | Kino Casablanca, Nürnberg
Oct 02 | 20.30 h | Kino Friedrichsbau, Freiburg
Oct 03 | 17.45 h | Kino Kamino, Reutlingen
Oct 03 | 20.15 h | Kino Arsenal, Tübingen
released by ARSENAL

On Saturday, 28 August, Mario Adorf honoured the alleged mass murderer Bruno Lüdke with the prominent support of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a stumbling stone laying ceremony in Berlin-Köpenik. COIN FILM is currently developing the Bruno Lüdke case as the series TRUE MURDERERS (Teufelskreis) and we are very pleased that we were able to win the multi-award-winning director Hermine Huntgeburth (Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding, Die weiße Massai) for the direction.

The True Crime Story TRUE MURDERERS (Teufelskreis), funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, is being made together with the authors Jens Becker (Nellys Abenteuer), Linda Brieda (Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) and Dominik Wessely, just awarded the Grimme Prize 2021 for Loveparade – Die Verhandlung. COIN FILM has already taken up the life of Bruno Lüdke in two documentaries (Die Erfindung eines Mörders – Der Fall Bruno Lüdke, Es hätte schlimmer kommen können – Mario Adorf).

Bruno Lüdke was accused of murdering 84 women and men during the Nazi era and was long considered the greatest serial killer in German criminal history. Although Bruno Lüdke was not proven to have committed any of these murders, he was accused of the acts by the Nazi regime and murdered. Some of his murderers went on to hold high positions in the young Federal Republic as criminal police officers and never had to answer for their crimes. Together with influential media-makers, they continued to spread the word about Bruno Lüdke’s guilt – an early case of Fake News.

We are very pleased that MONTE VERITÀ (director: Stefan Jäger) has its German premiere at the Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2021. The current dates and information about the festival can be found here: Screenings

Our current co-production MONTE VERITÀ celebrated its world premiere on the Grande Piazza at the Locarno Film Festival 2021 on 7 August. Maresi Riegner, Hannah Herzsprung, Julia Jentsch and Max Hubacher, together with director Stefan Jäger, presented the historical drama about the dropout commune of Monte Verità on Lake Maggiore to the Piazza audience. Joel Basman and Philip Hauss are also in the cast. Cinematographer Daniela Knapp is responsible for the picture design, Katharina Wöppermann and Nina Mader for production design, Veronika Albert for costume design, Helene Lang for make-up design and composer Volker Bertelmann has taken on the film music. Filming took place in Ticino, Vienna and at the MMC Studios in Cologne. MONTE VERITÀ is a co-production of Tellfilm (Zurich), KGP (Vienna), COIN FILM (Cologne) and MMC Movies (Cologne) and will be released in Germany by DCM at the end of 2021.

On 22 July 2021, the last take of our current international cinema production “Lost Transport” was made. Filming of the women’s war drama took place in July in Neukirchen-Vluyn near Moers in NRW as well as in Oberlangen in Emsland in Lower Saxony. The film is directed by Dutch director Saskia Diesing, who received a Special Mention from the Berlinale jury in 2014 for her film “Nena” with Uwe Ochsenknecht. The main roles are played by Anna Bachmann, Hanna van Vliet and Eugénie Anselin. “Lost Transport” is a co-production with KeyFilm (Netherlands), Amour Fou (Luxembourg) and NTR, realised with the support of Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, nordmedia, DFFF, Nederlands Film Fonds, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, CoBO, Film Fund Luxembourg and Roba Music Publishing. Theatrical distribution in Germany is handled by W-film.

about: LOST TRANSPORT

Picture (from left to right): Producer Christine Kiauk, director Saskia Diesing, the actors Anna Bachmann, Eugénie Anselin, Bram Suijker and Hanna van Vliet as well as producer Herbert Schwering – picture taken in compliance with the applicable COVID protection measures.

After 4 weeks of shooting we have finished – our new web series SAUBERE SACHE with Cristina do Rego and Ben Münchow in the leading roles and staged by director André Erkau. With surprise guests! Commissioned by WDR, the web format will appear on Youtube and other social media channels towards the end of 2021. SUSPENSE RISES!

After our successful pilot episode last autumn, we are now filming the first season of the webseries SAUBERE SACHE for “WDR goes series” (commissioning editor: Elke Kimmlinger). Based on the books by Michael Gantenberg, André Erkau is directing our two leads PAULA and JURI, played by Cristina do Rego and Ben Münchow. Celebrity guest appearances can be expected at the laundromat in the Brüsseler Viertel in Cologne.

from left: Cristina do Rego, Margarita Broich, Fee Strothmann, André Erkau, Ben Münchow
© 2021 WDR | COIN FILM | Tom Trambow

On 28 January 2021, WDR will broadcast our feature film co-production COBAIN. It is the sixth feature film by Dutch auteur NANOUK LEOPOLD (“Brownian Movement”, “Upstairs is Silent”) about the teenager Cobain (15) who tries to persuade his drug-addicted mother to go to rehab when she is pregnant again. But she refuses his help and Cobain decides to save his unborn brother himself. It is a moving mother-son story of painful lightness to a breath-taking finale. “COBAIN” had its world premiere at the Berlinale 2018 in Generation 14plus, received awards at Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz (Best Film) and Lecce European Film Festival (Best Screenplay), among others, and was nominated for the European Film Award.

WDR Kinozeit: 28 January 2021 | 23.30 – 00.55 h

»Newcomer Bas Keizer is a find in the title role as Cobain and proves a mesmerising presence.« The Hollywood Reporter
»The most beautiful coming-of-age films are the ones that don’t yet know everything about their protagonists..« Der Spiegel
»Hits the viewer right in the heart.« Algemeen Dagblad, NL
»Direct, raw, tough and touching.« Trouw, NL