Rosakinder
At first glance these five directors couldn’t be more different, and they certainly wouldn’t appear to have much in common. And yet, take a look at their biographies, and you will notice that one name connects them all: Rosa von Praunheim – probably Germany’s most uninhibited, confrontational and honest director. To commemorate his seventieth birthday, these ‘Rosakinder’ as they call themselves have created this cinematic tribute. As they talk about their own careers and how they came to work in film, Rosa von Praunheim’s influence on key phases in their lives and creative output becomes apparent. Each of these directors has created their own, personal film about their relationship to Rosa. The resulting work is a vibrant genre mix in a documentary setting in which their mentor begins to emerge as a father figure – with his creativity, his urge to be innovative, defiant and pushy and to provoke, but also with his insecurity and his love. The kind of father with whom you can sometimes argue so much you could punch him; but also the kind you call when you need to be alone and don’t really want to talk to anyone at all.
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Runtime
94 min -
Country
Germany -
Year of Presentation
0000 -
Year of Production
2012 -
Director
Julia von Heinz, Chris Kraus, Axel Ranisch, Robert Thalheim, Tom Tykwer -
Cast
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Production Company
Kordes & Kordes Film GmbH -
Berlinale Section
Special -
Berlinale Category
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Biography Tom Tykwer
The director, screenwriter, composer and producer was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1965. He moved to Berlin in 1985 to study philosophy while also working as a projectionist. He was then manager of the Moviemento cinema in Berlin until the late 1990s. He made his international breakthrough as a filmmaker in 1998 with Run Lola Run. To date, he has made eleven feature films for the cinema. Since 2017, he has written and produced along with Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten the award-winning series Babylon Berlin. He is founder, partner and managing director of the X Filme Creative Pool production company which he set up in 1995 with Stefan Arndt, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy.
Filmography Tom Tykwer
1990 Because; short film | 1992 Epilog (Epilogue); short film | 1993 Die tödliche Maria (Deadly Maria) | 1997 Winterschläfer (Winter Sleepers) | 1998 Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) | 2000 Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) | 2002 Heaven | 2004 True; short film – episode from “Paris je t’aime” | 2006 Parfum (Perfume: Story of a Murderer) | 2009 The International · Deutschland 09; short film – episode “Feierlich reist” | 2010 Drei (Three) | 2012 Rosakinder | 2012 Cloud Atlas | 2012 Sense8; 3 episodes | 2016 Ein Hologramm für den König (A Hologram for the King) | 2017 Babylon Berlin; since 2017; 5 seasons | 2025 Das Licht (The Light)