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EINE PRODUKTION DER CATPICS AG UND CONDOR PRODUCTIONS
MIT NUR SÜRER, NECMETTIN COBANOGLU, ERDINC AKBAS, EMIN SIVAS, YAMAN OKAY, MATTHIAS GNÄDIGER, DIETMAR SCHÖNHERR
KAMERA ELEMER RAGALYI SCHNITT GALIP IYITANIR MUSIK JAN GARBAREK, TERJE RIPDAL, ARILD ANDRESEN PRODUZENTEN ALFI SINNIGER UND PETER FUETER BUCH & REGIE XAVIER KOLLER
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Index
S"lls 3
Synopsis 4
Comments by Xavier Koller in July 2016 on the topicality 5
Cast & Crew 7
Contact Details 8
Biography & Filmography Xavier Koller 9
Filmography Catpics Ltd 10
Press Comments from 1990 (more upon request) 13
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JOURNEY OF HOPE
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Synopsis
This is the story of a Turkish couple, Haydar and Meryem, who start their “Journey of Hope” from a small village in the mountains of South-­‐East Turkey in September 1988. They are taking their 7 year-­‐old son Mehmet Ali, who is the brightest of their eight children. It is a journey which is meant to take them from their poor country into rich Switzerland. The family has sold their house and their farm in order to finance the journey into what is supposed to be Paradise. The fist stop on the long journey is Izmir, where they stowaway on a freighter to Genoa. Once in Italy, they are taken by smugglers to the Splügenpass and sent on towards Switzerland, despite the snow and the cold. This illegal immigraPon has a tragic end: the Turkish boy dies of exhausPon and cold, in his father’s arms.
Synopsis from the Oscar Campaign 1990
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Comments by Xavier Koller in July 2016 on the topicality My film „Journey of Hope“ could not be more topical. The number of refugees who dreamt of a safe future in Europe was sPll manageable in the 80ies -­‐ but the influx has now risen dramaPcally. Twenty-­‐five years ago, empathy and pity sPll warmed the hearts of many people. Meanwhile, however, the poliPcal winds have changed to animosity.
Two decades ago poliPcians and the media argued with numbers and staPsPcs. There was seldom talk about the individual lives of the newcomers. The focus concentrated on the large numbers of refugees. These numbers have increased dramaPcally now and individual life stories find even less interest than in the past. Only when the picture of the dead liWle Syrian boy who was washed ashore circulated around the world, we remembered for a short moment that there were people in despair underway, people who risk their own and the lives of their loved-­‐ones hoping to find shelter in a promised land.
I was moved by a similar incident in the late 80ies which lead to „Journey of Hope“. It was not a photo but a short arPcle in the paper which touched me and which I could not get out of my mind: An unexpected early winter break-­‐in struck a group of Turkish and Kurdish refugees at the „Splügenpass“ on October 13, 1988 and a young Kurdish boy lost his life. Thus the problem took on a human face
and moPvated me to confront the staPsPcs with a real human fate. The people smugglers of that Pme were as unscrupulous as their successors: They took the refugees` money, lead them to the mountain, and, abandoned to their fate, they had to find their way across the „Green Boarder“ into Switzerland.
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At that Pme, people smugglers were sPll small organisaPons. Nowadays they are unscrupulous corporaPons comparable to the drug cartels, and they earn millions with their trade. I cannot understand why nobody can put a halt to that game. Naturally, the poliPcal situaPon in the emigrants` countries has also changed dramaPcally, and the refugees are literally driven onto the boats of the smugglers. In the past, pipelines transported raw materials from Africa and the Middle East to Western Europe. Nowadays the pipelines seem to `suck in` people in their thousands -­‐ but there is no market for them.
You do not make a film to win an Oscar. You make a film
when a topic urges you to deal with it. „Journey of Hope“ is the result of such urge. In 1988, when I read the arPcle about the young Kurdish boy I felt against all odds that I had to make this film. 6
CAST
Ramser: Mathias Gnädinger
The Father: NecemeUn Cobanoglu
The Mother: Nur Sürer
The Son: Nemin Sivas
Tümen: Yaman Okay
Massimo: Dietmar Schoenherr
CREW
Director: Writers: DoP: Editor: Music: Art DirecQor: ProducQon: Producer: Xavier Koller Xavier Koller, Feride Cicekoglu
Elemer Ragalyi
Daniel Gibel
Pavol Jan Jasovsky
Kathrin Brunner-­‐Schwer
Catpics Ltd., Condor Films AG, Antea s.c.r.l., Dewe Hellthaler Interna"onal Alfi Sinniger, Peter-­‐Chris"an Fueter
Original Version: Swiss German/Italienian/Turkish, Colour, 108 min
RestauraQon: L‘Imagine Ritrovata, Bologna
World Premiere: Int. Filmfes"val Locarno 1990, Wegbewerb
World Premiere restored Version: Int. Filmfes"val Locarno 2016
AWARDS (Selec"on):
Los Angeles, Academy of Mo"on Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 1991 Locarno, Int. Filmfes"val Locarno, Bronzener Leopard, 1990 7
InternaQonale Press
Stephen Lan
InternaPonal Press Agent
Lan.Stephen@sympaPco.ca
+1-­‐416-­‐923-­‐6327
World Sales
Catpics Ltd.
Sarah Born
0041 44 455 99 00
0041 788 79 76 81 (cell)
sarah.born@catpics.ch
www.catpics.ch
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Xavier Koller (Director/Writer) Born in 1944 in Schwyz, Switzerland. Trained as precision engineer. Attended the Theatre
Academy of Zurich. Worked several years as an actor. 1984 Founding of Catpics AG
production firm. 1991 Receives Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film, for “Journey
of Hope”. Since 1991 lives and works in Los Angeles.
Filography (Awards)
1990 JOURNEY OF HOPE
- Academy Award für "Best Foreign Language Film" (1991)
- Bronze-­‐Leopard, Film Fes"val Locarno (CH) (1990)
- 1. Preize Filmfes"val Nürnberg (DE), - Sergio Leone Award (IT) 1986 DER SCHWARZE TANNER/THE BLACK TANNER
-­‐ Winner des Karlovy-­‐Vary Film Fes"val, -­‐ FIPRESCI – Award Fes"val des Films du Monde, Montreal FILMOGRAPHY (Selec"on) 2015 – SCHELLEN-­‐URSLI 2013 – DIE SCHWARZEN BRÜDER
2012 – SOMEONE LIKE ME 1998 – RING OF FIRE 2001 – HIGHWAY 2000 – GRIPSHOLM 1990 – JOURNEY OF HOPE 1986 – TEH BLACK TANNER 1980 – THE FROZEN HEART 9
Catpics Ltd
In 1984 Catpics Ltd. was founded in Zurich as an independent film producPon company. Ajer winning an Academy Award for „Best Foreign Language Film“ in 1991 for JOURNEY OF HOPE by Xavier Koller, sister company Catpics CoproducPons Ltd. was founded in 1992 to enable more internaPonal coproducPons. Alfi Sinniger produces feature films and creaPve documentaries by directors such as Xavier Koller, Léa Pool, Ulrike Koch and Bepna Oberli. Documentaries (Selec;on)
2016 Wai;ng for Mommy IN POST-­‐PRODUCTION
by Léa Pool
2016 To Make a Comedy Is No Fun -­‐ Jiri Menzel COMPLETED
Documentary by Robert Kolinsky
2009 The Color Of Your Socks – One Year with PipiloZ Rist
by Michael Hegglin (52’)
In Coproduc;on with Amour Fou, Vienna
2006/07 Gerhard Meier – Das Wolkenschabenboot
by Friedrich Kappeler (79’)
2001/2002 Mani Maber -­‐ why are you so sad?
by Friedrich Kappeler, 85 min.
Second most succesful Swiss documentary
1999/2000 Varlin
by Friedrich Kappeler. (85‘)
1997 Rolling (”Les rollers”)
by Peter Entell. Dokumentarfilm (90‘) 1996/1997 The Saltmen of Tibet
by Ulrike Koch. (110‘)
In Coproduc;on with Switzerland/Germany
Prizes/Awards: Fes;val Taormina 1997 Compe;;on, Goldene Award; Pusan (Korea): Audience Award; Prix Nanook at Fes;val du Film Ethnographique Paris; San Francisco, Golden Spire Award; Cineprix Swisscom Category Swiss & Documentary, 1999 Interna;onal Dokumentary Film Fes;val Pärnu, Estonia: TV-­‐Audience Award and Special Men;on for extraordinary scien;fic 10
documentary. ZSeveral other fes;vals as: Sundance, San Francisco. Swiss contribu;on to OSCAR-­‐Compe;;on “Best Documentary” 1998/99. World Sales: Celluloid Dreams, Paris.
1994/1995 Gerhard Meier -­‐ Die Ballade vom Schreiben
by Friedrich Kappeler. (80‘)
Fic;on (Selec;on)
2012 Someone Like Me
Drama (111‘) by Academy Award Winner Xavier Koller
2012 TATORT „Skalpell“
TV-­‐Feature by Tobias Ineichen; Wriben by: Urs Bühler. in Coproduc;on with Schweizer Fernsehen and ARD.
2006 Late Bloomers
Comedy by BeZna Oberli (86’) World Premiere: 4. August 2006 Piazza Grande, Interna;onales Filmfes;val Locarno
Nomina;on Best Film & Best Actress (Annemarie Düringer), Swiss TV Film Award 2006. Highest market share for Swiss Feature with 1.4 Mio. spectators.
Most succesfull Swiss Film in 2006 with 595'886 box office in Switzerland and 1'000’000 box office in German-­‐Speaking territory. Official Swiss contribu;on to OSCAR-­‐Compe;;on n the Category “Best Foreign Language Film” 2007/08
2004 Im Nordwind
Feature wriben and directed by BeZna Oberli (93‘)
1998/2000 Gripsholm
Feature, (100‘) by Xavier Koller (with Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabei and Ulrich Noethen)
1998/1999 Emporte-­‐moi
Feature by Léa Poo (90‘). With Miki Manojlovic and Pascale Bussières. In Coproduc;on with Cité-­‐Amérique, Montréal, Haut et Court, Paris. World Sales: TF 1 Interna;onal, Paris. Official Compe;;on Berlinale 1999. Official Canadian Contribu;on to OSCAR-­‐Compe;;on in the Category “Best Foreign Language Film”
1996/1997 Homere
Feature by Fabio Carpi. (100‘) with Claude Rich.
1996/1997 C’est la tangente que je préfère
Feature by Charlobe Silvera (90‘). With: George Corraface (Columbus), Marie-­‐
Chris;ne Barrault, Marie Lafôrèt. 11
1994 Mouvements du Désir
Regie: Léa Pool (Cast: Valérie Kaprisky). Spielfilm, 94 Min. Koproduk;on Kanada/Schweiz. Sundance Fes;val 1995. Weltvertrieb: Alliance Toronto
1994 Tschäss
Feature by Daniel Helfer. (100‘) In Coproduc;on with Switzerland/Germany/
Austria. Fes;val Locarno 2003 (Retrospec;ve Jazz-­‐Filme)
1991 Journey of Hope
Drama by Xavier Koller (96‘). Cast: Nur Surer and NecmeZn Cobagnolu. In Coproduc;on with Switzerland/Germany/Italy..
Academy Award Winner 1991: OSCAR for ”Best Foreign Language Film”
1986 The Black Tanner
Drama by Xavier Koller (104‘). Cast: Obo Mächtlinger. Spielfilm, Special Prize of the Jury, Karlovy Vary 1986; FIPRESCI Prize, Montreal 1986. Official Swiss Contribu;on to OSCAR-­‐Compe;;on in the Category “Best Foreign Language Film”
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