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          mangold
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. XPERIMENT
 
15 min short feature starring Sybille Heyen & Anian Zollner  - Prädikat: WERTVOLL
 
2. MORITZ
 
70 min feature film starring Barbara Auer, Volker Prechtel, Scotty Larcher
 
3. ZWISCHENZEIT
 
15 min short feature starring Frank Röder & Siham Hagert  -  Prädikat: BES. WERTVOLL
 

 
 
 
 
 

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X  P  E  R  I  M  E  N  T - a computer game that allows us to play out the relationship between MAN  and WOMAN.

PLAY OUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP!  Select your players: a man and a woman.  Choose  their personal characteristics:  animal, childlike, adult, hyperintelligent  or  perverted ... 
Press the START! button and let them loose  -  in a confined room with no way out...

We select two „childlike“ players  and place them in a paradisal,  but hermetically closed room.  In the beginning the two of them enjoy  their  happy,   carefree  existence,  but the relationship is doomed to progress:  from just being buddies to love,  lust,  sex  -  and, eventually, hurt and misunderstanding...
When the young woman discovers that she is pregnant, the relationship reaches a critical stage. HE is not willing to abandon the easy life of beer,  bed and TV  in this paradise  for  an  uncertain future in an unknown place. They break up - and SHE breaks out of the room.
But  HE  hadn’t reckoned with loneliness.  Anxious  and  curious, HE sets out to look for HER - and breaks out, too.  Eventually finds HER in a barren, apocalyptic desert, HER and the baby she’s just given birth to ...  HE can’t face it. Panics - runs away - JUMPS.
And thankfully finds himself back in paradise again. But this time HE’s not alone.  Guys from the other rooms in paradise have got together for a wild boys’ night of beer, music and the sport program on TV ... BLISS ...


Prädikat: WERTVOLL









 


Evaluation of the Xperiment:   Highly probable...  End of demo version.  Do you want to play for REAL?

As every party comes  to an end, we  see  HIM,  drunk  and sentimental, heading home  -  to his woman and child.
Could it be a malfunction of the program?
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15 min short feature shot on 35mm 1:1,85 Dolby SR



 

 

CAST
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SHE
HE
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girls
 
 
 
 

boys
 
 
 

 

SYBILLE HEYEN
ANIAN ZOLLNER
. . .
FRANKA POTENTE
KARIN KÖSTER
BARBARA SPÄTH
MAAIKE ZENGLEIN
SILKE RUNNEBAUM
UTE KUPPERT
MAX URLACHER
BERND SCHMIDT
THOMAS LUFT
STEPHAN AHRENS
MARTIN MANGOLD
ASSAD MOUNAJED


  TEAM
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D.O.P. + music
production design
costume design
make-up
SFX make-up
sound design
computer animation
line producer
producer

written, directed & edited by

produced by
 

TORSTEN BREUER
NIKLAS OLOFSSON
MAAIKE ZENGLEIN
FlLORENCE FARGEON
ROBERT REBELE
WOLFGANG SIMM - LISTEN!
VACLAV CIZKOVSKY
KAI SCHNEPPEL
NIKOLAUS PREDIGER

DIETRICH MANGOLD

HFF München + Dietrich Mangold Filmproduktion © 1997


 

 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 

moritz


BARBARA AUER   VOLKER PRECHTEL   PAUL v.PLOTTEGG   GÜNTHER KASCH   JOCHEN NICKEL   and introducing SCOTTY LARCHER    director of photography  TORSTEN BREUER    production design  SABINE ENGELS    costume design ROSE KOLLER    original sound  WILLIAM FRANCK    music  MARTIN GRASSL    editor  HANA MÜLLNER   producers  JOBST OETZMANN  and  DIETER HORRES    written and directed by DIETRICH MANGOLD

 



 
 
 
 

The 70 min feature, set  in a small village in Southern Germany, tells the story of 10-year-old MORITZ, his mother MARIE - the local inn keeper -  and his great uncle WAGNER, the village organist.
MORITZ has lost his father in a car accident. But to him his father isn't dead! The sensitive boy endures by living in his very personal fantasy world in which his father is away on a great, great journey through exotic countries and will return home very soon.
Every time MORITZ plays with his fantastic toy railway in the attic, every time the heavy passenger train blows its whistle as it embarks on a journey over vast Indian plains, through magical glas forests and metalliferous mountains, MORITZ can feel his fathers presence. Is able to share all his feelings with him.
But suddenly MORITZ discovers that his mother is engaged in a secret love affair -  and his world of dreams begins to crumble...
All of MARIE's tentative efforts to make her son understand harsh reality are bound to fail, especially as WAGNER, the cranky village organist and the boy's only true friend refuses to help her. Instead, old WAGNER is absorbed in a hopeless struggle against the other villagers: he fights for the overdue restauration of his beloved organ.
MORITZ' anxiety grows more and more as he is haunted by terrible nightmares. Finally he can't avoid the confrontation with truth any longer: MORITZ has to accept the reality of his fathers death - his whole world is in shatters.

But in the end it is WAGNERS music which enables MORITZ to cope with reality and which opens the door to a new, very real dream world...
 

critical acclaim for MORITZ:
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG



 
 
CAST
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Moritz
Marie
Gustav Wagner
Baron Maximilian
Dad
PriestAnne
Sebastian
Hans

 

SCOTTY LARCHER
BARBARA AUER 
VOLKER PRECHTEL
PAUL v.PLOTTEGG
JOCHEN NICKEL
GÜNTHER KASCH
ULRIKE VON GEMMINGEN
JOCHEN SINN
MICHAEL VOIGT

 

TEAM
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director of photography
production design
costume design
make-up
original sound
music
editor
line producer

written & directed by

TORSTEN BREUER
SABINE ENGELS
ROSE KOLLER 
FLORENCE FARGEON
WILLIAM FRANCK
MARTIN GRASSL
HANA MÜLLNER 
JOBST OETZMANN and DIETER HORRES

DIETRICH MANGOLD


 

 
70 min feature film shot on 16mm colour   -   a co-production of  SÜDWESTFUNK  and  BAYRISCHER RUNDFUNK   together with HFF Munich © 1992 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

zwischenzeit

 
 

Prädikat: BESONDERS  WERTVOLL


ZWISCHENZEIT tells the story of a letter that changes Martin's life forever. Martin is in the middle of his graduation exams when he receives the completely unexpected news that a blood probe of his tested HIV-positive. His so far happy and fun-loving existence disintegrates completely as he isn't able to share the terrible news with his girlfriend or friends. The waiting becomes unbearable until he finally receives the result of the re-test after a never-ending graduation party's night...

 

 
CAST
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Martin
his girlfriend
his flirt
teacher
doctor
party people

 

FRANK ROEDER
EWA KARLSTRÖM
SIHAM HAGERT
HARALD HEINZ
PETER HAAG
MARTIN ROSEFELDT
MARTIN MANGOLD
CHRISTIN KAUFMANN
TEAM
. . . 

director of photography
original sound
music
line producer
production team
assistant director

written, directed & edited by

DIETRICH MANGOLD
DOMINIK ROTH
TROUBLED TIMES
JOBST OETZMANN
STEFAN LOESEBRINK & DIRK DOTZERT
ELISABETH BURGHARDT

DIETRICH MANGOLD


 
15 min short feature on 16mm  B & W    -   a co-production of  HFF Munich & Dietrich Mangold © 1990