Alain Gsponer

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Alain Gsponer (born March 10, 1976 in Zurich ) is a Swiss - German film director , screenwriter and dramaturgical consultant. He lives in Berlin.

Life

Alain Gsponer grew up in Schinznach-Bad . After graduating from the Old Cantonal School in Aarau (1996), he attended the "Basic Audiovisual Design Course" at the School of Design in Bern. At the same time he was co-operator of the art house cinema “Free Film” in Aarau.

Before starting his studies at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg in 1997 , he worked as a radio journalist. He completed his studies in the field of scenic film in 2002 with his diploma film Kiki & Tiger . Since then, in addition to his work as a director and author, he has also worked as a dramaturgical consultant and a. for The fat years have been noticed.

Movies

During his student days he made the successful animated film Heidi , a satire about the Heidi image of Switzerland and the award-winning short film X for U , a forged documentary about a documentary forger . Also during his studies he met the screenwriter Alexander Buresch , with whom he has realized several projects (including Kiki and Tiger , Dasreal Leben , Rose and Lila, Lila ).

Kiki & Tiger is set in Germany in 1997 shortly before the outbreak of the Kosovo War and is the story of a friendship between a refugee from Kosovo (Kiki played by Stipe Erceg ) and a Serb who grew up in Germany (Tiger played by Lenn Kudrjawizki ). Their friendship seems to withstand any external pressure until a woman drives a wedge between the two and real feelings for one another come to light. The feature film won several prizes, including a. In 2003 he won the Interfilm and Audience Award at the Max Ophüls Prize Festival, and was shown at the Berlinale in the Perspective German Cinema section, which opened up an international festival career for him.

Rose (in the lead role Corinna Harfouch ) pays homage to single mothers. Rose lives with her almost adult sons in a small Bavarian town. When the father reappears after 12 years of absence, Rose's family structure is much more shaky than she expected. She has to wonder if her free upbringing was right without a father. The fast-paced tragic comedy was nominated in the categories of Best Film , Best Director and Best Actor Supporting Role ( Volker Bruch ) for the German Television Award 2007 and won the award in the Best Film category .

According to Focus, real life is a “moral picture of a middle-class family between touching sadness and ironic joke with great truthfulness and a great ensemble.” Katja Riemann and Ulrich Noethen play the main roles. Hannah Herzsprung received the German Film Prize for her portrayal of Florina and Katja Riemann received the Bambi for her portrayal of Sibylle Spatz. The film won the MFG-Star Baden-Baden in 2006, the German Film Critics' Prize for Best Screenplay in2008and 4 Adolf Grimme Awards in 2009. The real life is the title of the distributor, originally the film was called BUMMM! .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alain Gsponer in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 12, 2012 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Christian Buß : Sponti-Mama cleans up. Spiegel online from May 11, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Gsponer, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich