Alexander van Duelmen

Alexander van Dülmen (born January 1, 1968 in Munich ) is a German film producer and filmmaker. a. was involved in the production and release of films such as " Cloud Atlas " and distributes film rights to Eastern Europe through his company A-Company Film Licensing International.

Life

Alexander van Dülmen grew up in his hometown. In 1983 he moved to Saarbrücken and lived there for seven years before returning to Munich after further stations. After a short stay in Luxembourg , he finally moved to Berlin .

From 1984 to 1988 van Dülmen was politically active nationwide as a student representative, most recently as a national student representative.

In 1992 he discovered the color film material “Day of German Art 1939” by the Munich amateur filmmaker Hans Feierabend as part of extensive research for the Munich City Museum for its important exhibition “Munich - Capital of Movement” in 1993. Based on the rediscovered film material, van Dülmen produced the documentary “Colors 1939” (shot on 16 mm).

From 1997 to 1999 he was managing director of the then privatized former GDR film distributor Progress Film. At the same time van Dülmen traveled to Vietnam for the first time and initiated the opening of the country's state and military film archives. As a result, numerous documentaries and documentary series were produced with and about the material. Progress Film took over the international distribution of the film material.

In 2002, Alexander van Dülmen founded the Berlin license trading company Eastern European Acquisition Pool (EEAP), which was renamed A-Company Film Licensing International in 2013 and is still managed by van Dülmen as managing director. As part of A-Company Filmed Entertainment AG, the company is one of the most successful license trading companies in Central and Eastern Europe and has international independent productions such as the SAW franchise, OSCAR winner The King's Speech or German cinema hits such as Til Schweiger's Keinohrhasen in its program . The cooperation between Til Schweiger and van Dülmen began in 1997 when van Dülmen, in his previous position as managing director of Progress Film, sold Schweiger's Knockin on Heaven's Door to Russia, thus laying the foundation for Til Schweiger's popularity in Eastern Europe.

In 2013 van Dülmen's A-Company founded its own independent theatrical distribution company in Vietnam. A-Company Vietnam is a joint venture between the Berlin rights dealer and Nhiem van Nguyen, the former General Director of the Vietnamese Coloa lm studio.

Van Dülmen is involved as a co-producer in international and German co-productions. a. to Tom Tykwer's Cloud Atlas. In 2016 Alexander van Dülmen teamed up with the director and author Stephan Wagner and founded carte blanche international (CBI), a production house for international co-productions. In 2019 the CBI produced " Die Grittenen " based on the non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Robin Alexander and "Wet Dog" based on the autobiography of Arye Sharuz Shalicar's "A wet dog is better than a dry Jew".

Alexander van Dülmen is the son of Andrea and Richard van Dülmen and brother of Moritz and Friederike van Dülmen. Today he lives and works in Berlin and has two children.

Filmography

1992 "The last handicraft - gravedigger in Upper Bavaria" - direction and production
1995 “Which Side Are You On? - Ska in Berlin “- direction and production
1998 "Colors 1939" - direction and production
2012 “ Cloud Atlas ”, directed by Tom Tykwer , Lana and Lilly Wachowski , producer Grant Hill - co-producer
2013 “ Measuring the World ”, directed by Detlev Buck - co-producer
2013 “ Lauf, Junge Lauf ”, directed by Pepe Danquart - co-producer
2014 “Madame Bovary”, directed by Sophie Barthes - co-producer
2019 " The Driven ", director: Stephan Wagner - producer
2019 “Wet Dog”, director: Damir Lukačević - producer

Web links

Alexander van Dülmen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Colors 1939: Day of German Art in Munich; the largest Nazi propaganda show before WWII; Original documents in color (1 video cassette (VHS, PAL, 30 min.) Partly in color) ( Memento from February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/12/world/apocalypse-then-vietnam-marketing-war-films.html
↑ The Vietnam War from a different point of view: - WELT. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
↑ The A Company sells film licenses in Eastern States - source: http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/14856252 © 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
↑ Focus: Film | News | A Company brings “Cloud Atlas” to Vietnam. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
^ Berlin: Germany's A Company, Carte Blanche Film Launch Production Joint Venture . In: The Hollywood Reporter . ( hollywoodreporter.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Dülmen, Alexander van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film producer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	1st January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

[1] Colors 1939: Day of German Art in Munich; the largest Nazi propaganda show before WWII; Original documents in color (1 video cassette (VHS, PAL, 30 min.) Partly in color) ( Memento from February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[2] ttp://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/12/world/apocalypse-then-vietnam-marketing-war-films.html

[3] The Vietnam War from a different point of view: - WELT. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .

[4] The A Company sells film licenses in Eastern States - source: http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/14856252 © 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .

[5] Focus: Film | News | A Company brings “Cloud Atlas” to Vietnam. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .

[6] Berlin: Germany's A Company, Carte Blanche Film Launch Production Joint Venture . In: The Hollywood Reporter . ( hollywoodreporter.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).