Christoph Thoke

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Christoph Thoke (born November 15, 1960 ) is a German film and television producer.

Thoke began his career in the film and television industry as an on-air promotion producer for the German television station RTL II and the Franco-German television station ARTE . From 1996 he worked in the management of Taunusfilm GmbH, later CineMedia Film AG, first as assistant to the management and then as project manager for international coproductions and license trading. At Taunusfilm he was responsible in particular for all international productions and the development of the Los Angeles office of Taunusfilm International while at CineMedia Film AG he coordinated license purchases such as: B. for the Mel Gibson film What Women Want .

During this time, Christoph Thoke co-produced the Algerian-French-German coproduction Little Senegal (2001) by the director Rachid Bouchareb , an official contribution in the race for the Foreign Oscar 2001, Lubov and other Nightmares by the Russian director Andrei Nekrasov , premiered in Sundance 2002 and the two German productions Planet B: The Antman and Planet B: Detective Lovelorn , both premiered at the 52nd Berlin Film Festival in the series “Perspektive Deutsches Kino”.

In 2003 Christoph Thoke started his own business. Together with partner Axel Möbius, he founded the film production company Thoke + Moebius Film, represented in Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt. Since then he has produced and co-produced nine feature films including Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms , competition film in Venice 2003 , Tropical Malady , competition film in Cannes 2004, where he won the jury award, Buffalo Boy , official contribution to the 2006 Oscar abroad and Kyrgyz dowry , official Contribution to the 2007 Oscar abroad.

To date, the cinema productions produced or co-produced by Christoph Thoke at Thoke + Moebius Film have been invited to more than 330 film festivals worldwide and have received more than 70 awards. In 2011 he produced Love in Finnish , a Finnish drama.

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