Damir Lukačević
Damir Lukačević (born March 27, 1966 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) is a German film director and screenwriter of Croatian origin.
Live and act
At the age of four, Damir Lukačević came to Germany with his parents and made his first Super 8 films while still at school . After graduating from high school in Stuttgart, he began studying journalism and made several short films.
From 1993 to 1999 Lukačević completed training at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin in the areas of directing, screenplay, dramaturgy and acting.
Lukačević already received several awards during his studies, including the German short film award Goldenes Band für Fremde Heimat and the predicate Particularly Valuable for Game of the Day . Both films are about the Yugoslav Wars.
Fremde Heimat , with Jutta Wachowiak and Stephanie Philipp , shows a civil war in an undetermined country: a roadblock becomes the intersection of three fates. When soldiers inspect a bus, they discover a transistor radio on a young woman. Because it is tuned to a station on the opposing side, the woman is taken away and shot. Game of the day , with Marlene Marlow , Tommaso Cacciapuoti , Mehdi Nebbou and Şiir Eloğlu shows the Yugoslav War as a football game in which the teams are awarded a goal for every player killed. The film was shot on a 35 mm cinemascope and does not require any dialogue.
In 1998, the short film God's Visit was made based on a script by Robert Löhr . In it, God ( Stefan Lisewski ) visits the Deutschmann family. He asks parents to sacrifice their only son as a sign of their belief in God. The parents are horrified, the father defends himself vigorously and unintentionally kills God. The film, shot in black and white, is a parable with black humor and asks questions about the value of religion and belief in today's world.
In Homecoming (2003) - Damir Lukačevićs feature film debut - it's about the dreams and delusions of a Croatian family in Germany. Heimkehr was nominated for the German Camera Prize, the MFG-Star Baden-Baden and the Baden-Württemberg Screenwriting Prize and was awarded the Geneva Europe Screenplay Prize and the Verdi Prize for the best director.
The book from the science fiction film Transfer (2010) is based on a story by the Spanish author Elia Barceló . In Transfer is about the dream of everlasting life to identity exchange and loss of identity as well as the gap between rich and poor, white and black, a modern Doctor Faust story of the 21st century. Starring: Mehmet Kurtuluş , Jeanette Hain , Ingrid Andree , Hans-Michael Rehberg and the American actors Regine Nehy and B. J. Britt. Transfer has been shown at over 30 international festivals and has won 8 awards, including a. the CIVIS TELEVISION AWARD in the entertainment (fiction) category. In 2016 the book “Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema” was published, in which Sherryl Vint, professor at the University of Alberta, devotes a chapter to transfer.
In 2011 Lukačević portrayed five young people with different migration backgrounds from the social hotspot Berlin-Wedding in the documentary “Do you want stress or what?” . Following the example of Augusto Boal's “Theater of the Oppressed”, the young people went out into the open and improvised with spectators in mosques, churches, schools and at European theater festivals.
Inspired by the worlds of these young people, Lukačević discovered the autobiography of Arye Sharuz Shalicar "A wet dog is better than a dry Jew". In it, the former hip-hop musician and graffiti sprayer Shalicar - today a major in the Israeli army - describes his youth as a Jew among Muslims in Berlin-Wedding. In August 2015, Lukacevic began to work with students from the Upper School Center in Wedding to develop a play that Shalicar's youth was supposed to bring to the stage in theater form. It is the same school Shalicar attended in the 90s. On February 12, 2016, the play "Love, Gangs & Graffiti" celebrated its premiere. Based on the play, Lukačević will write the script, which will be filmed in summer 2017.
In the name of my son , it was broadcast on ZDF on May 2, 2016 as "TV film of the week". Based on the real case of the "mask man" ( Martin Ney ) tells the story of Claus Jansen in the name of my son , whose son Hannes disappears from boarding school overnight in 1992. A few weeks later, the boy is found murdered. When the police investigation petered out, the father began to investigate himself and made the search for the perpetrator his personal mission. Starring: Tobias Moretti , Inka Friedrich , Merlin Rose , Marc Zwinz and Maxim Mehmet . At its premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival in October 2015, In the Name of My Son won an honorable mention.
Damir Lukačević is married and has one son. He lives in Berlin.
Filmography
As a director and screenwriter
- 1994: The Fifth Commandment (short feature film)
- 1995: Trauma (short feature film)
- 1996: Fremde Heimat (short feature film)
- 1998: God's Visit (short feature film)
- 1999: Game of the day (short feature film)
- 2003: Homecoming (feature film)
- 2010: Transfer (feature film)
- 2011: Do you want stress or what? (Documentary)
- 2015: In the name of my son (TV feature film)
- 2015: The Masked Man (TV feature film)
- 2019: Police call 110: Dark Twin
Previously re-filmed scripts
- 2005: It's nice to be in the world
- 2006: Mirela's secret
- 2011: perfect copy
- 2013: love, gangs & graffiti
- 2017: vacuum
Awards
- 1996: Federal Film Prize in Gold for Foreign Home
- 1996: Peace Film Prize for Short Film for Foreign Homeland
- 1998: “Particularly valuable” rating for game of the day
- 1999: 2nd Prize Palm Springs International ShortFest for Game of the Day
- 2001: Geneva-Europe Screenplay Award for Homecoming
- 2002: Nomination for the script award of the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg for homecoming
- 2004: Nomination for the German Camera Prize for Homecoming
- 2005: Nomination for the script award from the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg for It's beautiful to be in the world
- 2006: Verdi TV Prize for Best Director for Homecoming
- 2010: Audience award at the 20th Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival for Transfer
- 2010: Winner of the Best Science Fiction Feature Film Award at the 10th Shriekfest Los Angeles for Transfer
- 2010: Winner of the Asteroid Award at the scienceplusfiction festival in Trieste for transfer
- 2010: The Baden-Württemberg Film Prize in the “Best Feature Film” category at the Stuttgart Film Show for Transfer
- 2011: Silver Melies for Best European Film at the Brussels International Fantasy Festival for Transfer
- 2011: Audience Award at the Fresh Film Fest in Prague for Transfer
- 2011: SPECIAL MENTION at Icon Tel Aviv, International SF Festival for Transfer
- 2012: Audience award at the Science Fiction Festival in Athens for Transfer
- 2014: CIVIS TELEVISION AWARD - entertainment (fiction) category for transfer
- 2015: SPECIAL MENTION at the Hamburg Film Festival for In the Name of My Son
- 2016: DEKALOG film award of the Guardini Foundation eV and the St. Matthäus Foundation
Web links
- Damir Lukačević in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Damir Lukačević at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Break out of the “guest worker world” with films Website migration-business.de
- ^ First Steps - The German Young Talent Award
- ↑ dffb-alumni ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website dffb.de
- ↑ a b Prize winners and nominees of the German Short Film Award
- ↑ a b FBW film review - game of the day
- ↑ Katholisches Filmwerk Frankfurt - Fremde Heimat ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Katholisches Filmwerk GmbH
- ↑ First Steps - Homecoming
- ↑ a b ver.di award homecoming
- ↑ German Camera Prize - Homecoming
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur - Transfer
- ↑ a b German CIVIS TV Prize - Transfer
- ↑ WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS - Red Alert
- ↑ Berlinda - Changing Reality
- ^ Jüdische Allgemeine - Premiere in the problem district
- ↑ Film and script projects
- ↑ Golden Camera - On behalf of my son
- ↑ a b Filmfest Hamburg - In the name of my son ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Palm Springs International ShortFest - Match of the Day
- ↑ MFG Filmförderung - It's nice to be in the world
- ↑ Audience Award Filmkunstfest - Transfer ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Baden-Württemberg Feature Film Award - Transfer
- ↑ Audience Award Fresh Film Fest - Transfer
- ↑ Icon Tel Aviv - Transfer
- ↑ DECALOGUE Film Award - On the Seventh Commandment
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lukačević, Damir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lukacevic, Damir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian-German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zagreb , Croatia |