Limitless (2017)

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Movie
German title Limitless
Original title Submergence
Country of production Germany , France , Spain , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Wim Wenders
script Erin Dignam
production Cameron Lamb
music Fernando Velázquez
camera Benoît Debie
cut Toni Froschhammer
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Wim Wenders at the Berlinale 2017

Boundless (original title: Submergence ) is a romantic thriller by Wim Wenders , which is based on the novel of the same name by JM Ledgard . The leading roles were played by James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander . The film was staged in Europe and Africa from the end of March 2016 and celebrated its world premiere on September 10, 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival . On September 22, 2017, he also opened the film festival in San Sebastián . In Germany it was first seen on October 13, 2017 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The cinema release in Germany was on August 2, 2018.

action

British secret agent and hydraulic engineer James Moore is captured by jihad fighters in Somalia . Meanwhile, Danielle Flinders is working as a marine researcher in the Greenland Sea. Both had met and fell in love by chance in a hotel on the French Atlantic coast a few weeks earlier.

production

The production benefits from the support of the Franco-German Funding Commission of the Film Funding Agency and the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée . The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is funding the film with 450,000 euros. Wenders' company Neue Road Movies is realizing the film in coproduction with Backup (Paris) and Morena (Madrid). The film was shot in the Babelsberg studio in Potsdam and in various other locations in Spain and France in Djibouti and on the Faroe Islands .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Grenzlos . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 178701 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. a b Wenders makes Vikander and McAvoy lovers. Blickpunkt: Film , March 21, 2016, accessed on March 22, 2016 .
  3. a b James McAvoy in Wenders' "Submergence". Blickpunkt: Film , November 3, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015 .
  4. Wenders celebrates its world premiere in Toronto. In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , July 25, 2017, accessed July 26, 2017 .
  5. Wenders' "Submergence" for the opening in San Sebastián. In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , August 1, 2017, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  6. a b The Medienboard awards almost 6.5 million euros. In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , May 12, 2016, accessed on May 13, 2016 .
  7. Brandenburg is going crazy : high-season shooting with Til Schweiger, Detlev Buck and "Babylon Berlin" In: medienboard.de, 23 August 2016.