War of dreams

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Television broadcast
German title War of dreams
Original title Clash of futures
Country of production Germany , France , Luxembourg
original language German , French , English , Italian , Polish , Russian , Swedish
year 2018
length 52 (Arte), 90 (ORF, ARD) minutes
Episodes 8 (Arte)
3 (ORF, ARD)
genre Documentary drama series
Director Jan Peter
Frédéric Goupil
idea Gunnar Dedio, Jan Peter
script Jan Peter
Frédéric Goupil
Camilla Ahlgren
Jean-Louis Schlesser
Eva-Maria Fahmüller (dramaturgical advice)
production Gunnar Dedio ( LOOKSfilm )
Serge Lalou (Les Filmes d'ici)
Nicolas Steil (IRIS Productions)
music Laurent Eyquem
camera Jürgen Rehberg
cut Susanne Schiebler (Head Editor)
First broadcast September 11, 2018 on arte
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War of Dreams (Clash of Futures) is the documentary drama series by Jan Peter and Gunnar Dedio ( LOOKSfilm ) filmed for the project of the same name . The series follows on from 14 diaries of the First World War (2014) and describes 13 personal fates in Europe in the interwar period . It is a European co-production with international partners and sponsors in the commemoration year for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918.

It was first broadcast on arte on September 11, 2018 as an eight-part series of 52 minutes each. As a shorter series in three parts of 90 minutes each, the ORF War of Dreams began to broadcast as part of the Universum History program on ORF 2 on September 14, and ARD on Das Erste on September 17, 2018.

The series was part of the overall project Clash of Futures . In addition to the drama series, this included a theater and radio play of the same name , the book Kometenjahre (2017), various special exhibitions across Europe and a social media campaign.

Production information

Creative team

The concept for War of Dreams (Clash of Futures) was developed by producer Gunnar Dedio and showrunner and director Jan Peter. The scripts were written by Jan Peter and co-director Frédéric Goupil ( Les Revenants , The Returned ). They were supported by the scriptwriters Camilla Ahlgren ( Die Brücke - Transit in den Tod ) and Jean-Louis Schlesser as well as by Eva-Maria Fahmüller for the dramaturgical advice . The authors received technical advice from Professor Daniel Schönpflug , historian at the Free University of Berlin and Scientific Coordinator of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the French historian Johann Chapoutot .

The director of photography Jürgen Rehberg, who already filmed 14 diaries of the First World War , was responsible for the visual implementation . The music for the series was composed by Laurent Eyquem (USS Indianapolis, Rage) . In autumn 2017 the Hollywood composer recorded the film music with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra , the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Salzburg Festival and Theater Children's Choir . The Stuttgart company Mackevision , which is one of the world market leaders for Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) , implemented the visual effects . Mackevision was also responsible for the effects on Game of Thrones and Independence Day: Wiederkehr .

Co-producers and sponsors

War of Dreams is a European series production with international partners and sponsors. The co-production of LOOKSfilm ( Gunnar Dedio ), Les Films d'Ici (Serge Lalou), IRIS Productions (Nicolas Steil) with Fortis Imaginatio was carried out in cooperation with ARTE and SWR as well as NDR , WDR , rbb , ORF , CT , SVT , Histoire Toute l'histoire , BBC / MG Alba, YLE , NRK , DR , LRT and Radio Canada filmed. The SWR was in charge of the ARD . The production was funded by Creative Europe MEDIA , MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung , MFG , CNC and Film Fund Luxembourg as well as la Procirep et l'Angoa, CUS, Région Grand Est, DMPA, SACEM and Sofit-vciné & Cofinova.

Filming time and locations

The filming took place from April 5 to July 5, 2017 in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Filming locations were u. a. the former ARBED steelworks in Esch sur Alzette , Luxembourg , the Fond-de-Gras industrial park in Lasauvage , the Château La Grange near Manom near the Lorraine capital of Metz , the Fort Breendonk National Memorial in Willebroek , Belgium , the historic thermal baths of Spa in the Belgian Ardennes , an old cinema in Péruwelz in the south of Belgium, the Louvigniés castle in the Walloon Chaussée-Notre-Dame and the port of Den Helder in the north of the Netherlands.

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The War of Dreams tells the history of Europe between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. The multilingual, documentary drama series focuses on the fate of thirteen people from nine nations. The source for the scripts was her diary entries, letters and memoirs. The protagonists include the communist Hans Beimler , the silent film star Pola Negri , the later Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß and the French anarchist May Picqueray . There is also a continuation of the story of the Russian child soldier Marina Yurlova and the war reporter Charles Edward Montague from 14 - Diaries of the First World War (2014). The series condenses history on the subjective experience of individual people. Showrunner, director and author Jan Peter : “We show the life of our protagonists as it happens. Without ready-made judgments, without the know-it-all look of those born later. History is what happens to us every day - with an open outcome. "

Protagonists

Hans Beimler (Germany)

Hans Beimler , born in 1895, was a founding member of the Communist Party and represented it in the Bavarian State Parliament for a few months in 1932. After the NSDAP came to power , he joined the resistance. After several years on the run from the Nazi regime, he joined the international brigades in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 . He was shot dead in Madrid on December 1, 1936 .

Rudolf Höß (Germany)

Rudolf Höß was born in 1900 and originally wanted to be a priest. Indignant about the terms of the Versailles Treaty , he joined an ultra-right volunteer corps after the First World War. At the end of the 1920s, he and his family initially retired to the countryside. The meeting with Heinrich Himmler in 1934 marked the beginning of his steep career in the SS . Höß eventually became camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp and was responsible for the deaths of more than a million people.

Pola Negri (Poland / Germany / USA)

Pola Negri was born Apolonia Chałupiec in Poland in 1897 . She became a silent film star through her collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch and was ultimately the first German actress to receive a contract with Paramount Pictures in Hollywood . After the invention of the sound film , however, Negri was rarely cast because her strong accent irritated viewers. She lost her fortune in the course of the global economic crisis . Pola Negri returned to Germany, where from 1935 the Nazis tried to use her as an instrument for their propaganda films.

Marie-Jeanne Picqueray (France)

Marie-Jeanne Picqueray , born in Savenay (western France) in 1898 , went to Paris after the First World War , where she joined the anarchists. In Paris in the 1920s she fanatically pursued the idea of ​​a classless and hierarchical society. During the Second World War she forged passports for Jews and those politically persecuted; it also housed refugees from the Spanish Civil War. She remained politically active all her life.

Edith Wellspacher (Austria)

Edith Wellspacher was one of the first women in Austria to be admitted to medical school. Your political entanglements in the period before the Second World War were of a private nature: your partner was Jewish. At the same time, Wellspacher was having an affair with an older colleague who, although posing as a communist, was at the same time a member of the NSDAP. Shortly after Austria was annexed to the Greater German Reich, her Jewish partner was arrested and deported to the concentration camp. Wellspacher fled Austria in the summer of 1938.

Marina Yurlova (Russia / USA)

Marina Yurlova was born around 1900 in a small village north of the Caucasus . The daughter of a colonel of the Kuban Cossacks was just 14 years old when her father went to war in August 1914. In search of him, she became a child soldier in the Russian army. In 1917 she got caught up in the turmoil of the October Revolution , but eventually fled to the United States . There she made a career as a dancer and writer. Yurlova married the cinematographer William C. Hyer. She died in New York in 1984.

Marcel Jamet (France)

Marcel Jamet wanted a luxurious, comfortable life after the fighting of the First World War. By making his partner work as a prostitute, he earned enough money to open the One Two Two brothel in Paris . The establishment became the most famous brothel in the country. It was a meeting place for international society, but also for the military and politicians.

Silvio Crespi (Italy)

Silvio Crespi , a successful entrepreneur and industrialist, was a staunch liberal. But from the beginning he actively supported fascism , from whose rise his company initially benefited economically. With the global economic crisis in 1929, the credit-financed growth of the Crespis group of companies began to falter. He was commissioned by the government to produce black fabric for the uniforms of the fascist party. When the state could no longer pay on time, Crespi's corporate empire went bankrupt.

Elise Ottesen (Sweden)

Elise Ottesen , the seventeenth child of a provost, was Sweden's first sex educator - at a time when sexual education, contraception and abortion were still banned. All over Western Europe in the 1920s were extremely strict sex laws. Ottesen wrote articles for left-wing newspapers and organized socialist educational evenings for working class women. In 1926 she published her book Unwelcome Children and became internationally known as a women's rights activist.

Unity Mitford (Great Britain)

Unity Mitford , who grew up in London , was an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler and met him personally in 1935 at the age of 21. Her enthusiasm for fascism was in stark contrast to the communist orientation of her sister Jessica Mitford . In the spring of 1938 Mitford stood by Hitler's side when he announced the annexation of Austria in Vienna. When Great Britain declared war on the German Reich on September 3, 1939, Unity Mitford shot himself in the head in the English Garden in Munich. The suicide attempt failed. In 1948 she died of the long-term effects of the injury.

Nguyen Ai Quoc (Hồ Chí Minh) (France / Soviet Union / Vietnam)

Nguyen Ai Quoc was born around 1890 in the French colony of Indochina , today's Vietnam . Early on, he became politically active against French rule. During the First World War, Nguyen traveled as a laborer through Europe and the USA. In Paris he followed the way the colonial peoples were dealt with in the Versailles treaty negotiations. He saw communism as a way out. Under his battle name Hồ Chí Minh , he proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi in 1945 . When neither the French colonial power nor China recognized the state, armed resistance followed.

Charles Edward Montague (Great Britain)

Charles Edward Montague , born in 1867, was a journalist , liberal and opposition spokesman. He disseminated his criticism of the British occupation policy after the First World War in the 1920s, among other things with his book Disenchantment (1923), an account of the British elites in the First World War. The publication sparked a national scandal and ushered in the end of his journalistic career.

Stepan Podlubny (Soviet Union)

As the son of a Ukrainian kulak in Bolshevik Russia, Stepan Podlubny had to hide his true identity at an early age. His growing up in the Soviet Union was shaped by the experience that survival under Stalinist communism was only possible through lies. In Moscow in the 1930s he was finally recruited as a spy by the NKVD secret service . As more and more fellow students disappeared, and eventually his own mother too, Podlubny became more critical of the Stalinist system. In autumn 1939 he was arrested himself and sent to a labor camp for several years.

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The 13 main characters of the series are embodied by the following actors:

main character actor
Hans Beimler Jan Krauter
Rudolf Höss Joel Basman
Pola Negri Michalina Olszańska
May Picqueray Solène Rigot
Edith Wellspacher Roxane Duran
Marina Yurlova Natalia Witmer
Marcel Jamet Robinson Stévenin
Silvio Crespi Gennaro Cannavacciuolo
Elise Ottesen Rebecka Hemse
Unity Mitford Charlotte Merriam
Nguyen Ai Quoc Alexandre Nguyen
Charles Edward Montague David Acton
Stepan Podlubny Pyotr Skvortsov
In other roles Thomas Arnold
Roland Bonjour
Luc Feit
André Jung
Anne Kulbatzki
Wolfgang Menardi
Shanti Roney
Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Jelly Francis Gaviria
Emilie Gavois-Kahn u. v. m.

Overall project "Clash of Futures"

In addition to the drama series, the overall production also includes:

Awards

  • 2019: Prize of the French film composers association UMCF ("Union des compositeurs de musiques de films") for Laurent Eyquem in the category: "Best Music for a Documentary" / "Best Music for a Documentary"
  • 2019: nominated for the Franco-German Journalism Award
  • 2019: Awarded the Civis - Europe's Media Prize for Integration 2019 in the category "Entertainment (fictional)". Jury statement: “A great TV series: exciting, highly topical, cinematic and theatrical outstanding. A European film that shows people's seductiveness and enthusiasm through populist slogans and propaganda from different national perspectives. Parallels to today can be felt (episode 6 | promise). Excellently researched, with unusually impressive picture collages, the drama series delivers the harrowing experience of illiberal authoritarian structures and oppression in different life paths - the opposite of a political and culturally diverse, integrative society. 100 years after the end of the First World War, the extraordinary production focuses on a dark chapter in European history. Historically, it shows the rise of left and right populists and the increase in group-related agitation and hostility. It clearly shows that everyone is jointly responsible for the social and political developments of their time. "
  • 2019: nominated for the Grimme Prize (Information & Culture Competition)
  • 2019: nominated for the DAFF Prize of the German Academy for Television in the categories screenplay and VFX / animation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The war of dreams at crew united . Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ In 3 parts: Universe History - War of Dreams - Part 1: Winner and Loser. In: tv.ORF.at , September 14, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b About the project. In: Official website of the entire SWR project, accessed on September 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b List of staff and members for production on the SWR website.
  5. ^ War of Dreams on the LOOKSfilm website , accessed September 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Start of shooting of the documentary drama series 18 - War of Dreams on the SWR website.
  7. ↑ Petrowsky Wellspacher 2/2009. Document (PDF) on Erika Mitterer's website.
  8. ^ Macaulay, New York 1934, OCLC 1198632
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Döpp: Paris Eros: The imaginary erotic museum. Parkstone Press Ltd., New York 2004 (German version), ISBN 1-85995-759-5 , p. 233.
  10. ↑ War of Dreams / Clash of Futures on the Salzburger Landestheater website, accessed on September 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ France Musique: À quand la palme? Retrieved May 1, 2019 (French).
  12. ↑ DFJP: Nominations 2019. Accessed October 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Civis Medienstiftung: CIVIS Prize Winners 2019. Accessed on May 24, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Grimme Prize: War of Dreams (LOOKSfilm / IRIS Group / Les Films d'Ici / Fortis Imaginatio for SWR / NDR / WDR / RBB / ORF / CT / Toute l'histoire). Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  15. ↑ German Academy for Television: DAFF Prize 2019: German Academy for Television announces the nominees. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .