rockabilly requiem

FESTIVAL PRESSKIT
ROCKABILLY REQUIEM
FESTIVAL PRESSKIT
Director: Till Müller-Edenborn
Ruby O. Fee, Sebastian Tiede, Ben Münchow, Margarita Broich, Hendrik Duryn, Martin
Feifel, Alexander Hauff a.o.
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FESTIVAL PRESSKIT
LOGLINE
Love, death and self-liberation – A powerful defeat of the superficiality of middle-class safety.
SYNOPSIS
West Germany 1982: Hubertus and Sebastian don't want to end up like their fathers, ever. Music
and their shared love for punk princess Debbie are the only way to escape the foul smell of
polishing wax and bourgeoise self-pride. When a cool rockabilly band is looking for a support act
to their upcoming tour, it's obvious: This is their one and only chance to get away from middle
class life with all its rules and constraints! But Hubertus' father leaves nothing untried to stop his
son's musical aspirations. As they are invited to an audition, the situation is about to explode.
PRESS NOTES
With his feature film debut ROCKABILLY REQUIEM director and writer Till Müller-Edenborn brings
us a thrilling movie about love, death and self-liberation, an exciting revival of the 80s, its youth
culture and most importantly punk and rockabilly. In front of the camera we see an excellent cast
united, from young up-and-coming talents like Jupiter Award winner Ruby O. Fee (AS WE WERE
DREAMING, BIBI & TINA), Ben Münchow (BOY 7), who won the newcomer prize at Film Festival
Max Ophüls Preis for his performance in ROCKABILLY REQUIEM, and Sebastian Tiede to renowned
German actors like Margarita Broich (HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK, SOURCES OF LIFE), Martin Feifel
(AGNES AND HIS BROTHERS, THE WOMEN ROSENSTRASSE), Alexander Hauff (WHO AM I) and
Hendrik Duryn (THE KING'S SURRENDER).
Till Müller-Edenborn wrote his debut screen-play together with Jörg Bruhn.
ROCKABILLY REQUIEM premiered January, 19 2016 at the film festival Max Opühls Preis in the
main section „full length feature film“ (Wettbewerb Langfilm). ROCKABILLY REQUIEM's theatrical
release will be in summer 2016 and is distributed by farbfilm verleih.
ROCKABILLY REQUIEM is a production by Neue Mira Filmproduktion, co-produced by WDR.
ROCKABILLY REQUIEM was funded by nordmedia, MDM and DFFF.
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FESTIVAL PRESSKIT
CREW
Director
Cinematographer
Screen-play
Editor
Music
Costume designer
Production designer
Sound
Composer
Production
Till Müller-Edenborn
Sönke Hansen
Till Müller-Edenborn
Jörg Bruhn
Sebastian Thümler
Hans Heyne, Rockabilly Riot, The Wild Black Jets
Nadine Kremeier
Bärbel Menzel
Stephan von Hase
Hans Heyne
Neue Mira Filmproduktion (Elke Peters)
Executive Producer: Marcel Noll & Carsten Rocker
Co-Production
WDR (Redaktion: Frank Tönsmann)
Financiers
nordmedia – Film und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Deutscher Filmförderfonds
CAST
Sebastian
Debbie
Hubertus
Eddie
Buddie
Laura
Hubertus' father
Hubertus' mother
Knut, Debbie's father
Sebastian's father
Sebastian's mother
Sebastian's grand-mother
Tattoo Joe
Priest Nowak
Petra
Franny
Sarah Chipfield
Innkeeper Inge
Sebastian Tiede
Ruby O. Fee
Ben Münchow
Jeremias Koschorz
Roland Schreglmann
Lena Schultz
Alexander Hauff
Margarita Broich
Hendrik Duryn
Martin Feifel
Barbara Romaner
Jutta Wachowiak
Marko Dyrlich
Dietrich Mattausch
Luisa Liebtrau
Pia Koch
Kristin Meyer
Ramona Kunze-Libnow
And the WILD BLACK JETS
Torsten Gluschke (Vocals & Guitar)
Florian Meyer (Double Bass)
Uli Mahnken (Drums)
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FESTIVAL PRESSKIT
DIRECTOR
TILL MÜLLER-EDENBORN – director and writer
“When does our youth start and where does it end? Nothing in our country is really far away, only
our dreams always seem to lie beyond the horizon. This horizon is especially concrete in our youth.”
Till Müller-Edenborn
Till Müller-Edenborn studied philosophy and french literature in Paris and Cologne. 1992-97 he
worked as a film curator for FILMCLUB 813 in Cologne and until 1999 he was co-publisher and
editor for the film magazine NACHtBLENDE. Since 1998 he worked in numerous fields in tv
productions. Since 1998 he has gained extensive work experience in tv production. 1998-99 he
worked as script/continuity supervisor for productions like„Tatort Köln“ (Cologne) the most
popular German crime series or the tv crime-series „Der Fahnder“. 2001-2008 he worked as
assistant director and as second unit director for „Tatort“, „Soko Leipzig“, „Ein Fall für Zwei“, „Ein
starkes Team“ and „Soko Wien“. His first projects as a director include short movies like BLACK
MARK or DIE LIEBE IST EIN HAUS (Love is a House) and continued directing 24 episodes of the
German youth series „Schloss Einstein – Erfurt“, 16 episodes of Germany's most popular soap
opera „Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten“ and further episodes for „SOKO München“ (aka SOKO 5113)
as well as „Herzensbrecher – Vater von vier Söhnen“.
ROCKABILLY REQUIEM is his feature film debut.
FILMOGRAPHY
2016
2015
2015
2014
2012
2008-11
2006
2002
2000
1999/2000
ROCKABILLY REQUIEM
SOKO MÜNCHEN (aka SOKO 5113)
HERZENSBRECHER – VATER VON VIER SÖHNEN
SOKO 5113
GUTE ZEITEN – SCHLECHTE ZEITEN
SCHLOSS EINSTEIN – ERFURT
DIE LIEBE IST EIN HAUS
BLACK MARK
JETZT ODER NIE: ZEIT IST GELD
JAHRESTAGE
Director, screenplay | feature film
Director | TV series
Director | TV series
Director | TV series
Director | TV series
Director | TV series
Director | short film
Director | short film
Assistant director| feature film
Script/Continuity | TV film
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