Having covered East Germany (Grill Point [+lee también:
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Gerhard Gundermann (1955-1998) once worked in the coal mines after he was dismissed from the military academy, and he was once even a Stasi agent and a member of the GDR’s socialist party before being expelled from it for ideological dissent. Known for his songs tinged with melancholy and social commentary, he would probably have pursued a career in politics if he hadn’t died of a heart attack at the age of 43. To breathe life into this unsettling (anti-)hero character in his film, which was penned by his regular writing partner Laila Stieler, Dresen chose Alexander Scheer (who recently played the role of Nietzsche in Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free [+lee también:
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Gundermann, which is being produced by Claudia Steffen for Pandora Film Produktion, in co-production with Kineo Filmproduktion, RBB and Arte, was shot over a period of two months between October and December 2017, with support from the DFFF federal film fund (€750,000), the Ministry of Culture (€30,000, then €500,000) and the FFA (€470,000), in addition to the regional funds MDM (€25,000, then €600,000), NRW North Rhine-Westphalia (€700,000) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (€500,000). Pandora Filmverleih will bring it out in German theatres on 23 August.

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