Babylon Berlin director Tom Tykwer returns to cinema with Das Ligt – The Hollywood Reporter
(From left): Tom Tykwer, Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Edinger on the set of “Das Licht”
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Tom Tykwer returns to the movies.
German director Run Lola Run And Atlantic clouds He announced his return to filmmaking with German drama Das Licht (the light).
The film, which has just wrapped principal photography, is described as a portrait of a family “between collapse and new beginnings” and deals with the major issues of our time “in a world reeling”.
Das Licht It is Tykwer’s first feature film since 2016 3D image of the king Starring Tom Hanks. He has spent the past seven years in television production, co-creating and directing, with Henk Handlugten and Achim von Borris, four seasons of the acclaimed and award-winning German historical series. Babylon Berlin.
Stars das Ligt Babylon Berlin alum Lars Edinger and actor/director Nicolette Krebitz (Wild, Zoe) as Tim and Melina Engels, a married couple whose family is falling apart, including twins Frieda (Elke Piesendorfer) and John (Julius Goes) and their illegitimate son Dio (Elias Eldridge). The English’s world is thrown into turmoil when their new housekeeper, Farah (Tala El-Din), from Syria, enters their lives.
“After a long time spent in the roaring twenties with Babylon Berlin, I can finally return to the present day,” says Tykwer. “There are arguments, wrestling and fighting Das LichtBut there is also laughter, singing and dancing. The film will explore and test the range of emotions and corresponding narrative possibilities. The characters are very familiar to me. I want to try to reflect their struggle and simultaneous connection with the audience and make it tangible.
Tykwer’s last German-language film was the 2010 drama Ménage à trois 3. In addition to the 2012 science fiction epic Atlantic cloudswhich Tykwer co-wrote and directed with the Wachowski Brothers, includes his previous features International (2009), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), sky (2002), The princess and the warrior (2000), Run Lola Run (1998), Winter sleepers (1997), and Maria the killer (1993).
Produced by Tykwer’s shingle X Filme Creative Pool, Das Licht, which was shot in Germany and Kenya, will be released theatrically in Germany via X Filme X Verleih’s distribution arm in association with Warner Bros. Pictures. Germany on October 17, 2024.
Uwe Schott is producing the film with Babylon Berlin And Atlantic clouds Cinematographer Christian Almesberger is behind the camera. Production designer is Tim Tamke (Berlin dogs), Pierre-Yves Giraud, who worked with Tykwer Atlantic clouds, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer And Babylon BerlinHe took up fashion design.
Das Licht is produced in co-production with ZDF, ARP Séléction, Gold Rush Pictures, Gretchenfilm and BA Filmproduktion with support from the German Film Fund DFFF, the Federal Film Board FFA and regional subsidies from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Film and Film. NRW Medical Foundation.
