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A very warm welcome to the 14th Audi Festival of German Films!
Gansel is best known for directing The Wave and his following project; the vampire film We Are The Night, which starred Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer....
A portrait of director Karoline Herfurth
Karoline Herfurth is no longer a newcomer, not even as a director.
Born in Berlin in 1984, the actor has now directed four feature films in parallel to her acting career. Two of them, WUNDERSCHÖN and EINFACH MAL WAS SCHÖNES, were released in German cinemas in 2022 (following delays due to Covid).
But she is still as nervous as ever in face of an upcoming premiere.
Certainly, Herfurth laughs loudly at my question whether a cinema release six years after her debut SMS FÜR DICH cannot be casually chalked up as routine: “It’s not as if I have the recipe for a film that works perfectly.
Besides, every film takes two to three years of work, and not just for me. That’s why as a filmmaker you bear a lot of responsibility for every story. And it never becomes commonplace to make yourself naked somehow and visible in this way, because there is a lot of personal stuff in every film, from humour to values.”
Herfurth, who is also involved in each of he