Crew & Cast With the right mixture of nose and professionality Rainer Erler succeded always to put the perfect crew together fitting to the theme. The schedule of the actors he engaged is full of famous names. Among unforgettable film- and theatrecracks like Hanns Lothar, Martin Held and Wolfgang Kieling Rainer Erler emploid superactors like Mario Adorf, Horst Frank, Gudrun Landgrebe, Götz George, Jürgen Pochnow and Helmut Lohner, telling only a few names.
Summaries from the crew&cast-lists of famous Erler-Films: Seelenwanderung (in German)(Transmigration of a Soul) A Film by Rainer Erler Featuring: Hanns Lothar, Wolfgang Reichmann, Robert Meyn and others D.O.P.: Günther Senftleben Music by Carl Otto Schilling Editor: Johannes Nikel Written and directed by Rainer Erler Based on Karl Wittlinger’s Stage Play 80 minutes, 1962 Produced by Bavaria Atelier GmbH, Munich Distribution: Matthias Film Verleih, Stuttgart Awards: Ernst Lubitsch Prize, Prix Italia, Golden Nymph of Monte Carlo, Dibelius Prize of the Bishop of Berlin, Berlin Film Festival. German Cinema Award besonders wertvoll (‚special valuable’) Seelenwanderung, previously produced for TV, had a successful nine week first run in Munich’s legendary “Studio for Cinema-Art”, and was screened for more than ten years in the Art Cinemas of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Axel and Bum, two fellow underdogs, undergo a satiric adventure in those days of Germany’s „wonder years“, the decade after WWII. (in German – with English subtitles)
To gain the Order of the Republic, the highest decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany, some people would invest a fortune. Why not create a private enterprise to fulfil these dreams of vanity? (in German – with English subtitles)
In this bizarre comedy – set in the last and most chaotic days of World War II - defenders and deserters meet in a remote mountain-farm, forced to pretend patriotism to the last shot.
starring Martin Held (in German)
German Cinema Award: wertvoll (‚valuable’)
100 min, 1967
When a German Occupation Company was transferred from a peaceful Southern France township to the battlefields of no return in Russia, paymaster Küppes was unexpectedly left behind with a valuable treasure box: official vouchers, forms and stamps, priceless in these days at the end of World War II. That’s why he became the honourable ‘Monsieur le Commandant’! (in German – with English subtitles) The 9th of November 1939 - two months after Hitler occupied Poland - a humble carpenter, Georg Elser, tried to assassinate the dictator and his core-fellows with his handmade bomb. He failed his target only by minutes!
(in German, Italian, French and Engl.subtitles) Have Extraterrestrials visited the earth? Was the TV-reporter Will Roczinski a victim of this „Delegation“? The Thriller, camouflaged as documentary, tries to solve the riddle about accidentally detected news-reels, found in Roczinskis wrecked car.
In his novel „The Delegation“, based on his film, Rainer Erler describes in a fictional‑ fiction way, “how this film could have been created”. The book has been published as a long-seller over 20 years by several publishers: C.Bertelsmann, Goldmann, Fischer Orbit, Bastei Lübbe, Ullstein and in several European languages.
(in German, Italian, French and with English subtitles)
A group of progressive, independent scientists have gathered in the Blue Palace to inquire into the different aspects of our future, discussing - and crossing - ethnic and moral borders.
The controversial topics of the five Science Thrillers are: (in German – with English subtitles)
D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 90 min, 1974 In this bizarre „Apocalyptic Comedy“, a young man follows a girl to an idyllic weekend colony, which gets buried day-by-day and step by step by a giant rubbish tip. Together with all those friendly narrow-minded citizens, which ignore the disaster. (in German and English)
(The Last Holidays) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 90 min, 1975 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich Distribution: ImBild; World sales: Atlas International, Munich Rainer Erler’s novel Die letzten Ferien has been published by Goldmann and Ullstein. On a nightly boat trip on the Atlantic, a young girl escapes her brutal killer only by chance. Next morning, back in her parent’s apartment, instead of finding comfort and help, she meets him again, sitting beside her parents at the breakfast table: A murderer on her parent’s payroll! – So she has to run for her life. (in German and in English) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 127 min, 1977 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich Distribution: ImBild; World sales: Atlas International, Munich Awards: Only one of three space ships of an international space mission with the remaining crew of 5 astronauts has survived the disaster behind Jupiter. After a successful but dramatic and tragic mission on the Jupiter Moon Ganymede they return unexpected in the earth’s orbit. (produced in English and German simultaneously) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 90 min, 1978 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich Distribution: Fantasia Film-Verleih; World sales: Atlas International, Munich Awards: „Eichborn Magazin“ published the script together with photos Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrorists – or in the possession of a brutal and inhuman dictatorship? (produced in English) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 125 min, 1979 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich Distribution: Avis Filmverleih and Film-Allianz, Filmverlag der Autoren, ImBild Fleisch (Spare Parts) became an European „Cult Film“! The story of a self-sacrificing friendship in a world of ultimate horror ran in more than 120 countries for theatrical release Award: Golden Nymph, Monte Carlo Rainer Erler’s best selling novel Fleisch reached 600.000 copies in the German edition alone. Published by Goldmann, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Ullstein and Herbig-Langen-Müller. Zhe novel was translated in several European languages. Set in New York, at Princeton University New Jersey and in the Southwest, New Mexico and Texas, Rainer Erler’s Psycho-Thriller follows a young couple on their honeymoon trip – ending up in a deadly nightmare: An organised crime syndicate catches healthy young people – spare parts for organ banks. (in German) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 90 min, 1978 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler for the Bavarian Broadcasting Company BR Die Quelle was nominated for the German Adolf Grimme Prize and was entry in the Monte Carlo TV-Festival. Wolf, the young adventurer, ends up on a remote island, where water is more precious than gold, and in a nightmare of threat, greed and murder. (in German – with English subtitles) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 90 min, 1980 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna and SRG-Zurich “India enhances your neurosis!” In this satiric film comedy a third class Opera Singer ‘inherits’ a group of strange believers in Indian spirituality - but most successful in collecting donations. (in German) D.O.P.: Ingo Hamer 90 min, 1981 Filmed in and around Munich, on the Canary Islands and in New York A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich Distribution: ImBild; World sales: Atlas International, Munich This bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless creativity and even human life without any respect right to the finish. (produced in English) D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 90 min, 1983 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich, Books&Films-Australia Chemist Michael Brandt travels to Western Australia on behalf of a great German Company. Pretending to be a private investor he purchases industrial real estate for a pesticide factory - chemicals which have long been on the forbidden list in Europe and in the U.S. but make huge profit on sales in Third World Countries. Mirapuri published the screenplay. Awards: „TV-movie of the month“ and nominated for the environmental prize of Prince Rainier of Monaco, Monte Carlo TV-Festival (“Journey to a Glowing Future”) Featuring: D.O.P.: Wolfgang Grasshoff 120 min, 1986 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich Reflex Film Ltd, London, Books&Films-Australia Awards: Academy Award of Italy (Accademia Italia, Targa d’Oro), the German Kurd Lasswitz Prize, the environmental prize Golden Flame and nominated for the Emmy Award Rainer Erler’s novel „Reise in eine strahlende Zukunft: HC published by Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach and Naumann & Göbel, PB: Bastei Lübbe and Das Neue Berlin Where to store the nuclear waste of the European and Japanese nuclear power plants, the burnt out fuel rods? Solving this problem would be a billion-billion-profit business. (Sugar – The Sweet Disaster Comedy) D.O.P.: Simon Akkerman 90 min, 1989 A pentagramma production – Renate Erler in coproduction with ZDF, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich, Reflex Film Ltd-London and Books&Films-Australia Herbig Verlag, Munich (HC) and Goldmann (PB) published Rainer Erlers „Novel of a Sweet Disaster – Sugar“ Genetically modified microbes turn all paper to sugar. All paper!! When they accidentally escaped from Professor Dr.Dr.Dr. Leo Kaminski’s laboratory, this will be the end of our Civilisation. (The Kaltenbach Papers) (Part 1 „Sharon“, Part 2 „Eva“) Featuring: Produced by Universum Film Berlin (UFA) in coproduction with ZDF, Coral Europe, Beta Film - Taurus, RAIUNO-Roma, ORF-Vienna, SRG-Zurich and Pay-TV-Premiere Filmed in Berlin and Cannes, in Morocco: Casablanca, Essaouira, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Erfoud and Rissani, in Portugal: Lisbon and Sintra. Rainer Erlers Novel „Die Kaltenbach Papiere“ has been published by Weitbrecht Verlag Stuttgart (HC), and Goldmann (PB) Three nuclear warheads, the ultimate weapon for terror, blackmailing and mass destruction, are on their way to their final destination in North Africa. Two journalists, Tom Severin and his wife Eva, together with Sharon, weapon dealer Kaltenbach’s daughter, try to stop the deadly cargo. |