We are very happy to announce the completion of the shooting of our future thriller “The House” (WT), starring Tobias Moretti and Valery Tscheplanowa!
Germany 2029: Star journalist Johann Hellström (Tobias Moretti) is banned from writing and retreats with his wife Lucia (Valery Tscheplanowa) to their luxurious vacation home on an island. As the political situation in Germany escalates, the smarthome transforms more and more from a peaceful refuge to a dangerous adversary…
The successful director Rick Ostermann (“Das Boot”, “Dengler – Fremde Wasser”, “Krieg” aka “Fremder Feind”) has filmed the future thriller “Das Haus” in Sweden near Stockholm and in Hamburg. The main shoot was from October 27 to December 7. Björn Vosgerau and Uwe Kolbe of Wüste Medien GmbH are producing the film in co-production with NDR, ARTE and rbb. Ostermann also wrote the screenplay together with Patrick Brunken (among others SWR “Tatort: Sonnenwende”). It is based on a short story by journalist Dirk Kurbjuweit. The story was published last year in the collection “2029 – Geschichten von Morgen” (“2029 – Stories of Tomorrow”), edited by Suhrkamp Verlag, NDR, SWR and Futurium. “The House” will be shown on ARTE and the German public broadcaster Das Erste next year, following a theatrical release distributed by not.sold Hamburg, and will be shown in the ARD Mediathek.
About the story: Germany 2029. Political journalist Johann Hellström is banned from his profession after an important source in his last article turns out to be a false informant. Hellström believes it was an act of sabotage by the increasingly authoritarian government, but also bitterly reproaches his editor-in-chief Paschke (Hans-Jochen Wagner) for not protecting him. Together with his wife Lucia, Johann retreats to their luxurious and fully digitalized weekend home on an idyllic island. While political conditions in the country continue to destabilize due to a terrorist attack, their “smarthome” develops more and more a life of its own. It manipulates the couple and plays them off against each other by revealing intimate secrets. Finally, when two regime critics, wanted throughout Germany, seek shelter with Lucia, the situation in the house escalates completely. Johann is torn between his love for Lucia and the feeling of having been betrayed by her: Who can he still trust?
Other roles are played by Lisa Vicari, Max von der Groeben, Samir Fuchs and Daniel Krauss.
Behind the camera was Stefan Ciupek, production design: KD Gruber, production management: Björn Eggert. The commissioning editors are Sabine Holtgreve (NDR), Andreas Schreitmüller (ARTE) and Verena Veihl (RBB). The production of “The House” was funded by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. The theatrical release is distributed by not.sold Hamburg, internationally the thriller is distributed by The Playmaker.
