Film producer Thomas Kufus: “We are always on the edge of a knife” – media

Thomas Kufus receives the Carl Laemmle Producer Award. An interview about the risk of filmmaking, the upheaval after Corona and what is still possible.

In the depot with the brick houses on Lehrter Strasse, surprising, sometimes crazy television and cinema have been devised again and again – like the real-time project 24 hours Berlinfor which 400 people recorded life in the city for a whole day in September 2008, but also award-winning documentaries and feature film dramas (who, if not we) or Regina Schilling’s wonderful television memories Kulenkampff’s shoes. Behind it are the producer Thomas Kufus and his company partner Volker Heise with their company Zero One Film. Kufus receives the Carl Laemmle Producer Award on May 26th. He’s still there, the criticism of his rather harsh film The presumptuous man to process – it shows the descent into hell of a young Berlin ethnologist in the colonial atrocities in Namibia and tells of German racism. The film was shown in the Bundestag and also in Namibia; it precedes politics, the discussion about recognizing the crimes against the Herero as genocide. Critics felt the film neglected the victim’s perspective or portrayed colonial clichés. Kufus and director Lars Kraume should have expected criticism. They made the film anyway.

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