With his new film “Contra”, Sönke Wortmann has created a furious piece of dialogue. In the interview he talks about dealing with racism, concessions to freedom of expression and his beginnings as a driver on the set of “Monaco Franze”.
The probability of having seen a Sönke Wortmann film at some point is statistically very high in Germany. With “The Moving Man” the director shot a downright style-defining social comedy that reached almost seven million viewers in 1994 and is one of the most successful German films of all time. With “Die Päpstin” and “Das Wunder von Bern” he became great historical, with “Germany. A Summer Fairy Tale” he documented the 2006 World Cup.