Film Archive

Ode To Cologne (Viel passiert - Der BAP Film)

Wenders and Niedecken: the internationally renowned filmmaker and the successful rock musician got together to make a rock 'n' roll film that breaks all conventions. A gripping collage of current concert recordings and
rare archive photos, enhanced by Niedecken's unique texts and commentaries, as well as guest appearances by Wolf Biermann, Marie Baeumer, Joachim Król and the rock band Anger 77 - a fascinating portrait of a band that even after 20 years of "Cologne rock" is still at the top. Ode to Cologne is a special kind of music film, one that will excite not only BAP fans.

Wim Wenders was born in Duesseldorf in 1945. He abandoned studies in Medicine and Philosophy to become a painter, but in Paris he discovered cinema instead. He attended film school in Munich from 1967-1970, and then started to direct and produce his own films. He has received numerous international awards, including the Golden Lion (1982), the Golden Palm (1984), the European Film Award (1988), and a Silver Bear (2000). He is a professor at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, and lives partly in America, partly in Berlin. A selection of his acclaimed films includes: The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1971), Alice in the Cities (1973), In the Course of Time (1976), The American Friend (1977), Hammett (1982), The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Until the End of the World (1991), Faraway, So Close! (1993), Lisbon Story (1994), The End of Violence (1997), Buena Vista Social Club (1998), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), The Soul of a Man (2003), Land of Plenty (2004), Don’t Come Knocking (2005), and Palermo Shooting (2008), among others.
 

Genre Music
Category Documentary Cinema, Documentary TV
Year of Production 2000
Director Wim Wenders
Screenplay Wim Wenders
Director of Photography Phedon Papamichael
Editors Moritz Laube, Igor Patalas
Music by BAP
Producer Olaf Wicke
Production Companies BAP Travelling Tunes Productions/Cologne, Screenworks, Cologne, WDR/Cologne
Principal Cast Marie Baeumer, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Król, Willi Laschet, Anger 77, BAP
Studio Shooting Blue Space/Huerth
Length 96 min, 2,623 m
Blow-up 35 mm, Color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festival Screenings Berlin 2002 (out of competition), St. Petersburg 2002, Haifa 2002, Sao Paulo 2002, IDFA Amsterdam 2002

World Sales
Screenworks Köln GmbH
Olaf Wicke
Hildeboldplatz 15-17
50672 Cologne/Germany
phone +49-2 21-57 96 80
fax +49-2 21-5 79 68 20
email: infokoeln@screenworks.tv
http://www.screenworks.tv