For Dieter Kosslick, the big boss at Germany's richest subsidy body FNW, it must have been one of those days that made all those endless meetings with all those wannabe filmmakers worthwhile - actor Til Schweiger and director Thomas Jahn were in town yesterday to hand over a DM2 million cheque repayment for FNW's loan for Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Germany's hottest film of 1997.
The thought of all that money, it seems, was enough to get Kosslick's brain ticking. Until hours before the ceremony, directing the hottest pic of the decade was just not doing the trick for Thomas Jahn, who'd been trying all year to get funding for his new film American Dream. "The situation has just changed," he revealed to Moving Pictures during the ceremony.
"The film subsidy body are going to reconsider the project". In the meantime, Jahn will work on two other pics. The first, Kai Raber Against the Vatican Killer will roll in June, and a second comedy is in the pipeline. "All the subsidy bodies had the same problem with the violence in American Dream," said Jahn.
Perhaps all that fighting for funds is what gets him thinkIng back to his taxi-driving days before he handed passenger Til Schweiger his script and leapt into the limelight. "I've had days when I wanted to go back to taxi driving," he said. "This business is so hard. Even if you direct a successful movie, it's just not enough." Liza Foreman
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