• Feature Film

Heart of Fire

Filmplakat des Filmes Feuerherz mit einem afrikanischen Kind in rotem Kleid im Vordergrund und einer Karawane von Kamelen mit Menschen in der Wüste im Hintergrund, Titel in großen roten Buchstaben auf gelbem Himmel.

The Eritrean struggle for independence, 1980. Ten-year-old Awet hast the heart of a warrior. Abandoned as a baby, she grows up in a sheltered atmosphere of a Christian monastery in Asmara. But when she returns to her family, her father brings her to a military battle unit. There is nothing she can do to elude her fate as a child soldier. Nevertheless, Awet vows to opposite this ignoble war with all her strength, and to fight against the fate that menaces her.

Data

Category
Feature Film
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
35 mm, 89 Min
Approximate cinema release
15.05.2009
Release
15.05.2009
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
2.637
Co-production

TV60 Film (DE),
Burkert Bareiss Development (DE)

International funding

Filmförderungsanstalt (DE), Filmfernsehfonds Bayern, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien, MEDIA Desk, Eurimages

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Kenia
Shooting time
Summer 2007
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut
Credits
Production
Josef Aichholzer Film
Producer
Josef Aichholzer
Director
Luigi Falorni
Script
Luigi Falorni, Gabriele Kister
DOP
Judith Kaufmann
Editor
Anja Pohl
Sound engineer
Marc Parisotto
Costume design
Brigitta Lohrer-Horres
Set design
Vittoria Sogno
Music
Stephan Massimo
Cast
Letekidan Micael (Awet), Solomie Micael (Freweyni), Seble Tilahun (Ma'aza), Daniel Seyoum (Mike'ele)
Production manager
Hermann Maurer
German Title
Feuerherz
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), BR, ARTE

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