Children
Feature Film

Hexe Lilli rettet Weihnachten

Lilli must cope with her younger brother Leon. He’s allergic to animals, so she isn’t allowed to have a rabbit and, even worse, he breaks her new telescope. She discusses the situation with her little green (animated) dragon, Hector. Contrary to his advice, she applies her own magical talents to search through the Middle Ages and bring Knecht Ruprecht into the present. Yes, Ruprecht can set Leon right, but he also meddles in the lives of others, including Lilli’s teacher, Frau Schnabel. His actions send Lilli back to the Middle Ages to find Nicholas – the only one who can save the Christmas holidays from a catastrophe.

Data

aka: Hexe Lilli und das Weihnachtswunder
Category: Children, Feature Film
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 90 Min
Release: 10.11.2017
Distribution: Constantin Film-Holding Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions: 68.857
Funding Film Institute: 598.750 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 39 %
Share of total production costs: 8 %
Television investment: 280.000 €
Co-production: blue eyes Fiction (DE, 57%), Trixter Productions (DE), Universum Film (DE), MMC Movies (DE), Potemkino Port (BE, 21%), BE Films (BE)
International funding: Belgian Tax Shelter by BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance, Filmförderungsanstalt, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Screen Flanders
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italia
Shooting time: November 2016 - February 2017
Days of shooting: 41
Completion: Summer 2017
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H., MINI FILM ProKids-Kulturverein Filmproduktions KG
Producer Austria: Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker, Katja Dor-Helmer
Director: Wolfgang Groos
Script: Gerrit Hermans
DOP: Marcus Kanter
Editor: Britta Nahler
Sound engineer: Dietmar Zuson
Costume design: Sofie Callaerts
Set design: Christoph Kanter
Cast: Hedda Erlebach (Lilli), Michael Mittermeier (Hektor), Jürgen Vogel (Ruprecht), Maresa Hörbiger (Oma), Anja Ling (Mutter), Christopher Schärf (Reipold)
Production manager: Markus Golisano, Stefanie Wagner, Sebastian Schelenz
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR