• Feature Film
  • Drama

Stella. Ein Leben.

Stella, a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life turns into a culpable tragedy. Through a betrayal, she is caught by the Gestapo, tortured and becomes a “grabber”: to save herself and her parents from deportation to Auschwitz, Stella begins to systematically betray other Jews. From September 1943 until the end of the war, Stella Goldschlag delivered hundreds of fellow Jews to the Gestapo.

Data

Genre
Drama
Category
Feature Film
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
DCP, 100 Min
Release
16.02.2024
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
7.292
Funding Film Institute
7.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs
1 %
Television investment
200.000 €
Co-production

Letterbox Filmproduktion, Seven Pictures, AMALIA FILM, REAL FILM Berlin, Lago Film, Gretchenfilm Filmproduktion, DCM, blue Entertainment (DE, 89%), Contrast Film Zürich

International funding

DFFF, FFHSH, NRW, MBB, FFF Bayern, Nord Media, BKM, MFG, MV Filmförderung

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Vienna, Germany
Shooting time
September - November 2021
Days of shooting
36
Completion
Winter 2022/2023
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
Production
DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria
Danny Krausz
Director
Kilian Riedhof
Script
Marc Blöbaum, Jan Braren, Kilian Riedhof
DOP
Benedikt Neuenfels
Editor
Andrea Mertens
Sound engineer
Frank Heidbrink, Leo Aderhold
Costume design
Thomas Oláh
Set design
Albrecht Konrad
Music
Peter Hinterthür
Cast
Paula Beer (Stella), Jannis Niewöhner (Rolf), Katja Riemann (Toni), Joel Basman (Johnny), Lukas Miko (Gerd), Damian Hardung (Manfred),
Production manager
Sebastian Hellinger, Janett Didik
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)

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