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  • 27 Storeys (2023)

    27 Storeys plakat

    SYNOPSIS:
    27 Stockwerke, 10.000 Menschen: Der weltberühmte Wohnpark Alterlaa in Wien gilt als ikonisches Monument sozialer Utopie. Vom größten sozialen Wohnpark Österreichs und seinem einstigen Glücksversprechen an seine Bewohner:innen handelt der humorvolle Debüt-Dokumentarfilm 27 STOREYS von Bianca Gleissinger. Die Regisseurin kehrt an den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurück und begegnet dort seinen verschrobenen wie liebenswürdigen Bewohner:innen – im Schießverein, im Freddy Quinn-Museum oder am Pool auf dem Dach – und gewährt damit tiefen Einblick in ein soziales Biotop. “Wohnen wie die Reichen für alle“ war 1970 die utopische Prämisse des Architekten mit dem klangvollen Namen Harry Glück. Aber was ist von jenem Pioniergeist übriggeblieben? Dieser Film ist eine witzige, sehr persönliche Annäherung an einen besonderen Ort und eine Auseinandersetzung mit den eigenen Wurzeln.

    GENRE: Documentary

    DIRECTOR: Bianca Gleissinger

    WRITER: Bianca Gleissinger´

    PRODUCERS:Ralph Wieser, Judy Tossell, Jens Meurer

    LANGUAGE: German

  • Zauberberg (2019)

    SYNOPSIS: Im Dokumentarfilm Zauberberg geht Jens Meurer der Frage nach, wie man ein jahrhundertealtes, authentisches, ursprüngliches Berghotel in die Zukunft bringt, ohne all das zu zerstören, was seine Einmaligkeit ausmacht. Ein ungeschönter Blick auf eine Familie zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gleichzeitig ein interessanter Blick auf unsere Urlaubskultur im Wandel der Jahrzehnte. Regisseur Jens Meurer hatte für die Erstellung dieses Dokumentarfilms Zugriff auf bislang unveröffentlichtes Foto- und Super-8-Material vom Zirmerhof und seinen Gästen.

    GENRE: Dokumentarfilm

    DIRECTOR: Jens Meurer

    WRITER: Jens Meurer

    PRODUCERS: Judy Tossell, Frank Lehmann, Andreas Pichler Jens Meurer

    LANGUAGE: Deutsch

  • The Lesson (2023)

    The Lesson A Film by Egoli Tossell

    SYNOPSIS: Liam (Daryl McCormack), an aspiring and ambitious young writer, eagerly accepts a tutoring position at the family estate of his idol, renowned author J.M. Sinclair (Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant). But soon, Liam realizes that he is ensnared in a web of family secrets, resentment, and retribution. Sinclair, his wife Hélène (Academy Award nominee Julie Delpy), and their son Bertie (Stephen McMillan) all guard a dark past, one that threatens Liam’s future as well as their own. As the lines between master and protégé blur, class, ambition, and betrayal become a dangerous combination in this taut noir thriller.

    GENRE: Thriller

    DIRECTOR: Alice Troughton

    WRITER: Alex MacKeith

    CAST: Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy, Daryl McCormack

    PRODUCERS: Camille Gatin, Cassandra Sigsgaard, Judy Tossell, Fabien Westerhoff

    LANGUAGE: English

    Egoli Tossell

    Egoli Tossell is delighted to announce that „THE LESSON“ will have its German premiere at FILMFEST HAMBURG. The festival has provided a first glimpse of their program, and this film has been selected!

    https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/news/erste-filme-2/

    THE LESSON has already been release in the United States of America will come to the screens in Germany on 26th October 2023.

  • An Impossible Project (2020)

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    AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT is a warm, engaging and witty celebration of an anti-trend: the comeback of ‚analog‘ in our increasingly digital lives. The documentary follows its anti-hero’s intrepid endeavour to save the world’s last Polaroid factory.

    AN INSTNAT FILM PRODUCTION

    A Coproduction with MISCHIEF FILMS / ARRI MEDIA / HEAD GEAR FILMS
    and METROL TECHNOLOGY / BOHEMIA MEDIA

    Executive Producers
    JUDY TOSSELL, JOSEF REIDINGER, ANTONIO EXACOUSTOS, FRANK LEHMANN, MICHAEL KÖLMEL, DIETMAR GÜNTSCHE

    Produced by
    JENS MEURER

    Co-Produced by
    RALPH WIESER

    Producers
    PHIL HUNT, COMPTON ROSS

    Story Editor
    FRANZISKA KRAMER

    Editors MICHAEL NOLLET, ANDREW BIRD, ZENON KRISTEN

    Directors of Photography
    BERND FISCHER TORSTEN LIPPSTOCK

    Written and Directed by
    JENS MEURER

  • Seaside Special (2023)

    Seaside Special Poster

    A Funny Film about Brexit?

    SEASIDE SPECIAL is an affectionate, up-close look at Britain’s last original end-of-the-pier variety show, and how its local heroes are preparing for the 2019 summer season. A tribute to handmade entertainment, with quintessentially English humour. No effects, no celebrities, no digital tricks, but very British, authentic, funny, rousing.

    In the sleepy seaside town of Cromer in Norfolk, we meet a colourful cast of inspiring and original characters and experience a microcosm of modern Britain in the midst of tremendous change.

    Seaside Special is a German-Belgian co-production, gorgeously shot on 16mm film, with a brass band score by the Fabulous Steve Willaert Brass Band, winner of the Cambridge Film Festival Audience Award and a „Special Mention“ at the Hofer Filmtage 2021.

    Written and directed by Jens Meurer
    Production: Judy Tossell, Jens Meurer, Cloe Garbay, Bastien Sirodot Cinematography: Torsten Lippstock, Bernd Fischer
    Sound: Paul Parsons
    Editing: Matthieu Jamet
    Music: Steve Willaert
    Editing WDR: Jutta Krug

    Production: Instant Film & uMedia
    Supported by: BKM and FFA, Belgian Tax Shelter, DFFF Distributor: Farbfilm
    World Sales: Deckert Distribution

     
  • Toronto 2016

    Toronto 2016

    SYNOPSIS: Holland, 1940. The Nazis are rampaging through Europe. The British have retreated from Dunkirk. The last German Kaiser, now an old man, is in exile in a big old house in the Dutch countryside. He has been here for 25 years, chopping logs and reading PG Wodehouse. A young German officer is sent to the Dutch countryside to make sure that Queen Victoria’s favorite grandson is not about to defect to Britain. A gripping cocktail of history, passion and fate.

    GENRE: Drama

    DIRECTOR: David Leveaux

    WRITER: Screenplay by Simon Burke, based on the novel by Alan Judd

    CAST: Lily James, Jai Courtney, Janet McTeer, Christopher Plummer, Ben Daniels, Eddie Marsan

    PRODUCERS: Egoli Tossell Film, Ostar Enterprises, Alton Road Productions

    LANGUAGE: English

  • Toronto 2015

    Toronto 2015

    SYNOPSIS: Hector is an eccentric yet irresistible psychiatrist in crisis: his patients are just not getting any happier. He’s going nowhere. Then one day, armed with buckets of courage and an almost child-like curiosity, Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of a life into a global quest to find out what makes people happy. Indeed, what might make Hector himself happy! Thus begins an exotic, dangerous and hysterical journey!

    GENRE: Comedy

    DIRECTOR: Peter Chelsom

    WRITER: Maria von Heland, Peter Chelsom & Tinker Lindsay, based on the novel by François Lelord

    CAST: Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Veronica Ferres, Barry Atsma, Christopher Plummer

    PRODUCERS: Egoli Tossell Film, Screen Siren Pictures, Erfttal Film & Fernsehproduktion in association with Film House Germany, Head Gear Films

    CO-PRODUCERS: Wild Bunch Germany, Construction Film

    LANGUAGE: English

  • 6 German Film Award noms ’10

    6 German Film Award noms ’10

    SYNOPSIS: Hildegard Knef was a sinner and a singer; a star in post-war Berlin, in Hollywood and on Broadway. She loved a Nazi and married a Jew. Both adored and despised by the Germans, her autobiography was a No.1bestseller. Her concerts were legendary. She was an icon. And she was very, very cool. This is her life.

    GENRE: Biopic

    DIRECTOR: Kai Wessel

    WRITER: Maria von Heland

    CAST: Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens, Monica Bleibtreu, Michael Gwisdek, Hanns Zischler, Roger Cicero

    PRODUCER: Egoli Tossell Film in association with Pictorion Pictures

    CO-PRODUCER: MMC Independent

    LANGUAGE: German

  • 2 Oscar nominations 2010

    2 Oscar nominations 2010

    SYNOPSIS: Writer-director Michael Hoffman (SOAPDISH, RESTORATION) adapts Jay Arini’s novel into a thrilling comic-dramatic account of Leo Tolstoy’s final months. This Tolstoy, played with quiet authority by Christopher Plummer, has renounced writing fiction, built a school to educate peasants, and leads a movement whose guiding principles are abolishing private property, pacifism, and sexual chastity. His new secretary (the charming James McAvoy) becomes the comic man-in-the-middle between two formidable opponents scheming for control of his manuscripts and money. Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), a rigid true believer, wants to spread Tolstoyan doctrines around the world, a would-be Paul to the Master*s Jesus. And Sofya (Helen Mirren), Tolstoy’s wife of 48 years and the mother of his 13 children, proved her dedication by copying ‚War and Peace‘ six times… by hand!

    GENRE: Drama

    CAST: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff

    DIRECTOR: Michael Hoffmann

    WRITER: Michael Hoffmann

    PRODUCED BY: Egoli Tossell Film Halle (an Egoli Tossell Film and Zephyr Films company) (DE) in association with Pictorion Pictures (DE)

    IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH: The Andrei Konchalovsky Production Center (RU), Sam Film (DE)

  • 2 Golden Globe noms 2014

    2 Golden Globe noms 2014

    SYNOPSIS: When sex was safe and driving was dangerous. A glamourous,entertaining and insightful look at the rivalry that led to one of Formula 1’s most dramatic moments, the 1976 Grand Prix racing season. The story pits sexy British playboy driver James Hunt against Niki Lauda, a fascinating Austrian perfectionist whose dedication threatened to isolate him emotionally from everything but his ambition to win a championship.

    GENRE: Action / Drama

    DIRECTOR: Ron Howard

    WRITER: Peter Morgan

    CAST: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino, Natalie Dormer

    PRODUCERS: Exclusive Media, Cross Creek Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Films, Working Title Films

    CO-PRODUCERS: Egoli Tossell Film, Action Concept

    LANGUAGE: English