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Berlin -- The project: "24h Berlin," a 24-hour documentary capturing one day in the life of Germany's capital. The team: A 400-person crew with 70 directors under the guidance of director Volker Heise and producer Thomas Kufus. The budget: Less than $4 million.
"It's pretty ambitious, pretty crazy actually," Thomas Kufus of Berlin's Zero One Films says of his his company's epic documentary "24h Berlin." "No one has ever attempted something like this before -- trying to capture an entire city in one day."
The crazy idea came from Heise, Kufus' partner, and director of the award-winning reality series "Schwarzwaldhaus 1902."
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kufus thought the time was right to take documentaries to the next level. His nonfiction film tries to tell not just one of the 4 million stories in the naked city, but all of them.
Unlike traditional TV docs, "24h...
Berlin -- The project: "24h Berlin," a 24-hour documentary capturing one day in the life of Germany's capital. The team: A 400-person crew with 70 directors under the guidance of director Volker Heise and producer Thomas Kufus. The budget: Less than $4 million.
"It's pretty ambitious, pretty crazy actually," Thomas Kufus of Berlin's Zero One Films says of his his company's epic documentary "24h Berlin." "No one has ever attempted something like this before -- trying to capture an entire city in one day."
The crazy idea came from Heise, Kufus' partner, and director of the award-winning reality series "Schwarzwaldhaus 1902."
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kufus thought the time was right to take documentaries to the next level. His nonfiction film tries to tell not just one of the 4 million stories in the naked city, but all of them.
Unlike traditional TV docs, "24h...
- 2/7/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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