Adamstown
Things can get pretty rough in the western town of Adamstown, at times it seems that everyone is against everyone else: People, animals, old people, young people, locals and supposed strangers. The fact that we are now bringing this combative story - originally written and drawn as a comic by Hamburg artist Verena Braun - to the screen is based on the pure opposite: we have worked together, broken down barriers and overcome borders together. And just like in Adamstown, everything will be fine and we can celebrate together.
With 10 projects, 86 players, 1 dog, 1 acting coach, 6 crew members, 2 directors, 1 drone, 1 comic artist, 5 wheelchairs, 14 languages, 8 teamers, 1 world, 1 Unimog, 10 company employees, 12 assistants, 4 songs, 1 make-up artist, 5 animals, 2 costume designers, 3 guest groups from Rwanda/Bosnia/France, 5 guest directors, 1 mobile ramp, 1 education and conference center, 20 Johnsons, 3 villages, 1 Hafencity, 4 ponies, 2 production managers, 27 locations, 2 tutors, 26 shooting days, 3 cameras and countless people.
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1h 28m — 2 text tracks
Adamstown
1h 28m — 2 text tracks
"If Wes Anderson adapted a German comic book about a Wild West town filled with talking animals and then cast amateur actors — many of them recent refugees —to play the leading roles, the result might look something like Patrick Merz and Henning Wötzel-Herber’s Adamstown. Oh, and it’s a musical, ...
