Meeting the author Benjamin Prüfer and his wife Sreykeo:

Today we would like to present something special: an interview with Bernadette Knoller - the daughter of Detlev Buck , who we met in Hamburg.
But first of all, Wenka will complete her report about how the idea of SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT became a movie.

July 2007. After the Munich Film Festival I am back in Berlin. We have a meeting in the development department about books, which we checked out. We also talk about “Wohin du auch gehst“ and call Buck to ask him if he had already read the book. His answer is an enthusiastic monologue. I turn up the volume of the telephone, so that everybody can hear, what Buck says. All of a sudden it becomes clear that the question is not if we’ll make that film, but rather how we’re going to realize it. Buck talked a lot with his daughter about this book and her enthusiasm is infectious. Bernadette just finished school; she works in a theatre and shot the making off of our last production. A school exchange in Tanzania impressed her strongly. In summer 2007 she thinks about going back there or about becoming a school teacher… Everything seems possible and nothing compellent. Because of this the attitude of Benjamin Prüfer, who gets to know love and who takes over responsibility, affects someone like Bernadette.
Buck wants to meet Benjamin Prüfer (the author of “Wohin du auch gehst”) and his wife Sreykeo, so does Bernadette.

Here you see what she remembers:

Bernie from SAME SAME on Vimeo.