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When is the release of SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT?

Hi guys!
The time has come :-)
Producer Claus Boje answers our questions: when will the movie released and where?
Have fun checking it out!

Divorce excluded

For the release of their new book, the brothers Benjamin and Tillmann Prüfer wrote an article in ZEIT magazine 19 on 04/30/2009.
http://www.zeit.de/2009/19/Brueder-19

Barely, another relationship coins more than the one between siblings. In letters, two brothers write why they love each other. And even, why they wanted to kill each other.

Dear little brother, until you can be seen on big screen, normally you have to achieve something historically. You have had to have posed naked on the cover of stern magazine like Uschi Obermaier or you have had to have killed a dictator or done something else thundering and laborious. However, lately I have watched my alter ego on movie screen without any effort. I just needed to be a brother.
You fell in love with a girl in Cambodia. It turned out that she was HIV positiv. Back in Germany you organized a HIV therapy for the woman you love and you married her. Later on you wrote an article about your story, a book afterwards and then Detlev Buck made a film out of it. Tom Cruise plays Stauffenberg, David Kross plays you, why not?
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Casting of the main actors David Kross & Apinya Sakuljaroensuk

From the beginning David Kross seems to be the right cast for the role of Ben but the process of finding the right main actress was very difficult! The casting took place everywhere in the world and several caster looked for the right person. The whole process and each step of the Casting you can read now in the blog. Enjoy and stay tuned!

Conspicuous about the story of Benjamin and Sreykeo is that it is a story about two young people who fell in love with each other right at the beginning of their life. They were not yet stuck in one of these crises in life where everybody yearns for change, determining settings of direction and fixing.
This especially affects the European Ben, who can and wants to afford the luxury to try out what he can make of his life. In contrary are the coercions of Sreykeo.
Back to David- Detlev Buck did something what he normally never does: He asked David, if he could imagine to play the role Ben, off-handedly, without any casting. And David for his part gets into this adventure, without any casting, off-handedly, just because he seems to be the right one.

Next to the director Detlev Buck, David and the real Sreykeo (in the middle) you can see some of the girls who should be Sreykeo, coming from different parts of Germany and France:

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Finding a script writer

Here’s another part of our history-rediscovery:

We want to talk with Ruth Toma about the story and the screenplay. Buck absolutely wants a woman to be part of the development, so he as a man will not dominate the story. Ruth is a very experienced author and has always insanely much to do, because she’s fast and good, thus all we need. Before we lose too much time by thinking about it, I send her the book to find out if she’s even interested in the story. I don’t know her, since the cooperation between Buck and her date a couple of years back. On the phone she seems bright and organised and funny because I don’t have to say much, she knows Buck…