Germany

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.

In the beginning was just an article…

Here we start to recover the history of SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT.
Wenka -our chief of development- tells us how the film idea was born:

February 2006. I read a quite impressive article in the German magazine >NEON<. It felt like a declaration of love to a moribund girl by a young guy who was about 20 years old. On the picture in that magazine the guy looks as if he had not even attained full age. With big blue eyes and a hinted smile he looks up to the observer. The woman next to him though seems to be grave like a grown-up. It’s a matter of love and responsibility.

Here you can read the article: http://www.neon.de/kat/wissen/gesundheit/hiv_aids/125222.html

Here you see a picture of Wenka:

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Greetings from Hamburg

"Same Same" Crew - Hamburg, Germany

Stay tuned for more information and footage of "Same Same but Different" beginning with an account of the idea and development of the project next week.

My first Day

Hamburg, Heart of Coldness

Saturday was the beginning of the shooting in the cold city of Hamburg. The newly additional Hamburg crew is much exited about their “first” shooting day. In contrast to them the experienced Cambodia travellers are concerned about their health…considering they all need to handle a drop of temperature of about 30°. But also my first day on a film set starts pretty cold. It was just me and the over punctual catering waiting at 6:40am in the dark cold.
But luckily it gets warmer when we start the preparation inside. However, once we are in the building in which we shoot the scenes that take place in the publishing company, for me a big confusion starts.
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