VIDEO
UMBALLA
1995, short film (comedy), 16mm Color, 1:1.33, 13'40''min. (156m),
25 fps

Directed and Filmed by: Manfred Andrej Hagbeck
Written by: Claudius Hagemeister
Editor: Katrin Huber
Music Composed and Produced by: Jens-Uwe Bartholomäus & Manfred Andrej Hagbeck
Sound Mixer: Christian Lutz
Production Manager: Esther Fischer
Starring: Marga Behrends, Jens-Uwe Bartholomäus, Hans-Wilhelm Filipzig,
Bernd von Bassewitz, Frank Dellé, Tanja Geke, others
Produced by: HFF "Konrad Wolf"

Video short version

This is the story of the third-rate German pop singer Walt Prickle, alias Walther Prickel, who is exceedingly popular with housewives and teenage girls. His greatest desire is to sing in English. But his parasitic manager Roger, who keeps most of the record profits for himself, forbids it. Not even at home can Walt Prickle get a word in. There his housekeeper Walburga Palemke (aged 85) rules the roost. And she despises German pop songs ...



Festivals:

Festival der Nationen Ebensee, June 25-30,1995 "Ebenseer Bär" in Gold

19th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, August 17-21, 1995

up-and-coming european cinema, Nachwuchsfilmfestival Hannover,
November 1-5, 1995; HFF-Sonderprogramm

15th International Festival of Film Schools Munich, 18.- 25 November 1995

8th Filmfest Dresden 1996, April 17-21, 1996, German Programme

"Seh-Süchte", 25. Internationale Studentenfilmtage, Potsdam, May 1-5, 1996

1st European Student Film Festival Leipzig, June 27-30, 1996

"kleines Filmfestival" in Rheine, 9/9/1996

Schwenninger Kurzfilmfestival, Nov. 16-17, 1996

13. Video-Film-Tage Thüringen & Rheinland-Pfalz, 10/31-11/3/96 in Gera
Förderpreis Freie Videoarbeit

Augsburger Kurzfilmwochenende May 8-11, 1997

WELTALLTAG 1997 an der FH Design in Bielefeld, 5/30/1997

European Film Festival ALPINALE in Bludenz/Austria, 8/15- 20, 1997
Jean-Thevenot-Medal for "Most creative sound"

FlatScreen, Berlin, Insel der Jugend, 8/8-10/1997

7. Filmzwerge '97 in Münster, 10/16-19/1997

Filmclub 813, "Kurz und gut und auf dem Dach", Cologne, 7/23-25/1998

"Trash Crash" Frankfurt-Höchst, 31 October 1998

8th Filmfest Dresden 2000, April 11-16, 2000, Special Screening



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