Berlin. After the first two screenings of the Berlinale starter " Looking " the reactions were very positive. Our film critic Guenter H. Jekubzik met the writer and director Jan Krueger in the cafe section of the forum in the middle of young filmmakers from around the world as Krueger just his French actress Valérie Leroy adopted.
" The Search" is about a mother looking for her son, who disappeared in Marseille. How did you find the material?
The trigger was very specific. The friend of a friend had killed himself, as in the film, in Marseille. Then I visited some places of his life there, talking to friends and developed from the inspiration of this powerful story.
How do you feel about the reactions now here in Berlin after 2004 you have to "go" were at the festival?
This is me now to say after the first two screenings of the film, too early to something. I would still stand on my act.
What you were looking for in Corinna Harfouch, your very prominent actress?
The project ran for a while, but I'm always stuck with Corinna Harfouch. Your type of film is often a fragile woman. I did not think there is someone who shows his feelings easily, then threatened the story to be sentimental.
How were you working with Harfouch?
before turning it said quite clearly: "I've shot 80 movies, let me do it!" Has ultimately it works, if I've made suggestions, but you had to fight drum. What is not so easy was because I had a mad respect for it. But the work always turning on the common docking with the story.
try What project are you up next?
would contrast to previous times I go out on a figure that out from their daily experiences a change. Without moving as in "go" or "tail wind". It is the story of a janitor, a simple employee here from Berlin. At the same time I develop a script for the scene- WDR - Cologne with the Commissioners Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär). Where I do not feel that I have to bend me.
What kind of search, the film "The Search" is for you personally?
one hand, I'm interested to see that search has its limits, that you can not always find clear answers. I also believe - though I have no thoughts of suicide - that sometimes not much missing to yourself to get lost. Many people can in this Experience find.
on 23 Jan Krüger March 1973 in Aachen born. He studied at the RWTH Aachen, Cologne and later at the Art Academy of Media. His first film he made in 1999, the music video "Seduction of Angels", and in 2001 was followed by the short film "Friends (The Whiz Kids), was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. His first feature film "The Road" was awarded the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. Besides his work as a filmmaker is Kruger active since 2006 as a lecturer in film directing and screenwriting at the KHM Cologne.
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