About My Filmmaking
At a time when it was still part of the Soviet Union , I was a guest at a film production about the hippy culture in the sunny Krim-Region. I accompanied the first Russian filmmakers visiting West Germany, when suddenly Perestroika made that possible. My job took me from former Leningrad via Amsterdam to Marseille. My diploma thesis „Andriusha“ ran as a 56-minute feature film repeatedly on public television. I was allowed to play the leading role in a 120-minute Kafka film adaptation.
Mostly involved in my own projects, I was working as an editor at the editing table and on the computer. As a sound engineer, writer, director, and producer. As an animator and storyboard artist. As an interpreter and set designer. As an accountant and a driver. After all, I stood on set with Franz Xaver Kroetz and Bruno Ganz , even if only as an intern or script girl. And often enough, I was responsible for the hot coffee as a best boy.
Nozincwadi, Mother of Books
For Gcina Mhlophe - today a successful and worldwide renowned storyteller – reading and writing were once the way out of childhood poverty. So she motivates the little ones to learn, since in South Africa alone 4.7 million people are illiterate. Read more
Andrusha
“Train stations, traveling people, being on the move, lost in thought, allowing oneself to feel melancholy. These are moods that one believes to be particularly at home in Russian soul. It is the atmosphere of the film that captivates.” (Manfred Doimeier, Mannheimer Morgen, 17.11.1993) Read more
Kafka's Castle
Working as an actor under the directorship of Dato Janelidse marked one of the most wonderful periods of my life. Read more
Scriptwriting
Dramatic writing has its own rules. A story is structured in three acts. There is an starting point of suspense that leads to the plot. There is the hero's suffering and its resolution. And above all, there is a message, without which the story would be meaningless. Read more