HERRHAUSEN – LORD OF THE MONEY
Film - New German TV Movies Filmfest 2023

HERRHAUSEN – LORD OF THE MONEY

Directed by Pia Strietmann

Info

Director: Pia Strietmann
Section: New German TV Movies
Country: Germany
Year: 2022
PT: HERRHAUSEN – HERR DES GELDES
OT: HERRHAUSEN – HERR DES GELDES
Language: German
Version: Original version
Cast: Oliver Masucci, David Schütter, Julia Koschitz, Ursula Strauss, Bettina Stucky
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A visionary in the world of finance is caught between the Cold War and the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

1986: Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the board of Deutsche Bank, aims for his bank to become international. His demand for debt relief for developing countries upsets a lot of people and draws the attention of the intelligence services. At this time, the USSR is nearly bankrupt following the accident at Chernobyl. Mikhail Gorbachev needs money, and Helmut Kohl is pushing for German reunification. Herrhausen signs an agreement to lend the Soviet Union eight billion marks on behalf of the West German government — and signs his own death warrant in the process.


The screening will include the first two episodes of the series.

Meet the director

HERRHAUSEN – LORD OF THE MONEY

Pia Strietmann

Writer-director Pia Strietmann was born in Münster in 1978. After gaining experience as an assistant director and assistant cinematographer, she enrolled at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) in 2001. Her first feature film, TAGE, DIE BLEIBEN, earned her the NDR Film Award for Newcomers at the Emden-Norderney International Film Festival in 2011. Strietmann followed up with MEIN SOHN, DER KLUGSCHEISSER and the series BLAUMACHER. Her TV movie ENDLICH WITWER (FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2018), starring Joachim Król, received the Bavarian TV Award in 2020 and was nominated for the Grimme-Preis. Strietmann has also directed several episodes of the crime series TATORT.

Credits

Screenplay: Thomas Wendrich
Director of Photography: Florian Emmerich
Film Editor: Sebastian Thümler, Anja Siemens, Britta Nahler
Composer: Martina Eisenreich
Production Designer: Lutz Krammer
Costume Design: Peri de Braganca
Sound: Jörg Kidrowski
Animation: Frank Kaminski
Make-up artist: Jeanette Latzelsberger
Casting director: Simone Bär
Producer: Sperl Film, X-Filme Produktion
Production Company: Sperl Film + Fernsehproduktion GmbH, X-Filme Creative Pool GmbH
Executive producer: Ilona Schultz, Solmaz Sohrabi
Co-Producer: Degeto RBB, HR, SWR, Beside Productions
Co-Production Company: ARD Degeto, Redaktion RBB, Redaktion HR, Redaktion SWR
World Sales: Fremantle
TV channel: ARD Degeto, RBB, HR, SWR, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FFF Bayern, HessenFilm und Medien, German Motion Picture Fund