Wasserschlacht - The Great Border Battle

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2006 runtime 18'00 colour Color
screening format Beta SP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby SR original-language English, German, Polish subtitles English, German

Since 1998, each summer people of all kinds and ages from Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg - two former Berlin districts previously separated by the wall - meet at the Oberbaum bridge connecting the two, to fight an anarchic battle with rotten fruit and other smelly ammunition.

director Andrew Friedman, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz Editing Martin Eberle, Philip Kießling DOP Tommy Mann Script Andrew Friedman, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Festivals
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival, Germany
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany (Berlin Today Award)
Production
  • zero fiction film GmbH
  • Daniel Saltzwedel
  • Motzstrasse 60
  • 10777 Berlin
  • +49 30 390663
Distribution
  • Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
  • Stine Wangler
  • Bodenstedtstr. 16
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • +49 40 39106328
  • http://sales.shortfilm.com
Sales
  • Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
  • Stine Wangler
  • Bodenstedtstr. 16
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • +49 40 39106328
  • http://sales.shortfilm.com

Andrew Friedman

Lives in Brooklyn, New York;
graduated from the University of Southern California Film School;
he is the writer of several screenplays

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

Lives in Warsaw;
graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz

Filmography
1999 I want the world, Trading Water
2003 Krystians Lupa Labyrinth