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Wasserschlacht - The Great Border Battle

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2006 runtime 18'00 colour
screening format Beta SP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby SR languages Englisch, Deutsch, Polnisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

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 Schnitt / Editing Martin Eberle, Philip Kießling Bildgestaltung / DOP Tommy Mann Drehbuch / 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