After successfully finishing the shoot of the new Egoli Tossel (directed by Kai Wessel) movie 'Hilde' in Magdeburg and Berlin, the production focus was shifting towards postproduction. PICTORION Ruhrsound was responsible for the sound recordings and PICTORION das werk for all VFX shots and the DI.

After a long search for financers, the movie could finally be shot. It is reflecting Hildgard Knef's life in the years between 1944 and 1966. Heike Makatsch took Knef’s part in the 10 Mio Euros budget movie. To master the challenge of portraying an icon like Hildegard Knef, Makatsch took singing lessons for more then one year in order to be able to authentically sing all the songs.

The movie which is strongly based on the bestseller ‘The gift horse’ by Knef herself was mainly shot in Magdeburg, although the story mostly takes place in Berlin. Located in the center of Berlin, it became difficult to shoot historically correct locations 'Prenzlauer Berg' and 'Mitte'. Kai Wessel: „In Magdeburg, things still look more like a war scenario“. Nevertheless, the production spent three weeks in Berlin, shooting several parts of the movie in famous locations like Schillertheater, Philharmonie and the shut down airport Tempelhof.

The DI for 'Hilde' was spread over the PICTORION das werk group. Imagica Scanners were used to scan the whole project in a 2K resolution. Our grading artist for 'Hilde' Moritz Peters was using a RESOLVE RT System with a Barco DP90P Projector. The movie 'Hilde' had more than 40 VFX shots (3D Airplanes, set extensions, crowd duplications, matte paintings, destroyed Berlin,...) which were all successfully created by PICTORION das werk.



Description:

It is the year 1966. Hildegard Knef comes back to Germany. She is at the peak of her career and is about to perform a concert at Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall. Her appearance marks the first non-classical show ever to be performed in the brand new 2,400-seater concert hall and tickets have been sold out for weeks. It is nonetheless a difficult comeback, with a long and complex history. When her plane arrives in Berlin-Tempelhof she is met by a crowd of enthusiastic journalists. Hilde’s back! – and she’s well prepared. Her gait is purposeful, breezy even, and she puts in a self-confident and witty appearance at a short press conference. Hildegard Knef knows what she wants. She is a professional, a star who doesn’t let anything on. In spite of her euphoric reception in 1966, her trip back to Germany is a depressing one in many ways. Berlin may be the city in which Hildegard Knef grew up and celebrated some of her greatest successes, but it is also the site of her most bitter failures. After a series of successful films and wrong turns; of hitching up with the right and the wrong men, enduring stultifying boredom in Hollywood and a turbulent love-hate relationship with the German public, Hilde the battler has learnt that there are more important things in life than the pushy world
of showbiz. After some soul-searching she discovers that her own experiences in fact contain all the ingredients of the ‘Hilde’ that German audiences – and she herself – seemed to have been waiting for. Hildegard Knef was DIE SÜNDERIN (THE SINNER); a cinematic dream, an international star
and an icon. She was also incredibly cool. In HILDE, director Kai Wessel tells the story of one woman’s post-war German career.

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809432/