Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
(orig. )
Germany 2007
Director / Script: Ulla Wagner
Camera: Theo Bierkens
Editor: Corina Dietz
Music: Christine Aufderhaar
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Alexander Khuon, Götz Schubert
Production: Tag/Traum Filmproduktion. Känguruh-Film
Distribution: Filmagentinnen
106 Min., 35mm, colour, German
Germany shortly before capitulation. Canteen cook Lena gets to know the young officer Hermann Bremer and then hides him in her flat after he decides to desert. She conceals from him that the war has ended although he eventually finds out. Lena throws herself into her work and invents the German national dish – the curried sausage.
Ulla Wagner
Ulla Wagner studied Theatre Studies, Journalism and German Studies in Berlin. Since 1981 ishe is working for televison and cinema. Shortfilms and tv-series are part of her work as well.
Films (selection)
1984 Regenbogenprinz (TV)
1986 Bella und Max (kurz)
1986 Max mal vier (kurz)
1990 Error (kurz)
2000 Anna Wunder
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