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BRÜDER

By Merlijn POOLMAN, Neshka KARADZHINSKA

NOVOKINO - as PROD

Documentary - Development 2022

Brüder, Brothers in German, is the search for a shared European story that was forged during the "great seminal catastrophe of the 20th century". Hendrik Jan and his team invite musicians from all over Europe to share their stories and create music in the beginning of a new era, 100 years after WWI.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Road movie, Musical
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- ENGLISH, GERMAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Merlijn POOLMAN, Neshka KARADZHINSKA
- Writer(s)
- Hendrik Jan VERMEULEN, Merlijn POOLMAN, Neshka KARADZHINSKA
- Cast
- Hendrik Jan VERMEULEN, Merlijn POOLMAN
- Producer(s)
- Neshka KARADZHINSKA (NOVOKINO), Merlijn POOLMAN (SNME)
- Synopsis
- “Brüder”, the German word for “Brothers”, is the search for a shared European story. A story that was forged during the “great seminal catastrophe of the 20th century”: The First World War (1914 – 1918).
  Two good friends, Hendrik Jan Vermeulen and Merlijn, a guitarist and a drummer, have chosen to set up an ambitious project to unite Europe and her current inhabitants. They travel across the Old Continent and gather eight musicians from different countries whose ancestors fought against each other in the Great War. A meeting of ‘brothers’ who share almost forgotten stories, poetry and music. 100 years after the tragic events, when the trauma is still painful but the memories are fading away, these young people make music together to honour those who sacrificed their lives and symbolically celebrate the beginning of a new era.
  Their journey starts from the notorious battlefields in Flanders, Belgium and continues to the icy mountains between Austria and Italy, through the wayward-spirited Balkans and the Turkish Strait of Gallipoli to end up in the inhospitable mountains of Armenia.
- Partners & financing
- We are looking for:
  Additional financing
  Co-producers and partners
  Preliminary sales and distribution interest
  
  Shooting locations in The Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Armenia