Tom Sawyer is produced by the German companies Neue Schoenhauser Filmproduktion and Majestic Filmproduktion (www.majestic.de). The producers are Boris Schoenfelder and Benjamin Herrmann. The project is also supported by ARD Degeto (www.ard.de), ARTE (www.arte.tv), Bayrischer Rundfunk (BR, www.br-online.de), the German Federal Film Board (FFA, www.ffa.de) and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR, www.ndr.de).

The Romanian service production company is HiFilm Productions (www.hifilm.ro), with Ada Solomon as producer and Adrian Pavelescu as production manager. In Romania the shooting will take 20 days, starting October 4, Solomon told FNE. The film will shoot outside Bucharest on location (at Breaza), and at Castel Film studios (www.castelfilm.ro).

The main characters are played by Louis Hofmann, Benno Fuermann and Heike Makatsch. The script is written by Sebastian Wehlings, Sascha Arango and Per Klehmet. Beta Cinema (www.betacinema.com) is handling the international sales. In Germany the film will be distributed by Majestic-Filmverleih (www.majestic.de).

Production Information

Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion GmbH

Neue Schönhauser Straße 19

10178 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 30 343910 21

Fax: +49 (0) 30 52135649

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Majestic Filmproduktion

Bleibtreustrasse 15

10623 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 30 8871448-0

Fax: +49 (0)30 8871448-10

www.majestic.de

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Credits

Director: Hermine Huntgeburth

Script: Sebastian Wehlings

Sascha Arango

Per Klehmet, after Mark Twain

Cast: Louis Hofmann

Benno Fuermann

Heike Makatsch