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X Filme Creative Pool is a
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television and film production company based in
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.


History

X Filme was founded in 1994 in Berlin by the directors
Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films ''Run Lola Run'' (1998), ''Heaven (2002 film), Heaven'' (2002), ''Perfume: The Sto ...
,
Dani Levy Dani Levy (born 17 November 1957) is a Swiss filmmaker, theatrical director, screenwriter and actor. Biography Levy was born to a Jewish family in Switzerland in 1957.
and Wolfgang Becker and the producer
Stefan Arndt Stefan Arndt (born 1961) is a German film producer and managing partner of X Filme Creative Pool, which he started with fellow friends Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy. X Filme is one of Germany's most prosperous and famous production c ...
. The inspiration for X Filme Creative Pool were the founders of
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, with the idea that artistic and, above all, economic independence should enable more creative work. In 2000, however, 50.1% of the shares were sold to
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-based
Senator Film Wild Bunch AG is a German film distribution company, originally created in 1979 as Senator Film Verleih GmbH, which later became Senator Entertainment AG. The name Wild Bunch comes from the French company Wild Bunch S.A., created in 2002, which b ...
. In 2000, the company founded its own film distribution company , which works closely with the German branch of
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, Warner Bros. Pictures Germany, using its distribution structure. X Filme has also been working with
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in the home entertainment sector since the end of 2001, supplying content that WHV Germany and WHV Switzerland distribute through their traditional channels. After Senator Film went broke in 2004, the partners tried to buy the company back from the
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estate. However, this was unsuccessful, so Becker, Tykwer and Levy founded Y Filme in February 2006. In February 2008, Senator Film announced its separation from X Filme while maintaining distribution arrangements. Stefan Arndt, Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer continued to manage the company. In May 2024, Tykwer took over the managing director position from Arndt, with Uwe Schott, a producer who had joined X Filme in 2009, joining Tykwer to head the company.


Films

The first film that X Filme produced was Dani Levy's ''
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'' in 1995. In 1998, the company became synonymous with a new, young German cinema thanks to the international success of Tom Tykwer's ''
Run Lola Run ''Run Lola Run'' (, ) is a 1998 German experimental thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer. The story follows a woman named Lola ( Franka Potente) who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in twenty minutes to save the life of her boy ...
''. This was followed by other films that were successful at the box office and in some cases also with film critics, such as Tykwer's ''
Heaven Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common Religious cosmology, religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deity, deities, angels, souls, saints, or Veneration of the dead, venerated ancestors are said to originate, be throne, ...
'', Becker's ''
Good Bye, Lenin! ''Good Bye, Lenin!'' is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon. The story follows a family in East Germany (GDR); the mother (Sass) is ded ...
'' and Levy's ''
Alles auf Zucker! ''Alles auf Zucker!'' () is a German comedy film, released internationally in 2004. It can be seen as part of the " Ossi- Wessi" confrontation within Germany. Directed by Dani Levy, the cast includes Henry Hübchen, Hannelore Elsner, Udo S ...
''.


X Filme productions

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s,
television film A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a Terrestr ...
s and
short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...
s produced by X Filme, including co-productions and films distributed through its distribution arm :


See also

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Links


Official website
* The X-Movie Story in Pictures and Quotes


References

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