June 7, 2007
Today is the last day of sound mixing!!
Exactly one year ago, I arrived in Azerbaijan for the prepa...
[more]November 6
Last weekend I was in Baku.
My production coordinator Elnura married my art department manager Zaur...
[more]October 15
I finsihed the technical montage of the film.
Together with my editor Vincent Assmann, I spend six ...
[more]August 27
the last day of shooting.
we started late at 12.30 pm, as our programme was so little.
We had ...
[more]August 26
today we shot the second day at our set construction "underground waterfall".
Our special guest ...
[more]August 22-25
Tuesday
we have no camera and no film.
everything is stuck at the border.
I am fustratred. ...
[more]August 20
Most of the crew left Seki on Saturday evening after the shoot. Half to Baku, half to Tbilisi.
Only...
[more]August 18/19
Friday started bad. At 4 pm not one of the four things I needed were on place (camera, crane, windma...
[more]August 17
today the 11metres high camera crane was back and in full action.
we shot the last and final gondo...
[more]August 16
we are coming slowly to the end of shooting and become slow...
we started to shoot some scenes n...
[more]August 15
Today we went to the desert, near a salt lake.
The earth was full of dry cracks.
It was terribly h...
[more]August 14
A very long shooting day (16 hours). No idea why!
We changed locations, had three camels (includ...
[more]August 12
We started in the afternoon shooting under a huge water pipe, which is
leaking.
The scene is: Te...
[more]August 11
Today we shot the scene, when Temelko and Aya see a couple making love.
This time, we had a body d...
[more]August 10
today was one of our best days.
it was terribly hot.
we shot on the hill opposite Caycaragojun...
[more]August 9
Today we mounted a 15 m high blue screen on the Olympic Complex hall (the place where we stay).
We ...
[more]August 8
The day started difficult
the donkey we found here for replacing the one in Lahic was too small t...
[more]August 7
Today was a terrible day.
It was hot and we waited for stupid things.
Time was running and we shot...
[more]August 5
We went back to the old town of Seki and filmed Kristyna floating in the
gondola over the roafs.
I...
[more]August 4
We shot in an abanndoned church, one of the few remaining churches in Azerbaijan.
We started with ...
[more]August 3
today we shot the final party scene in the river.
the last scene with 30 actors.
bright sun, no ...
[more]August 2
one of our longest and hardest days.
We shot somewhere nowhere in the desert.
It was hot and o...
[more]August 1
I tried so hard to have a early start.
The first day in Caycaragojunu. Hot and dry!
Actors cal...
[more]July 31
Free day.
We installed ourselves in the Olympic Komplex.
We have nice office space and rooms for...
[more]July 30
We were schedulded to move to Seki today.
But heavy rainfalls caused some stonefalls on the road t...
[more]July 29
A BIG day.
We shot the scenes when Max is catapultet out of the earth and thrown into the sky toge...
[more]July 27
We shot the beginning of the end sequence.
Location: village square.
The men hang Guri and N...
[more]July 26
The toughest days of all so far.
26 shots, 40 actors.
But everything was fine, except that we ha...
[more]July 25
last shooting day in Ceyhana.
men in my film slowly became dirty.
good scenes, good day.
I ma...
[more]July 24
shooting again.
scene by scene.
with great care.
no discussions about stupid things.
many ideas....
[more]July 23
Today was a free day.
I wanted to rest.
But it became my most exhausting working day of all.
...
[more]July 22
This morning the men of Lahic came to the square in front of my office and
asked to talk to me.
It...
[more]July 21
A long day. And a difficult one.
To stage 35 actors in a scene is complicated.
And when you have t...
[more]July 20
Today was my first day with all 35 actors on set.
We have now 4 people in costume and one additiona...
[more]July 19
We started to shoot in front of our office building:
The women hang Dino in a wollen sack on the tr...
[more]July 18
This morning we had no water in our house.
I wanted so much to take a shower and I felt terrible......
[more]July 17
I could not sleep yesterday night. To switch from nightshoot to dayshoot in
just one day is impossi...
[more]July 16
Sunday is our free day!
I used the day to prepare next week.
At 12 h I had a meeting with my lit...
[more]July 15
week three is finished.
today we shot really funny scenes in a bedroom, when Dino, dressed as a w...
[more]July 14
I forgot to write the blog in the evening.
I apologize.
It was a long day.
I made a joke the ...
[more]July 13
Today we shot on our square in front of the office.
We start to have scenes with 8-10 actors.
...
[more]July 12
We started to shoot in a convinient store, where the walls have the most amzing handpainted (!) wall...
[more]July 11
A day shootingt at the smithees.
A small, but very pretty location at the main street.
We shot...
[more]July 10
We started shooting in the smithees workshop.
Something I thought would be an easy one, turned to ...
[more]July 9
Today was free day!
What can I write??
People slept and strolled around the village...
Since y...
[more]July 8
the last day of week 2.
We started on the square. The fire department pumped water out of a tube...
[more]July 7
Actors arrived this morning from Marocco (Kaghat Azzelarab), Spain (Assun Planas) and Czech Republik...
[more]July 6
We had a lovely day today.
In the morning we shot just three shots: Aya and Temelkos birth.
My a...
[more]July 5
Today we started in the barn next to the art department.
We shot with sheeps, which were shaved ...
[more]July 4
Today we got back on track. We shot all scenes schedulded.
It is raining since Saturday, but tha...
[more]July 3
The second week started with difficulties.
Our little studio set of Lenoras truck was ready but ...
[more]July 2
Our first free day. It was due!
We all slept until the afternoon.
It was raining and storming. ...
[more]July 1
Today I felt exhausted.
But it was the last day of the week and everybody gave its best for anothe...
[more]June 30
The best day so far.
Maybe because I was so much afraid of it.
We have cloting rules for all m...
[more]June 29
We shift from day to night.
So during daytime we did not shoot.
I went with production designer...
[more]June 28
It was a cloudy day, but thanks God (and to the schedule), we were inside.
My production designer...
[more]June 27
I could not sleep after I woke up at 2 am!
At 4 am the speakers from the Mosque on our square wa...
[more]June 26
Since years I waited for this day.
Today we started to shoot.
I was so scared, it will not h...
[more]June 25
This morning some workers tried to errect for us a dry tree on the village
square, but they failed...
[more]June 24
Two days before shooting.
My assistant director Alina is marrying today in Baku.
My production m...
[more]June 23, three days before shooting
I went with Max Mauff (main actor) and Kristyna Malerova (main actrice) to Azerbaijan Kinostudio.
...
[more]June 22
In the morning I went with my driver Ramid to Baku. Some people complained about him, but I think he...
[more]June 21
This morning the catering truck arrived.
I bought it three months ago from Sarah Wiener, who has th...
[more]June 19
7 more days to go before shooting.
It was a cloudy today. When we had dinner a few raindrops wer...
[more]June 18
We had some visitors from Baku last night and were drinking wine for the first time here.
So today ...
[more]June 17
Fuad and Aynur started to go around the village to make agreements with the house owners where we wa...
[more]June 16
We woke up at 8 and had breakfast.
The sight over Seki from the charming Panorama-hotel is stunnin...
[more]June 15
We tried to leave Seki in the morning, but then it took a while to get the few props and costumes fr...
[more]June 14
the day started with a phone call from driver Ilham.
The old bus he bought as a picture vehicle had...
[more]June 13
This morning the assistant mayor helped us to see houses, which are abandoned.
We also went to the ...
[more]June 12
In the morning we went to the mayor.
He said Lahic starts to have a water problem, as all house ow...
[more]June 11
Today I spend all day with production designer Erwin Prib in my new "office" and discussed the shoot...
[more]June 10
Today I spend all day walking with my art department through Lahic, visiting the houses and places w...
[more]June 9
I am in Lahic!
Heaven on earth!
The most beautiful village on this planet!
Making this f...
[more]June 8
Today I slept until 9 am! And I did not even hear Elnura ringing the bell.
Finally she called me an...
[more]June 7
Ilham picked me up at 7 am.
Together with Gunel we went to Quba.
An old russian Jeep was waiting f...
[more]June 6
Today was a sunny day.
Every day so far was sunny, but the sun reached my heart!
Zaur arrived wi...
[more]June 5
I am sitting in a custom office in Tbilisi and try to get a document for my truck driver in Sarpi.
...
[more]June 4
Am I lost in La Mancha?
Today my cameramen George Beridze wrote me an Email, telling me (three w...
[more]June 3
Today Tamuna, Zaza (a speologist)and Shota, the driver left at 7 am in the morning to Radsha-region....
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