info=Stefan Arndt / Producer
Stefan Arndt was born in Munich in 1961. With Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy and Wolfgang Becker, he is a founder and partner of the X Filme Creative Pool, and has acted as a producer for the cooperative's films. It was in this capacity that he was involved in the development of Dani Levy's Stille Nacht (1995), Meschugge (The Giraffe, 1998) and Väter (Fathers, 2002); Wolfgang Becker's Das Lebenist eine Baustelle (Lifeis All You Get, 1997); Sebastian Schipper's Absolute Giganten (Gigantic,1999); Horst J. Sczerba's Herz(Heart, 2001); and Tom Tykwer's Winterschläfer(Winter Sleepers,1997), Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run, 1998), DerKrieger und die Kaiserin(The Warrior and the Princess,2000) and Heaven(2002). Stefan Arndt is currently producing Die Liebe in Gedanken (Love in Mind, directed by Achim von Borries) and Lautlos (Without a Sound, directed by Mennen Yapo).

In 1984, the self-educated producer was a co-founder of the Sputnik Kino Kollektiv in Berlin, and in 1992, he took on the management of Sputnik Film. That same year, he founded Liebesfilm, a production company, with Tom Tykwer,which produced Tykwer's directorial debut, Die Tödliche Maria (Deadly Maria), one year later.

Martin Kukula / Director of Photography
Martin Kukula is Wolfgang Becker's long-time cinematographer. He has lensed all of the director's projects so far: Schmetterlinge (Butterflies,1987), the television program “Tatort” (“Scene Of The Crime”), Kinderspiele (Child's Play, 1992) and Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (Life Is All You Get, 1997). Forhis work on the each of the last two films, Kukula received the German Camera Award.

Among Kukula'sother works are Sabine Eckhard's Porträt Inge Morath (Portrait of Inge Morath, 1991), Lienhard Wawrzyn's Der Blaue (The Blue One, 1994), Hermine Huntgeburth's Das Trio (The Trio, 1997) and M.X. Oberg's Ein Todsicheres Geschäft [1999). Kukula shot several episodes of the series "Stadtindianer"("City Indians") for ZDF. He was also the cameraman for Uwe Janson's "Lauras Entscheidung" ["Laura's Decision"], "Nur derSieg zählt" ("Only Victory Counts") and "Der roteEngel" ("The Red Angel"). His most recent works for television are "Babykram ist Mannnersäche" ("Baby Stuff is a Man'sJob"), "Halt mich fest" ("Hold Me Tight), "Gnadenlose Braüte" ("Merciless Brides”), "Der Mann von nebenan" [(“The Man Next Door”), "Pommery and Putenbrust" ("Pommery and Turkey Breast") and "Die Frau auf dem Baum" ["The Woman in the Tree").

Peter R. Adam / Editor
Ever since he began his career in 1981 as a sound man for Roland Emmerich's Das Arche Noah Prinzip (The Noah's Ark Principle), Peter R. Adam has edited both images and sound for countless national and international feature film productions, as well as for music videos, television commercials and film trailers. In 1998, he received the German Film Award for editing Joseph Vilsmaier's Comedian Harmonists. Born in 1957 in Pirmasens, he currently lives In Munich.

Bernd Leichtenberg / Screenplay
Bernd Lichtenberg was born in Leverkusen in 1966 and grew up in Bergisch Gladbach. Inschool, he gathered journalistic experience, writing features and reports for WDR radio. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and theology, first in Cologne and Bonn, then in Berlin. He had an engagement at the Theater in Mühlheim an der Ruhr. He came to film via an internship at theTV and radio station Sender Freies Berlin and, in 1991 and 1992, participated in the Screenwriting Workshop in Munich. Bernd Lichtenberg completed his filmstudies from 1992 to 1995 at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne and, in 1995, won the North Rhine Westphalia Culture Ministry Screenwriting Award. He has been working as a freelance screenwriter ever since.

In 1997, he himself directed a short film he wrote: Déjà vu is a chamber piece with Katrin Sell and Wolfgang Winkler. Bernd Lichtenberg lives in Cologne and Berlin.