caligari film
(Film und Fernsehproduktions GmbH)
germany
Contact
GABRIELE M. WALTHER
Founder / Managing Director
MARCUS HAMANN
Head of Development
SOPHIE WERDIN
Business and Legal Affairs
+49 895 480 950
Company Profile
Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH was founded in 1986 and is one of the leading independent production companies in Germany. Owner and managing director is Gabriele M. Walther.
With THE NIMBOLS, Caligari Film was the first German company to produce a major CGI series and thus entered the international animation business. Caligari Film acquired the rights to many well-known brands such as COCONUT THE LITTLE DRAGON, CAPT'N SHARKY, KNIGHT RUSTY and PRINCESS LILLIFEE and is the market leader in this segment with 10 feature films and over 350 series episodes and has received numerous awards.
Fiction productions include HAUSMEISTER KRAUSE (JANITOR KRAUSE) for Sat.1, Germany's most successful sitcom with 80 episodes, and the feature film HELL, an audience favourite at numerous festivals and winner of numerous awards. Caligari remade PAN TAU, one of the greatest TV classics, for ARD and produced the horror comedy MANDY AND THE FORCES OF EVIL for Amazon Prime Video.
In the factual and non-fiction sector, subsidiary Caligari Entertainment produces primetime documentaries such as TERRA X and FASZINATION UNIVERSUM (FASCINATION UNIVERSE) with Harald Lesch for ZDF, as well as daytime formats such as DER HAUSTIERCHECK (THE PET CHECK) and PRINCESS OF SCIENCE. CaligariEntertainment can also look back on successful docu-soaps such as WINDSTÄRKE 8 and NICHT ZU STOPPEN (UNSTOPPABLE), and its portfolio includes docu-series such as IRISCHER KOMPASS (COMPASS IRELAND) and GARTENPARADIESE (GARDEN PARADISES).
Gabriele M. Walther
Marcus Hamann
Sophie Werdin
Company Highlights
DOUGIE DOLITTLE tba
Genre: Adventure
Director: Regina Welker
Screenplay: Mark Slater / Philip LaZebnik
When animal-phobic teenager Dougie Dolittle has a chance meeting with Polly, the family’s long-lost parrot, she unlocks his innate talent: Dougie can talk to and understand animals! Finding this gift more like a curse, Dougie must learn to overcome his fears in order to help his newfound animal friends take down the unscrupulous pet food company Kingcorps, save the town from rampaging giant zoo animals, and ultimately accept his legacy.
MANDY AND THE FORCES OF EVIL 2023
Genre: Horror Comedy
Director: Andreas Schmied / Franziska Meyer Price
Screenplay: Elisabeth Schmied / Andreas Schmied
Cast: Eli Riccardi, Bayan Layla, Rebecca Immanuel, Michael Pink, Giovanni Funiati, Rafael Gareisen, Thomas Pohn, Inge Maux
A traumatised city dweller battling evil: Mandy is in her late 20s and suffers from agoraphobia and panic attacks since an accident. Then the ghost of her neighbour Selcan appears and tells Mandy that dark forces are threatening the people around her. Mandy embarks on a chaotic mission to face her demons and save the people she loves.
EUROPE'S ANCIENT MEGASITES: MYSTERY OF A LOST CIVILIZATION 2023
Genre: Documentary
Film by: Christiane Streckfuß
6000 years ago a rich, large and for that time modern city on the territory of today's Ukraine, a city with 10,000 inhabitants disappears from one day to the next. Archaeologists from Germany and Ukraine are looking for the causes.