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30. Filmfest Hamburg, The Capetown Miracle
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The Heart Of Cape Town (Das Wunder von Kapstadt)

Producer award for Christian Popp (Producers at work Film) at the 30th Filmfest Hamburg

from left to right:
Alexander Thies, Jana Schiedek, Christian Popp, Albert Wiederspiel

Christian Popp wins this year’s Hamburg Producer Award for German Television Productions with the ARD Degeto event production “The Miracle of Cape Town” starring Sonja Gerhardt and Alexander Scheer.

Inspired by true events, Franziska Buch directed the historical drama about the world’s first heart transplant on a human being, based on the screenplay by Christoph Silber. Das Erste and ARD Mediathek will broadcast the film at the end of the year.

The jury justifies the award as follows: “In our eyes, the production company Producers at Work has succeeded in combining a world-historical event with the theme of women’s struggle for professional recognition in an exciting and entertaining way. The race for the first heart transplant, which is told on film for the first time in The Miracle of Cape Town, also provides an opportunity to remember apartheid through a true black key figure.”