37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Topper won't give up

Topper gibt nicht auf

Félix Koch

Image Topper won't give up
Germany
2010 Fiction 24 min
Topper won't give up is the story about Axel, who is studying as a director and casts the male part with his all-time idol Til Topper. While shooting, Topper turns out to be an arrogant eccentric and threatens to pack in the shoot. Then Marleen enters. She is the female part, piques the interest of Topper and is the girlfriend of Axel.
With : Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Maximilian Vollmar, Anna-Maria Sturm
Screenplay : Florian Hamermann
Image : Benjamin Raeder
Sound : Manuel Vogl
Editing : Philipp Schindler
Production : Cristian Marx, Marlene-Dietrich // Allee 11, 14482 Postdam / Allemagne // Tel : + 00 (0) 49 331 6202 564 / Email : distribution@hff-postdam.de
After he finished school, Félix Koch left Luxembourg where he was born, and moved to Munich to work as an assistant director and unit manager for Michael Bully Herbig and comedian Tommy Krappweis. Later he worked as an art director designing merchandising products for Bernd das Brot, a popular german television show, where the central character is a depressed bread. Since 2006, Félix studies film directing at the Film and Television University Konrad Wolf Postdam-Babelsberg and lives in Berlin.