Behind the Scenes – Ralf Schmerberg

It gets dangerous on the set created by Žana Bošnjak for Mein Brauttanz.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Jana Kalgajeva, Elena Schmerberg, Meret Becker and Stella von Senger at work.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Medics come to deliver Meret to a surgical facility after an attempted suicide.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Max Raabe and Meret Becker on the set of I Had A Dream.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Ralf Schmerberg and Daniel Gottschalk shoot a beautiful Swan version of Meret Becker in a scene from Snowflakes For Breakfast.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Almuth Sieß, Zora Schemm, Franziska Kleinert, Florian Anderer, Margarita Broich and Caroline Redl in Mein Brauttanz.
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“Love will save us all.” Meret Becker and Zazie de Paris.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Make up team taking care of Vera Lehndorff and Lulu Hacke.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Daniel Gottschalk captures Meret Becker in Snowflakes For Breakfast.
Photography by Katja Oortman

A typical couple in the uncanny Wild West.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Meret Becker makes up her mind in Mein Brauttanz.
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Elena Schmerberg, Susann Becker and Elisa Lindenberg.
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Anneli von Klitzing plays a medic in Mein Brauttanz.
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Veruschka and Ralf Schmerberg review footage of the scene while production designer Žana Bošnjak preps the set for a new shot.
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Meret Becker and Manni Laudenbach have a laugh while discussing how to enter a scene with his horse drawn carriage.
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Alexander Scheer and Meret Becker review Ralf Schmerberg’s footage of their previous love scene.
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Director Ralf Schmerberg poses with Chantal, Zazie De Paris, Ichgola Androgyn and Laila Elektra, the cast of surgeons who transform to Shamanic medicine men.
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Bob Rutman becomes a cowboy in the afterlife under the hands of Elena Schmerberg.
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Actors Maria Zastrow, Gert Thumser, Max Raabe, Oliver Groszer, Manni Laudenbach and Buddy Sacher listen to director Ralf Schmerberg speak about the scene specifics of I Had A Dream.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Rolf Zacher on fire in Donkey Song.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

The Donkey takes a break.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Daniel Gottschalk and Ralf Schmerberg shoot Meret Becker through a piano prepared for the film unique look.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Elisa Lindenberg and Francesco Cascavilla finalize the costume and make up for Veruschka in her role as the Undertaker.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Karina Krawczyk plays a Native American warrior.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Veruschka tests her make up skills
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Gert Thumser plays the bartender in the Bar of the Afterlife.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Hedda Oledzki, Anna von Rueden, Katharina Thalbach and Elisa Lindenberg.
Photography by Katja Oortman

Meret’s stuffed rabbit on the set of I Had A Dream.
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Meret Becker transforms into a deceased ghost that haunts the past memories of her true love shot by Ralf Schmerberg.
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Komi Mizrajim Togbonou shows us the way out of Death Valley.
Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

A pile of pistols used for the intense gun battle during Mein Brauttanz.
Photography by Katja Oortman