Private Project

FLÜGGE

In an Austrian mountain village in 1914, the determined Amelie (20) must defy her father's wishes of running the family sewing business to pursue her own dreams of flight and seize her only chance at finding true freedom.

  • Leopold Schraudolph
    Director
    Night Of Lies; Knöllchen; Are you real, Mr. Hart?
  • Dani Rose Cortés
    Director
    Diana's Poem; Anam Cara; Kompliziert
  • Leopold Schraudolph
    Writer
    Night Of Lies; Knöllchen; Are you real, Mr. Hart?
  • Dani Rose Cortés
    Writer
    Diana's Poem; Anam Cara; Kompliziert
  • Finn-Oliver Walter
    Producer
    Hope and Glory; Agent Echo und die Firecard Verschwörung; Blaue Briefe
  • Leopold Schraudolph
    Producer
    Night Of Lies; Knöllchen; Are you real, Mr. Hart?
  • Elena Franke
    Key Cast
    "Amelie"
    Zenit; Offline; Liebe Claire; Lückenhaft
  • George Lenz
    Key Cast
    "Josef"
    The World Will Tremble; Your beautiful Hell; Halt dein Maul Tom
  • Jakob Maximilian
    Key Cast
    "Levente"
    My Dear Ex; Garder le moral; I am Zoe
  • Julian Falzone
    Key Cast
    "Alois"
    Paula; Hart gezockt; Gangster
  • Barbara Maria Messner
    Key Cast
    "Anne-Marie"
    Die Rosenheim-Cops; Aktenzeichen CY; Alte Wunden soll man aufreißen
  • Julia Maria König
    Director of Photography
    Black China; Nimmerland; Geisenfeld Tennessee
  • Jasmin Domochali
    First Assistant Director
    Ass im Ärmel; Hope and Glory - A Mad Max Fanfilm; CyberCity Lovestory; Timewarp
  • Laura Jung
    Second Assistant Director Crowd
  • Julia Reymann-Englert
    Second Assistant Director Crowd
  • Maximiliane Rabenbauer
    Script Continuity
  • Emanuel Strassburger
    Production Coordinator
    Die Chefin
  • Sarah Tschaikowsky
    Unit Manager
  • Marcel Keiluweit
    Unit Manager
    Bis es mich gibt
  • Helena Bublak
    Production Assistant
    Coma
  • Dariush Owji
    Production Assistant
  • Natalia Blaskovic
    Set Manager
  • Evangelia Kakoulaki
    Set Runner
  • Robel Kesete
    Set Runner
  • Anatol Schraudolph
    Set Runner
  • Fynn Hackenbroich
    Set Runner
  • Michelle Kleist
    Production Designer
  • Ramona Overhoff
    Production Designer
  • Miriam Klepper
    Production Design Assistant
  • Paula Blankenhagen
    Production Design Assistant
  • Carola Walter
    Hair- and Make-Up Designer
    Blaue Briefe
  • Carla Riegler
    Hair- and Make-Up Design Assistant
    Blaue Briefe; the beauty of yellow
  • Elena Bondar
    Costume Designer
    Eintauchen (Dr. Hauschka Spec Spot)
  • Rika Amshoff
    Costume Design Assistant
    Hope and Glory - A MadMax Fanfilm
  • Manuel Linke
    First Assistant Camera
  • Felix Wüller
    First Assistant Camera
  • Tobias Greiter
    Second Assistant Camera
  • Lukas Pickhard
    Digital Image Technician
  • Severin Schwarz
    Steadicam-Operator
  • Istvan Gerencser
    Drone-Operator
  • Alexander Hupp
    Drone-Operator
    Wind Up
  • Mike Schneider
    Still photographers
  • Jannis Bierschenk
    Still photographers
  • Ines Timmich
    VFX Supervisor
  • Quirin Wolff
    Gaffer
  • Neo Kurz
    Best Boy
  • Arthur Letizky
    Electrician
  • Monika Schäfer
    Electrician
  • Jessica Romero Walter
    Electrician
  • Max Kotzur
    Production Sound Mixer
    Babyboy
  • Merlin Meyer
    Production Sound Mixer
  • Merlin Meyer
    Boom Operator
  • Carla Boicu
    Boom Operator
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    FLÜGGE
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Mountain, Aviation, Emancipation
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 26, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria, Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Film by students, but not a film as part of the course
  • Euroshorts Young Filmmakers
    Gdańsk
    Poland
    December 3, 2024
    World Premiere
    Most Positive Character Award
  • FILUMS International Film Festival

    Pakistan
    October 1, 2025
    Honorable Mention
  • California Women’s Film Festival
    Hollywood
    United States
    February 15, 2025
    North American Premiere
    Best Foreign Film
  • Omaha Film Festival
    Omaha, Nebraska
    United States
    March 15, 2025
    Nebraska Premiere
    Honorable Mention
  • flimmern&rauschen
    Munich
    Germany
    March 15, 2025
    German Premiere
    Audience Award
  • FEEDBACK Female Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    Canadian Premiere
    Best Short Film
  • Pápa International Film Festival
    Pápa
    Hungary
    April 25, 2025
    Hungarian Premiere
    Best Short Film; Best Actress
  • Internationale Grenzland-Filmtage
    Selb
    Germany
    April 25, 2025
    Audience Award; Newcomer Award
  • Camgaroo Award
    Munich
    Germany
    May 7, 2025
    Winner Category "Emotions"
  • Felice Film Festival
    Rome
    Italy
    May 30, 2025
    Italian Premiere
  • Pune Short Film Festival
    Pune
    India
    June 3, 2025
    Indian Premiere
  • Bundesfestival junger Film
    St. Ingbert
    Germany
    November 6, 2025
  • SunSet Shorts
    Bad Wiessee
    Germany
    July 11, 2025
  • Festival of Nations
    Lenzing
    Austria
  • Cyprus International Film Festival

    Cyprus
    Cyprus Premiere
  • Return International Film & Art Festival
    Weimar
    Germany
  • St. Louis International Film Festival
    St. Louis
    United States
Director Biography - Leopold Schraudolph, Dani Rose Cortés

Dani Rose Cortés | Writer, Director

Dani was born in 1999 in Valdivia, Chile and grew up near Munich. After graduating from high school, she completed a directing internship on the international feature film PLAN A. She has directed several projects (Diana's Poem, Flügge, The Witch, The Cowboy And The Midwife (AT),...) and was also involved as script continuity and assistant director in several film school productions (Babyboy, Auf Sand Gebaut, Sturm & Drang,...). She is expected to complete her Motion Pictures studies at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in summer 2025.

Filmography:

> Diana’s Poem, Short Film (January 2023)
> Anam Cara, Documentary (June 2021)
> KOMPLIZIERT, Short Film (December 2020)

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Leopold Schraudolph | Producer, Writer, Director

Leopold was born in 2003 in Singapore and grew up there. He has been living in Munich for four years. In September 2022, he began his dual studies in Production Management for Film and TV at HS Ansbach in cooperation with HFF Munich and will graduate in summer 2026. In addition, he has gained extensive experience on film sets and in production offices in a variety of roles. So far, Leopold has written and directed eleven short films that have been screened at festivals worldwide and have won awards. He is particularly proud of the audience awards for his work “FLÜGGE”, about a pioneer of aviation in the early 20th century. In his work, he is interested in stories about dreamers. He is a scholarship holder of both the German Academic Scholarship Foundation ("Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes") and the Max Weber Program in Germany, as well as a former David Marshall Scholar in Singapore. Upon graduating from high school, he received the Abitur Prize for outstanding social and cultural achievements. In 2023, together with Finn-Oliver Walter, he founded the young film production company “Willit Grain”.

Filmography:

LANTERN (Short, 7min, 2025)
FLÜGGE (Short, 29min, 2024)
THAW (Short, 10min, 2024)
NIGHT OF LIES (Short, 10min, 2022)
KNÖLLCHEN (Short, 5min, 2022)
ARE YOU REAL, MR. HART? (Short, 10min, 2019–2021)
FLORENCE HYDE (Short, 18min, 2019–2021)
DOPPIO (Short, 3min, 2019–2021)
ANY EXCUSE FOR CONTACT (Short, 7min, 2019–2021)
TO FOG A MIRROR (Short, 3min, 2019–2021)
GUMPOINT (Short, 26min, 2019–2021)

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Director Statement

Airplanes and flying are freedom made manifest. Since the beginning of time, man has looked upwards and dreamed. In the same way, our protagonist Amelie watches airplanes and birds dancing in the sky and can do nothing but long to fly herself one day. Just as we have to learn when growing up that it is up to us to rise up and leave the family's nest, an idea forms in Amelie's head: she could escape the confining peaks of the Alpine village of her childhood by building her own airplane and flying towards the sun.

“FLÜGGE” tells the story of a young woman in the early 20th century who dreams of getting away from home to see the world and write her own story. She fights for her dream in a world where decisions are made for her, obedience is expected and others - especially men - are given more opportunities than her. Although this is an isolated story, the themes are universal and timeless. This is drama, coming-of-age, and emancipation.

I have a personal connection to this topic. My father is a pilot. For bedtime stories, he would read me episodes from the Great History of Aviation - epic adventures of selfless heroes and ingenious inventors graced my childhood dreams. But among the many pioneers of these stories, there was only one woman - Amelia Earhart. I grew up with this understanding. As I got older, however, this fact was questioned at some point;
my father and I ended up doing some research together. In the process, we came across the rich and largely unknown legacy of women in early aviation. Realizing this underrepresentation solidified my need to tell this coming-of-age story.

While Amelie's story is fictional, it is based on a monumental foundation of real women in aviation. Female inventors and trailblazers, pioneers who not only had to conquer the skies but also the patriarchy. This film aims to shine a bright light on these numerous women who are largely unknown in popular culture.

~ Leopold Schraudolph | Producer, Writer, Director