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OF COWBOYS AND WINE
Medium
Ad / spot for NOR not only riesling
Shooting Dates
April 2023
Cast and Crew
Crew:
Director / Producer / Writer: Johannes Scholten
Producers: Yvonne Lechleiter, Torsten Just
Director of Photography: Agustín Garza
Assistant Director: Eli Meadow Ramraj
Horse Wrangler: Simon Grzesczak, Dennis Grzesczak, Constanze Schwarz
Make-up: Kathrin Krüger
1st Day 1st Assistant Camera: Guoji Wu (as Will Wu)
1st Day 2nd Assistant Camera & 2nd Day 1st Assistant Camera: Ana Montaño
2nd Day 2nd Assistant Camera & Set Decoration: Isabella Guerrero
2nd Day Electrician: Aakriti Arora
Gaffer: Tarek Shayne Tabet
Sound: David Arce
Music: Jody Jenkins "Los Cinco Pistolas"
Location Scout & Production Assistant: Christian Landmann
Transportation Captain: Yvonne Lechleiter
Cast:
The Cowboy: Dennis Grzesczak
The Horse: Djafahr
The Knight: Manuel Talarico
The Countess: Ambar De la Horra
Barwoman: Michela Marchiori
Barman: Torsten Just
Contemporary Guest 1: Janin Droste
Dachshund: Lotte vom Hexenkessel
Contemporary Guest 2: Paulette Penje
Contemporary Guest 3: Aakriti Arora
Contemporary Guest 4: Eli Meadow Ramraj
The Voice: Aaron Woelffer
Length
80 Seconds / 7:27 Minutes
A place like no other where every guest gets the desired beverage and craved meal, regardless of taste, heritage or even the century they are from...
A place where even a cowboy is swayed from his trusted whiskey to trying a bottle of German sauvignon blanc and Italian spumante.
Ad shot for NOR not only riesling, a German/Italian wine bar.
The spot is currently distributed in cinemas in the Berlin area and will be shown as 35mm print during the weekly recurring 35mm Fridays at Hackesche Höfe cinema Berlin.
The ad spans 80 seconds, the short film version is 7:27 minutes long.
Shot in April 2024 on Sony FX-9 in Bad Saarow and Berlin.
The film was an attempt to tie into the wine bars name "Not Only Riesling", as in Not only wine but so much more: Beer, tarte flambée and even whiskey for weary cowboys. The message is that every customer gets what he/she desires, even if their home lies 500 years in the past. There is something for everyone here.
At the same time the spot is a love letter to cinema by myself, particularly the western and its many amalgamations: Sergio Leone, particularly "Once Upon a Time in the West" and 1973's "Westworld" by Michael Crichton were influences, whereas the overall look and color scheme is build on the master of commercials and composition Tony Scott. We shot with 6.6 x 6.6 graduated sunset and tobacco filters to achieve this look.
