AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE ARE LINKS TO MY FILMS

• TELEVISION

  

  TELEVISION BY PETRA HAFFTER

  THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
  Director - History Channel
  
  COLOR OF THE NIGHT
  Director - German Television, ZDF
  
  CAUGHT IN THE ACT
  (Primetime Crime Series, TATORT)
  Director - European Television
  
  CRASHKIDS
  Writer/Director - European Television
  
  LETHAL TRANSFERENCE
  (Primetime Crime Series, TATORT)
  Director - European Television
  
  GUILTY BY SUSPICION
  Director - German Television, ZDF
  
  BABUSHKA
  Director - German Television
  
  AN HONORABLE HOUSE
  (Primetime Crime Series,TATORT)
  Director - European Television,MDR
  
  SLOW FIRE
  (Primetime Crime Series, POLIZEIRUF 110)
  Director - European Television
  
  THE KING OF DULSBERG
  Director - German Television, NDR
  
  FINAL RECKONING
  Director - German Television, ZDF
  
  ONE FINE DAY
  Director - German Television, SFB
  
  HERO & ANTI HERO
  Writer/Director - German Television, ZDF
  
  EXOTIC PLEASURES
  Writer/Director/Producer - German Television, ZDF
  
  MADNESS, THE WHOLE LIFE IS MADNESS
  Co-writer/Director/Producer - German Television, ZDF

• DOCUMENTARY

  

  DOCUMENTARIES BY PETRA HAFFTER

  THE COLORS OF THE DESERTS - 5 episodes for ARTE
  German/French television - Writer/Director
  
  IN SEARCH OF AMERICA - 5 Episodes for ARTE
  German/French television - Writer/Director
  
  THE LEGACY SERIES - 2 Episodes
  Eva Marie Saint and Marion Rosenberg
  Director - Women in Film Foundation Fellowship
  
  TRACKING AGATHA
  Following the footsteps of Agatha Christie
  through Europe and the Middle East
  Writer/Director
  
  VOYAGES, VOYAGES: LOS ANGELES
  Travel film ARTE/Discovery Channel - Writer/Director
  
  VOYAGES, VOYAGES: CALIFORNIA'S HIGHWAY ONE
  Travel film ARTE/Discovery - Writer/Director
  
  DIVE INTO LIFE - Portrait of the young Hungarian actress Erika Marozsan (Gloomy Sunday) - Writer/Director
  
  STEP OUT OF YOUR DREAM - The Gustaf Gründgens Enigma
  European Television (Full Length) - Writer/Director
  
  WHEN IT'S DARK EVERYTHING LOOKS THE SAME - Writer/Director
  
  MARTÀ MESZAROS
  Portrait of the Hungarian woman director - Writer/Director
  
  MY HOME IS MY CASTLE
  EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY - BREAD AND GAMES - Writer/Director
  
  WHY ALWAYS KU ‘DAMM? - Writer/Director
  
  WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE - Writer/Director/Producer
  
  FIRST LOVE - Writer/Director
  
  HAVING IT ALL - Co-writer/Director
  
  THANK GOD, SHE IS ALIVE - Writer/Director/Producer
  
  EVERYTHING HAS ITS PRICE - Writer/Director/Producer
  
  TOMORROW, THE JOURNEY STARTS - Co-director/Producer

• FEATURE FILM

  

  FEATURE FILMS BY PETRA HAFFTER

  PER PEDES - Confessions of a shoe fetishist
  Short Film - Writer/Director/Producer
  
  A DEMON IN MY VIEW
  Writer/Director
  Starring: Anthony Perkins
  (Based on novel by Ruth Rendell)
  
  KISS OF THE TIGER
  Co-writer/Director
  (Based on the novel Voulez-Vous Mourir Avec Moi? by Francis Ryck)
  Starring: Stephan Ferrara & Beate Jensen
  Shown at AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.

• REVIEWS

  

  REVIEWS

  Kiss of the Tiger
  
  "...Femme director Petra Haffter handles her material briskly, and the sex and the killings with frankness...this said, Jensen and Ferrara make an exciting team."
  --Variety
  
  „This months most unusual film...could very well become a cult picture on the order of Godard`s „Breathless“
  --Bild Berlin / Hamburg
  
  „Highly talented director Petra Haffter has succeeded in creating an astonishing artistic tableau; a subtle riveting psychological thriller set in an atmospheric twilight bordering on reality and fantasy.”
  --Abendzeitung, Munich
  
  „A thriller laden with sensuality“ „The predator in man shows is claws.A film of subtle ecstasy.“
  --Münchner Merkur
  
  "If Polanski uses Paris as a handsome backdrop in Frantic, first-time director Petra Haffter gives the city more limelight, vividly capturing the sights, smells and sounds of autumn, a Paris, which can influence the moods of a young German Au-Pair, Michèle(...)whose emotional temperature ranges from depressive to euphoric, from passionate to full of hate..."
  "Never a dull moment passes as Haffter`s crisp dramatisation and sensitive handling of her actors leads the way step by step through this bizarre love story. As Michèle and Peter play their fatal game of cat and mouse with each other, so Haffter plays the same game-to excellent effect-with her audience..."
  --Screen international
  
  Crashkids
  
  "A bit coming of age story (first love), a tad road movie (escape from Fort Apache by the Mediterranean), and part drama (the loss of innocence and life). Petra Haffter, writer and director, serves up a truly cinema-myth-mix of 'Rebel Without A Cause' and 'Blackboard Jungle' in her movie of the week about kids who steal cars for kicks and leave only wreckage behind...."
  --ZITTY (Berlin)
  
  "....The prominent up-and-coming director of such films as "Babushka," "A Father in Trouble," or "Crazy, My Whole Life is Crazy," now gives us a story that seems like a mixture of 'Bonnie and Clyde' by Authur Penn and "Abgefahren" by Uwe Friessner...."
  --Frankfurter Rundschau
  
  “Petra Haffter gives us a peek into the abyss of human passions...a horrifying yet intriguing tale. Haffter succeeded in creating an atmoshere of suspence with the aid of Inga Humpe`s and Thomas Fehlmann`s topnotch music score along with superb casting… Beate Jensen, striking and very contemporary, has what it takes to make it big. Stéphane Ferrara not only displays a boxer`s charm (indeed he was one) but skillfully blends brutality and vulnerability in creating a formidable „tiger“ who ultimately falls into his own deadly trap."
  --Volksblatt Berlin
  
  Tracking Agatha
  
  "I have rarely seen a travel documentary that was so penetrating, so sensitive and artistically so perfect…. Stunning pictures!"
  --(Jutta Voigt)
  
  Petra Haffter has created the excellent documentary Tracking Agatha, and in so doing has made no secret of her admiration for the famous “Queen of Crime”… A thrilling experience: the film captivates with wonderfully photographed images. Haffter has managed to combine numerous passages from the comprehensive Agatha Christie writings into an exciting collage.
  --(Sueddeutsche Zeitung)
  
  The locations are filmed in such a way as to awaken a nostalgic elegance.
  --(L’Express)
  
  "In this way a road and rail movie come together that replaces historical photo and film material from the golden period of Christie and the British Empire with topical views that reveal multiple levels of understanding… The documents and impressions provocatively capture a time free of terror, an Orient friendly to Europe. It presents images that provide an antidote to current, frightening reports from that region."
  --(FAZ)

• BIOGRAPHY

  

  PETRA HAFFTER

  is an award winning Filmmaker and president of 7 Miles Media.
  Currently she is in postproduction with a new five part series for ARTE: THE COLORS OF THE DESERTS. Her travels took her to Bolivia, the Colorado Plateau, Mojave Desert, Egypt and Jordan.
  Her most recent broadcast work was the prime-time non-fiction TV series IN SEARCH OF AMERICA.
  She is also working on two long-term projects ROCKETVILLE, a documentary about space travel and SEASIDE – CITY OF IDEAS.
  With the film, SAFE HAVEN, based on the novel from Fran Yarif, Petra will continue her career as a feature film director.
  
  THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNING
  Petra studied Communication, Drama and Political Science in Berlin, Germany. She began as photographer. After a short career at the ZDF, she decided to embark as an Independent Producer.
  She started successfully with movies for children. (BANANA PAUL & THE FIDGIN). She continued with European Co-Productions. Her movies garnered film and art awards. RED KISS (with France) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. KARNABAL (with Spain) earned multiple film and art awards. After that Petra decided to concentrate on writing and directing.
  
  HER BREAKTHROUGH
  came with EXOTIC PLEASURES (TV), an apocalyptic love story between a woman and a big black raven, based on a short story of Peter Carey. It was followed by the highly regarded KISS OF THE TIGER (movie), an erotic thriller feature based on Francys Rieck’s „Voulez vous mourir avec moi“ („the darkest novel I’ve ever written“ F.R.).
  A DEMON IN MY VIEW (movie), based on the thriller by renowned English writer RUTH RENDELL and starring ANTHONY PERKINS received the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE at the 1992 International Fantastic Adventure Film Festival in Yubari, Japan, with ROBERT WISE serving as Jury President. In Cattolica, Italy, cast member UWE BOHM was awared the “Best Supporting Actor," award.
  
  HER PASSIONS: TRAVEL, SOLES & SUSPENSE
  In 2003 she received a 'Certificate of Appreciation' from the City of Los Angeles for her documentary about the city.
  In 2004 Petra received an award for her outstanding documentary TRACKING AGATHA, where she followed in the footprints of Agatha Christie from London to Iraq. ("I finally combined my two loves: crime and travel")
  In her personal and artistic short film PER PEDES - Confessions of a Shoe Fetishist , she reveals her secret passion for shoes.
  
  Specializing in suspense and action, Petra Haffter directed numerous M.O.W.s for European Television (such as "Tatort") and worked with German stars such as Til Schweiger, Goetz George, Hannelore Elsner and Anna Thalbach.
  Many of her films are based on her own screenplays.  "ALLEY CAT" – the nine lives of Valeska Gert awarded script grant from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and is now ready for production.
  In addition to her film work Petra writes and photographs for magazines, anthologies and newspapers.
  
  TEACHING & SHARING
  If she isn’t shooting, Petra is teaching and guest speaking all around the world (Africa, Mexico, Korea, Germany and in the US. (“Teaching aspiring filmmakers and young professionals has always been part of my professional life “, P.H.”).
  Among the film schools: the School for Cinematic Art, USC; UCLA Extension; dffb, Berlin; and NYFA, Los Angeles where she had developed the MFA program for Documentary Film Making. She was chairing that department for two years, before embarking on THE COLORS OF THE DESERTS series.
  Petra Haffter has made more than 100 films, documentaries, music videos and stage plays.  She has served as a member of Film and Theatre Juries, Festival Boards and Committees for Film Funding.
  With thedocdocs.com Petra consults and guides other documentary filmmakers.
  With 7 MilesMedia.com she produces and co-produces films.