Key People

Director Miguel Pate

The German-American up-and-coming young director Miguel Pate will direct Bridges. Pate has been making shorts, movies and adverts since his early youth. Though young of age he brings a wealth of experience to the project, as he has worked as assistant director on Hollywood productions such as Andy & Larry Wachowski’s Speedracer, James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Actor Gedeon Burkhard

Gedeon Burkhard will play Captain Saul Bridges. The award winning actor was leading actor in Joseph Vilsmaier´s Holocaust-Drama "The last Train", Peter Thorwart´s "Golden Times" and played alongside with Brad Pitt a member of the "Inglourious Basterds" in Quentin Tarantino´s eponymous WWII-feature.

He is known to a worldwide audience by his leading roles in "Detective Rex" (aired in 140 countries) and "Alarm for Cobra 11" (aired in 120 countries).

Actor David Gant

David Gant will play Neidhardt,the villain. The esteemed British actor can can look back on a long and successful career career in theatre, film and television.

His numerous works include appearances in such prestigeous movies as Mel Gibson´s "Braveheart", Clint Eastwood´s "Firefox" and Richard Attenborough´s "Chaplin".

Actor Bela B. Felsenheimer

Bela B. Felsenheimer, a wildly popular German rock-musician and well established actor will play MP Mennis. He is leader and drummer of his band "Die Ärzte", the most successful German rockband. By appearing in numerous national and international TV- and feature-films Bela is known not only to German audiences.

Actress Nike Martens

Nike Martens will play Traute. The young German actress was trained in Hamburg and London and appeared in various TV-series, feature- and short films since then.

She is well-known to a broad German public in her role as Romy in the RTL daily soap "Unter uns"

Director of Photography

Oliver Maximilian Kraus will be director of photography. He has done a lot of TV-work and especially high profile commercials on which he received an impressive number of awards.

Among other shows and clips he most prominently is credited with several well known commercials for Mercedes-Benz.

Writer

The script to Bridges is written by Dr. Stephan Warnatsch. As a graduated historian he is highly qualified to assure historical sincerity and political correctness on the subject.

Alongside Florian Frerichs he is owner of Warnuts Entertainment and plays a vital part in the ongoing process of its development since 2007. He has been assistant director and storyboard artist on all previous warnuts productions.

Producer on Bridges

Florian Frerichs will not only be executive producer but poduction manager as well. Frerichs for the last two years has produced numerous imagefilms, music videos and DVD-documentaries.

In 2009 apart from Bridges he will co-produce the thriller "Cold Storage" by Emmy-award winner Mark Cairns.