Hamburg’s HafenCity (lit: Harbour City) is the largest building site in Europe. It will increase the size of Hamburg’s inner city by 40 percent, and is celebrated as a pinnacle of modern urbanity. No other European city boasts such a large-scale inner city area of housing, office and living space beingcreated from scratch. Claudia Willke and Katharina Höcker have interviewed its first inhabitants, who have been living in the convergence of cold construction and incalculable vitality for more than two years, reporting on what the much discussed “new urbanity” actually signifies in practise.

Director: Claudia Willke Katharina Höcker

Screenplay: Claudia Wilke Katharina Höcker

Producer: Claudia Willke

Orig. Titel: Kaiserkai
Section: 16:9
Original language: German
Filmtype: Documentary Feature
DoP: Bernd Meiners, Rainer Schmidt, Svea Andersson, Lorenz Müller
Editor: Margot Neubert Maric
Format: DigiBeta

German Distributor: NDR
Production Company: Willke Film, Arnoldstr. 74, 22763 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: +49 40 397281, Fax: +49 40 3900713, email: info@willkefilm.de