Hollywood Profile - Woody Allen

A film by Georg Stefan Troller

If it is possible to have a true symbiosis between a person and a city, then the relationship between Woody Allen and New York must be exactly that. Whether as actor, writer, director or neurotic, Allen is in love with this giant, hurtling metropolis, and without his fast pace, he would probably fall asleep within just a few minutes. While he is known mainly as a comedian in his own country, European audiences tend to see his psychologically screwy, comic films as pure genius. Woody Allen himself works hard to make clear that he is not the same person as his on-screen persona.

"You can see that by talking to me, that I’m serious and I’m not particularly amusing. I’m not incompetent in everything I do, or I’m not surrounded by endlessly funny situations whereas in the screen I’m always in funny situations or always making funny remarks, or trying to anyhow. You run from a person who’s trying to be funny all the time".

Woody Allen

Author and Director	Georg Stefan Troller
Director of Photography	Claus Gottschall
Sound Mixer	Frank Heidbrink
Editor	Gaby Kull-Neujahr
Music	Thomas Osterhoff, Harald Kloser
Technical Supervisor	Bjoern Jensen
Production Manager	Conny Schwarz, Ira Sircar
Coproducer	Simone Stewens (BR)
Producer	Joerg Bundschuh