Köln 75 (2025)
1h 56m
Running Time
March 13, 2025Release Date
Köln 75 (2025)
1h 56m
Running Time
March 13, 2025Release Date
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Plot.
Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, breaks every boundary to set the conditions for the creation of a masterpiece. Vera, still in high school when she started producing and promoting music concerts in Cologne, puts everything on the line to put on this show. But Vera believes in the power of music, and she’s never seen anyone play like Keith Jarrett before.
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Cast & Crew.

Mala Emde
Vera Brandes

John Magaro
Keith Jarrett

Michael Chernus
Michael Watts

Jördis Triebel
Ilse Brandes

Alexander Scheer
Manfred Eicher

Ulrich Tukur
Dr. Brandes

Susanne Wolff
Vera Brandes (age 50)

Patrick Joswig
Dr. Suter

Leo Meier
Fritz Brandes

Tobias Lange
Otto Finster

Jürgen Rißmann
Hans Giese

Peter Sikorski
Officer Schmidt

Uwe Preuss
Mr. Breuer

Moritz Heidelbach
Journalist Horst

Fred Burle
Producer

Tonio Schneider
Martin Wieland

Michael del Coco
Journalist Bernd

Christina Schumacher
FEX Real Estate Agent

Shirin Lilly Eissa
Isa

Anja Siemens
Editor

Emrah Ertem
CastingDirector

Marie-Lou Sellem
Isa (age 50)

Jutta Freyer
ProductionDesigner

Corey Johnson
Lawrence Mailer

Nikolai Kinski
Officer Schultz

Julius Feldmeier
David Menk

Enno Trebs
Jan

Ido Fluk
Writer / Director

Moritz Virmond
Lighting Supervisor

Sabine Schumann
Hair Designer

Astrid Mariaschk
Makeup & Hair

Waldemar Pokromski
Makeup & Hair

Fred Burle
Producer

Sol Bondy
Producer

Oren Moverman
Executive Producer

Ewa Puszczyńska
Co-Producer

Lilli-Marie Schopp
Assistant Director

Jens Harant
Cinematography

Alexander Wunsch
ADR Editor
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
jazz
cologne
Wiki.
Köln 75 is a 2025 German music-drama film directed by Ido Fluk. The film follows Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, as she makes plans to organize a Keith Jarrett concert in Cologne. Mala Emde and John Magaro star as Brandes and Jarrett, respectively.
The film, selected in the Berlinale Special Gala section at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, had its world premiere at the festival on 16 February 2025. It will release theatrical on 13 March in German theaters.