Mara and the Firebringer (2015)

Interesting facts

Mara and the Firebringer is a 2015 German fantasy film. It is an adaptation of the first book in the trilogy of the same name by Tommy Krappweis, who also wrote the screenplay and directed it. The focus of the story is on Mara Lorbeer, a 15-year-old girl in Munich who learns that she is a spákona, a seeress from Norse and Germanic mythology, and is supposed to prevent the impending Ragnarök. She jumps back and forth between the world of the present and the world of Norse and Germanic mythology and meets such figures as Loki, Thor, Sigurd and the dangerous Firebringer. As with the novels, the film's technical adviser was Rudolf Simek.

Production

The film was produced by RTL Television and Rat Pack Filmproduktion in cooperation with bumm film. The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern each supported the production with the maximum possible subsidy of one million euros. The film was also funded via the Filmförderungsanstalt and the Deutscher Filmförderfonds. Constantin Film served as the film's distributor.

The band Schandmaul provided the original song, "Ein Echter Wahrer Held," with the lyrics written by Tommy Krappweis and the film's composer Andreas Lenz von Ungern-Sternberg. A demo version of the song was featured in episode 7 of YouTube gaming channel High5's web series Hoppers and soon gained memetic status as a "motivational song" among the German gaming community.

In early 2017, German livestreaming channel Rocket Beans TV released the 72-minute fan documentary Götter, Gags und Fantasy - Die Mara Story about the seven-year history of the Mara project, from the initial conception to the premiere, featuring interviews with director Tommy Krappweis, behind-the-scenes information, and deleted scenes that had to be cut for the film to qualify for a 6 rating by the FSK.

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