Jan 20, 2010
via CAAI News Media
Hamburg - A former Cambodian prostitute and a German man whose happy-end romance has been filmed by a leading director were in Germany this week for the theatre release of the movie, Same Same But Different.
Genre stories about western men who fall in love with Asian bar-girls developed a German branch in 2007 with the publication of Wherever You Go, an autobiographical story by Benjamin Pruefer who discovered his new Cambodian sweetheart was a 'working girl.'
Pruefer, wife Sreykeo and their two children who all live in Phnom Penh, were invited to the glittering premiere late Tuesday in Hamburg.
David Kross, 19, the leading man to Kate Winslet in her Oscar-winning 2008 performance in The Reader, plays the German backpacker taking a break from university who meets Sreykeo Solvan, played by Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, at a drug-filled party.
The story was filmed by German actor-director Detlev Buck, 47, who plays a father in the Golden Globe winning movie The White Ribbon.
Same Same But Different picked up a prize last August at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.
In the movie, Pruefer only discovers after his return to Europe in a Skype chat that Sreykeo is HIV-positive, but is drawn back to her.
Pruefer, 30, said at the premiere it was more a cinematic creation by Buck than a portrayal of his own life.
'I didn't have the feeling my whole life flashed before my eyes,' he joked, clutching his son Lukas in one arm.
Buck called Same Same 'a sensuous film with an extreme amount of love in it.' It was partly shot in Asia, with a mix of scenic wonders and disturbing slum life. 'The film is my declaration of love for Cambodia,' Buck added.
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