“The Hunger Games – The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes” has been in German cinemas since November 16, 2023 and is delighting fans in this country not only with the backstory about Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) and Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). ), but also with dystopian backgrounds that will be especially familiar to residents of Berlin and the Ruhr area. It’s no longer a secret that the ‘Hunger Games’ prequel was largely shot in Germany to portray the totalitarian state of Panem with its brutalist buildings and coal mines.
Due to the extensive filming in Germany, many supporting roles were cast only in this country and became directors Francis Laurens and his team looked around the German film scene. Young talents from the German acting scene were cast, especially for some of the tributes competing against each other in the tenth Hunger Games in the sci-fi prequel.
Much of the casting for the tributes took place in Germany
This included, among other things Irene Bohmwhich we just watched in the fourth season of “Babylon Berlinin the role of Charlotte’s (Liv Lisa Fries) sister Toni Ritter. In “The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes” Böhm embodies the female tribute from District 7 and fights for her life in the arena as Lamina. Over the course of the games, she climbs onto a stone arch where she survives for a long time until she is finally killed by Coral (Mackenzie Lansing).
Irene Böhm is also struggling Luna Kiss in the prequel to “Panem” to survive – but before she even enters the arena. As Brandy, she embodies the tribute of District 10, who slits the throat of her mentor Arachne Crane (Lilly Cooper) for a sandwich and is then murdered by peacekeepers. Luna Kuse is known for the children’s and youth soap ‘Schloss Einstein’, while she can also be seen in the RTL+ series ‘Meme Girls’.
Dimitri Abold On the other hand, he takes on the role of Reaper Ash from District 11, who before the start of the Hunger Games is seen by the other tributes as the strongest competition and actually lasts the longest – he is only defeated by Dr. The snakes of Gaul are cut down after he pays his last respects to Wovey (Sofia Sanchez). The German actor has appeared in a number of television films, but was also recently seen in Netflix’s ‘Warrior Nun’ and the Amazon series ‘Love Addicts’.
Other “Songbirds & Snakes” actors from Germany include Kjell Brutscheidt (“The House of Dreams”) in the role of Tanner from District 10, Cooper Dillion (“Sarah Kohr – Ghosts of the Past”) as Mizzen from District 4 and Athena Strates (“Ze Network”) as Capitol mentor. Clemens Schick, who we recently saw in a supporting role in Luc Besson’s “DogMan,” is observed at the very beginning of the film by the childlike Coriolanus and Tigris in the snow-covered Capitol.