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Walid Nakschbandi said the biopic, which has the working
title 'Angela Merkel', will seek to bring the chancellor alive
for audiences around the world by showing who she is both
politically and privately.
"Merkel is one of the most popular and most discussed leaders in
Europe," he said of the German leader, frequently named the
world's most powerful woman.
"People are always discussing, criticizing or admiring what she
does but a lot of people don't really know who she is, where she
comes from and what she stands for".
"Why does she do all of this? What's her image of Europe and
Germany? What's she like in private - how does she live?"
Nakschbandi added.
He said it had not yet been decided who would play Merkel, but
AVE would come up with a list of names in the coming months.
The film's release will come in a year when Germany is due to
hold a federal election and a majority of Germans want Merkel,
who remains very popular at home 10 years after taking office,
to run for a fourth term, a poll showed late last year.
The screenplay is being written by Dirk Kurbjuweit, a journalist
at German magazine Der Spiegel who has written two books about
Merkel. "Having observed her close up, he's got knowledge that
very few people in Germany have," Nakschbandi said.
Merkel's life will make for interesting viewing because it is
"full of turning points", and she lived in two different
political systems, Nakschbandi said.
Merkel, born Angela Kasner, grew up as the daughter of a
Protestant pastor in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the
former Communist East. She trained as a physicist and married
Ulrich Merkel, also a physicist, though they divorced several
years later and Merkel went on to marry chemist Joachim Sauer.
Both marriages have been childless.
It was only after the Berlin Wall fell that Merkel became active
politically. She joined the Christian Democrats (CDU) and after
catching the eye of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, became minister for
women and youth in his first post-reunification cabinet.
In 2005 she became the first chancellor from the former GDR.
(Editing by Dominic Evans)
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