Between February 2004 and January 2005, more than 1,200 girls and young women from across Germany came to audition for the part of the aggressive, traumatized and inwardly torn “Jenny”.
The director and producers were not only seeking a sensitive, highly talented actress, but a girl who had to be convincing both a brutal loner and a genius piano player. After a year-long quest for the right girl, the team picked Hannah Herzsprung, who knew how to beat severe competition from Germany’s young acting vanguard. She then had to undergo half a year of intensive piano coaching, three months of box training, and – most importantly – she had to do her own stunts.
Through her artistic powerhouse performance, TV-actor Bernd Herzsprung’s nearly unknown daughter (the audience had glimpsed samples of her talent in TV series like “18 – Alone among girls”, produced by German private network ProSieben, or in TV-movies such as “Emilia – The Second Chance”) delivers her captivating debut on the big screen with “FOUR MINUTES”.
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