David Preute (Writer & Director)
ROGUE TRADER
Running Time
81 min
Production
La Piscine Productions, Bayerischer Rundfunk,
HFF München, FFF Bayern
Genre
Finance-Thriller
Year
2021
Inspired by true events. Tom Walker is a young and ambitious trader in a large investment bank. He quickly rises through the ranks of the firm and suddenly finds himself responsible for a complicated financial portfolio worth 60 billion dollars. Struggling to meet the troubled bank's enormous profit expectations, he comes up with a not entirely legal financial tool that allows him to bypass the bank's regulations. After making millions and single handedly saving the firm from insolvency, Tom's fraud spirals out of control and he has to realize that he was but a pawn in a much larger scheme.
ROGUE TRADER is David Preute's first feature length film. It reached an audience of several million viewers and got dubbed into 4 languages so far.
BAPPAS
Running Time
90 min (4 x 22,5)
Production
La Piscine Productions, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Genre
Comedy
Year
2025
Two fathers, one chaos: “Bappas” is the new sketch comedy series from Bayerischer Rundfunk starring Simon Pearce and Sebastian Winkler in the lead roles—as overwhelmed, humorous, angry, loving, and sometimes completely crazy fathers in the midst of everyday madness. The two play themselves – or rather, many versions of themselves. Whether it's a child's birthday party, starting school, family vacation, or the pediatrician – “Bappas” takes up the big and small dramas of fatherhood and lovingly exaggerates them in precise, fast-paced sketches. Always with attitude, often with political subtext – but never preachy. Between sketches, Simon and Sebastian reflect on role models, masculinity, parenting, and their own insecurities—sometimes seriously, sometimes silly, but always close to the reality of young families. “Bappas”—that's fatherhood in 2025: chaotic, loving, poetic, and pretty funny.
GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE
Running Time
124 min
Production
Wiedemann & Berg Film,
Seven Pictures Film,
Mediawan, Sentana
Genre
Biopic
Year
2023
The film set around the true story of the notorious scandal involving dancers Robert Pilatus' and Fabrice Morvan's rise to fame in the late 1980s as pop sensation Milli Vanilli. Orchestrated it in Germany by the music producer Frank Farian, they became global stars with three No. 1 hits in the USA. But only a small circle of insiders knew that the duo was not singing but lip syncing to the voices of two other artists, John Davis and Brad Howell. At the height of their fame, Milli Vanilli won the Grammy Award but the situation behind the scenes escalated and the pressure on Pilatus and Morvan grew not only in their confrontation against Farian to sing using their own voices, but the excesses of fame and the Pilatus' drug addiction. When the truth was finally revealed, they went into the abyss while the world witnessed one of the biggest scandals in music history. Trying to find their own place in music and claiming to be true singers, Pilatus and Morvan's friendship is put in danger while their fame turns in infamy and in a con that their fans cannot forgive.