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COLOGNE -- Marcus H. Rosenmueller, whose debut "Grave Decisions" won this year's Deutscher Filmpreis for helmer, has received $1.7 million production support from public funding orgs for his next pic, "Die perlmutterfarbe."

Pic is an adaptation of a novel about two rival school classes. It obtained $1.1 million from Bavaria's FFF Bayern and $600,000 from Berlin- based FFA.

The prolific Rosenmueller's fourth film, "Beste gegend" (Best Neighborhood), will hit theaters in January. It is the second part of his "Heimat" trilogy that started this summer with "Beste zeit" (Good Times).

In October FFF Bayern handed out some $4 million to a dozen film and TV productions.

These include helmer Benjamin Heisenberg's "Der rauber" (The Robber), about a bank robber who runs marathon; "Lippel's traum" by Lars Buechel; Rene Bo Hansen's Mongolia-set "Die stimme des adlers"; Su Turhan's "Ayla," about honor-killing in Turkish circles; and broadcaster ProSieben's two-part TV event movie "The Sea Wolf," based on Jack London's novel, starring Thomas Kretschmann.