The focus of the story is on Mara Lorbeer, a 15-year-old girl in Munich who learns that she is a spákona, a seeress from Norse and Germanic mythology, and is supposed to prevent the impending Ragnarök.
[2] The six-week production took place in 2013 in Munich, with additional scenes filmed near Soinsee, in the neighboring towns of Spitzingsee, Inzell, Oberding, and at the MMC Studios in Cologne.
[3] The band Schandmaul provided the original song, "Ein Echter Wahrer Held," with the lyrics written by Tommy Krappweis and the film's composer Andreas Lenz von Ungern-Sternberg.
In early 2017, German livestreaming channel Rocket Beans TV released the 72-minute fan documentary Götter, Gags und Fantasy - Die Mara Story about the seven-year history of the Mara project, from the initial conception to the premiere, featuring interviews with director Tommy Krappweis, behind-the-scenes information, and deleted scenes that had to be cut for the film to qualify for a 6 rating by the FSK.
"[8] Among the German press, the most prominent review came from Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Tommy Krappweis has adapted the first book of his fantasy trilogy of the same name as an action-packed spectacle.
But when Tommy Krappweis showed the film in a private director's screening at the Role Play Convention later that year, new life was unexpectedly breathed into it.