For those who’ve had their fill of Hallmark movies and more traditional seasonal fare, The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual list of the best in international TV offers some binge alternatives for the lazy days between Christmas and New Year’s. There’re nary a Santa or sleighbells to be found among our picks of foreign series fare, but fans of global TV will find plenty to chew on over the holidays, whether it’s a political thriller set in Senegal, a Korean drama about mental health, or a bizarre Danish comedy-soap from an old arthouse master.
Colin from Accounts (Watch on: Paramount+) Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer in ‘Colin From Accounts.’
This charming and disarmingly cringe Aussie rom-com kicks off with one of the most original meet-cutes in the genre: Gordon (Patrick Brammall) stops his car to let Ashley (Harriet Dyer) cross the street. In a cheeky thank you,...
Colin from Accounts (Watch on: Paramount+) Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer in ‘Colin From Accounts.’
This charming and disarmingly cringe Aussie rom-com kicks off with one of the most original meet-cutes in the genre: Gordon (Patrick Brammall) stops his car to let Ashley (Harriet Dyer) cross the street. In a cheeky thank you,...
- 12/22/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leonine Studios has picked up six-part event series “Herzogpark,” one of the first big-budget offerings commissioned by German broadcast giant Rtl’s streaming service Tvnow.
Leonine will handle worldwide sales, and is set to launch global distribution at next month’s Mipcom market in Cannes. The show, from “Bad Banks” producer Letterbox Filmproduktion, is directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank, who is best known for his Oscar-winning short film “Toyland.”
Billed as a scandalous society comedy-drama with strong female characters, the cast is led by Heike Makatsch (“Love Actually”), Lisa Maria Potthoff (“Kaiserschmarrndrama”), Antje Traue (“Dark”) and Felicitas Woll. Others include Heiner Lauterbach (“Welcome to Germany”), Jeanette Hain (“The Reader”), Trystan Pütter (“Babylon Berlin”) and Lukas Spisser (“What We Wanted”) and Francis Fulton-Smith (“Blackout”).
The show centers on Hannah, Elisabeth and Annabelle, who are beautiful, rich and want to stay in their home in Munich’s highly exclusive residential area of Herzogpark at all costs.
Leonine will handle worldwide sales, and is set to launch global distribution at next month’s Mipcom market in Cannes. The show, from “Bad Banks” producer Letterbox Filmproduktion, is directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank, who is best known for his Oscar-winning short film “Toyland.”
Billed as a scandalous society comedy-drama with strong female characters, the cast is led by Heike Makatsch (“Love Actually”), Lisa Maria Potthoff (“Kaiserschmarrndrama”), Antje Traue (“Dark”) and Felicitas Woll. Others include Heiner Lauterbach (“Welcome to Germany”), Jeanette Hain (“The Reader”), Trystan Pütter (“Babylon Berlin”) and Lukas Spisser (“What We Wanted”) and Francis Fulton-Smith (“Blackout”).
The show centers on Hannah, Elisabeth and Annabelle, who are beautiful, rich and want to stay in their home in Munich’s highly exclusive residential area of Herzogpark at all costs.
- 9/1/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Peccadillo Pictures has launched a poster and trailer for the upcoming drama inspired by one of the biggest legal scandals in German history, ‘The Collini Case.’
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the story follows young attorney Caspar Leinen (Elyas M’Barek) as he is assigned his first major case when appointed by the court as a defence counsel to Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), an unassuming 70-year-old Italian accused of killing the respected industrial magnate Hans Meyer (Manfred Zapatka), seemingly without motive. But there is much more at stake for Caspar than his first big case as a defence lawyer. The victim was not only the grandfather of his childhood sweetheart Johanna (Alexandra Maria Lara) but also a mentor and father figure to him in his youth. Although a non-guilty verdict would propel his career, the damage to his personal relationships would be irreversible. Despite this, Caspar delves deeper into the high-profile case,...
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the story follows young attorney Caspar Leinen (Elyas M’Barek) as he is assigned his first major case when appointed by the court as a defence counsel to Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), an unassuming 70-year-old Italian accused of killing the respected industrial magnate Hans Meyer (Manfred Zapatka), seemingly without motive. But there is much more at stake for Caspar than his first big case as a defence lawyer. The victim was not only the grandfather of his childhood sweetheart Johanna (Alexandra Maria Lara) but also a mentor and father figure to him in his youth. Although a non-guilty verdict would propel his career, the damage to his personal relationships would be irreversible. Despite this, Caspar delves deeper into the high-profile case,...
- 8/6/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Natalia Avelon, Matthias Bundschuh, Inka Friedrich, Lisa-Marie Koroll, Heiner Lauterbach, Junis Marlon, Jacob Matschenz, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Marie-Lou Sellem | Written by Hans G. Raeth, Felix Starck | Directed by Marc Rothemund
Here in Germany, we headed back into what has been described as a “soft” lockdown on Monday. But before this, as it was my wedding anniversary, and as we had a babysitter for the first time since baby number 2 was delivered by the stork, we decided to get down our local cinema, while we could. My wife and I (and 4 other people) saw the German language film Es ist zu deinem Besten (It is For Your Own Good) and it was rather fun.
I appreciate this is going to be rather niche, given this is an English language site, but as I physically went to the cinema I feel this needs to be celebrated, given what is going on in the world.
Here in Germany, we headed back into what has been described as a “soft” lockdown on Monday. But before this, as it was my wedding anniversary, and as we had a babysitter for the first time since baby number 2 was delivered by the stork, we decided to get down our local cinema, while we could. My wife and I (and 4 other people) saw the German language film Es ist zu deinem Besten (It is For Your Own Good) and it was rather fun.
I appreciate this is going to be rather niche, given this is an English language site, but as I physically went to the cinema I feel this needs to be celebrated, given what is going on in the world.
- 11/4/2020
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
Picture Tree Intl. has added German romantic comedy “Cold Feet” (Kalte Füsse) to its market lineup at the Berlin Film Festival, where the sales agent will screen the film as a market premiere. Sony Pictures released the pic, directed Wolfgang Groos, in Germany on Thursday, and it garnered 100,000 admissions over its opening weekend.
“Cold Feet,” set in a snow-covered landscape, tells the story of petty criminal Denis, who breaks into the winter cottage of rich business man and stroke patient Raimund. Denis is mistaken for the new nurse by Raimund’s granddaughter Charlotte, a police-academy trainee. In order not to get busted Denis decides to play along. Then a snowstorm hits and a game of cat and mouse ensues in the snowbound house.
Denis is played by Emilio Sakraya, who previously appeared in “Heilstätten” and the “Bibi & Tina” movie franchise; Raimund is played by Heiner Lauterbach, whose credits include...
“Cold Feet,” set in a snow-covered landscape, tells the story of petty criminal Denis, who breaks into the winter cottage of rich business man and stroke patient Raimund. Denis is mistaken for the new nurse by Raimund’s granddaughter Charlotte, a police-academy trainee. In order not to get busted Denis decides to play along. Then a snowstorm hits and a game of cat and mouse ensues in the snowbound house.
Denis is played by Emilio Sakraya, who previously appeared in “Heilstätten” and the “Bibi & Tina” movie franchise; Raimund is played by Heiner Lauterbach, whose credits include...
- 1/17/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Constantin Film is adapting German author Ferdinand von Schirach’s international bestseller “The Collini Case,” a legal thriller that deals with Germany’s Nazi past and that was inspired by the author’s own family history.
Elyas M’Barek (pictured), of “Fack ju Göhte” fame and one of Germany’s leading actors, toplines the film, “Der Fall Collini,” which is being directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Christian Zuebert, Robert Gold and Jens-Frederik Otto. M’Barek plays an attorney who takes on a defendant accused of the vicious murder of a respected elderly businessman. In researching the case, the young lawyer comes across one of the biggest judicial scandals in German history and a truth that nobody wants to face.
Alexandra Maria Lara (“You Are Wanted”) and Heiner Lauterbach (“Welcome to Germany”) also star in the courtroom drama, which is shooting this year for a 2019 release via Constantin.
Elyas M’Barek (pictured), of “Fack ju Göhte” fame and one of Germany’s leading actors, toplines the film, “Der Fall Collini,” which is being directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Christian Zuebert, Robert Gold and Jens-Frederik Otto. M’Barek plays an attorney who takes on a defendant accused of the vicious murder of a respected elderly businessman. In researching the case, the young lawyer comes across one of the biggest judicial scandals in German history and a truth that nobody wants to face.
Alexandra Maria Lara (“You Are Wanted”) and Heiner Lauterbach (“Welcome to Germany”) also star in the courtroom drama, which is shooting this year for a 2019 release via Constantin.
- 7/13/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
German mini-major Constantin Film has greenlit an adaptation of The Collini Case, the best-selling legal drama from German lawyer turned novelist Ferdinand von Schirach.
German box-office magnet Elyas M’Barek (Suck Me Shakespeer) will star as a young defense lawyer charged with representing a 60-year-old Italian man who, apparently without cause, brutally murders Hans Meyer, one of Germany's richest business tycoons. As he investigates he uncovers dark secrets in Meyer's past that could prove the key to understanding the case.
Marco Kreuzpaintner (Sommersturm, The Trade) will direct the adaptation, which will co-star Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall) and Heiner Lauterbach. Kreuzpaintner ...
German box-office magnet Elyas M’Barek (Suck Me Shakespeer) will star as a young defense lawyer charged with representing a 60-year-old Italian man who, apparently without cause, brutally murders Hans Meyer, one of Germany's richest business tycoons. As he investigates he uncovers dark secrets in Meyer's past that could prove the key to understanding the case.
Marco Kreuzpaintner (Sommersturm, The Trade) will direct the adaptation, which will co-star Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall) and Heiner Lauterbach. Kreuzpaintner ...
- 7/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
German mini-major Constantin Film has greenlit an adaptation of The Collini Case, the best-selling legal drama from German lawyer turned novelist Ferdinand von Schirach.
German box-office magnet Elyas M’Barek (Suck Me Shakespeer) will star as a young defense lawyer charged with representing a 60-year-old Italian man who, apparently without cause, brutally murders Hans Meyer, one of Germany's richest business tycoons. As he investigates he uncovers dark secrets in Meyer's past that could prove the key to understanding the case.
Marco Kreuzpaintner (Sommersturm, The Trade) will direct the adaptation, which will co-star Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall) and Heiner Lauterbach. Kreuzpaintner ...
German box-office magnet Elyas M’Barek (Suck Me Shakespeer) will star as a young defense lawyer charged with representing a 60-year-old Italian man who, apparently without cause, brutally murders Hans Meyer, one of Germany's richest business tycoons. As he investigates he uncovers dark secrets in Meyer's past that could prove the key to understanding the case.
Marco Kreuzpaintner (Sommersturm, The Trade) will direct the adaptation, which will co-star Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall) and Heiner Lauterbach. Kreuzpaintner ...
- 7/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Comedy and romance bookend the 2017 Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal Credit Union. The 22nd Annual Sbff opens on July 20th at Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University. U.S. premiere screening of Welcome to Germany (Willkommen bei den Hartmanns), a feature written and directed by Simon Verhoeven (Men in the City), opens the Festival. Welcome to Germany is a timely comedy about a well-off Munich family who offer to take in a refugee. The film stars Senta Berger, Heiner Lauterbach, Palina Rojinski, Elyas M'Barek and Eric Kabongo. The film from Picture Tree, produced by Quirin Berg, Michael Verhoeven, Simon Verhoeven and Max Wiedemann, is being shown in its first screening in North America. A romantic comedy, Text for You, from...
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- 5/10/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Germany’s Commerzbank is prepared to serve as a financier of more international co-productions going forward as it increased its annual financing volume for film and TV production to $340m (€300m) in 2014.
Originally, Commerzbank had forecast at the beginning of 2013 that it was aiming to increase its commitment to the financing of film and TV production from 2012’s $170m to $340m (€150m to €300m) and double its market share in this segment to 30% by the end of 2016.
However, Germany’s second largest bank announced this week that it had already reached these targets by the end of 2014.
The number of productions financed by Commerzbank tripled from 2012’s total of 35 to 105 projects last year.
The 35 feature films handled by the Commerzbank included four-time Oscar winner The Grand Budapest Hotel, animation feature film Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss, and comedy Vaterfreuden.
The 70 commissioned TV productions on the bank’s books ranged from 24h Jerusalem to the $9m (€8m) TV disaster...
Originally, Commerzbank had forecast at the beginning of 2013 that it was aiming to increase its commitment to the financing of film and TV production from 2012’s $170m to $340m (€150m to €300m) and double its market share in this segment to 30% by the end of 2016.
However, Germany’s second largest bank announced this week that it had already reached these targets by the end of 2014.
The number of productions financed by Commerzbank tripled from 2012’s total of 35 to 105 projects last year.
The 35 feature films handled by the Commerzbank included four-time Oscar winner The Grand Budapest Hotel, animation feature film Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss, and comedy Vaterfreuden.
The 70 commissioned TV productions on the bank’s books ranged from 24h Jerusalem to the $9m (€8m) TV disaster...
- 2/26/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet will be the opening film at this year’s Filmfest München (June 27-July 5) after Jeunet previously kicked off the festival in Munich in 2001 with Amelie From Montmartre.
Special highlights at what will be Diana Iljine’s fourth outing as festival director include the first ever complete retrospective dedicated to the veteran Us director Walter Hill, a gala evening in honour of the Oscar-winning producer Arthur Cohn with a screening of The Children Of Huang Shi, and a tribute to the producer-director-cinematographer Willy Bogner.
The Walter Hill retrospective will range from his 1975 debut Hard Times, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn, through such classics as The Long Riders and The Warriors and two films made for Us television - the pilot Deadwood and the Western epic Broken Trail - to his 2012 film Bullet To The Head, with Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater.
World premieres
Munich will also be hosting a number...
Special highlights at what will be Diana Iljine’s fourth outing as festival director include the first ever complete retrospective dedicated to the veteran Us director Walter Hill, a gala evening in honour of the Oscar-winning producer Arthur Cohn with a screening of The Children Of Huang Shi, and a tribute to the producer-director-cinematographer Willy Bogner.
The Walter Hill retrospective will range from his 1975 debut Hard Times, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn, through such classics as The Long Riders and The Warriors and two films made for Us television - the pilot Deadwood and the Western epic Broken Trail - to his 2012 film Bullet To The Head, with Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater.
World premieres
Munich will also be hosting a number...
- 6/4/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Stalingrad Columbia Pictures Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B Director: Fedor Boncarchuk Screenplay: Sergey Snezhkin, Ilya Tilkin Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Philippe Reinhardt, Mariya Smoknikova, Heiner Lauterbach Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 2/12/14 Opens: February 28, 2014 Since the movie begins around the current year, which serves as a framing device, the narrator might have noted one of the great ironies of the Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943. Some decades after the brave Russian soldiers fought to defend their motherland as represented by Stalin against German occupation, the Soviet regime itself dismantled statues of Stalin and renamed the site of one [ Read More ]
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- 2/28/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Stalingrad Trailer. Fedor Bondarchuk‘s Stalingrad (2013) movie trailer stars Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Philippe Reinhardt, Heiner Lauterbach, and Pyotr Fyodorov. Stalingrad‘s plot synopsis: “an epic love story set during the devastating battle for Stalingrad that lasted more than six months and ended with the German army surrendering in 1943.” On the [...]
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- 11/4/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
BERLIN -- Production company Teamworx said Thursday that German television celebrity Harold Schmidt will star as former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the big-budget miniseries Storm Tide for leading commercial broadcaster RTL. The two-part series from producer Nico Hofmann (The Tunnel) follows the real-life story of a catastrophic 1962 flood in Hamburg. Schmidt will star alongside Gotz George, Ottfried Fischer, Hannelore Elsner, Elmar Wepper, Nadja Uhl and Heiner Lauterbach. Schmidt, often called Germany's David Letterman, wrapped up his critically acclaimed eponymous late-night talk show in December. Schmidt is currently shooting the romantic comedy Vom Suchen Und Finden Der Liebe (Looking and Finding Love) with director Helmut Dietl. Schmidt's feature film debut as an actor was Dietl's 1999 satire Late Show.
In its themes, its style, even its use of color, this directorial debut from German director Bernd Eichinger recalls the great melodramas of the 1950s, especially those of Douglas Sirk.
The supposedly true story of a beautiful young woman who wrought havoc on German upper-class society of the '50s through her sheer sexuality, "A Girl Called Rosemarie" is a juicy, albeit overlong effort that boasts a star-making performance by the luscious and talented Nina Hoss in the title role.
Rosemarie, an orphan raised by lower-class foster parents, is already in prison when the film begins, but that's only the beginning of her troubles. Upon her release, she heads to Frankfurt in search of a better life, and winds up as the hostess at a tacky nightclub. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Hartog (Heiner Lauterbach), a wealthy businessman -- she literally throws herself in front of his car to snare him -- and becomes his well-paid mistress. Unfortunately, her dreams of domestic bliss are shattered when she discovers that he has a fiancee whom he considers more suitable for his social status.
Eventually, Rosemarie, at the behest of a sleazy French businessman (Mathieu Carriere), becomes a sort of sexual spy, sleeping with a succession of rich and powerful older men and secretly taping their liaisons. Still pining for Hartog, she finds herself caught up in an increasingly dangerous game, especially when she brazenly attempts to win him back, at one point showing up at a business function wearing nothing but a fur coat and a smile. Her actions become ever more daring, and when we discover at the end that she became the victim in a still-unsolved murder, it hardly comes as a surprise.
Eichinger tells this juicy story in mostly compelling fashion, investing the sometimes lurid proceedings with welcome doses of dark humor. The film has a gorgeous visual style, with rich, vibrant colors well conveying the glamour of Rosemarie's chosen lifestyle. The cast is largely excellent, with Nina Hoss in particular a revelation. The rare actress who combines devastating sex appeal with true acting chops, she delivers a performance that will linger long in your memory.
A GIRL CALLED ROSEMARIE
Castle Hill Productions
and Hawkeye Entertainment
Director: Bernd Eichinger
Screenplay: Bernd Eichinger, Uwe Wilhelm
Producers: Bernd Eichinger, Uschi Reich
Executive Producers: Martin Moszkowicz, Robert Kulzer
Director of Photography: Gernot Roll
Editor: Ales Berner
Music: Norbert Schneider
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rosemarie: Nina Hoss
Hartog: Heiner Lauterbach
Fribert: Mathieu Carriere
Bruster: Horst Krause
Marga: Hannelore Eisner
Running time -- 133 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The supposedly true story of a beautiful young woman who wrought havoc on German upper-class society of the '50s through her sheer sexuality, "A Girl Called Rosemarie" is a juicy, albeit overlong effort that boasts a star-making performance by the luscious and talented Nina Hoss in the title role.
Rosemarie, an orphan raised by lower-class foster parents, is already in prison when the film begins, but that's only the beginning of her troubles. Upon her release, she heads to Frankfurt in search of a better life, and winds up as the hostess at a tacky nightclub. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Hartog (Heiner Lauterbach), a wealthy businessman -- she literally throws herself in front of his car to snare him -- and becomes his well-paid mistress. Unfortunately, her dreams of domestic bliss are shattered when she discovers that he has a fiancee whom he considers more suitable for his social status.
Eventually, Rosemarie, at the behest of a sleazy French businessman (Mathieu Carriere), becomes a sort of sexual spy, sleeping with a succession of rich and powerful older men and secretly taping their liaisons. Still pining for Hartog, she finds herself caught up in an increasingly dangerous game, especially when she brazenly attempts to win him back, at one point showing up at a business function wearing nothing but a fur coat and a smile. Her actions become ever more daring, and when we discover at the end that she became the victim in a still-unsolved murder, it hardly comes as a surprise.
Eichinger tells this juicy story in mostly compelling fashion, investing the sometimes lurid proceedings with welcome doses of dark humor. The film has a gorgeous visual style, with rich, vibrant colors well conveying the glamour of Rosemarie's chosen lifestyle. The cast is largely excellent, with Nina Hoss in particular a revelation. The rare actress who combines devastating sex appeal with true acting chops, she delivers a performance that will linger long in your memory.
A GIRL CALLED ROSEMARIE
Castle Hill Productions
and Hawkeye Entertainment
Director: Bernd Eichinger
Screenplay: Bernd Eichinger, Uwe Wilhelm
Producers: Bernd Eichinger, Uschi Reich
Executive Producers: Martin Moszkowicz, Robert Kulzer
Director of Photography: Gernot Roll
Editor: Ales Berner
Music: Norbert Schneider
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rosemarie: Nina Hoss
Hartog: Heiner Lauterbach
Fribert: Mathieu Carriere
Bruster: Horst Krause
Marga: Hannelore Eisner
Running time -- 133 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/20/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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