Exclusive: The latest casting round of tributes and mentors in Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes includes Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Dimitri Abold, Athena Strates, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly.
As we told you previously, the film is set during the early days of tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...
As we told you previously, the film is set during the early days of tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The German actress/filmmaker discusses her latest feature starring Dan Stevens as a “partnership robot”.
A mix of “humour and bewilderment” drew German filmmaker Maria Schrader to make I’m Your Man, which will play in Competition at the virtual Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
“I was drawn to it by the simplicity of the set-up,” says Schrader, who tackled more serious subject matter last year in Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, which won her an Emmy for directing. “It’s like a boy meets girl thing. But it’s actually girl meets boy and it’s a robot boy.”
The romantic comedy,...
A mix of “humour and bewilderment” drew German filmmaker Maria Schrader to make I’m Your Man, which will play in Competition at the virtual Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
“I was drawn to it by the simplicity of the set-up,” says Schrader, who tackled more serious subject matter last year in Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, which won her an Emmy for directing. “It’s like a boy meets girl thing. But it’s actually girl meets boy and it’s a robot boy.”
The romantic comedy,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
This year’s gathering in Saarbrücken paid homage to the German thesp, known for her performance as singer-songwriter Hildegard Knef in the biopic Hilde. During this year's Max Ophüls Prize Festival (20-26 January), four films were presented that featured performances by Heike Makatsch. They included three of her most recent productions as well as the German movie in which she played her most popular role. Besides the film screenings, the German thesp also held a workshop and talk open to the public. “Heike Makatsch is one of the most successful German actresses, whose acting is characterised by versatility and naturalness,” says festival director Svenja Böttger. Indeed, Makatsch's talent is there for all to admire in the biopic Hilde by Kai Wessel, where she breathes life into German singer-songwriter Hildegard Knef, one of the idols of the German homosexual community during the post-World War II years. Makatsch's performance was highly acclaimed and.
Best Foreign-Language Film contenders announced.
Germany has unveiled the eight films it will put forward for Best Foreign-Language Film consideration at the 89th Oscars.
The titles are:
At Eye Level by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim DollhopfLook Who’s Back by David F. WnendtFog In August by Kai WesselPower To Change – Die Energierebellion by Carl-a. FechnerThe People Vs. Fritz Bauer by Lars KraumeThe Diary Of Anne Frank by Hans SteinbichlerToni Erdmann by Maren AdeStefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe by Maria Schrader
An independent jury will meet in Munich on Aug 23, with the chosen title revealed on Aug 25.
Maren Ade’s comedy-drama Toni Erdmann received its world premiere at Cannes in May, where it topped Screen’s jury grid of critics.
David Wnendt’s Hitler satire Look Who’s Back has proved a box office hit in Germany, making $21.8m (€19.6m) following its October 2015 release, and has since sold to Netflix.
Kai Wessel’s Fog In August, which deals with...
Germany has unveiled the eight films it will put forward for Best Foreign-Language Film consideration at the 89th Oscars.
The titles are:
At Eye Level by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim DollhopfLook Who’s Back by David F. WnendtFog In August by Kai WesselPower To Change – Die Energierebellion by Carl-a. FechnerThe People Vs. Fritz Bauer by Lars KraumeThe Diary Of Anne Frank by Hans SteinbichlerToni Erdmann by Maren AdeStefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe by Maria Schrader
An independent jury will meet in Munich on Aug 23, with the chosen title revealed on Aug 25.
Maren Ade’s comedy-drama Toni Erdmann received its world premiere at Cannes in May, where it topped Screen’s jury grid of critics.
David Wnendt’s Hitler satire Look Who’s Back has proved a box office hit in Germany, making $21.8m (€19.6m) following its October 2015 release, and has since sold to Netflix.
Kai Wessel’s Fog In August, which deals with...
- 8/3/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Best Foreign-Language Film contenders revealed.
Germany has unveiled the eight films it will put forward for Best Foreign-Language Film consideration at the 89th Oscars.
The titles are:
At Eye Level by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim DollhopfLook Who’s Back by David F. WnendtFog In August by Kai WesselPower To Change – Die Energierebellion by Carl-a. FechnerThe People Vs. Fritz Bauer by Lars KraumeThe Diary Of Anne Frank by Hans SteinbichlerToni Erdmann by Maren AdeStefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe by Maria Schrader
An independent jury will decide on which film to submit after convening in Munich on Aug 23, with the chosen title revealed on Aug 25.
Maren Ade’s comedy-drama Toni Erdmann received its world premiere at Cannes in May, where it topped Screen’s jury grid of critics.
David Wnendt’s Hitler satire Look Who’s Back has proved a box office hit in Germany, making $21.8m (€19.6m) following its October 2015 release, and has since sold to Netflix.
Kai Wessel’s Fog In...
Germany has unveiled the eight films it will put forward for Best Foreign-Language Film consideration at the 89th Oscars.
The titles are:
At Eye Level by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim DollhopfLook Who’s Back by David F. WnendtFog In August by Kai WesselPower To Change – Die Energierebellion by Carl-a. FechnerThe People Vs. Fritz Bauer by Lars KraumeThe Diary Of Anne Frank by Hans SteinbichlerToni Erdmann by Maren AdeStefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe by Maria Schrader
An independent jury will decide on which film to submit after convening in Munich on Aug 23, with the chosen title revealed on Aug 25.
Maren Ade’s comedy-drama Toni Erdmann received its world premiere at Cannes in May, where it topped Screen’s jury grid of critics.
David Wnendt’s Hitler satire Look Who’s Back has proved a box office hit in Germany, making $21.8m (€19.6m) following its October 2015 release, and has since sold to Netflix.
Kai Wessel’s Fog In...
- 8/3/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Best Foreign-Language Film contenders revealed.
Germany has unveiled the eight films that it has shortlisted for Best Foreign-Language Film at the 89th Oscars.
The titles are:
At Eye Level by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim DollhopfLook Who’s Back by David F. WnendtFog In August by Kai WesselPower To Change – Die Energierebellion by Carl-a. FechnerThe People Vs. Fritz Bauer by Lars KraumeThe Diary Of Anne Frank by Hans SteinbichlerToni Erdmann by Maren AdeStefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe by Maria Schrader
An independent jury will decide on which film to submit after convening in Munich on Aug 23, with the chosen title revealed on Aug 25.
Maren Ade’s comedy-drama Toni Erdmann received its world premiere at Cannes in May, where it topped Screen’s jury grid of critics.
David Wnendt’s Hitler satire Look Who’s Back has proved a box office hit in Germany, making $21.8m (€19.6m) following its October 2015 release, and has since sold to Netflix.
Kai Wessel’s Fog In...
Germany has unveiled the eight films that it has shortlisted for Best Foreign-Language Film at the 89th Oscars.
The titles are:
At Eye Level by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim DollhopfLook Who’s Back by David F. WnendtFog In August by Kai WesselPower To Change – Die Energierebellion by Carl-a. FechnerThe People Vs. Fritz Bauer by Lars KraumeThe Diary Of Anne Frank by Hans SteinbichlerToni Erdmann by Maren AdeStefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe by Maria Schrader
An independent jury will decide on which film to submit after convening in Munich on Aug 23, with the chosen title revealed on Aug 25.
Maren Ade’s comedy-drama Toni Erdmann received its world premiere at Cannes in May, where it topped Screen’s jury grid of critics.
David Wnendt’s Hitler satire Look Who’s Back has proved a box office hit in Germany, making $21.8m (€19.6m) following its October 2015 release, and has since sold to Netflix.
Kai Wessel’s Fog In...
- 8/3/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe) will star German actress Karoline Herfurth and reunite the production team behind local box office hit Heidi.
Studiocanal is to co-produce and handle world sales on the first German live-action film adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s children’s classic The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe).
Published in 1957, Preussler’s tale centres on a witch who is a mere one hundred and twenty-seven years old and thus deemed too young to be allowed to dance with the others on the Hill of Witches during Walpurgis Night (30 April).
Before she can prove to the chief witch that she has what it takes to become a good witch, she must hone her magic skills, but she hadn’t reckoned with the mean weather witch Rumpumpel using every means to prevent her reaching her goal.
Studiocanal’s German production arm, Studiocanal Film, will co-produce with Munich-based Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and Switzerland’s Zodiac Pictures after last...
Studiocanal is to co-produce and handle world sales on the first German live-action film adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s children’s classic The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe).
Published in 1957, Preussler’s tale centres on a witch who is a mere one hundred and twenty-seven years old and thus deemed too young to be allowed to dance with the others on the Hill of Witches during Walpurgis Night (30 April).
Before she can prove to the chief witch that she has what it takes to become a good witch, she must hone her magic skills, but she hadn’t reckoned with the mean weather witch Rumpumpel using every means to prevent her reaching her goal.
Studiocanal’s German production arm, Studiocanal Film, will co-produce with Munich-based Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and Switzerland’s Zodiac Pictures after last...
- 4/29/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Spectre and Fog In August among projects to tap into incentive.
Entry criteria for national and international projects wanting to access Austria’s film incentive programme known as Fisa (Film Location Austria) have been tightened.
The minimum budget threshold for national or international feature film projects has been raised from the previous $1.09m (€1m) to $2.5m (€2.3m), while applications for the automatic support will now only be accepted from documentaries with budgets of $381,000 (€350,000) and above (previously, $218,000/€200,000).
In addition, Fisa’s non-repayable grant will now amount to 20% of the production costs eligible for support (the so-called “Austrian spend“), down from the previous 25%. Meanwhile, service productions will be able to apply for a grant of up to 25% of the local spend.
In case of ‘service productions’, the guidelines specify minimum budgets of $8.7m (€8m) for feature films and $1.09m (€1m) for documentaries, and a minimum €1m eligible spend in Austria.
While there is concern that the tightening of the...
Entry criteria for national and international projects wanting to access Austria’s film incentive programme known as Fisa (Film Location Austria) have been tightened.
The minimum budget threshold for national or international feature film projects has been raised from the previous $1.09m (€1m) to $2.5m (€2.3m), while applications for the automatic support will now only be accepted from documentaries with budgets of $381,000 (€350,000) and above (previously, $218,000/€200,000).
In addition, Fisa’s non-repayable grant will now amount to 20% of the production costs eligible for support (the so-called “Austrian spend“), down from the previous 25%. Meanwhile, service productions will be able to apply for a grant of up to 25% of the local spend.
In case of ‘service productions’, the guidelines specify minimum budgets of $8.7m (€8m) for feature films and $1.09m (€1m) for documentaries, and a minimum €1m eligible spend in Austria.
While there is concern that the tightening of the...
- 1/21/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: StudioCanal to handle world sales on Kai Wessel’s wartime drama.
StudioCanal is to handle international sales on Kai Wessel’s Fog In August (Nebel im August), the first feature film to address the Nazis’ euthanasia programme.
Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 eponymous historical novel, Fog In August centres on the authentic life story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa who was committed to a mental hospital in Sargau in 1942 because of his origins in a family of travellers.
However, Ernst soon discovered the truth behind the hospital’s facade and sabotaged its euthanasia programme to help his new-found friends. But his actions did not go unnoticed by the institution’s administration.
The role of Ernst is played by the young Berliner Ivo Pietzcker who played the central character in Edward Berger’s Berlinale 2014 competition film Jack, which won a German Film Award last month.
The hospital’s staunch Nazi chief physician Werner Veithausen is played by Sebastian Koch who came...
StudioCanal is to handle international sales on Kai Wessel’s Fog In August (Nebel im August), the first feature film to address the Nazis’ euthanasia programme.
Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 eponymous historical novel, Fog In August centres on the authentic life story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa who was committed to a mental hospital in Sargau in 1942 because of his origins in a family of travellers.
However, Ernst soon discovered the truth behind the hospital’s facade and sabotaged its euthanasia programme to help his new-found friends. But his actions did not go unnoticed by the institution’s administration.
The role of Ernst is played by the young Berliner Ivo Pietzcker who played the central character in Edward Berger’s Berlinale 2014 competition film Jack, which won a German Film Award last month.
The hospital’s staunch Nazi chief physician Werner Veithausen is played by Sebastian Koch who came...
- 7/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes -- German actress Monica Bleibtreu, mother of star Moritz Bleibtreu ("The Baader Meinhof Complex") and an accomplished performer in her own right, has died of cancer. She was 65.
Bleibtreu has been a fixture on German television for decades but success on the big screen came rather late in life. Her breakthrough performance was as Traude, the curmudgeonly piano teacher in Chris Kraus' "4 Minutes," a role that won her a German Film Award for best actress in 2006.
Other notable films include Nicolette Krebitz's "The Heart Is a Dark Forest," children's film "Max Minsky and Me" and Kai Wessel's Hildegard Knef biopic "Hilde," which premiered at the Berlinale in February.
Bliebtreu's last onscreen performance alongside Julia Jentsch in Bettina Oberli's upcoming crime drama "The Murder Farm." She was to star in Hans Steinbichler's new film "Das Blaue vom Himmel," a role that will now have to be recast.
Bleibtreu has been a fixture on German television for decades but success on the big screen came rather late in life. Her breakthrough performance was as Traude, the curmudgeonly piano teacher in Chris Kraus' "4 Minutes," a role that won her a German Film Award for best actress in 2006.
Other notable films include Nicolette Krebitz's "The Heart Is a Dark Forest," children's film "Max Minsky and Me" and Kai Wessel's Hildegard Knef biopic "Hilde," which premiered at the Berlinale in February.
Bliebtreu's last onscreen performance alongside Julia Jentsch in Bettina Oberli's upcoming crime drama "The Murder Farm." She was to star in Hans Steinbichler's new film "Das Blaue vom Himmel," a role that will now have to be recast.
- 5/15/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- "If you have the titles, they will come" proved the motto for German sales group Beta Cinema, which locked up several deals for its slate out of last week's European Film Market.
Florian Gallenberger's well-received 1930s epic "John Rabe" sold to Spain and Italy, picked up a free TV deal with Austria and generated serious interest from U.S. buyers, Beta said.
Phillipp Stoltzl's rock-climbing drama "North Face" was picked up by distributors in France, Japan, Scandinavia, Benelux, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China while another German biopic, Kai Wessel's "Hilde," starring Heike Makatsch as legendary actress-singer Hildegard Knef, also closed for Benelux.
Other strong sellers for Beta include Robert Dornhelm's opera film "La Boheme" with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which is set to close for Spain after already inking with Filmladen in Japan. Beta also signed a Spanish deal for upcoming children's...
Florian Gallenberger's well-received 1930s epic "John Rabe" sold to Spain and Italy, picked up a free TV deal with Austria and generated serious interest from U.S. buyers, Beta said.
Phillipp Stoltzl's rock-climbing drama "North Face" was picked up by distributors in France, Japan, Scandinavia, Benelux, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China while another German biopic, Kai Wessel's "Hilde," starring Heike Makatsch as legendary actress-singer Hildegard Knef, also closed for Benelux.
Other strong sellers for Beta include Robert Dornhelm's opera film "La Boheme" with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which is set to close for Spain after already inking with Filmladen in Japan. Beta also signed a Spanish deal for upcoming children's...
- 2/18/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin -- 2008 was a banner year for German films, with local productions taking a 26.6% share of the 129 million tickets sold in the territory.
Til Schweiger's romantic comedy "Rabbit Without Ears" was the No. 1 German title, selling 4.9 million tickets -- enough to beat out Hollywood competition "Madagascar 2" (4.8 million) and "Quantum of Solace" (4.7 million).
But there were homegrown success stories across the spectrum – from the British-German documentary "Planet Earth," which sold 3.8 million tickets here, to Uli Edel's Oscar-nominated terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex" (2.4 million).
Total admissions in Germany last year were up 4 million to 129.4 million and boxoffice revenue jumped 5% to 795 million euros ($1 billion).
German titles will enjoy home field advantage at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. The Berlinale opens today with U.S.-German co-production "The International" from Tom Tykwer and there are dozens of high-profile German productions in this year's lineup, including Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe,...
Til Schweiger's romantic comedy "Rabbit Without Ears" was the No. 1 German title, selling 4.9 million tickets -- enough to beat out Hollywood competition "Madagascar 2" (4.8 million) and "Quantum of Solace" (4.7 million).
But there were homegrown success stories across the spectrum – from the British-German documentary "Planet Earth," which sold 3.8 million tickets here, to Uli Edel's Oscar-nominated terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex" (2.4 million).
Total admissions in Germany last year were up 4 million to 129.4 million and boxoffice revenue jumped 5% to 795 million euros ($1 billion).
German titles will enjoy home field advantage at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. The Berlinale opens today with U.S.-German co-production "The International" from Tom Tykwer and there are dozens of high-profile German productions in this year's lineup, including Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe,...
- 2/4/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin -- Richard Loncraine's "My One and Only," a '50s-era comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Kevin Bacon, was squeezed into the competition lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival, barely a week before the event kicks off.
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
- 1/27/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin -- Florian Gallenberger's World War II biopic "John Rabe," Paul Schrader's Jeff Goldblum starrer "Adam Resurrected" and Hermine Huntegeburth's adaptation of German classic "Effi Briest" are among the highlights of this year's Berlinale Special program.
Other titles that will get the red carpet gala treatment, minus the pressure of having to compete for the Golden Bear, include "Hilde," Kai Wessel's biography of legendary singer/actess Hildegard Knef; Claude Chabrol's "Bellamy," featuring Gerard Depardieu; and Christiana Yao's "Empire of Silver," with Aaron Kwok, Tie Lin Zhang and Hao Lei.
Four documentaries with get the full Specials treatment: James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's "Every Little Step," "In Berlin" from Oscar-winning cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari, "Food, Inc." by Robert Kenner and "Terra Madre" from Italian director Ermanno Olmi. The last two also swillcreen as part of Berlin's Culinary Cinema section.
The 59th Berlinale runs Feb.
Other titles that will get the red carpet gala treatment, minus the pressure of having to compete for the Golden Bear, include "Hilde," Kai Wessel's biography of legendary singer/actess Hildegard Knef; Claude Chabrol's "Bellamy," featuring Gerard Depardieu; and Christiana Yao's "Empire of Silver," with Aaron Kwok, Tie Lin Zhang and Hao Lei.
Four documentaries with get the full Specials treatment: James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's "Every Little Step," "In Berlin" from Oscar-winning cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari, "Food, Inc." by Robert Kenner and "Terra Madre" from Italian director Ermanno Olmi. The last two also swillcreen as part of Berlin's Culinary Cinema section.
The 59th Berlinale runs Feb.
- 1/16/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- The European premiere of Caravaggio was the highlight of Tuesday's first full day at the RomaFictionFest.
Veteran television director Angelo Longoni's biographical telefilm about the Renaissance master painter, screened to a full house Tuesday. It was only the second public screening for the film, which screened once in New York last month.
The RomaFictionFest encompasses some 140 programs created for television.
Caravaggio star Alessio Boni was among the stars on the event's orange carpet -- the festival uses an orange carpet rather than a red one to differentiate itself from a traditional cinema festival -- and he will appear here later in the week for Robert Dornhelm's War and Peace, the centerpiece film of the July 2-7 festival.
Also screening Tuesday were the TV film Dans L'Ombre du Maitre (In Her Master's Shadow), a film about a young genius from France's David Delrieux; Kai Wessel's miniseries Die Flucht (March of Millions); and The State Within, a miniseries about an air confrontation between the U.K.
Veteran television director Angelo Longoni's biographical telefilm about the Renaissance master painter, screened to a full house Tuesday. It was only the second public screening for the film, which screened once in New York last month.
The RomaFictionFest encompasses some 140 programs created for television.
Caravaggio star Alessio Boni was among the stars on the event's orange carpet -- the festival uses an orange carpet rather than a red one to differentiate itself from a traditional cinema festival -- and he will appear here later in the week for Robert Dornhelm's War and Peace, the centerpiece film of the July 2-7 festival.
Also screening Tuesday were the TV film Dans L'Ombre du Maitre (In Her Master's Shadow), a film about a young genius from France's David Delrieux; Kai Wessel's miniseries Die Flucht (March of Millions); and The State Within, a miniseries about an air confrontation between the U.K.
COLOGNE, Germany -- German viewers again showed an insatiable appetite for epic, historically flavored miniseries, as more than 11 million tuned in to "March of Millions", the ARD two-parter set amid the mass migration of East Prussian refugees during World War II.
The two-part miniseries drew 11.2 million viewers for a 29.5% share in its first installment Monday, while 10.2 million stayed on for the concluding half Tuesday, a 29% share of the total audience.
French-German pubcaster ARTE premiered "March of Millions" on Friday, drawing 2.6 million viewers in Germany, ARTE's best-ever rating in the territory.
"March of Millions" is the latest success from German production house teamWorx and production/financing group EOS, which broke ratings records last year with the historically-themed minis "Dresden -- The Inferno", about the allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, and "Stormtide!," about the catastrophic 1962 flood of Hamburg.
Directed by German TV veteran Kai Wessel and starring Maria Furtwaengler, Jean-Yves Berteloot and Tonio Arango, "March of Millions" was produced together with ARD Degeto.
The two-part miniseries drew 11.2 million viewers for a 29.5% share in its first installment Monday, while 10.2 million stayed on for the concluding half Tuesday, a 29% share of the total audience.
French-German pubcaster ARTE premiered "March of Millions" on Friday, drawing 2.6 million viewers in Germany, ARTE's best-ever rating in the territory.
"March of Millions" is the latest success from German production house teamWorx and production/financing group EOS, which broke ratings records last year with the historically-themed minis "Dresden -- The Inferno", about the allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, and "Stormtide!," about the catastrophic 1962 flood of Hamburg.
Directed by German TV veteran Kai Wessel and starring Maria Furtwaengler, Jean-Yves Berteloot and Tonio Arango, "March of Millions" was produced together with ARD Degeto.
"Dandy'' is a poseur, a dim and grungy piece of experimental exhibitionism from Germany. Technically amateurish and philosophically blowsy, "Dandy'' kicks off the venerable Vagabond Theatre's new direction.
The Wilshire Boulevard revival house will now screen art-house fare, hopefully better than this filmic flotsam.
A shrill barrage of non-linear images and abstract acts punctuated by the musical-dance morass of Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, Yoshito Ohno, among equally untalented others, "Dandy'' is bargain-basement underground filmmaking -- low on ideas, style and backbone.
Kindergarten counterculture, "Dandy'' is an unimaginative, monotonic grind revved up only intermittently by its sophomoric shock shots and its wide-ranging geographical images.
Times Square, Marrakech, Cairo, Himalaya, Tokyo are among the disparate settings for this dark hodgepodge of philosophical mumblings and guitar strummings. While it has minor appeal as a travelogue, this techno-jumbo struts as bigger stuff, repeatedly pontificating about the nature of death.
Example: A female punker is asked the burning question, "What would you do if you had only 10 days left to live?'' She replies, "I'd like to be stoned.''
The camera then lingers over a stone desert, blearily focusing on a running coyote. Such is the thematic and visual level of this punk gunk.
Peter Sempel's directorial style, and we use the term loosely, is characterized only by its grim, in-your-face tonality. The sloppy transitions, the underlit images, the off-kilter framings are not so much a marriage of style with substance but seem rather a cop-out to have neither.
DANDY
Pandora, Peter Sempel
Producers Niko Brucher, Pandora-film, Peter Sempel
Director Peter Sempel
Directors of photography Frank Blasberg, Jonas Scholz, Norimichi Kasamatsu, Peter Sempel
Editor Wolf Ingo Romer
Sound Drago Hari, Takashi Endo, Kai Wessel, Susanne Greuner, Stefanie Hesse, Roxana Herbst
Color/Stereo
Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Dieter Meier, Yoshito Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Rattenjenny, Imke Lagemann
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
The Wilshire Boulevard revival house will now screen art-house fare, hopefully better than this filmic flotsam.
A shrill barrage of non-linear images and abstract acts punctuated by the musical-dance morass of Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, Yoshito Ohno, among equally untalented others, "Dandy'' is bargain-basement underground filmmaking -- low on ideas, style and backbone.
Kindergarten counterculture, "Dandy'' is an unimaginative, monotonic grind revved up only intermittently by its sophomoric shock shots and its wide-ranging geographical images.
Times Square, Marrakech, Cairo, Himalaya, Tokyo are among the disparate settings for this dark hodgepodge of philosophical mumblings and guitar strummings. While it has minor appeal as a travelogue, this techno-jumbo struts as bigger stuff, repeatedly pontificating about the nature of death.
Example: A female punker is asked the burning question, "What would you do if you had only 10 days left to live?'' She replies, "I'd like to be stoned.''
The camera then lingers over a stone desert, blearily focusing on a running coyote. Such is the thematic and visual level of this punk gunk.
Peter Sempel's directorial style, and we use the term loosely, is characterized only by its grim, in-your-face tonality. The sloppy transitions, the underlit images, the off-kilter framings are not so much a marriage of style with substance but seem rather a cop-out to have neither.
DANDY
Pandora, Peter Sempel
Producers Niko Brucher, Pandora-film, Peter Sempel
Director Peter Sempel
Directors of photography Frank Blasberg, Jonas Scholz, Norimichi Kasamatsu, Peter Sempel
Editor Wolf Ingo Romer
Sound Drago Hari, Takashi Endo, Kai Wessel, Susanne Greuner, Stefanie Hesse, Roxana Herbst
Color/Stereo
Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Dieter Meier, Yoshito Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Rattenjenny, Imke Lagemann
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating
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- 11/1/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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