29/03/2013 - In this very "European" week for cinema, Marc Rothemund's adaptation of the best-selling autobiography The Girl with Nine Wigs tells about a struggle to survive and a remission

For this Easter weekend, the American blockbusters G.I. Joe: Retaliationand Identity Thief, distributed respectively by Paramount and Universal, are accompanied by a Turkish film and an elegant and varied series of European titles, eight in all, including three German (co)productions.

Among these new national movies: Heute bin ich blond [+see also:
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Denmark has a place of honour with two releases: that of the poignant The Hunt [+see also:
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film profile] by Thomas Vinterberg, which brought Mads Mikkelsen the Best Actor award in Cannes (distr. Wild Bunch), and that of the sensitive documentary about the treatment of mental illnesses and the mysteries of the human brain, Free the Mind by Phie Ambo (distr. mindjazz).

Another movie screened in Cannes (as part of the Critics' Week) is arriving in cinemas across the Rhine, distributed by Salzgeber: the coproduction between Belgium, France and Canada, Hors les murs [+see also:
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(Translated from French)