27/02/2006

February is ending with satisfactory box office results for German films, although the Carnival did distract the public a little this weekend, which recorded only 1.4m admissions.

The German public rushed to Oskar Roehler's The Elementary Particles [+see also:
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These new releases are followed, in third position, by Die wilden Hühner (lit. "The Wild Chicks"), a children's film directed by Vivian Naefe, which adds 125,000 admissions to the nearly 600,000 already recorded since its February 9 release by Constantin Film Verleih, which definitely has several good titles on its slate.

(Translated from French)