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German films in Moscow and on VoD

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- The programme of Moscow's German Film Festival is now accessible on demand

German films in Moscow and on VoD
Suck Me Shakespeer by Bora Dagtekin

The 13th German Film Festival in Moscow (3-8 December) is now in full swing in the Russian capital, and on the internet: this year, for the first time, the Russian VoD service ivi.ru is cooperating with German Films to create a German section. The festival's opening film, Suck Me Shakespeer [+see also:
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interview: Jella Haase
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by Bora Dagtekin (Rat Pack Filmproduktion [+see also:
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, Constantin Film Produktion), was released yesterday, 4 December, in the countries' cinemas (by Raketa Releasing) as well as on VoD. 

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The festival itself has changed venues: from now on, it is to be held in Moscow's central, modern and comfortable HORIZONT Cinema. This year, a diverse selection of 17 films (commercial and arthouse titles) is being presented to the cinema audience and the Russian industry. Besides the German box-office hit Suck Me Shakespeer, the premiere of which was attended by actress Katja Riemann, the programme includes Sigrid Hoerner's Miss Sixty [+see also:
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(Bavaria Pictures, moneypenny film) and Mo Asumang's documentary The Aryans (Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, Ma Motion Filmproduktion), both followed by Q&As; Ossie von Richthofen's 35 Cows and a Kalashnikov (Oswald von Richthofen Filmproduktion, Lohmann Medien), which has just been shown at the Amsterdam Documentary Festival; as well as Edgar Reitz's Home From Home [+see also:
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, the Berlinale selection Jack [+see also:
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by Edward Berger (Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, Neue Bioskop Film, Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft, zero west filmproduktion), Jakob Lass' unusual comedy Love Steaks [+see also:
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(Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf), Florian Mischa Böder's A Hitman's Solitude Before the Shot [+see also:
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(HUPE Film- und Fernsehproduktion), Christoph Hochhäusler's The Lies of the Victors [+see also:
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(Heimatfilm), Maximilian Erlenwein's Stereo [+see also:
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(Frisbeefilms, Kaissar Film, Wild Bunch Germany), Ester Amrami's Elsewhere [+see also:
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interview: Ester Amrami
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(Dirk Manthey Film, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) and Katja von Garnier's Windstorm [+see also:
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(SamFilm, Constantin Filmproduktion).

During the festival, German Films is organising a dinner for Russian buyers to inform them about new and forthcoming German productions.

The German section at ivi.ru can be found here.

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