Rosenmüller back with new release
European films will have to fight off competition against eight US blockbusters that hit screens yesterday, in particular Sony’s heavyweight The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Italy’s Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith.
This week saw the release of four new German films (two features and two documentaries). The comedy Schwere Jungs [+see also:
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Rosenmüller’s latest film, produced by Munich-based outfit Olga Film and distributed by Constantin, is based on the first German post-war athletes to participate at the Olympic Games, held in Oslo in 1952. The athletes in question were bobsleigh champions who were not exactly the best of teams.
Meanwhile, a more family-based conflict is on Novapool’s slate, with Sabine Michel’s comedy Nimm dir dein Leben, an Egoli Tossell Film and Koppmedia production.
On the documentary scene, Salzgeber are releasing Dominik Wessely’s Die Unzerbrechlichen, a Gambit Film & Fernsehproduktion film that recounts the struggle of glass artisans in Theresienthal to reopen their business, which is ill-adapted to the realities of globalisation.
Dancing With Myself by Antje Kruska and Judith Keil deals with more intimate themes. Another Egoli Tossell production and released by Timebandits, the film follows three Berliners from three different generations who drown their daily worries by getting high every night on the rhythms of discos.
German audiences will also be treated to Austrian documentary Our Daily Bread, a film distributed by Alamode in which Nikolaus Geyrhalter brings us behind the not-so-appetizing scenes of the food production industry.
The two other European releases this week are Xavier Giannoli’s French film The Singer [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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