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Bénédicte Prot


1633 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 15/07/2019.

I Served the King of England and the magic of cinema

Czech director Jirí Menzel (1990 Golden Bear winner for Larks on a String) has once again succeeded in bewitching the press at Berlin. I Served the King of England – a new adaptation of the novel...  

16/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Family discord on summer vacation

With Vacation, screened at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival to an almost empty auditorium, Thomas Arslan has taken a different path from his previous films. The director has abandoned...  

16/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Panorama

Don’t play with love

Berlinale competition title Don't Touch the Axe is an amorous duel written by two great narrators, Jacques Rivette and Honoré de Balzac. Here the “beautiful troublemaker” strolling down the garden...  

16/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Outsiders between the earth and sky

David Ondricek’s Grandhotel is not one of these films whose deeper meaning can be read between the lines. Like the patchwork weaved by its hero Fleishmann, from the lofty heights where he lives,...  

15/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Panorama

The destiny of a maverick

Following the Panorama screening at the Berlinale of German documentary The Red Elvis , director Leopold Grün and his team, roses in hand, were met with lengthy applause from the audience, which...  

15/02/2007 | Berlinale | Panorama

Dead in Three Days sold to 30 territories

The story of Dead in Three Days (In 3 Tagen bist du tot) by Vienna-born Andreas Prochaska (who mostly directs for television but has also collaborated as an editor with Austrian maestro Michael...  

13/02/2007 | Market | Austria

Khadak

Khadak, screened at Venice (Lion of the Future Award), Toronto and Sundance, has won over audiences with its poetic portrayal - a blend of dreams and memories - of the sad reality of Mongolia  

13/02/2007 | Films | Reviews

2006: A vintage year

According to figures published this week by the FFA, 2006 recorded 136.7m filmgoers (compared to 127.3 in 2005), a 7.4% rise in admissions and turnover of €814.4m, up 9.3%. While these results are...  

09/02/2007 | Box office | Germany

Little champions on the big screen

The Wild Soccer Bunch 4 – released last Thursday by Buena Vista – confirms the success of Joachim Masannek’s three previous football adventures of the young team. According to kino-zeit figures,...  

06/02/2007 | Box office | Germany

Exciting line-up from Beta Cinema

Counterfeiters, three detectives and a dictator: contrary to the false bank notes made by the Sachsenhausen camp prisoners on the order of the Nazis in Viennese director Stefan Ruzowitzky’s The...  

05/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Market

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