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

Sleeping Sickness wins top prize at Ludwigshafen

Euro-African film Sleeping Sickness (see Focus), which earned Ulrich Köhler the Silver Bear for Best Director at the latest Berlin Film Festival (see review), won the top prize (worth €50,000) at...  

28/06/2011 | Awards | Germany

Munich celebrates summer with bumper line-up

Munich has been celebrating summer in style for the past 29 years with an international festival that has become the most important one of the season in Germany, with over 65,000 admission tickets...  

24/06/2011 | Festivals | Germany

Tykwer to make most expensive German film of all time

Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of David Mitchell’s homonymous conceptual fantasy novel by Tom Tykwer and the US helmers of Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski, will cost about €100m, making it the most...  

23/06/2011 | Production | Germany

Grave Decisions screenwriter shoots directorial debut

Christian Lerch, who co-wrote Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s wonderful 2006 debut feature Grave Decisions (which brought the director fame by grossing over €10m at the box office, as well as winning many...  

14/06/2011 | Production | Germany

Sehr and Noëlle bring Ludwig II back onto big screen

While Germany is about to celebrate (on June 13) the 125th anniversary of the mysterious and tragic death of Ludwig II of Bavaria, also known as "the fairy tale king", and sometimes "the mad...  

09/06/2011 | Production | Germany/Austria

Interview: Ulrich Kohler • Director

“The alienation of people living far from their roots”

The German director explains why in Sleeping Sickness he decided to focus on the subject of European expatriates working in development aid in Africa.  

08/06/2011

FFA backs Von Trotta, Hormann, Dani Levy

The German film regulating body FFA has just allocated over €3.3m in production funding to 13 feature film projects, including the latest project by Margarethe von Trotta, who, after films about...  

08/06/2011 | Funding | Germany

Meerapfel de retour derrière la caméra avec un "ami allemand"

La réalisatrice Jeanine Meerapfel, connue avant pour Malou (doublement récompensé au Festival de San Sebastian et lauréat du FIPRESCI à Cannes en 1981), très active dans les années 1980 puis moins...  

07/06/2011 | Production | Allemagne

Mario Barth prepares Der Paartherapeut

After the staggering success of his debut feature, Männersache (over 1.8m admissions in 2009), multiple award-winning German comedian Mario Barth, whose TV shows and programmes attract millions of...  

06/06/2011 | Production | Germany

Famous Five big-screen adaptation to shoot this summer

Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton and Ewa Karlström of Sam Film, who produced the five instalments of Germany’s most popular children’s film series, The Wild Soccer Bunch, will this summer launch production...  

01/06/2011 | Production | Germany

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