15/09/2009

A little Viking has claimed the lion’s share of admissions in an autumn line-up dominated by films by acclaimed European directors – in German theatres last Thursday, Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lars von Trier
film profile] was released by MFA, Hans-Christian Schmid’s Storm [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alexander Fehling
interview: Hans-Christian Schmid
film profile] by Piffl, and Agnès Varda’s The Beaches of Agnès [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Film Kino Test. However, in its opening weekend, Vicky the Viking [+see also:
trailer
film profile], directed by comic star Michael "Bully" Herbig and distributed by via Constantin, attracted 1.25m viewers out of a total of almost 2.1m (according to Blickpunkt: Film), for a per-screen average of 1,700.

This result (the third highest obtained by a German title in its first weekend) confirms expectations and bodes well for the local film industry’s end-of-year season, set to be as successful as the first semester (see news).

Adventure comedy Vicky the Viking, based on the Swedish children’s book series (which also inspired a Japanese animated series), was produced in Munich by Constantin, herbX and Rat Pack Filmproduktion.

(Translated from French)