Eight films aspire to represent Germany at the Oscars
- The German candidate for the Oscar for best film in a foreign language is to be announced on August 30
The list of titles aspiring to be Germany's candidate for an Oscar for best film in a foreign language is out. It includes eight titles, among which Ulrike Schamoni’s Farewell to the Frogs, Marten Persiel’s documentary about East German skaters This Ain't California [+see also:
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film profile] (photo) that was released in Germany last week, Leander Haußmann’s comedy Hotel Lux [+see also:
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film profile] in which the very popular Michael Bully Herbig and Jürgen Vogel pass over from Nazi Germany to Stalin’s Russia, and German star Til Schweiger’s new film, Guardians [+see also:
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film profile], in which he plays a retired soldier who has to protect a child who has witnessed a murder (played by his daughter Luna).
The other four, more internationally renowned candidates are: Margarethe von Trotta's latest masterly portrait of a powerful female historical figure, Hannah Arendt, Anna Justice’s Remembrance [+see also:
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interview: Jella Haase
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The film to represent Germany at the Academy Awards is to be announced on August 30, and the Oscars ceremony is to be held on February 24 next year.
(Translated from French)
