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NEW RELEASES Germany

A predominantly European Selection

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Last week, Marc Rothemund’s Sophie Scholl –The Last days [+see also:
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was released and climbed directly up to the fourth position in the German box-office. This film, big winner in Berlin with two silver bears , has already earned its distributor, X Verleih a benefit of 750 000 euros. Amongst the new releases, there were also two German documentaries : the photographer Oliver Schwabe’s first feature film, Egoshooter and the German coproduction involving Canada and the United-States, Alone in the Dark by Uwe Boll, an horror film inspired by a video game. National productions are well represented this week, for there is another German coproduction (again, with Canada and the United-States as main producers) on the screen,White Noise, a fantastic movie.which is British Geoffrey Sax’ first cinema feature —he usually works for television.

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However predominant Sophie Scholl has been, a series of European films drew attention upon themselves. Amongst last week’s releases, there were two Italian films, Bernardo Bertolucci’s recent Shandurai (produced by Navert Film with the BBC) and Our Best Years [+see also:
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a saga by Marco Tullio Giordanas distinguished in Cannes in 2003 by the jury of Un Certain Regard. Also on screen we find the British film Code 46 [+see also:
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by Michael Winterbottom, the Greek and Turkish co-production Egreti Gelin, by the famous and prolific Turkish director Atif Yilmaz, and two other German productions, Rosenhülgel by Mari Cantu, and a documentary by Jeppe Ronde, The Swenkas. Less ambitious yet intriguing, the Austrian director Wolfgang Murnunberger’s Silentium [+see also:
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, adapted from a detective novel by famous Wolf Hass, should attract the public. The great author and father of the character detective Brenner co-wrote the script with the Austrian shooting-star who plays Brenner in the film, Josef Harder. Silentium is a suspense movie suffused with dark humour; it was presented at the Berlinale 2005 in the Panorama section. In Austria, it has already earned its national distributor, Luna, 1.3 million euros in 11 weeks. Next Saturday’s releases will be mostly European too, with quite a few French productions : the public will be able to enjoy prolix Sara Forestier’s charm in L’Esquive [+see also:
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by Abdellatif Kechiche, big winner of the French Cesar Awards with four major Cesars (distributed byPeripher). France will also be represented by the beautifully melancholic Vodka Lemon by the Kurd-Armenian director Hiner Sallem (distributed by Kairos Films), and by Le Clan by Gaël Morel. British Christopher Smith’s first feature, the scary thriller Creep [+see also:
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, will be released and its success in the English box-office is a good sign for its German X Verleih. Mae Adentro [+see also:
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, by Alejandro Amènabar, continues its European ‘tour’ (distributed by Tobis Film ). Last but not least, Werner Herzog’s latest film, The White Diamond (a documentary about Graham Dorrington’s helium balloon trip through Guyana to the Kaieteur waterfalls) will be launched.
Alfie (Jude Law) has indeed a lot of European rivals.

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(Translated from French)

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