Film will be part of venue’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema is to become the subject of a feature documentary to be released next year as part of the celebrations for the cinema’s 100th anniversary.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily, Düsseldorf-based Frank Henschke of Vistamar Filmproduktion, the German co-producer of the Oscar-nominated Mustang, said that he is teaming up with Joël Farges’ French production outfit Kolam Productions and broadcaster Ciné + for the portrait which will be directed by the German-born, Paris-based author Bertina Henrichs.
The film will chart political and cultural developments in Germany from the Zoo Palast’s point of view, stretching from the golden age of German cinema in the 1920s through the propaganda-fuelled years under the Third Reich to the rebuilding of a nation and the beginnings of the Berlin Film Festival in the 1950s to the present day.
Paris/La-based Prime Entertainment Group will be handling international sales for the documentary which is part of Kolam Productions’ Mythical Cinemas collection.
The Zoo Palast was the Berlinale’s main venue for the presentation of the Competition films as well the opening and closing ceremonies from 1957 to 1999 before the festival’s move to Potsdamer Platz in 2000.
And this year saw the cinema serving as the home for the European Film Market’s ’Drama Series Days’ which ran until today (February 21) with all of the conferences and screenings of series brought together for the first time under one roof.
Although not confirmed at this stage, it would be fitting for this documentary to have its world premiere at next year’s Berlinale which will be festival director Dieter Kosslick’s last one at the helm - especially since he penned a foreword to “the Berlinale’s most splendid friend” for photographer Christine Kisorsy’s 2010 book Kino-Magie Zoo Palast Berlin, which also included a history of the cinema by the late German film critic Michael Althen.
Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema is to become the subject of a feature documentary to be released next year as part of the celebrations for the cinema’s 100th anniversary.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily, Düsseldorf-based Frank Henschke of Vistamar Filmproduktion, the German co-producer of the Oscar-nominated Mustang, said that he is teaming up with Joël Farges’ French production outfit Kolam Productions and broadcaster Ciné + for the portrait which will be directed by the German-born, Paris-based author Bertina Henrichs.
The film will chart political and cultural developments in Germany from the Zoo Palast’s point of view, stretching from the golden age of German cinema in the 1920s through the propaganda-fuelled years under the Third Reich to the rebuilding of a nation and the beginnings of the Berlin Film Festival in the 1950s to the present day.
Paris/La-based Prime Entertainment Group will be handling international sales for the documentary which is part of Kolam Productions’ Mythical Cinemas collection.
The Zoo Palast was the Berlinale’s main venue for the presentation of the Competition films as well the opening and closing ceremonies from 1957 to 1999 before the festival’s move to Potsdamer Platz in 2000.
And this year saw the cinema serving as the home for the European Film Market’s ’Drama Series Days’ which ran until today (February 21) with all of the conferences and screenings of series brought together for the first time under one roof.
Although not confirmed at this stage, it would be fitting for this documentary to have its world premiere at next year’s Berlinale which will be festival director Dieter Kosslick’s last one at the helm - especially since he penned a foreword to “the Berlinale’s most splendid friend” for photographer Christine Kisorsy’s 2010 book Kino-Magie Zoo Palast Berlin, which also included a history of the cinema by the late German film critic Michael Althen.
- 2/21/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Lars Kraume’s drama has nine nominations, including Best Film and Best Director; Colonia, A Heavy Heart and Me & Kaminski score five nominations.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
- 4/20/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Lars Kraume’s drama has nine nominations, including Best Film and Best Director; Colonia, A Heavy Heart and Me & Kaminski score five nominations.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
- 4/20/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Rotterdam this year has offered one certifiable giant discovery in international cinema: German filmmaker Dominik Graf, revealed in a simultaneously introductory and interventionist retrospective programmed by Christoph Huber and Olaf Möller. An incredibly prolific filmmaker beginning in the late 1970s, Graf has interwoven his cinema into the fabric of the German television industry, producing a body of work ranging from television episodes, made-for-tv films, essay movies, documentaries, and a handful of films intended for the cinema.
Yet despite Graf's prodigious output of nearly sixty works, its primarily creation for national television has meant that it has been essentially unavailable to English-speaking audiences prior to Rotterdam's 17 film retrospective. The first film of his I saw was Komm mir nicht nach (Don't Follow Me Around) in the middle of the Dreileben trilogy in 2010, notably another for-television project, but one which had festival and theatrical ambitions beyond German living rooms, perhaps due...
Yet despite Graf's prodigious output of nearly sixty works, its primarily creation for national television has meant that it has been essentially unavailable to English-speaking audiences prior to Rotterdam's 17 film retrospective. The first film of his I saw was Komm mir nicht nach (Don't Follow Me Around) in the middle of the Dreileben trilogy in 2010, notably another for-television project, but one which had festival and theatrical ambitions beyond German living rooms, perhaps due...
- 2/6/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Our Deaths, in memoriam was the project title of Lav Diaz' Kagadanan sa Banwaan Ning mga Engkanto (2007). For the Ferroni Brigade, it became the motto of Venice 2011—specters of dear lives gone seemed to roam the event, the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica as well as the Esposizione internazionale d'arte, and beyond.
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
- 2/7/2012
- MUBI
In one of the many hilarious, provocative, and occasionally infuriating interviews that Vladimir Nabokov granted in the 1960s, he made the following pronouncement on a work of 20th century European literature that many other major intellects were/are too intimidated by to ever say a discouraging word about: "I detest Finnegans Wake in which a cancerous growth of fancy wordtissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory." Regardless of how one reacts to that assessment—and my own reaction is of course constrained/defined by the fact of my having only read select portions of Wake, but having enough knowledge of the work to understand that that which Nabokov speaks about is, in some form, there (that is, the word-growth, the folklore, and the allegory)—one can trust something about it, that is, one can trust that Nabokov actually went to the trouble of reading the damn thing.
- 12/14/2010
- MUBI
BERLIN -- Hans Weingartner, the director of Cannes Competition entry The Edukators, has won the newcomer award, Foederpreis Deutsche Film, at this year's Munich Film Festival, the festival said Thursday. The three-person jury -- directors Hans-Christian Schmid and Michael Althen, and actress Sophie von Kessel -- chose Weingartner's entry over Marco Kreuzpaintner's Summer Storm and Marcus Lenz's Close. Edukators star Stipe Erceg won the best actor award, while Marie-Luise Schramm beat out Julia Jentsch (The Edukators) for the best actress prize for her role in Kathrin Feistl's Am I Sexy? Now in its third year, the Foederpreis is Germany's top prize for up-and-coming talent. The award is presented by Munich-based film company Bavaria Film, state pubcaster Bayerischen Rundfunk and bank HypoVereinsbank.
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