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
The New: Chess, Trolls, and Privileged Parents Some great movies you might have missed during their recent arthouse runs are making their way to DVD, most notably the charming French import Queen to Play (Zeitgeist Video; now available), which stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a Corsican housekeeper whose life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she has a flair for chess. We’ve seen this kind of middle-aged-blossoming story before, but Bonnaire and writer-director Caroline Bottaro (adapting a novel by Bertina Henrichs) give the tale some unexpected twists. The film also gets a boost from supporting player Kevin Kline — performing the entire role en français — and cinematographer Jean-Claude Larrieu (Elegy), who deserves some sort of kickback from the...
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- 8/17/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
The New: Chess, Trolls, and Privileged Parents Some great movies you might have missed during their recent arthouse runs are making their way to DVD, most notably the charming French import Queen to Play (Zeitgeist Video; now available), which stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a Corsican housekeeper whose life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she has a flair for chess. We’ve seen this kind of middle-aged-blossoming story before, but Bonnaire and writer-director Caroline Bottaro (adapting a novel by Bertina Henrichs) give the tale some unexpected twists. The film also gets a boost from supporting player Kevin Kline — performing the entire role en français — and cinematographer Jean-Claude Larrieu (Elegy), who deserves some sort of kickback from the...
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- 8/17/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com - Celebrity Gossip
Zeitgeist will release the 2009 French comedy-drama Queen to Play, concerning a middle-age hotel maid who attempts to reinvent herself via the game of chess, on DVD on Aug. 16.
Kevin Kline teaches Sandrine Bonnaire the ins and outs of chess in Queen to Play.
In the independent film, Helene (Sandrine Bonnaire, La Ceremonie), a maid in a chic Corsican hotel, spots a couple playing a sensual game of chess on their balcony, and finds herself aroused. She attempts to fire up the desire of her husband Ande (Francis Renaud) by presenting him with an electronic chessboard but is met with bafflement.
Still captivated by the game, Helene convinces a reclusive American ex-patriot, Dr. Kroger (No Strings Attached‘s Kevin Kline, in a French-speaking role!) to instruct her in the ins and outs of the game. As her talent at chess emerges, Helene finds herself torn between her family and her new-found obsession with the game.
Kevin Kline teaches Sandrine Bonnaire the ins and outs of chess in Queen to Play.
In the independent film, Helene (Sandrine Bonnaire, La Ceremonie), a maid in a chic Corsican hotel, spots a couple playing a sensual game of chess on their balcony, and finds herself aroused. She attempts to fire up the desire of her husband Ande (Francis Renaud) by presenting him with an electronic chessboard but is met with bafflement.
Still captivated by the game, Helene convinces a reclusive American ex-patriot, Dr. Kroger (No Strings Attached‘s Kevin Kline, in a French-speaking role!) to instruct her in the ins and outs of the game. As her talent at chess emerges, Helene finds herself torn between her family and her new-found obsession with the game.
- 5/18/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Chess has been around for a while, so we can safely assume it's a great game. But is chess better than sex? Bobby Fischer might have thought so and so do some folks in "Queen to Play," Caroline Bottaro's freshman feature-length entry, one that finds Kevin Kline as we have never before seen him. Based on Bertina Henrichs' novel, "The Chess Player" and adapted for the screen by the director, "Joueuse" (French for "player") takes place on the beautiful island of Corsica, a location that its principal character had never thought of leaving (and for which a lot of people would have been better off if Napoleon thought the same way).
- 3/23/2011
- Arizona Reporter
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