The German Film Academy has announced the movies in competition this year for the German Film Awards, the local equivalent of the Oscars.
Matthias Glasner’s epic family drama Dying, Timm Kröger’s experimental sci-fi feature The Universal Theory, and In the Blind Spot, Ayşe Polat’s documentary-style conspiracy thriller set in modern-day Turkey, are among the favorites for this year’s awards, called the Lolas.
Dying, which stars Lars Eidinger as a classical conductor with an extremely dysfunctional family, picked up nominations in every major category, including best film, best director and best screenplay nominations for Glasner, a best actor nom for Eidinger and a best actress nomination for Corinna Harfoch, who plays Eidinger’s mother. In total, the film is up for nine Lolas.
The Universal Theory, a black-and-white drama about the multiverse, is also in the running for the best film Lola, and Kröger is up for best director.
Matthias Glasner’s epic family drama Dying, Timm Kröger’s experimental sci-fi feature The Universal Theory, and In the Blind Spot, Ayşe Polat’s documentary-style conspiracy thriller set in modern-day Turkey, are among the favorites for this year’s awards, called the Lolas.
Dying, which stars Lars Eidinger as a classical conductor with an extremely dysfunctional family, picked up nominations in every major category, including best film, best director and best screenplay nominations for Glasner, a best actor nom for Eidinger and a best actress nomination for Corinna Harfoch, who plays Eidinger’s mother. In total, the film is up for nine Lolas.
The Universal Theory, a black-and-white drama about the multiverse, is also in the running for the best film Lola, and Kröger is up for best director.
- 3/19/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
WarnerMedia Germany has confirmed that Ricky Gervais is among the cast of its comedy series Greenlight – German Genius, which is now shooting in Berlin.
The eight-part TV satire stars Kida Khodr Ramadan (4 Blocks) as himself. It recounts a dramatized version of events after Ramadan’s real-life Twitter exchange with Gervais in 2018, in which the British comedian praised Ramadan’s performance in 4 Blocks.
In Greenlight, Ramadan convinces Gervais to give him the rights for a German adaptation of Extras. However, as he attempts to progress the show to production, he comes up against the fact that the Germans aren’t particularly known for their humor, and that there are not many international stars in the country.
Also in the cast are a host of known German actors, musicians, and comedians, including: Detlev Buck, Frederick Lau, Tom Schilling, Veysel Gelin, Olli Schulz, Heike Makatsch, Maria Furtwängler, Sascha Geršak, Katrin Bauerfeind, Britta Hammelstein,...
The eight-part TV satire stars Kida Khodr Ramadan (4 Blocks) as himself. It recounts a dramatized version of events after Ramadan’s real-life Twitter exchange with Gervais in 2018, in which the British comedian praised Ramadan’s performance in 4 Blocks.
In Greenlight, Ramadan convinces Gervais to give him the rights for a German adaptation of Extras. However, as he attempts to progress the show to production, he comes up against the fact that the Germans aren’t particularly known for their humor, and that there are not many international stars in the country.
Also in the cast are a host of known German actors, musicians, and comedians, including: Detlev Buck, Frederick Lau, Tom Schilling, Veysel Gelin, Olli Schulz, Heike Makatsch, Maria Furtwängler, Sascha Geršak, Katrin Bauerfeind, Britta Hammelstein,...
- 11/25/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Ricky Gervais has boarded “Greenlight – German Genius” a new series from WarnerMedia Germany inspired by one of his tweets from 2019.
The 8-episode series, which has started shooting in Berlin, satirises the German television industry.
Two years ago the “After Life” writer and actor sent a public message via Twitter to German actor Kida Ramadan praising his portrayal of character Toni Hamady in series “4 Blocks.”
“Congratulations,” wrote Gervais. “Another masterpiece.”
In a case of art imitating life, Ramadan and Gervais will now appear as fictional versions of themselves in “Greenlight – German Genius,” in which Ramadan convincing Gervais to let him make a German adaptation of his hit series “Extras” after the comedian sends Ramadan a tweet praising his performance in “4 Blocks.”
However, Ramadan hits a stumbling block when he realizes there aren’t any international celebrities in Germany to cameo in the adaptation all while trying to navigate the...
The 8-episode series, which has started shooting in Berlin, satirises the German television industry.
Two years ago the “After Life” writer and actor sent a public message via Twitter to German actor Kida Ramadan praising his portrayal of character Toni Hamady in series “4 Blocks.”
“Congratulations,” wrote Gervais. “Another masterpiece.”
In a case of art imitating life, Ramadan and Gervais will now appear as fictional versions of themselves in “Greenlight – German Genius,” in which Ramadan convincing Gervais to let him make a German adaptation of his hit series “Extras” after the comedian sends Ramadan a tweet praising his performance in “4 Blocks.”
However, Ramadan hits a stumbling block when he realizes there aren’t any international celebrities in Germany to cameo in the adaptation all while trying to navigate the...
- 11/25/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The Golden Glove (Der goldene Handschuh)
Germany’s Fatih Akin turns to horror for his tenth feature, The Golden Glove, which relays the true story of a 1970s serial killer who hunted prostitutes in Hamburg’s red light district. Produced by Akin and Nurhan Sekerci-Porst through his company bombero international, the film is also a co-production with Pathe and Warner Bros. Films Productions Germany. Utilizing his regular Dp Rainer Klausmann, the cast includes Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel, Uwe Rohde, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Marc Hosemann, Hark Bohm, Heinz Strunk and Tristan Göbel. Akin competed in Locarno with his 1998 debut Short Sharp Shock but came to prominence in 2004 when his title Head-On won the Golden Bear in Berlin.…...
Germany’s Fatih Akin turns to horror for his tenth feature, The Golden Glove, which relays the true story of a 1970s serial killer who hunted prostitutes in Hamburg’s red light district. Produced by Akin and Nurhan Sekerci-Porst through his company bombero international, the film is also a co-production with Pathe and Warner Bros. Films Productions Germany. Utilizing his regular Dp Rainer Klausmann, the cast includes Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel, Uwe Rohde, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Marc Hosemann, Hark Bohm, Heinz Strunk and Tristan Göbel. Akin competed in Locarno with his 1998 debut Short Sharp Shock but came to prominence in 2004 when his title Head-On won the Golden Bear in Berlin.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Just in time for Christmas comes the heartwarming story of “Perfume,” which follows a half-dozen friends so obsessed with the possibilities of smell that the death of one of them dredges up some extremely unpleasant things about their pasts.
The new series is based on the 1985 Patrick Süskind novel “Perfume,” which was previously adapted into the 2006 Tom Tykwer film “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer,” starring a pre-Bond Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, and Dustin Hoffman. This new TV venture brings the original story into a modern context, rather than the 18th-century French environs of the novel.
In updating the historical story, this six-part season also gets a detective show twist, with a group of investigators looking into the death of a singer. What they find is a group of one-time school friends, at least one of whom stumbled into the practice of using human scents as the basis for making a one-of-a-kind fragrance.
The new series is based on the 1985 Patrick Süskind novel “Perfume,” which was previously adapted into the 2006 Tom Tykwer film “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer,” starring a pre-Bond Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, and Dustin Hoffman. This new TV venture brings the original story into a modern context, rather than the 18th-century French environs of the novel.
In updating the historical story, this six-part season also gets a detective show twist, with a group of investigators looking into the death of a singer. What they find is a group of one-time school friends, at least one of whom stumbled into the practice of using human scents as the basis for making a one-of-a-kind fragrance.
- 11/21/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
This sui generis docu-portrait offers a behind the scenes look at the art world, as novelist Chloe Aridjis curates a retrospective of the surrealist
A new term may need to be coined to describe this deeply idiosyncratic and ramshackle docufiction hybrid from Josh Appignanesi. A zero-budget experiment in cine-portraiture, it combines footage of the novelist Chloe Aridjis curating a retrospective of the surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington at Tate Liverpool with a tale of sexual obsession also starring Aridjis, written by Appignanesi after interviewing her. The point, I think, is to dredge the unconscious, to represent inner life on screen – though I may be missing the point.
In the documentary bit, Appignanesi films Aridjis with an old VHS camera as she works on the exhibition and socialises with liberal intelligentsia chums. Aridjis has said that she is playing a character, a more socially awkward, anxious version of herself. In one of the fictional scenes,...
A new term may need to be coined to describe this deeply idiosyncratic and ramshackle docufiction hybrid from Josh Appignanesi. A zero-budget experiment in cine-portraiture, it combines footage of the novelist Chloe Aridjis curating a retrospective of the surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington at Tate Liverpool with a tale of sexual obsession also starring Aridjis, written by Appignanesi after interviewing her. The point, I think, is to dredge the unconscious, to represent inner life on screen – though I may be missing the point.
In the documentary bit, Appignanesi films Aridjis with an old VHS camera as she works on the exhibition and socialises with liberal intelligentsia chums. Aridjis has said that she is playing a character, a more socially awkward, anxious version of herself. In one of the fictional scenes,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Perfume, the new German thriller series from Netflix and Germany's Constantin Film, will have its world premiere at this year's Munich Film Festival, debuting in Munich's TV series sidebar.
The series, inspired by Patrick Suskind's best-seller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, and the 2006 film of the same name, follows a group of ambitious students who experiment with the power of scent to bend people to their will, with deadly results. Perfume features a who's who of young German talent, including August Diehl, Friederike Becht, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Ken Duken, Trystan Putter, Marc Hosemann and Juergen Maurer....
The series, inspired by Patrick Suskind's best-seller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, and the 2006 film of the same name, follows a group of ambitious students who experiment with the power of scent to bend people to their will, with deadly results. Perfume features a who's who of young German talent, including August Diehl, Friederike Becht, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Ken Duken, Trystan Putter, Marc Hosemann and Juergen Maurer....
Two vibrant cities that love making movies, Berlin and Los Angeles will celebrate their 50th anniversary as sister cities by screening the highly anticipated Tom Tykwer series Babylon Berlin (Isa: Beta) in Downtown Los Angeles on October 6th at The Theatre at Ace Hotel. The two cities have a number of other exciting events planned for the anniversary as well.
The City of Berlin and the City of Los Angeles, two of the most exciting places in the world, connected through their inspiring and trend setting art scene, their social freedom, openness and their integration of different cultures and religions will join each other to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their Sister Partnership with events throughout September and October in Los Angeles, culminating with the International Premiere of Babylon Berlin.
Babylon Berlin, the much talked about new TV series, co-written and co-directed by BAFTA and Golden Globe Nominated Tom Tykwer,...
The City of Berlin and the City of Los Angeles, two of the most exciting places in the world, connected through their inspiring and trend setting art scene, their social freedom, openness and their integration of different cultures and religions will join each other to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their Sister Partnership with events throughout September and October in Los Angeles, culminating with the International Premiere of Babylon Berlin.
Babylon Berlin, the much talked about new TV series, co-written and co-directed by BAFTA and Golden Globe Nominated Tom Tykwer,...
- 8/2/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
A Coffee In Berlin Music Box Films Home Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B+ Director: Jan Ole Gerster Screenplay: Jan Ole Gerster Cast: Tom Schilling, Friederike Kempter, Marc Hosemann, Katharina Schuttler, Justus Von Dohnanyi Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 8/16/14 Opens: DVD on October 7, 2014 When you think of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, its humor does not come necessarily to mind. German humor? An oxymoron. Now forward to the 21st Century and you will discover German movies that are funny to the locals and whose humor travels well across the Atlantic. The New Wave style “A Coffee in Berlin,” formerly [ Read More ]
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- 10/5/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Exclusive: Veteran UK producer Patrick Cassavetti has boarded Marat Alykulov’s black comedy Lenin?!.
Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
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Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
Together with Curb Denizen producer partner [link=nm...
- 6/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Throughout A Coffee in Berlin, the drifting slacker protagonist tries to find a good cup of coffee, while curious events keep getting in the way of collecting the caffeine. Sometimes, the coffee is too pricey. At other times, the place is short supplied. It is a good metaphor to represent the life of a man who could surely use a jolt of caffeine to spur things back into action. However, one can say the same thing for Jan Ole Gerster’s film, both deadpan and depressing, as it searches for the tone and spirit of other classic movie featuring the aimless youth wandering around a big European city. Though it has its moments, A Coffee in Berlin needs a shot of warmth and energy to wake it up.
Shot on-location and in crisp black-and-white, the film follows Niko Fischer (Generation War’s Tom Schilling), a law school dropout getting over...
Shot on-location and in crisp black-and-white, the film follows Niko Fischer (Generation War’s Tom Schilling), a law school dropout getting over...
- 6/14/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
The Wolf Of Wall Street | Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus | Devil's Due | Tim's Vermeer | Oh Boy | The Night Of The Hunter
The Wolf Of Wall Street (18)
(Martin Scorsese, 2013, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, John Bernthal, Matthew McConaughey. 180 mins
Perhaps Scorsese has more of a right than anyone to make a banking epic in the mould of a crime epic – and sure enough, this is Gordon Gekko, GoodFellas-style: a sprawling, seriocomic, voiceover-tracked rise-and-fall with a morally dubious hero. Excess is the name of the game here, to the point there's actually an excess of excess; endless choreographed tableaux of cash, drugs, cars, naked women, shouting men and celebrity cameos. These regular shots of energy keep the story buzzing, even as they bloat the running time, but Scorsese is aiming for greatness here, and there's no reining him in.
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (18)
(Sebastián Silva, 2013, Chi) Michael Cera,...
The Wolf Of Wall Street (18)
(Martin Scorsese, 2013, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, John Bernthal, Matthew McConaughey. 180 mins
Perhaps Scorsese has more of a right than anyone to make a banking epic in the mould of a crime epic – and sure enough, this is Gordon Gekko, GoodFellas-style: a sprawling, seriocomic, voiceover-tracked rise-and-fall with a morally dubious hero. Excess is the name of the game here, to the point there's actually an excess of excess; endless choreographed tableaux of cash, drugs, cars, naked women, shouting men and celebrity cameos. These regular shots of energy keep the story buzzing, even as they bloat the running time, but Scorsese is aiming for greatness here, and there's no reining him in.
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (18)
(Sebastián Silva, 2013, Chi) Michael Cera,...
- 1/18/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The European Film Academy will hold the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin on December 7th, 2013. To make fans part of the celebration every year the audience gets to choose the winner of the Efa People's Choice Award. This year one lucky fan will also have the chance to attend the awards ceremony and be part of a fantastic event that brings together Europe's greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses.
Audiences in the past have awarded the honor to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's beloved Amelie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, and incredibly 3 times to Spanish master Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver).
To vote and for a chance to win a trip to the 26th European Film Awards click Here
The Nominees Are:
Anna Karenina
UK, 124 min
Directed By: Joe Wright
Written By: Tom Stoppard
With: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
The Best Offer (La Migliore Offerta)
Italy, 130 min
Written & Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
With: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium, 100 min
Directed by: Felix van Groeningen
Written by: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
With: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Rampelberg, Nils de Caster
The Deep (Djúpið)
Iceland/Norway, 92 min
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
Written by: Jón Atli Jónasson & Baltasar Kormákur
With: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Björn Thors, Thorbjorg H. Thorgilsdótir
The Gilded Cage (La Cage Dorée)
Portugal/France, 90 min
Directed by: Ruben Alves
Written by: Ruben Alves, Jean-André Yerlès, Hugo Gélin
With: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud, Chantal Lauby, Barbara Cabrita, Lannick Gautry
I'm So Excited (Los Amantes Pasajeros)
Spain, 90 min
Written & Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
With: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth
The Impossible (Lo Imposible)
Spain, 114 min
Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Written by: Sergio G. Sánchez & María Belón
With: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast
Kon-Tiki
Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Sweden, 113 min
Directed by: Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
Written by: Petter Skavlan
With: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Bassmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgaard, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen
Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør)
Denmark, 111 min
Directed By: Susanne Bier
Written By: Anders Thomas Jensen & Susanne Bier
With: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed by: Jan Ole Gerster
With: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Michael Gwisdek
Searching for Sugar Man
UK/Sweden, 83 min
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul...
Audiences in the past have awarded the honor to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's beloved Amelie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, and incredibly 3 times to Spanish master Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver).
To vote and for a chance to win a trip to the 26th European Film Awards click Here
The Nominees Are:
Anna Karenina
UK, 124 min
Directed By: Joe Wright
Written By: Tom Stoppard
With: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
The Best Offer (La Migliore Offerta)
Italy, 130 min
Written & Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
With: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium, 100 min
Directed by: Felix van Groeningen
Written by: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
With: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Rampelberg, Nils de Caster
The Deep (Djúpið)
Iceland/Norway, 92 min
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
Written by: Jón Atli Jónasson & Baltasar Kormákur
With: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Björn Thors, Thorbjorg H. Thorgilsdótir
The Gilded Cage (La Cage Dorée)
Portugal/France, 90 min
Directed by: Ruben Alves
Written by: Ruben Alves, Jean-André Yerlès, Hugo Gélin
With: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud, Chantal Lauby, Barbara Cabrita, Lannick Gautry
I'm So Excited (Los Amantes Pasajeros)
Spain, 90 min
Written & Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
With: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth
The Impossible (Lo Imposible)
Spain, 114 min
Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Written by: Sergio G. Sánchez & María Belón
With: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast
Kon-Tiki
Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Sweden, 113 min
Directed by: Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
Written by: Petter Skavlan
With: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Bassmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgaard, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen
Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør)
Denmark, 111 min
Directed By: Susanne Bier
Written By: Anders Thomas Jensen & Susanne Bier
With: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed by: Jan Ole Gerster
With: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Michael Gwisdek
Searching for Sugar Man
UK/Sweden, 83 min
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul...
- 9/10/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
A black and white film set in the German capital of Berlin, Oh Boy spends a day in the life of Nico Fischer (Tom Shilling), a 27-year-old chancer who is still living the life of a student despite having abandoned his studies almost two years previously. Dumped by his girlfriend before he can even get out of bed, Nico must then skip breakfast in order to attend a mandatory appointment with his appointed psychiatrist.
However, things continue to go downhill even after he is found to be unfit to drive; his father terminates his allowance, he encounters a bitter ex-classmate (Friederike Kempter) in a bar, and is then dragged along to the set of an unpromising World War II film by his friend, an aspiring actor (Marc Hosemann).
Although described in the festival’s programme as a black comedy, Oh Boy isn’t so much funny as wonderfully ironic. The character of Nico is detached,...
However, things continue to go downhill even after he is found to be unfit to drive; his father terminates his allowance, he encounters a bitter ex-classmate (Friederike Kempter) in a bar, and is then dragged along to the set of an unpromising World War II film by his friend, an aspiring actor (Marc Hosemann).
Although described in the festival’s programme as a black comedy, Oh Boy isn’t so much funny as wonderfully ironic. The character of Nico is detached,...
- 6/24/2013
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Slacker Days: Gerster’s Debut Proves that Growing Up is Hardly Black and White
For his directorial debut, German director Jan-Ole Gerster serves up Oh Boy, a black and white black comedy centered on a slacker in his early twenties, wandering the streets of Berlin, full of angst and longing as he yearns to discover some type of motivation. Peppered with instances of homage to other cinema classics, Gerster proves an adept hand at assembling a fine looking film, though, despite some artistic flourishes, gives us a protagonist, a narrative, and a scenario that brings nothing new to a subject that’s been severely exhausted. The cinema is filled with great and small examples of angsty young men struggling to find their way in life and Gerster doesn’t bring anything innately new to the table.
Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) has been coasting for the past two years on his father’s money,...
For his directorial debut, German director Jan-Ole Gerster serves up Oh Boy, a black and white black comedy centered on a slacker in his early twenties, wandering the streets of Berlin, full of angst and longing as he yearns to discover some type of motivation. Peppered with instances of homage to other cinema classics, Gerster proves an adept hand at assembling a fine looking film, though, despite some artistic flourishes, gives us a protagonist, a narrative, and a scenario that brings nothing new to a subject that’s been severely exhausted. The cinema is filled with great and small examples of angsty young men struggling to find their way in life and Gerster doesn’t bring anything innately new to the table.
Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) has been coasting for the past two years on his father’s money,...
- 11/7/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Reviewed by Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
- 6/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
- 6/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Lys Movie Trailer has premiered. Krystof Zlatnik‘s Lys (2010) stars Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Gunter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Pierre Kiwitt, and Marc Hosemann. Lys‘ plot synopsis: “it’s the story of a young woman named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) who is found inside the core of the Terra-Power Plant shortly after a massive blackout. The scientists let Lys return home but Karl Bardel (Horst-Gunter Marx), the chief architect behind the reactor, is convinced that the young woman might have a connection to the blackout.” This looks good, intriguing even. How did the girl get into the power plant? What is her power derived from? What is its implications? These are the questions that this movie trailer establishes. I see some Firestarter elements here as well. Watch the Lys movie trailer below and leave your thoughts on it. Lys has no Us theater release date yet.
Lys Movie Trailer (no English sub-titles)
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Lys Movie Trailer (no English sub-titles)
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- 5/10/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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