Weltkino boards Berlinale premiere.
As this year’s European Film Market in Berlin gets underway, Weltkino has moved quickly to snap up Generation Kplus opening film Cleo – If I Could Turn Back Time for German-speaking territories.
The distributor struck the deal with Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen, which recently boarded the title to represent world rights.
Directed by Erik Schmitt, the film is a road-trip through Berlin which tells the story of young dreamer Cleo as she searches for a magic clock that can turn back time. Marleen Lohse stars in the lead role, Max Mauff and Andrea Sawatzki round out the cast.
As this year’s European Film Market in Berlin gets underway, Weltkino has moved quickly to snap up Generation Kplus opening film Cleo – If I Could Turn Back Time for German-speaking territories.
The distributor struck the deal with Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen, which recently boarded the title to represent world rights.
Directed by Erik Schmitt, the film is a road-trip through Berlin which tells the story of young dreamer Cleo as she searches for a magic clock that can turn back time. Marleen Lohse stars in the lead role, Max Mauff and Andrea Sawatzki round out the cast.
- 2/7/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin International Film Festival is celebrating its opening today, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm. After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival will be officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, China) and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick. The International Jury – whose other members are Susanne Bier (Denmark), Andreas Dresen (Germany), Ellen Kuras (USA), Shirin Neshat (Iran), Tim Robbins (USA) and Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece) – will also be introduced during the gala. Anke Engelke will again host the evening. This year’s music will be provided by Ulrich Tukur & Die Rhythmus Boys. 3sat will be broadcasting the opening live. Ziyi Zhang in Yi dai zong shi (The Grandmaster) by Wong Kar Wai Following the gala, Wong Kar Wai’s epic martial-arts drama The Grandmaster will have its international premiere. The director and his leading actors,...
- 2/7/2013
- by hnblog@hollywoodnews.com (Hollywood News Team)
- Hollywoodnews.com
Assumpta Serna attends Miptv 2011 Borgia Photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Stanley Weber, Assumpta Serna, Andrea Sawatzki, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Marta Gastini, John Doman, Isolda Dychaud and Mark Ryder attend Miptv 2011 Borgia Photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Stanley Weber attends Miptv 2011 Borgia Photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Assumpta Serna attends Miptv 2011 Borgia Photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Stanley Weber attends Miptv 2011 Borgia Photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. 04/05/2011 - Stanley Weber - Miptv 2011 - "Borgia" Photocall - Hotel Majestic Swimming Pool - Cannes, France © Pixplanete / PR Photos 04/05/2011 - John Doman - Miptv 2011 - "Borgia" Photocall -...
- 4/8/2011
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéoBORGIA - Tom Fontana présente la série
The Canadian TV series The Borgias will compete in 2011 with the French TV series Borgia. Tom Fontana, the show's creator, talks about what we should expect from it.
The series Borgia, which was created by Tom Fontana (Oz; The Philantropist) will be aired in France on CanalPlus, a French premium cable network. As for the Canadian series, it will be on Showtime and CTV, which are respectively an American premium cable network and a Canadian TV network.
The series takes place during the Renaissance in Italy. It follows Rodrigo Borgia (John Doman), who will be the most corrupt pope in history. He will also go down in history with his children: Juan (Stanley Weber), the oldest, a prideful, a sexual predator with no shame; Cesare (Mark Ryder), a violent man; Lucretia (Isolda Dychauk), a young girl...
The Canadian TV series The Borgias will compete in 2011 with the French TV series Borgia. Tom Fontana, the show's creator, talks about what we should expect from it.
The series Borgia, which was created by Tom Fontana (Oz; The Philantropist) will be aired in France on CanalPlus, a French premium cable network. As for the Canadian series, it will be on Showtime and CTV, which are respectively an American premium cable network and a Canadian TV network.
The series takes place during the Renaissance in Italy. It follows Rodrigo Borgia (John Doman), who will be the most corrupt pope in history. He will also go down in history with his children: Juan (Stanley Weber), the oldest, a prideful, a sexual predator with no shame; Cesare (Mark Ryder), a violent man; Lucretia (Isolda Dychauk), a young girl...
- 10/19/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
The early favorite to win the grand prize at the 25th Montreal World Film Festival and a controversial boxoffice hit in Europe since it opened in March, "The Experiment" is a riveting but far from perfect directorial debut from German television director Oliver Hirschbiegel. With another excellent performance by rising star Moritz Bleibtreu ("Run Lola Run", "In July") and a strong appeal to young-adult audiences, it has at least a fighting chance to lock up a domestic distribution deal.
Evoking such recent violent flicks as "Fight Club" and "Battle Royale", as well as reality TV shows like "Big Brother", the scenario is based on co-screenwriter Mario Giordano's novel "Black Box", inspired by a real Stanford University test simulating the conditions of a prison in order to psychologically probe the roles adopted by guards and prisoners.
While the filmmaking is steely and the performances by the ensemble cast believable enough given the escalating nastiness, the story hinges on several unbelievable acts of negligence by the experimenters. Consequently, one leaves the theater with little to ponder except the obvious: Going to prison can be like going to hell, and voluntarily doing so -- even under controlled circumstances -- is a heck of a way to earn a buck.
But that's what lures most of the participants in Cologne, who answer newspaper ads and undergo tests and seemingly minimal training for the two-week experiment. Tarek (Bleibtreu) is a taxi driver who walked away from a reporter's gig. For him, the opportunity is a good story in the making, and his former boss agrees. Equipped with glasses that contain a tiny camera, Tarek takes the plunge with his own agenda and becomes one of the "prisoners."
One of his cellmates (Christian Berkel) also is there not by accident, but these two good guys are almost done in by the guards, who become far too serious in their approach to a power struggle that ensues. Tarek, in jerk mode, inflames the situation by humiliating the wrong sadist, Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), but the academics in charge are guilty of changing the rules that allow anyone to leave at any time they request.
With the prisoners sinking into depressed and caged-animal states of mind, the guards become intoxicated, break rules and vindictively start asserting their authority. At first, they find nonviolent ways (per the rules) to discipline rabble-rousers like Tarek and a prisoner who refuses to drink milk for medical reasons. But one thing leads to another, and Berus makes several absurd leaps of logic to cause the "experiment" to spin murderously out of control.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers find no way to reach the bloody final act except by sending away the responsible project monitors (Edgar Selge, Andrea Sawatzki) at the exact wrong moment. Likewise, one of the crucial players is a woman (Maren Eggert) whom Tarek met when she crashed her car into his taxi early in the film. Their instant love affair is recounted in flashbacks, and she is inserted awkwardly into the mock prison at two points, including the vicious climax.
There are some deliciously ironic touches -- like the use of The Beach Boys song "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" in decided counterpoint to what appears onscreen -- and one feels much sympathy for the oppressed among the prisoners. But only in Germany, perhaps, would it be possible for a tough case like Berus to inspire instant barbarism on the part of the other guards. In that way, the film plays into cultural stereotypes and further distances the audience from whatever universal truths it is trying to mirror.
THE EXPERIMENT
Senator Entertainment
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenwriters: Mario Giordano, Don Bohlinger, Christoph Darnstadt
Based on the novel by: Mario Giordano
Producers: Norbert Preuss, Marc Conrad, Fritz Wildfeuer
Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann
Production designers: Uli Hanisch, Andrea Kessler
Editor: Hans Funck
Costume designer: Claudia Bobsin
Music: Alexander Van Bubenheim
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tarek Fahd: Moritz Bleibtreu
Berus: Justus von Dohnanyi
Steinhoff: Christian Berkel
Dora: Maren Eggert
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Evoking such recent violent flicks as "Fight Club" and "Battle Royale", as well as reality TV shows like "Big Brother", the scenario is based on co-screenwriter Mario Giordano's novel "Black Box", inspired by a real Stanford University test simulating the conditions of a prison in order to psychologically probe the roles adopted by guards and prisoners.
While the filmmaking is steely and the performances by the ensemble cast believable enough given the escalating nastiness, the story hinges on several unbelievable acts of negligence by the experimenters. Consequently, one leaves the theater with little to ponder except the obvious: Going to prison can be like going to hell, and voluntarily doing so -- even under controlled circumstances -- is a heck of a way to earn a buck.
But that's what lures most of the participants in Cologne, who answer newspaper ads and undergo tests and seemingly minimal training for the two-week experiment. Tarek (Bleibtreu) is a taxi driver who walked away from a reporter's gig. For him, the opportunity is a good story in the making, and his former boss agrees. Equipped with glasses that contain a tiny camera, Tarek takes the plunge with his own agenda and becomes one of the "prisoners."
One of his cellmates (Christian Berkel) also is there not by accident, but these two good guys are almost done in by the guards, who become far too serious in their approach to a power struggle that ensues. Tarek, in jerk mode, inflames the situation by humiliating the wrong sadist, Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), but the academics in charge are guilty of changing the rules that allow anyone to leave at any time they request.
With the prisoners sinking into depressed and caged-animal states of mind, the guards become intoxicated, break rules and vindictively start asserting their authority. At first, they find nonviolent ways (per the rules) to discipline rabble-rousers like Tarek and a prisoner who refuses to drink milk for medical reasons. But one thing leads to another, and Berus makes several absurd leaps of logic to cause the "experiment" to spin murderously out of control.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers find no way to reach the bloody final act except by sending away the responsible project monitors (Edgar Selge, Andrea Sawatzki) at the exact wrong moment. Likewise, one of the crucial players is a woman (Maren Eggert) whom Tarek met when she crashed her car into his taxi early in the film. Their instant love affair is recounted in flashbacks, and she is inserted awkwardly into the mock prison at two points, including the vicious climax.
There are some deliciously ironic touches -- like the use of The Beach Boys song "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" in decided counterpoint to what appears onscreen -- and one feels much sympathy for the oppressed among the prisoners. But only in Germany, perhaps, would it be possible for a tough case like Berus to inspire instant barbarism on the part of the other guards. In that way, the film plays into cultural stereotypes and further distances the audience from whatever universal truths it is trying to mirror.
THE EXPERIMENT
Senator Entertainment
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenwriters: Mario Giordano, Don Bohlinger, Christoph Darnstadt
Based on the novel by: Mario Giordano
Producers: Norbert Preuss, Marc Conrad, Fritz Wildfeuer
Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann
Production designers: Uli Hanisch, Andrea Kessler
Editor: Hans Funck
Costume designer: Claudia Bobsin
Music: Alexander Van Bubenheim
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tarek Fahd: Moritz Bleibtreu
Berus: Justus von Dohnanyi
Steinhoff: Christian Berkel
Dora: Maren Eggert
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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