"I wanted to avoid the artifice of cinema." A24 has revealed a behind-the-scenes featurette for The Zone of Interest, the Best Picture nominated Holocaust film from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer. It premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, and after opening in December, ended up with a total of five Oscar nominations – including Best Director and Best Sound. This film is about the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his family who live inside a nice house located adjacent to this horrible concentration camp in Poland. It stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as the couple, with Freya Kreutzkam, Max Beck, Imogen Kogge, Ralph Herforth. In this featurette, Glazer and his Polish Dp Łukasz Żal talk about filming this with cameras hidden in the house, and natural lighting, to make it as authentic and immersive as possible. Yes this is an outstanding film that deserves to be seen...
- 2/2/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest is arriving in cinemas imminently. You can see the final trailer for the film here.
While we expected nothing less, we’ve been hearing some interesting things about Jonathan Glazer’s soon-to-release holocaust drama, The Zone Of Interest.
Glazer’s last film, Under The Skin, was released almost a decade ago. Despite featuring a bona fide movie star in the form of Scarlett Johansson, the film was unconventional in almost every way. It famously was both booed and cheered at its Cannes debut, and we imagine that as something of a provocateur, Mr Glazer was probably delighted by that response.
Under The Skin was even made unconventionally, using hidden cameras and using people off the street who at some points didn’t even know they were ‘acting’ in a major A24 production. From what we’re hearing,The Zone Of Interest seems to...
While we expected nothing less, we’ve been hearing some interesting things about Jonathan Glazer’s soon-to-release holocaust drama, The Zone Of Interest.
Glazer’s last film, Under The Skin, was released almost a decade ago. Despite featuring a bona fide movie star in the form of Scarlett Johansson, the film was unconventional in almost every way. It famously was both booed and cheered at its Cannes debut, and we imagine that as something of a provocateur, Mr Glazer was probably delighted by that response.
Under The Skin was even made unconventionally, using hidden cameras and using people off the street who at some points didn’t even know they were ‘acting’ in a major A24 production. From what we’re hearing,The Zone Of Interest seems to...
- 12/6/2023
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
"Thanks for your National Socialist hospitality." A24 has debuted a second official trailer for The Zone of Interest, the acclaimed new film from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer. Opening in theaters soon this December, the film is appearing on lots of Top 10 lists this month. It originally premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and was expected to win the Palme d'Or, though it ended up winning the Grand Prix second place prize. Though initially adapted from Martin Amis' novel of the same name, the film has a different focus. It's about the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his family who live in a nice home located adjacent to this horrible concentration camp in Poland. This stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as husband & wife, Freya Kreutzkam, Max Beck, Imogen Kogge, and Ralph Herforth. A deeply unsettling film about the banality of evil, following this German family...
- 12/5/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Do not look away." A24 has revealed the first official trailer for The Zone of Interest, the acclaimed new film from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer. This first premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and it was expected to win the Palme d'Or, though it ended up taking home the second place prize Grand Prix just behind Anatomy of a Fall. Though initially adapted from Martin Amis' novel of the same name, the film has a different focus. It's about the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his family who live in a nice home just outside the walls of this horrible concentration camp during WWII. Starring Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Freya Kreutzkam, Max Beck, Imogen Kogge, and Ralph Herforth. This is an intriguing first trailer, more of a teaser – setting the tone and giving everyone a glimpse of just how unsettling and fascinating this film is.
- 10/17/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Oscilloscope Laboratories, the distribution company set up by late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, has acquired U.S. rights to The Universal Theory, which recently premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival (as the title The Theory of Everything). A theatrical release is planned for 2024.
From director Timm Kröger, the German drama is set in 1962 at a quantum mechanics conference in an isolated lodge nestled amid the towering landscapes of the Swiss Alps, and is the story of a gifted young physicist, his curmudgeonly mentor and an enigmatic jazz pianist who knows things about our wunderkind scientist that he’s never told another living soul. As the description goes, the film is “driven by astonishing twists, improbable coincidences and Hitchcockian suspense,” and “considers the metaverse theory from a refreshingly intelligent point of view.”
The main cast includes Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber and Imogen Kogge.
From director Timm Kröger, the German drama is set in 1962 at a quantum mechanics conference in an isolated lodge nestled amid the towering landscapes of the Swiss Alps, and is the story of a gifted young physicist, his curmudgeonly mentor and an enigmatic jazz pianist who knows things about our wunderkind scientist that he’s never told another living soul. As the description goes, the film is “driven by astonishing twists, improbable coincidences and Hitchcockian suspense,” and “considers the metaverse theory from a refreshingly intelligent point of view.”
The main cast includes Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber and Imogen Kogge.
- 10/5/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
German director Timm Kröger’s mystery thriller “The Universal Theory” has started shooting at the ski resort of St. Jakob in Defereggen, Austria. The film’s first image has been released.
The cast is led by Jan Bülow, who starred in “Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding,” and Olivia Ross, a Paris-born, British actress whose credits include History’s “Knightfall,” Netflix’s “The Old Guard,” and the BBC’s “War and Peace” and “Killing Eve.”
Kröger previously directed Venice Critics Week entry “The Council of Birds.” The screenplay was written by Roderick Warich (“The Trouble with Being Born”) and Kröger.
Shot in Cinemascope, in black and white, the 1960s set story unfolds against the backdrop of the Alps. Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets his femme fatale, Karin, a jazz pianist...
The cast is led by Jan Bülow, who starred in “Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding,” and Olivia Ross, a Paris-born, British actress whose credits include History’s “Knightfall,” Netflix’s “The Old Guard,” and the BBC’s “War and Peace” and “Killing Eve.”
Kröger previously directed Venice Critics Week entry “The Council of Birds.” The screenplay was written by Roderick Warich (“The Trouble with Being Born”) and Kröger.
Shot in Cinemascope, in black and white, the 1960s set story unfolds against the backdrop of the Alps. Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets his femme fatale, Karin, a jazz pianist...
- 1/21/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The most defining and far-reaching decision made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her 15 years in office is the focus of a new film making its debut at Berlin’s European Film Market.
“Merkel — Anatomy of a Crisis,” directed by Stephen Wagner, stars Imogen Kogge as the German leader during the dramatic days leading up to her decision in 2015 to allow nearly a million refugees, mostly from war-torn Syria, to enter Germany.
“We can consider this the most important political weeks of Angela Merkel’s life as chancellor,” says Alexander van Dülmen, who produced the film with Wagner via their Potsdam-based company Carte Blanche International.
Penned by Florian Oeller, “Merkel” is based on journalist Robin Alexander’s 2017 bestselling book “The Driven Ones” (“Die Getriebenen”) and examines the political wrangling among Merkel’s cabinet members and European actors like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as they struggle to deal with a...
“Merkel — Anatomy of a Crisis,” directed by Stephen Wagner, stars Imogen Kogge as the German leader during the dramatic days leading up to her decision in 2015 to allow nearly a million refugees, mostly from war-torn Syria, to enter Germany.
“We can consider this the most important political weeks of Angela Merkel’s life as chancellor,” says Alexander van Dülmen, who produced the film with Wagner via their Potsdam-based company Carte Blanche International.
Penned by Florian Oeller, “Merkel” is based on journalist Robin Alexander’s 2017 bestselling book “The Driven Ones” (“Die Getriebenen”) and examines the political wrangling among Merkel’s cabinet members and European actors like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as they struggle to deal with a...
- 2/24/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The film takes in the German chancellor’s decision to keep borders open to refugees.
Paramount has picked up German theatrical rights to Merkel, setting a March 28, 2020 release date for the political thriller.
Producers Carte Blanche International announced the deal at the Efm, where Bavaria Media International is hosting initial screenings for worldwide buyers in other territories.
Stephan Wagner directs Florian Oeller’s script, adapted from Robin Alexander’s 2017 book The Driven Ones.
It charts the 60 days leading to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep German borders open to refugees. Requiem star Imogen Kogge plays Merkel.
Wagner...
Paramount has picked up German theatrical rights to Merkel, setting a March 28, 2020 release date for the political thriller.
Producers Carte Blanche International announced the deal at the Efm, where Bavaria Media International is hosting initial screenings for worldwide buyers in other territories.
Stephan Wagner directs Florian Oeller’s script, adapted from Robin Alexander’s 2017 book The Driven Ones.
It charts the 60 days leading to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep German borders open to refugees. Requiem star Imogen Kogge plays Merkel.
Wagner...
- 2/21/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
The German director has been working on a TV film starring actress Imogen Kogge in the role of the Chancellor. Stephan Wagner’s Merkel has just wrapped principal photography. The German filmmaker has been particularly active in the television industry since the mid-1990s, and has been involved in the direction, production and writing of many successful shows, such as Tatort (2011-2019), Am Ruder (2017) and Polizeiruf 110 (2008-2009). His new project intended for the small screen is a drama set during the summer of 2015 and focused on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open the German borders to nearly one million Syrian refugees. The move was welcomed by many but has been strongly criticised by extreme-right parties, inevitably undermining her leadership and affecting the political future of the European Union. The script, penned in its entirety by Florian Oeller, is based on The Driven Ones, a best-selling book written by journalist.
German theater star Imogen Kogge will play the most powerful woman in the world in an upcoming film about German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kogge is starring in Merkel, a drama focused on the German leader and her decision, during the summer of 2015, to open Germany's borders to nearly a million Syrian refugees.
Stephan Wagner is directing the film, which has just wrapped principal photography. Carte Blanche International is producing Merkel together with German public broadcasters Rbb and Ndr.
Merkel is based on the Die Getriebenen (The Driven), a best-seller from German journalist Robin Alexander, and follows the most monumental decision in ...
Kogge is starring in Merkel, a drama focused on the German leader and her decision, during the summer of 2015, to open Germany's borders to nearly a million Syrian refugees.
Stephan Wagner is directing the film, which has just wrapped principal photography. Carte Blanche International is producing Merkel together with German public broadcasters Rbb and Ndr.
Merkel is based on the Die Getriebenen (The Driven), a best-seller from German journalist Robin Alexander, and follows the most monumental decision in ...
- 7/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
What's contemporary Europe got that we ain't got? Powerful, serious filmmaking like that by Christian Petzold, starring the impressive Nina Hoss. Their sixth collaboration is a loaded narrative that takes some pretty wild narrative themes -- plastic surgery, hidden identities -- and spins them in a suspenseful new direction. Phoenix Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 809 2014 / Color / 2:39 widescreen (Super 35) / 98 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 26, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Imogen Kogge. Cinematography Hans Fromm Film Editor Bettina Böhler Original Music Stefan Will Written by Christian Petzold, Haroun Farocki from ideas in the book Le retour des cendres by Hubert Monteilhet Produced by Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Directed by Christian Petzold
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I had seen only one Christian Petzold feature before this one. 2012's Barbara is an excellent Deutsche-Millennial thriller starring Barbara Hoss as an East German doctor trying to do...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I had seen only one Christian Petzold feature before this one. 2012's Barbara is an excellent Deutsche-Millennial thriller starring Barbara Hoss as an East German doctor trying to do...
- 5/3/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Phoenix Sundance Selects Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director: Christian Petzold Screenwriter: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet, adapted from Hubert Monteilhet’s “Return From the Ashes” Cast: Nina Hoss, Nina Kunzendorf, Ronald Zehrfeld, Trystan Putter, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Felix Romer Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 6/25/15 Opens: July 24, 2015 Just when you thought that all Holocaust-themed movies had been exhausted, along comes “Phoenix” which, actually, is not a brand new take on its repercussions. Hubert Monteilhet’s novel “Return from the Ashes” covers the material, adapted by Harun Farocki, and the novel had been filmed by J. Lee Thompson starring Maximilan Schell [ Read More ]
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- 7/20/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
BERLIN -- The death of a Catholic woman in West Germany while undergoing the Catholic rite of exorcism in 1976 has inspired a second film within the past few months. Following the American "Exorcism of Emily Rose" in September comes "Requiem", a German film by Hans-Christian Schmid, whose estimable "Distant Light" lit up the Berlinale three years ago. While "Exorcism" focused on a murder-trial battle between the priest and a prosecutor, Schmid's film beautifully details the behavior, events and socio-religious pressures that lead to the decision to perform such an extreme ritual.
So there are no spinning heads or pea soup, still so vividly recalled from William Friedkin's horror classic "The Exorcist". Rather Schmid and writer Bernd Lange pay close attention to all things that help answer the most obvious question: Why would anyone submit to an exorcism?
After debuting in Berlin, "Requiem" could prove a sellable item for Bavaria International. A North American sale might be iffy, but the film should generate plenty of theatrical and later television and video interest in Europe.
Michaela (Sandra Huller in a marvelous feature debut) grows up in a small southern German town in the 1970s. Hers is a deeply religious family with a warm father (Burghart Klaussner) and a cold, disapproving mother (Imogen Kogge). She has long suffered seizures diagnosed as epilepsy without the doctors ever being entirely certain. Nevertheless, she is given a regimen of pills to swallow daily and then more pills to offset side effects of the earlier ones.
Michaela, 21, is desperate to go to the university to obtain a teaching degree. Her father supports her but her mother is terrified something might happen because of her condition. Michaela prevails but university life brings stress. She loves the freedom, but the pressure of studying, new friendships and a first love with Stefan (Nicholas Reinke), all away from the protective shell of her parents' home, takes a toll.
During her first year, she suffers a mental breakdown. But her upbringing and a self-assured local priest (Jens Harzer) force her to see the condition in religious terms. During seizures she believes she sees faces and hears voices. Indeed so great is her fear of the psychiatric, she actually takes refuge in the notion she must be possessed.
The film observes the descent into madness and the differing interpretations of this condition by her family, priest, boyfriend and best mate (Anna Blomeier) without judgment or condemnation. Schmid and Lange clearly care deeply for this heroine in such physical and mental anguish. In a sense, Michaela plays into the hands of the priest and mother, who believe this is the work of the devil. She is determined to fit that mold rather than the one requiring confinement in a "loony bin." The father and village priest (Walter Schmidinger), who more clearly understand what ails the young woman, cannot stand up to the united front of true believers.
Designer Christian M. Goldbeck fuzzies period details so the era is not important. Schmid allows no music other than source music so that nothing can pander to emotionalism. Bogumil Godfrejow's cinematography is straightforward, keeping the focus on the unfolding tragedy.
"Requiem" shuns finger-pointing and easy jabs at religion. Its heroine crumbles under the onslaught of sexual awakening, feelings of guilt, religious confusion and mental instability. Religion supplies a false answer, but it's an open question whether psychiatry would have helped her either. n
REQUIEM
Bavaria Film International presents a 23/5 Filmproduktion with SWR, ARTE, WDR and BR
Credits:
Director-producer: Hans-Christian Schmid
Screenwriter: Bernd Lange
Director of photography: Bogumil Godfrejow
Production designer: Christian M. Goldbeck
Costume designer: Bettina Marx
Editors: Hansjorg Weissbrich, Bernd Schlegel
Cast:
Michaela Klingler: Sandra Huller
Karl: Burghart Klaussner
Marianne: Imogen Kogge
Hanna: Anna Blomeier
Stefan: Nicholas Reinke
Gerhard Landauer: Walter Schmidinger
Martin Borchert: Jens Harzer
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 93 minutes...
So there are no spinning heads or pea soup, still so vividly recalled from William Friedkin's horror classic "The Exorcist". Rather Schmid and writer Bernd Lange pay close attention to all things that help answer the most obvious question: Why would anyone submit to an exorcism?
After debuting in Berlin, "Requiem" could prove a sellable item for Bavaria International. A North American sale might be iffy, but the film should generate plenty of theatrical and later television and video interest in Europe.
Michaela (Sandra Huller in a marvelous feature debut) grows up in a small southern German town in the 1970s. Hers is a deeply religious family with a warm father (Burghart Klaussner) and a cold, disapproving mother (Imogen Kogge). She has long suffered seizures diagnosed as epilepsy without the doctors ever being entirely certain. Nevertheless, she is given a regimen of pills to swallow daily and then more pills to offset side effects of the earlier ones.
Michaela, 21, is desperate to go to the university to obtain a teaching degree. Her father supports her but her mother is terrified something might happen because of her condition. Michaela prevails but university life brings stress. She loves the freedom, but the pressure of studying, new friendships and a first love with Stefan (Nicholas Reinke), all away from the protective shell of her parents' home, takes a toll.
During her first year, she suffers a mental breakdown. But her upbringing and a self-assured local priest (Jens Harzer) force her to see the condition in religious terms. During seizures she believes she sees faces and hears voices. Indeed so great is her fear of the psychiatric, she actually takes refuge in the notion she must be possessed.
The film observes the descent into madness and the differing interpretations of this condition by her family, priest, boyfriend and best mate (Anna Blomeier) without judgment or condemnation. Schmid and Lange clearly care deeply for this heroine in such physical and mental anguish. In a sense, Michaela plays into the hands of the priest and mother, who believe this is the work of the devil. She is determined to fit that mold rather than the one requiring confinement in a "loony bin." The father and village priest (Walter Schmidinger), who more clearly understand what ails the young woman, cannot stand up to the united front of true believers.
Designer Christian M. Goldbeck fuzzies period details so the era is not important. Schmid allows no music other than source music so that nothing can pander to emotionalism. Bogumil Godfrejow's cinematography is straightforward, keeping the focus on the unfolding tragedy.
"Requiem" shuns finger-pointing and easy jabs at religion. Its heroine crumbles under the onslaught of sexual awakening, feelings of guilt, religious confusion and mental instability. Religion supplies a false answer, but it's an open question whether psychiatry would have helped her either. n
REQUIEM
Bavaria Film International presents a 23/5 Filmproduktion with SWR, ARTE, WDR and BR
Credits:
Director-producer: Hans-Christian Schmid
Screenwriter: Bernd Lange
Director of photography: Bogumil Godfrejow
Production designer: Christian M. Goldbeck
Costume designer: Bettina Marx
Editors: Hansjorg Weissbrich, Bernd Schlegel
Cast:
Michaela Klingler: Sandra Huller
Karl: Burghart Klaussner
Marianne: Imogen Kogge
Hanna: Anna Blomeier
Stefan: Nicholas Reinke
Gerhard Landauer: Walter Schmidinger
Martin Borchert: Jens Harzer
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 93 minutes...
- 2/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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