Arri Worldwide secures North American deal ahead of the Efm, where it will showcase two market premieres.
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, which was launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, has previously released such family films as the animated feature Freedom Force and the Russian 3D animated film The Snow Queen. produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis...
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, which was launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, has previously released such family films as the animated feature Freedom Force and the Russian 3D animated film The Snow Queen. produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis...
- 2/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Arri Worldwide secures North American deal ahead of the Efm, where it will showcase two market premieres.
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, had previously acquired Tim Fehlbaum’s apocalyptic thriller Hell from Arri.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis who travels to Switzerland to end her life received the prize in the Newcomer category at this...
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, had previously acquired Tim Fehlbaum’s apocalyptic thriller Hell from Arri.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis who travels to Switzerland to end her life received the prize in the Newcomer category at this...
- 2/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
- Last year The Lives of Others cleaned up the "German Oscars", with eight nominations apiece, this year we find a tight race between Tom Tykwer's take on the Patrick Suskind novel a prison drama by helmer Chris Kraus. Perfume - The Story of a Murderer got a theatrical release stateside in late December. The Golden and Silver Lolas will be presented in a gala ceremony in Berlin on May 4. Here are the noms:Best Feature Film Emma's Bliss (dir: Sven Taddicken)The Counterfeiters (dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky)Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer (dir: Tom Tykwer)Four Minutes (dir: Chris Kraus)Grave Decisions (dir: Marcus H. Rosenmueller)Winter Journey (dir: Hans Steinbichler)Best Documentary The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez (dir: Heidi Specogna)Working Man's Death (dir: Michael Glawogger)Best Children's and Youth Film Hände Weg Vom Mississippi (dir: Detlev Buck)The Cloud (dir: Gregor Schnitzler)Best Direction
- 3/19/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
BERLIN -- It will come as no surprise to anyone that the Germans have produced another film about death and dying.
But it is a surprise to discover that it is light-footed, entertaining, warmly human and utterly charming. For that is exactly what "Grave Decisions", a modest gem of a movie, is. The picture, which won a clutch of year-end honors in Germany, is stirring interest internationally.
Director Marcus Hausham Rosenmueller and co-writer Christian Lerch have created a funny and inventive tale of a young boy trying to figure out the world he was thrown into in an unusual and wholly charming way. Although the film will lose some of its charm when viewed with subtitles (the original is acted in a thick Bavarian accent that even made it hard for many northern Germans to follow), there is still plenty of human warmth here to give ticket buyers a bounce in their step as they leave theaters.
The story centers on 11-year-old Sebastian (played fluidly and convincingly by Markus Krojer), growing up in a picturesque Bavarian village with an older brother and a single father who runs the village tavern. The combination of Catholic liturgy, Bavarian folklore and the silly talk of the bar regulars makes for a strange childhood to begin with, but when Sebastian learns that his mother died while giving birth to him, he becomes fascinated with death, dying and immortality. (The German title translates as "The sooner you die, the longer you stay dead.")
Sebastian's experiments take him from one mishap to another. He takes the advice of the bar regulars all too literally, which gets him into trouble, and he gets into more trouble when he receives "signs" from his dead mother telling him to steal (and learn to play) a guitar, to set up his father with a married woman and more. And because he believes he has already killed his mother, it's a small step toward committing murder. He comes close to that again and again.
"Grave Decisions" never makes the mistake other filmmakers have by trying to make comedies about death by becoming morbid. Although this story of growing up is told through Sebastian's eyes, everything is intertwined with the denizens of his little Bavarian village, a variety of believable yet slightly eccentric personalities, like the rock 'n' roll DJ who gives spiritual advice over the air. Rosenmueller's terse, unpretentious direction saves the village from falling into picturesque "Heidi"/Alpine village cliches.
GRAVE DECISIONS
Roxy Film/BR Television
Credits:
Director: Marcus Hausham Rosenmueller
Screenwriters: Marcus Hausham Rosenmueller, Christian Lerch
Producers: Annie Brunner, Andreas Richter, Ursula Woerner
Executive producers: Cornelia Ackers, Bettina Reitz
Director of photography: Stefan Biebl
Editors: Anja Pohl, Susanne Hartmann
Art director: Michael Koening
Costume designer: Steffi Bruhn
Music: Gerd Baumann
Cast:
Sebastian: Markus Krojer
Lorenz: Fritz Karl
Veronika: Jule Ronstedt
Alfred Dorstreiter: Jurgen Tonkel
Frau Kramer: Saskia Vester
Franz: Franz Xaver Bruckner
Sepp Graudinger: Johann Schuler
Proske: Sepp Schauer
Gumberger: Heinz Josef Braun
Irmengard: Tim Seyfi
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
But it is a surprise to discover that it is light-footed, entertaining, warmly human and utterly charming. For that is exactly what "Grave Decisions", a modest gem of a movie, is. The picture, which won a clutch of year-end honors in Germany, is stirring interest internationally.
Director Marcus Hausham Rosenmueller and co-writer Christian Lerch have created a funny and inventive tale of a young boy trying to figure out the world he was thrown into in an unusual and wholly charming way. Although the film will lose some of its charm when viewed with subtitles (the original is acted in a thick Bavarian accent that even made it hard for many northern Germans to follow), there is still plenty of human warmth here to give ticket buyers a bounce in their step as they leave theaters.
The story centers on 11-year-old Sebastian (played fluidly and convincingly by Markus Krojer), growing up in a picturesque Bavarian village with an older brother and a single father who runs the village tavern. The combination of Catholic liturgy, Bavarian folklore and the silly talk of the bar regulars makes for a strange childhood to begin with, but when Sebastian learns that his mother died while giving birth to him, he becomes fascinated with death, dying and immortality. (The German title translates as "The sooner you die, the longer you stay dead.")
Sebastian's experiments take him from one mishap to another. He takes the advice of the bar regulars all too literally, which gets him into trouble, and he gets into more trouble when he receives "signs" from his dead mother telling him to steal (and learn to play) a guitar, to set up his father with a married woman and more. And because he believes he has already killed his mother, it's a small step toward committing murder. He comes close to that again and again.
"Grave Decisions" never makes the mistake other filmmakers have by trying to make comedies about death by becoming morbid. Although this story of growing up is told through Sebastian's eyes, everything is intertwined with the denizens of his little Bavarian village, a variety of believable yet slightly eccentric personalities, like the rock 'n' roll DJ who gives spiritual advice over the air. Rosenmueller's terse, unpretentious direction saves the village from falling into picturesque "Heidi"/Alpine village cliches.
GRAVE DECISIONS
Roxy Film/BR Television
Credits:
Director: Marcus Hausham Rosenmueller
Screenwriters: Marcus Hausham Rosenmueller, Christian Lerch
Producers: Annie Brunner, Andreas Richter, Ursula Woerner
Executive producers: Cornelia Ackers, Bettina Reitz
Director of photography: Stefan Biebl
Editors: Anja Pohl, Susanne Hartmann
Art director: Michael Koening
Costume designer: Steffi Bruhn
Music: Gerd Baumann
Cast:
Sebastian: Markus Krojer
Lorenz: Fritz Karl
Veronika: Jule Ronstedt
Alfred Dorstreiter: Jurgen Tonkel
Frau Kramer: Saskia Vester
Franz: Franz Xaver Bruckner
Sepp Graudinger: Johann Schuler
Proske: Sepp Schauer
Gumberger: Heinz Josef Braun
Irmengard: Tim Seyfi
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Fatih Akin's Golden Bear winner Head-On picked up another honor Wednesday when the film's editor Andrew Bird was nominated for Germany's top editing award, the Schnitt Prize. Bird will go up against Natali Barrey for her work on Jan Krueger's Rotterdam Tiger winner En Route; Bettina Bohler for Christian Petzold's thriller Wolfsburg; Christian Lonk for rural melodrama Hierankl from director Sebastian Steinbichler; and Jurgen Winkelblech for Norbert Baumgarten's east-west comedy Liberated Zone. In the documentary category, Anja Pohl was nominated for editing the sleeper hit The Story of the Weeping Camel; alongside Mona Brauer for Pepe Danquart's Tour-de-France doc Hollentour; Benjamin Ikes for Jorg Siepmann's music documentary Golden Lemons; Inge Schneider for Andres Veiel's drama school portrait Addicted to Acting; and Valerie Smith for 7 Brothers by director Sebastian Winkels. Winners of the Schnit Prize -- which is backed by regional subsidy board Filmstifftung NRW and film association VG Bild-Kunst -- will be announced at a ceremony in Cologne on Nov. 29.
- 9/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Fatih Akin's Golden Bear winner "Head-On" picked up another honor Wednesday when the film's editor, Andrew Bird, was nominated for Germany's top editing award, the Schnitt Prize. Bird will go up against Natali Barrey for her work on Jan Kruger's Rotterdam Tiger winner "En Route", Bettina Bohler for Christian Petzold's thriller "Wolfsburg", Christian Lonk for the rural melodrama "Hierankl" from director Sebastian Steinbichler and Jurgen Winkelblech for Norbert Baumgarten's east-west comedy "Liberated Zone". In the documentary category, Anja Pohl was nominated for editing the sleeper hit "The Story of the Weeping Camel" alongside Mona Brauer for Pepe Danquart's Tour de France documentary "Hollentour", Benjamin Ikes for Jorg Siepmann's music documentary "Golden Lemons", Inge Schneider for Andres Veiel's drama-school portrait "Addicted to Acting" and Valerie Smith for "7 Brothers", by director Sebastian Winkels. Winners of the Schnitt Prize -- which is backed by regional subsidy board Filmstifftung NRW and film association VG Bild-Kunst -- will be announced Nov. 29 at a ceremony in Cologne.
- 9/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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