The festival closed on July 1.
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s experimental mix of documentary and fiction Four Daughters won the main €50,000 Arri award for best international film in the CineMasters competition at Filmfest München on July 1.
The film’s German co-producer Thanassis Karathanos of Berlin-based Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion quipped he had written so many cheques to Arri in the past and it was nice to be having one now coming in the other direction, when accepting the award at the festival’s closing ceremony,
Four Daughters is the second collaboration between Karathanos and Martin Hampel’s Twenty Twenty...
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s experimental mix of documentary and fiction Four Daughters won the main €50,000 Arri award for best international film in the CineMasters competition at Filmfest München on July 1.
The film’s German co-producer Thanassis Karathanos of Berlin-based Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion quipped he had written so many cheques to Arri in the past and it was nice to be having one now coming in the other direction, when accepting the award at the festival’s closing ceremony,
Four Daughters is the second collaboration between Karathanos and Martin Hampel’s Twenty Twenty...
- 7/3/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The latest casting round of tributes and mentors in Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes includes Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Dimitri Abold, Athena Strates, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly.
As we told you previously, the film is set during the early days of tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...
As we told you previously, the film is set during the early days of tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Inaugural conference heard from UK and German co-producers.
The first edition of Filmfest München’s Cine CoPro Conference opened this week with a focus on the opportunities for co-production between the UK and Germany.
The conference first presented a guide to funding opportunities offered by the UK’s BFI, the German Federal Film Board (Ffa) and its Dfff cash rebate scheme as well as the Bavarian regional Fff Bayern fund.
Then the conference heard from UK and German producers who have worked on co-productions between the two countries.
Zoranna Piggott, UK producer of Thomas Clay’s 2019 film Fanny Lye Deliver’d,...
The first edition of Filmfest München’s Cine CoPro Conference opened this week with a focus on the opportunities for co-production between the UK and Germany.
The conference first presented a guide to funding opportunities offered by the UK’s BFI, the German Federal Film Board (Ffa) and its Dfff cash rebate scheme as well as the Bavarian regional Fff Bayern fund.
Then the conference heard from UK and German producers who have worked on co-productions between the two countries.
Zoranna Piggott, UK producer of Thomas Clay’s 2019 film Fanny Lye Deliver’d,...
- 6/30/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Munich-based Neuesuper, one of the rising values on Germany’s ebullient new TV scene, is teaming with Ard Degeto to develop “Breitscheidplatz,” a drama-thriller that depicts the build-up to Berlin’s 2016 Christmas market truck attack which left 12 dead.
The series, however, will buck trends, presenting not a matter-of-fact rehashing of the events leading up to the attack, but rather a fictional interpretation of what might have happened, turning on two German policemen working at a time when Europe had suffered a blitz of attacks, attempting to prevent a similar outrage in Germany.
“One of the huge questions poised by the attack is how on earth it could have happened, how did the security forces come to make such mistakes?” said Simon Amberger, one of the producers for Neuesuper.
A six-part series commissioned for Ard Degeto by Carolin Haasis, “Breitscheidplatz” tries to deliver an answer. Picturing the daily work of the...
The series, however, will buck trends, presenting not a matter-of-fact rehashing of the events leading up to the attack, but rather a fictional interpretation of what might have happened, turning on two German policemen working at a time when Europe had suffered a blitz of attacks, attempting to prevent a similar outrage in Germany.
“One of the huge questions poised by the attack is how on earth it could have happened, how did the security forces come to make such mistakes?” said Simon Amberger, one of the producers for Neuesuper.
A six-part series commissioned for Ard Degeto by Carolin Haasis, “Breitscheidplatz” tries to deliver an answer. Picturing the daily work of the...
- 10/12/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Welcome to Siegheilkirchen” not only honors Manfred Deix, one of Austria’s most revered cartoonists and satirists, it also marks the country’s first ever animated feature film.
Unspooling in Gala Premieres at the Zurich Film Festival, the film follows a kid whose immense talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town, where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Deix initially worked on the project as art director before his death in 2016.
For Marcus H. Rosenmüller, “Welcome to Siegheilkirchen” has been long in the making. It was the first animated film for the celebrated German filmmaker, who joined the project nearly a decade ago after producers Josef Aichholzer and Ernst Geyer convinced Deix of making a film based on his work and partly inspired by his life.
Development on the film took several years and the process became a learning experience for Rosenmüller,...
Unspooling in Gala Premieres at the Zurich Film Festival, the film follows a kid whose immense talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town, where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Deix initially worked on the project as art director before his death in 2016.
For Marcus H. Rosenmüller, “Welcome to Siegheilkirchen” has been long in the making. It was the first animated film for the celebrated German filmmaker, who joined the project nearly a decade ago after producers Josef Aichholzer and Ernst Geyer convinced Deix of making a film based on his work and partly inspired by his life.
Development on the film took several years and the process became a learning experience for Rosenmüller,...
- 9/26/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Oehlen is one of the world’s top-selling artists globally.
Picture Tree International has boarded international sales for Oliver Hirschbiegel’s The Painter, with the Downfall director collaborating with visual artist Albert Oehlen on the ’docufiction’ project.
Ben Becker stars and Charlotte Rampling lends her voice to the film. Becker will play Oehlen, improvising and re-creating a painting that Oehlen himself will paint in the background.
The film is currently in post and Picture Tree will present a first trailer during the hybrid market in Toronto.
Hirschbiegel and Oehlen are long-time friends and collaborators who both studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Hamburg.
Picture Tree International has boarded international sales for Oliver Hirschbiegel’s The Painter, with the Downfall director collaborating with visual artist Albert Oehlen on the ’docufiction’ project.
Ben Becker stars and Charlotte Rampling lends her voice to the film. Becker will play Oehlen, improvising and re-creating a painting that Oehlen himself will paint in the background.
The film is currently in post and Picture Tree will present a first trailer during the hybrid market in Toronto.
Hirschbiegel and Oehlen are long-time friends and collaborators who both studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Hamburg.
- 8/31/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
German-language productions on offer at the Cannes Film Market present an eclectic mix of adult drama, biting social commentary, history, comedy, kids’ pics and animation from such high-profile helmers as Stefan Ruzowitzky, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Maria Schrader and Matti Geschonneck.
In Ruzowitzky’s atmospheric “Hinterland,” part of Beta Cinema’s lineup, a Great War veteran tracks down a killer in 1920s Vienna.
Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover’s 1960s-set animated comedy “Snotty Boy” follows a kid whose unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Sold by Picture Tree Intl., the pic was inspired by the life and work of late Austrian cartoonist and satirist Manfred Deix.
Rosenmüller’s other new comedy, “Lifeguard Off Duty,” centers on grumpy lifeguard Karl and his efforts to save the local swimming pool from closure.
In Ruzowitzky’s atmospheric “Hinterland,” part of Beta Cinema’s lineup, a Great War veteran tracks down a killer in 1920s Vienna.
Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover’s 1960s-set animated comedy “Snotty Boy” follows a kid whose unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Sold by Picture Tree Intl., the pic was inspired by the life and work of late Austrian cartoonist and satirist Manfred Deix.
Rosenmüller’s other new comedy, “Lifeguard Off Duty,” centers on grumpy lifeguard Karl and his efforts to save the local swimming pool from closure.
- 7/9/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
“Men are all the same,” tuts the midwife delivering the titular Snotty Boy at the start of this animated biopic of cult cartoonist Manfred Deix, showing at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. But Snotty Boy is not the same as anyone else in his small, conservative Austrian town. He’s a talented artist and a fledgeling liberal — although he does share an obsession that all the menfolk have: women.
Deix’s cartoons were dominated by curvaceous females, comical sex acts and scatalogical humor. Inspired by his drawings and life, directors Santiago López Jover, Marcus H. Rosenmüller and their animators offer an affectionate, playful homage to Deix, who worked as Art Director on the film before his death in 2016.
Set in the year 1967, this centers on a pubescent boy who secretly sketches the townsfolk, especially a local sex worker who has a habit of undressing by her window. One might...
Deix’s cartoons were dominated by curvaceous females, comical sex acts and scatalogical humor. Inspired by his drawings and life, directors Santiago López Jover, Marcus H. Rosenmüller and their animators offer an affectionate, playful homage to Deix, who worked as Art Director on the film before his death in 2016.
Set in the year 1967, this centers on a pubescent boy who secretly sketches the townsfolk, especially a local sex worker who has a habit of undressing by her window. One might...
- 6/16/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Picture Tree International has picked up world sales rights to animated feature “Snotty Boy,” which will world premiere in the main competition section of the Annecy Film Festival. The film is produced by Josef Aichholzer, whose credits include Oscar winner “The Counterfeiters.” Picture Tree has released the first trailer.
“Snotty Boy” is based on the art and childhood of Austrian artist Manfred Deix, whose admirers included Hollywood director Billy Wilder. It is set in the 1960s in the reactionary and ultra-Catholic village of Siegheilkirchen, where the gifted son of a hard-working innkeeper, called Snotty Boy, saves the live of the ravishingly pretty Mariolina from the malicious persecution by the village’s rightwing political die-hards.
The film is directed by Spaniard Santiago Lopez Jover, whose credits as an animator include “A Hologram for the King” and “Song of the Sea,” and Germany’s Marcus H. Rosenmüller, who directed “The Keeper” (Trautmann) and “Grave Decisions,...
“Snotty Boy” is based on the art and childhood of Austrian artist Manfred Deix, whose admirers included Hollywood director Billy Wilder. It is set in the 1960s in the reactionary and ultra-Catholic village of Siegheilkirchen, where the gifted son of a hard-working innkeeper, called Snotty Boy, saves the live of the ravishingly pretty Mariolina from the malicious persecution by the village’s rightwing political die-hards.
The film is directed by Spaniard Santiago Lopez Jover, whose credits as an animator include “A Hologram for the King” and “Song of the Sea,” and Germany’s Marcus H. Rosenmüller, who directed “The Keeper” (Trautmann) and “Grave Decisions,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
German cinema looks set for a major boost this year from some of the country’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed directors tackling such eclectic subject matter as U.S. torture in Guantánamo, the impact of bipolar disorder on family, and a folkloric love story about the Grim Reaper.
The pandemic postponed a number of scheduled 2020 productions, which will likely make 2021 a busy year as production companies make up lost time.
Andreas Dresen, Til Schweiger, Michael Bully Herbig, Hans-Christian Schmid, Sönke Wortmann and the late Joseph Vilsmaier all have high-profile projects in the works or set to hit theaters (when they reopen) this year.
Dresen explores the injustice of America’s war on terror in the tentatively titled “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush.” Dresen, who enjoyed a major hit with the award-winning 2018 biopic “Gundermann,” reteamed with writer Laila Stieler on the fact-based pic about Rabiye Kurnaz (Meltem Kaptan), a Turkish housewife in Bremen,...
The pandemic postponed a number of scheduled 2020 productions, which will likely make 2021 a busy year as production companies make up lost time.
Andreas Dresen, Til Schweiger, Michael Bully Herbig, Hans-Christian Schmid, Sönke Wortmann and the late Joseph Vilsmaier all have high-profile projects in the works or set to hit theaters (when they reopen) this year.
Dresen explores the injustice of America’s war on terror in the tentatively titled “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush.” Dresen, who enjoyed a major hit with the award-winning 2018 biopic “Gundermann,” reteamed with writer Laila Stieler on the fact-based pic about Rabiye Kurnaz (Meltem Kaptan), a Turkish housewife in Bremen,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Keeper (Trautmann) Menemsha Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller Writer: Robert Marciniak, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Nicholas J. Schofield Cast: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Michael Socha, Dave Johns Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/26/20 Opens: October 2, 2020 Do you […]
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- 10/3/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Other openers include ‘Perfect 10’ in the UK and Paramount’s horror ‘Body Cam’ in Germany.
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
- 8/7/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦¬1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦
- ScreenDaily
Other openers include ‘Perfect 10’ in the UK and Paramount’s horror ‘Body Cam’ in Germany.
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
- 8/7/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦¬1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦
- ScreenDaily
It is also putting three planned theatrical releases on hold until later in 2020.
UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has revealed plans to release a raft of new titles onto digital platforms early, including three new acquisitions, as cinemas remain closed nationwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Astronaut, starring Richard Dreyfuss, was set to be released on 65 screens on March 20 – three days before theatres shut their doors – but will now be available to rent and own from digital platforms on April 27.
Documentary Camino Skies will be released as a premium VOD title on Curzon Home Cinema from May 8, the original theatrical release date,...
UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has revealed plans to release a raft of new titles onto digital platforms early, including three new acquisitions, as cinemas remain closed nationwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Astronaut, starring Richard Dreyfuss, was set to be released on 65 screens on March 20 – three days before theatres shut their doors – but will now be available to rent and own from digital platforms on April 27.
Documentary Camino Skies will be released as a premium VOD title on Curzon Home Cinema from May 8, the original theatrical release date,...
- 4/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.’
As a spin-off, Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was never destined to roar out of the starting blocks with the same velocity as the previous editions of the franchise.
But the opening weekend for the action thriller starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in Australia over-indexed the Us bow and the worldwide tally was a none-too-shabby $179 million.
The top 20 titles generated $17.4 million, a slight 7 per cent dip on the previous weekend, according to Numero. Palace’s French psychological drama/thriller Who You Think I Am proved to be effective counter-programming for non-rev-heads, while Sony’s Chinese firefighting movie The Bravest fared Ok on limited screens.
Rialto’s indie Us drama The Public and Madman Entertainment’s romantic drama Ophelia directed by Aussie Claire McCarthy struggled in line with their Us results.
Directed by David Leitch, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw clocked up $7.2 million,...
As a spin-off, Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was never destined to roar out of the starting blocks with the same velocity as the previous editions of the franchise.
But the opening weekend for the action thriller starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in Australia over-indexed the Us bow and the worldwide tally was a none-too-shabby $179 million.
The top 20 titles generated $17.4 million, a slight 7 per cent dip on the previous weekend, according to Numero. Palace’s French psychological drama/thriller Who You Think I Am proved to be effective counter-programming for non-rev-heads, while Sony’s Chinese firefighting movie The Bravest fared Ok on limited screens.
Rialto’s indie Us drama The Public and Madman Entertainment’s romantic drama Ophelia directed by Aussie Claire McCarthy struggled in line with their Us results.
Directed by David Leitch, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw clocked up $7.2 million,...
- 8/5/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Defend, Conserve, Protect.’
Disney’s The Lion King roared through its second weekend in Australia as the studio smashed its own annual global box office record set in 2016 last weekend.
Meanwhile Defend, Conserve, Protect, Stephen Amis’ feature doc which examines the long-running campaign to stop Japanese fishermen killing whales in the Southern Ocean, opened on seven screens in limited sessions.
Narrated by Dan Aykroyd and produced by Amis, Sea Shepherd Australia MD Jeff Hansen and Sea Shepherd colleague Omar Todd, the film fetched an estimated $7,200 but had already netted $37,000 from about 40 advance screenings and festivals.
The executive producer, Label Distribution’s Tait Brady, is happy with the reviews and media coverage and says the film will play through the end of the year with screenings for activists and community groups, after which he will negotiate ancillary deals.
He offered the film to several sales agents but they were wary of the anti-whaling stance.
Disney’s The Lion King roared through its second weekend in Australia as the studio smashed its own annual global box office record set in 2016 last weekend.
Meanwhile Defend, Conserve, Protect, Stephen Amis’ feature doc which examines the long-running campaign to stop Japanese fishermen killing whales in the Southern Ocean, opened on seven screens in limited sessions.
Narrated by Dan Aykroyd and produced by Amis, Sea Shepherd Australia MD Jeff Hansen and Sea Shepherd colleague Omar Todd, the film fetched an estimated $7,200 but had already netted $37,000 from about 40 advance screenings and festivals.
The executive producer, Label Distribution’s Tait Brady, is happy with the reviews and media coverage and says the film will play through the end of the year with screenings for activists and community groups, after which he will negotiate ancillary deals.
He offered the film to several sales agents but they were wary of the anti-whaling stance.
- 7/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s The Keeper tells the extraordinary true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a former German prisoner of war who stayed in Britain after the end of World War Two and went on to become one of Manchester City football club’s most respected and loved players. Trautmann, who fought prejudice and backlash from those who objected to his signing as goalkeeper, later gained somewhat of a legendary status with supporters after famously playing in the 1956 Fa cup final with a broken neck, refusing to leave his post until the final whistle of the match was blown.
When he is captured by British forces whilst fighting in Europe on the German side, Bert Trautmann, a paratrooper for the Luftwaffe, is soon transported to a PoW camp in the north of England. Here, in between the arduous chores he is expected to perform and the poor treatment he...
When he is captured by British forces whilst fighting in Europe on the German side, Bert Trautmann, a paratrooper for the Luftwaffe, is soon transported to a PoW camp in the north of England. Here, in between the arduous chores he is expected to perform and the poor treatment he...
- 4/4/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
German FIlms is supporting 45 films with nearly $400,000 in total.
Film promotion agency German Films will support the foreign releases of 45 German films for a combined €348,360.
Among the films selected in the first 2019 sitting of its distribution support awards committee were Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-nominated Never Look Away, Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s The Keeper, and Eva Trobisch’s Munich winner All Good.
The next sitting will be held on April 30, 2019.
German Films’ distribution support funding programme has existed since 2005, with a maximum of €50,000 allocated as conditionally repayable loan. Funding of up to €10,000 can also be allocated as a grant.
Film promotion agency German Films will support the foreign releases of 45 German films for a combined €348,360.
Among the films selected in the first 2019 sitting of its distribution support awards committee were Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-nominated Never Look Away, Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s The Keeper, and Eva Trobisch’s Munich winner All Good.
The next sitting will be held on April 30, 2019.
German Films’ distribution support funding programme has existed since 2005, with a maximum of €50,000 allocated as conditionally repayable loan. Funding of up to €10,000 can also be allocated as a grant.
- 3/8/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Munich-based sales agent Arri Media has closed distribution deals for three territories on “Double Trouble & the Magical Mirror,” which world premieres Monday in the Lola section of Berlinale, and is shortlisted for the German Film Award.
The family entertainment film has been picked up by Wing Sight Media in China, Cloud Movie in Italy and Selim Ramia in the Middle East. The film will be released in Germany by Square One Entertainment on April 4.
In the film, fun-loving but lazy Frido, 10, finds a magical mirror that creates a doppelganger of himself who can do everything better than him. He tells his friends and they do the same but soon their doubles begin to take over.
Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s pic stars Luis Vorbach, Jona Gaensslen, and Margarita Broich; it is produced by Benedikt Böllhoff and Max Frauenknecht at Viafilm.
The family entertainment film has been picked up by Wing Sight Media in China, Cloud Movie in Italy and Selim Ramia in the Middle East. The film will be released in Germany by Square One Entertainment on April 4.
In the film, fun-loving but lazy Frido, 10, finds a magical mirror that creates a doppelganger of himself who can do everything better than him. He tells his friends and they do the same but soon their doubles begin to take over.
Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s pic stars Luis Vorbach, Jona Gaensslen, and Margarita Broich; it is produced by Benedikt Böllhoff and Max Frauenknecht at Viafilm.
- 2/9/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Based on true events, Parkland Entertainment has released the UK trailer for war-time drama ‘The Keeper’.
Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller, the film stars David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Dave Johns, Dervla Kirwan and Gary Lewis.
Also in trailers – The ‘Ugly Dolls’ go on an adventure in new trailer
The film hits cinemas April 5th.
The Keeper Synopsis
The film tells the incredible true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalkeeper at Manchester City, and in doing so becomes a footballing icon.
Struggling for acceptance by those who dismiss him as the enemy, Bert’s love for Margaret (Freya Mavor), an Englishwoman, carries him through and he wins over even his harshest opponents by winning the 1956 Fa Cup Final, playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller, the film stars David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Dave Johns, Dervla Kirwan and Gary Lewis.
Also in trailers – The ‘Ugly Dolls’ go on an adventure in new trailer
The film hits cinemas April 5th.
The Keeper Synopsis
The film tells the incredible true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalkeeper at Manchester City, and in doing so becomes a footballing icon.
Struggling for acceptance by those who dismiss him as the enemy, Bert’s love for Margaret (Freya Mavor), an Englishwoman, carries him through and he wins over even his harshest opponents by winning the 1956 Fa Cup Final, playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
- 2/7/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Munich-based sales agency Beta Cinema has closed sales in further major territories for “The Keeper,” which stars David Kross (“The Reader”) and Freya Mavor (“The Sense of an Ending”).
The film is based on the true story of Bert Trautmann, a German who went from being a prisoner-of-war to become the legendary goalkeeper of England’s Manchester City soccer club. The movie was previously acquired by Parkland Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland.
Further all-rights deals have now been closed with Huanxi Media Group for China, Rai Cinema for Italy, Sochiku for Japan, Icon Film Distribution for Australia and New Zealand, Lev Cinemas for Israel, and Discovery Film and Video for the former Yugoslavia. Further deals are in negotiation.
The film, previously known as “Trautmann,” recounts the love affair between Trautmann and Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of a soccer team, who met Trautmann when she visited his Pow camp near Manchester.
The film is based on the true story of Bert Trautmann, a German who went from being a prisoner-of-war to become the legendary goalkeeper of England’s Manchester City soccer club. The movie was previously acquired by Parkland Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland.
Further all-rights deals have now been closed with Huanxi Media Group for China, Rai Cinema for Italy, Sochiku for Japan, Icon Film Distribution for Australia and New Zealand, Lev Cinemas for Israel, and Discovery Film and Video for the former Yugoslavia. Further deals are in negotiation.
The film, previously known as “Trautmann,” recounts the love affair between Trautmann and Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of a soccer team, who met Trautmann when she visited his Pow camp near Manchester.
- 2/7/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Germany’s leading sales companies have descended on the American Film Market with a wide range of titles that span horror and historical fare to arthouse, animation and family pics.
Supernatural thrillers look to be especially prevalent this year, with such chilling titles as “The Sonata,” “Hanna’s Homecoming” and “Party Hard, Die Young” — all from Arri Media Intl.
Directed by Andrew Desmond and starring Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian and Rutger Hauer, “The Sonata” follows a young violinist who inadvertently triggers dark forces after discovering a mysterious music score composed by her late father. The film world premiered at Afm.
Esther Bialas’ “Hanna’s Homecoming,” likewise having its market premiere, centers on a teen girl who is shunned in her village because her mother was widely believed to be a witch and responsible for the deaths of several men. The pic premiered in October at the Hof Film Festival.
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Supernatural thrillers look to be especially prevalent this year, with such chilling titles as “The Sonata,” “Hanna’s Homecoming” and “Party Hard, Die Young” — all from Arri Media Intl.
Directed by Andrew Desmond and starring Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian and Rutger Hauer, “The Sonata” follows a young violinist who inadvertently triggers dark forces after discovering a mysterious music score composed by her late father. The film world premiered at Afm.
Esther Bialas’ “Hanna’s Homecoming,” likewise having its market premiere, centers on a teen girl who is shunned in her village because her mother was widely believed to be a witch and responsible for the deaths of several men. The pic premiered in October at the Hof Film Festival.
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- 11/3/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Further cast attached to soccer drama include Gary Lewis, Michael Socha and Chloe Harris.
UK-Germany co-pro Trautmann, a biopic of legendary German goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, has rounded out its cast and begun filming in Northern Ireland.
Joining the recently announced John Henshaw (Looking For Eric) and Dervla Kirwan (Ballykissangel) are: Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), Harry Melling (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1), Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot), Michael Socha (Being Human), Mikey Collins (Dunkirk), Chloe Harris (Call The Midwife) and Barbara Young (Coronation Street).
Germany’s David Kross plays Trautmann and 2013 UK Star of Tomorrow Freya Mavor is the love of his life, Margaret, who was the daughter of his English coach.
The film tells the story of Bert Trautmann, the former Nazi paratrooper who became a goalkeeping legend at Manchester City, making 545 appearances and famously playing in the Fa Cup final with a broken neck.
The first image has also been released (see above...
UK-Germany co-pro Trautmann, a biopic of legendary German goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, has rounded out its cast and begun filming in Northern Ireland.
Joining the recently announced John Henshaw (Looking For Eric) and Dervla Kirwan (Ballykissangel) are: Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), Harry Melling (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1), Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot), Michael Socha (Being Human), Mikey Collins (Dunkirk), Chloe Harris (Call The Midwife) and Barbara Young (Coronation Street).
Germany’s David Kross plays Trautmann and 2013 UK Star of Tomorrow Freya Mavor is the love of his life, Margaret, who was the daughter of his English coach.
The film tells the story of Bert Trautmann, the former Nazi paratrooper who became a goalkeeping legend at Manchester City, making 545 appearances and famously playing in the Fa Cup final with a broken neck.
The first image has also been released (see above...
- 6/8/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
The reformed draft budget will now be put to vote at the European Parliament.
Members of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee voted this morning (Tuesday) to reverse cuts to Creative Europe’s budget for 2016 as proposed by the European Council.
Voting on the motion for resolution concerning the European Commission’s 2016 draft budget, the MEPs passed an amendment tabled by deputy Jean-Paul Denanot, calling for an increase by $12m (€10.5m) for Creative Europe’s Culture and Media sub-programmes, including the multimedia actions and the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility, which is planned to start operating from next year.
According to Denanot, this increase is deemed “necessary” given the programmes’ “important role in supporting cultural and creative industries that represent key European values.”
The MEPs’ budgetary amendments and the accompanying resolution for the 2016 draft budget will now be put to the plenary vote at the European Parliament later this month.
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Members of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee voted this morning (Tuesday) to reverse cuts to Creative Europe’s budget for 2016 as proposed by the European Council.
Voting on the motion for resolution concerning the European Commission’s 2016 draft budget, the MEPs passed an amendment tabled by deputy Jean-Paul Denanot, calling for an increase by $12m (€10.5m) for Creative Europe’s Culture and Media sub-programmes, including the multimedia actions and the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility, which is planned to start operating from next year.
According to Denanot, this increase is deemed “necessary” given the programmes’ “important role in supporting cultural and creative industries that represent key European values.”
The MEPs’ budgetary amendments and the accompanying resolution for the 2016 draft budget will now be put to the plenary vote at the European Parliament later this month.
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- 10/13/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Like in several other territories, commercial juggernauts will win it big in 2011. This should be the case for Germany. Til Schweiger, for example, is going to churn out family-oriented Kokowääh (no, that's not a word) and Keinohrhasen 3. As always, comedians are going to try to translate their concert hall fame into tickets, like Tom Gerhardt and Hilmi Sözer, who have teamed up for buddy-cop-com Die Superbullen, or Kurt Krömer, who's trying his luck in a movie called Eine Insel namens Udo - titles you won't have to memorize altogether, as they will hardly be exported to non-German-speaking countries. Pina, in contrast, will be: It's Wim Wenders' bow to the late Pina Bausch, a 3D dance theater experience running out of competition at coming February's Berlinale, dreaded in advance by arthouse purists. Meanwhile, these are some of the most promising German films that do show up on the horizon: #.5 Memory...
- 1/5/2011
- 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
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