Nazi hunter thriller wins best film at the annual ‘Lolas’.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer, won six Lola statuettes at this year’s German Film Awards after being tipped as the evening’s hot ticket with nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film picked up the evening’s top award - the Lola in Gold for Best Film - as well as the statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld), Best Production Design (Cora Pratz), and Best Costume Design (Esther Walz).
Accepting the Gold statuette from the hands of Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, producer Thomas Kufus dedicated the award to the memory of Fritz Bauer.
Kurth knocks out Klaußner
While many thought that it was foregone conclusion that Burghart Klaußner would take the Lola home for his portrayal of the state prosecutor Fritz Bauer, nobody...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer, won six Lola statuettes at this year’s German Film Awards after being tipped as the evening’s hot ticket with nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film picked up the evening’s top award - the Lola in Gold for Best Film - as well as the statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld), Best Production Design (Cora Pratz), and Best Costume Design (Esther Walz).
Accepting the Gold statuette from the hands of Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, producer Thomas Kufus dedicated the award to the memory of Fritz Bauer.
Kurth knocks out Klaußner
While many thought that it was foregone conclusion that Burghart Klaußner would take the Lola home for his portrayal of the state prosecutor Fritz Bauer, nobody...
- 5/31/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Nicolas Steiner’s graduation film has nothing to do about moving on to new stages of life. Above and Below, his dramatized documentary, rather hones in on lives in stagnation.
The title and the connection between his subjects are contained within one gorgeously constructed shot about three-quarters through the film, moving from an upside-down April, trapped on another planet in a Mars simulation, down to the desert with David stuck right there on it, before dissolving beneath the dust to the small hovel tarpaulined off in Rick and Cindy’s sewage tunnel and culminating in the Gollum-like blackness harboring Godfather Lalo.
Five people, four homeless, whose lives stand still.
While the camerawork often frames whichever of the five happens to be on screen in some sort of isolation, either within the confines of a costume space helmet or the tight circle of a drain pipe, the people in the...
The title and the connection between his subjects are contained within one gorgeously constructed shot about three-quarters through the film, moving from an upside-down April, trapped on another planet in a Mars simulation, down to the desert with David stuck right there on it, before dissolving beneath the dust to the small hovel tarpaulined off in Rick and Cindy’s sewage tunnel and culminating in the Gollum-like blackness harboring Godfather Lalo.
Five people, four homeless, whose lives stand still.
While the camerawork often frames whichever of the five happens to be on screen in some sort of isolation, either within the confines of a costume space helmet or the tight circle of a drain pipe, the people in the...
- 4/14/2016
- by Jacob Oller
- The Film Stage
The best stories come from the unlikeliest of places, and the upcoming documentary "Above And Below" goes to the fringes to tell the story of five people who have chosen to live far off the beaten path, with the picture offering a fascinating glimpse at their lives. Directed by Nicolas Steiner, edited by Kaya Inan, lensed by Dp Markus Nestroy, and featuring a carefully crafted sound design by five credited sound artists, "Above And Below" hangs somewhere between documentary and fiction, following April, Dave, Cindy, Rick, and someone known only as "the Godfather," as they exist off the grid. Here's the official synopsis: This not-quite-documentary takes place far away and out of sight, on the margins and off the grid of American society. It tells the stories of April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and a man who calls himself ‘the Godfather.’ From a couple scraping by in the depths of the...
- 4/11/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Both the title and premise of Swiss director Nicolas Steiner’s latest documentary mildly echoes the recently released and quickly disregarded found footage horror schlock As Above, So Below, but his Rotterdam premiered endeavor is more heady, heartfelt and a hell of a lot more beautiful in every respect. Weaving together the unconventional lives of the unfortunates subsisting in the subterranean underbelly of Las Vegas and the desolate deserts that surround the city of sin, Above and Below evokes the sly scifi documentation of the daily routine found in Yuri Ancarani’s evocative Platform Moon while posing its own inquisitions into the social stratospheres of dereliction by casting its varying subjects as nothing less than aliens autonomously banished for shame or self preservation.
Steiner’s focus rotates between the dark and soggy sewer dwelling couple Rick and Cindy, their respected tunnel bound neighbor, Godfather Lalo, a former drug addicted truck...
Steiner’s focus rotates between the dark and soggy sewer dwelling couple Rick and Cindy, their respected tunnel bound neighbor, Godfather Lalo, a former drug addicted truck...
- 5/11/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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