“Es ist eine schwimmende Plattform!” Here’s something for committed Sci-fi followers, a lavish German production with big drama, big emotions, and impressive, ambitious special effects. Hans Albers makes sure his pal Paul Hartmann’s artificial mid-Atlantic airport becomes reality, only to lose his new girlfriend Sybille Schmitz to him. The Murnau Foundation’s superb restoration makes the giant Flugplatform seem real. UfA produced the show in three languages with three different casts; Kino’s handsome disc gives us excellent renderings of two of them. Plus glorious German songs about the joy of flying!
F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1932 / B&w / 1:19 Ar / 112 min. / Street Date August 10, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre, Georg John, Hermann Speelmans, Erik Ode, Werner Schott.
Cinematography: Otto Baecker, Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, Günther Rittau
Production Designer: Erich Kettlehut
Film Editor: Willy Zeyn
Special Effects: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet,...
F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1932 / B&w / 1:19 Ar / 112 min. / Street Date August 10, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre, Georg John, Hermann Speelmans, Erik Ode, Werner Schott.
Cinematography: Otto Baecker, Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, Günther Rittau
Production Designer: Erich Kettlehut
Film Editor: Willy Zeyn
Special Effects: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet,...
- 8/7/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Berlin Wall Escape Tunnel TV Series In The Works From Telepool’s Global Screen, Elsani & Neary Media
Exclusive: Telepool’s Global Screen and Elsani & Neary Media are joining forces to develop a television series based on the true stories of the people who dug Tunnel 29, the famed secret passage from West to East Berlin that ran underneath the Berlin Wall.
Director Marcus Vetter (Heart of Jenin) is aboard the project, he recently made the documentary Tunnel To Freedom on the same subject, for which he conducted interviews with eye-witnesses. Also involved is writer Paul Unwin, who created long-running medical drama Casualty; he will pen the screenplay using original documents from the Stasi archives.
The story will begin on August 13, 1961, when East Germany closed its borders to West Berlin. A group of students teamed with a civil engineer to conceive a 135-meter-long tunnel under the Berlin Wall, helping 29 people to escape. Images from the daring project became world-famous.
The same story was recently recounted in BBC Radio 4 podcast Tunnel 29,...
Director Marcus Vetter (Heart of Jenin) is aboard the project, he recently made the documentary Tunnel To Freedom on the same subject, for which he conducted interviews with eye-witnesses. Also involved is writer Paul Unwin, who created long-running medical drama Casualty; he will pen the screenplay using original documents from the Stasi archives.
The story will begin on August 13, 1961, when East Germany closed its borders to West Berlin. A group of students teamed with a civil engineer to conceive a 135-meter-long tunnel under the Berlin Wall, helping 29 people to escape. Images from the daring project became world-famous.
The same story was recently recounted in BBC Radio 4 podcast Tunnel 29,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sister, the independent studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has struck a first-look deal with Chris Goldberg and his Winterlight Pictures to develop and produce television and feature content. Under the pact, Goldberg will be based out of Sister Los Angeles.
“Chris is dynamic and thoughtful and shares our creative sensibility and passion around storytelling,” said Snider, Sister’s Global CEO and Co-Founder. “His ability to discover and nurture material and bring it to life is spot on with our mission, and we are incredibly excited to welcome him to our LA team. His dedication and partnership come at a perfect time as we ramp up activity and production out of the US.”
As part of its mission to invest in visionary storytellers, Sister also recently entered a first-look deal with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Emmy-winning director Tony Gerber’s Market Road Films for film and television content,...
“Chris is dynamic and thoughtful and shares our creative sensibility and passion around storytelling,” said Snider, Sister’s Global CEO and Co-Founder. “His ability to discover and nurture material and bring it to life is spot on with our mission, and we are incredibly excited to welcome him to our LA team. His dedication and partnership come at a perfect time as we ramp up activity and production out of the US.”
As part of its mission to invest in visionary storytellers, Sister also recently entered a first-look deal with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Emmy-winning director Tony Gerber’s Market Road Films for film and television content,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari will adapt and direct the film.
Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone’s US-uk production company Sister is teaming with US outfit Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment to produce Noora Niasari’s Raya, a period drama about the seemingly fairy tale life of an Iranian princess.
Iranian-Australian filmmaker Niasari is adapting Mahsa Rahmani Noble’s 2018 novel of the same name.
Sister is funding development of the title with additional partners to come on board; principal photography is scheduled to take place in 2022.
The producers are Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff for Krasnoff/Foster alongside Kate Fenske for Sister.
Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone’s US-uk production company Sister is teaming with US outfit Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment to produce Noora Niasari’s Raya, a period drama about the seemingly fairy tale life of an Iranian princess.
Iranian-Australian filmmaker Niasari is adapting Mahsa Rahmani Noble’s 2018 novel of the same name.
Sister is funding development of the title with additional partners to come on board; principal photography is scheduled to take place in 2022.
The producers are Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff for Krasnoff/Foster alongside Kate Fenske for Sister.
- 7/13/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Chernobyl producer Sister has confirmed that it will adapt Audible Original podcast West Cork, which tells the story of the 1996 murder of French TV and film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Deadline first revealed that Sister had optioned the podcast back in December. It is one of a number of TV projects in development on the murder, with Lightbox creating a three-part documentary for Netflix and Sky planning a five-part series from Oscar-nominee Jim Sheridan.
Created by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, West Cork will be executive produced by Sister’s chief creative executive Kate Fenske and joint creative director Naomi de Pear. Director of development Alice Tyler is developing for Sister alongside Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, the journalists behind the podcast, and Audible.
Du Plantier was found near her holiday home around the West Cork town of Schull, a serene region on Ireland’s idyllic southern coast. Decades later,...
Deadline first revealed that Sister had optioned the podcast back in December. It is one of a number of TV projects in development on the murder, with Lightbox creating a three-part documentary for Netflix and Sky planning a five-part series from Oscar-nominee Jim Sheridan.
Created by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, West Cork will be executive produced by Sister’s chief creative executive Kate Fenske and joint creative director Naomi de Pear. Director of development Alice Tyler is developing for Sister alongside Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, the journalists behind the podcast, and Audible.
Du Plantier was found near her holiday home around the West Cork town of Schull, a serene region on Ireland’s idyllic southern coast. Decades later,...
- 5/13/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
“Chernobyl” producer Sister is adapting the hit Audible original podcast “West Cork” for TV.
Created by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, “West Cork” is an investigation into the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Du Plantier, a French film producer, was found near her holiday home around the West Cork town of Schull, a serene region on Ireland’s idyllic southern coast. The case is widely known in Ireland, a dragged-out national fiasco and long source of morbid public fascination.
This is the third iteration of the du Plantier story in recent months. Sky has “Murder at the Cottage,” directed by Jim Sheridan, in the works, while Lightbox is producing the same story for Netflix.
The Sister adaptation of the true crime smash hit will see chief creative executive Kate Fenske and joint creative director Naomi de Pear executive producing with director of development Alice Tyler developing alongside Sam Bungey,...
Created by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, “West Cork” is an investigation into the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Du Plantier, a French film producer, was found near her holiday home around the West Cork town of Schull, a serene region on Ireland’s idyllic southern coast. The case is widely known in Ireland, a dragged-out national fiasco and long source of morbid public fascination.
This is the third iteration of the du Plantier story in recent months. Sky has “Murder at the Cottage,” directed by Jim Sheridan, in the works, while Lightbox is producing the same story for Netflix.
The Sister adaptation of the true crime smash hit will see chief creative executive Kate Fenske and joint creative director Naomi de Pear executive producing with director of development Alice Tyler developing alongside Sam Bungey,...
- 5/13/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Sister, the UK production house run by Jane Featherstone that has recent credits including HBO and Sky’s Emmy-winning Chernobyl and BBC/Netflix series Giri/Haji, has won rights to Helena Merriman’s buzzy podcast Tunnel 29 in what I understand was a highly competitive situation.
Since launching in November on BBC Radio 4, Tunnel 29 has scored more than 3.5 million downloads. The series chronicles the remarkable true story of a group of students who dug a tunnel from West to East Germany, underneath the Berlin wall, to help people escape the Communist regime.
Hodder & Stoughton pre-empted rights to a book based on the series that creator Merriman is now writing, and screen rights to that are also part of the package acquired by Sister. The producer confirmed the deal but added that at this stage it was too early to say if it would become a TV or film project.
Since launching in November on BBC Radio 4, Tunnel 29 has scored more than 3.5 million downloads. The series chronicles the remarkable true story of a group of students who dug a tunnel from West to East Germany, underneath the Berlin wall, to help people escape the Communist regime.
Hodder & Stoughton pre-empted rights to a book based on the series that creator Merriman is now writing, and screen rights to that are also part of the package acquired by Sister. The producer confirmed the deal but added that at this stage it was too early to say if it would become a TV or film project.
- 2/20/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Lola Gove, Axel Holst, Anika Strauss, Matthan Harris, Denis Lyons, Milton Welsh, Désirée Giorgetti, Kristina Kostiv, Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt | Directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall
Regular readers may know that whenever a new underground horror film gets announced; I can get instantly overtaken by doubt. I have had too many underwhelming and tedious experiences. Every now and then, a film comes around that isn’t a throwback, isn’t a generic slasher or an extreme gorefest with no actual weight. When I first found out that Jörg Buttgereit was teaming up with other creatives to make an anthology, I was pretty damn excited! I have followed the project on and off since I first caught wind of the it and now the film has been screened as part of this years Mayhem Horror Film Festival And Grimmfest, as well as being released in Germany on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Regular readers may know that whenever a new underground horror film gets announced; I can get instantly overtaken by doubt. I have had too many underwhelming and tedious experiences. Every now and then, a film comes around that isn’t a throwback, isn’t a generic slasher or an extreme gorefest with no actual weight. When I first found out that Jörg Buttgereit was teaming up with other creatives to make an anthology, I was pretty damn excited! I have followed the project on and off since I first caught wind of the it and now the film has been screened as part of this years Mayhem Horror Film Festival And Grimmfest, as well as being released in Germany on DVD and Blu-Ray.
- 10/26/2015
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Nobody can deny that Hollywood dominates the global film industry. Though India may release a higher quantity of films each year, their appeal is largely limited to their country of origin, whilst American features dominate across the globe.
As a result of this, most domestic film industries around the world are somewhat limited in capacity, unable to produce films with budgets comparable to their American counterparts.
However, this is not to say that non-American nations cannot produce films with a level of quality comparable or even superior to American features, as the five films featured on this list, highlights of German cinema from 2000-present (which means that other excellent films such as 1981’s Das Boot, 1998’s Run Lola Run and 1927’s Metropolis are omitted), are testament to.
5. Der Tunnel (The Tunnel)
Year – 2001, Director – Roland Suso Richter, Starring – Heino Ferch, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Nicolette Krebitz.
Made for German television,...
As a result of this, most domestic film industries around the world are somewhat limited in capacity, unable to produce films with budgets comparable to their American counterparts.
However, this is not to say that non-American nations cannot produce films with a level of quality comparable or even superior to American features, as the five films featured on this list, highlights of German cinema from 2000-present (which means that other excellent films such as 1981’s Das Boot, 1998’s Run Lola Run and 1927’s Metropolis are omitted), are testament to.
5. Der Tunnel (The Tunnel)
Year – 2001, Director – Roland Suso Richter, Starring – Heino Ferch, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Nicolette Krebitz.
Made for German television,...
- 11/12/2012
- by Alex Antliff
- Obsessed with Film
CANNES -- EOS Entertainment, the TV event production group headed by former KirchMedia deputy CEO Jan Mojto, has set up its own distribution arm, EOS Distribution, to handle sales of its slate of mega-budget miniseries, the company announced at MIPTV. In an interview, Mojto said Dirk Schuerhoff, head of sales at Kirch film sales subsidiary Beta Cinema, will head the new unit. At Beta, Schuerhoff handled international sales on German-language productions such as Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel and Michael "Bully" Herbig's hit Western spoof Manitou's Shoe. Beta's head of theatrical sales, Andreas Rothbauer, will take over Schuerhoff's responsibilities along with Gerome Vincendon, previously responsible for French-speaking territories.
- 3/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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