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
Picture Tree International has picked up world sales rights on Sönke Wortmann’s latest feature “Contra.” Pti will launch the film onto the market with a first promo at AFM, which starts Monday.
“Contra” had its world premiere at the 16th Zurich Film Festival, and is set for a Christmas release in German-speaking territories by Constantin Film, one of the world’s top independent distributors. Pti will give the film a physical market premiere at February’s European Film Market.
Wortmann has been one of German cinema’s leading directors since the early 90s, with films like “Maybe, Maybe Not” (“Der bewegte Mann”), which was the most successful German film of the 1990s, soccer drama “The Miracle of Bern” (“Das Wunder von Bern”), and “Pope Joan” (“Die Päpstin”).
“Contra” follows the fallout for a university professor, Richard Pohl, after he directs a xenophobic insult at law student Naima Hamid. After...
“Contra” had its world premiere at the 16th Zurich Film Festival, and is set for a Christmas release in German-speaking territories by Constantin Film, one of the world’s top independent distributors. Pti will give the film a physical market premiere at February’s European Film Market.
Wortmann has been one of German cinema’s leading directors since the early 90s, with films like “Maybe, Maybe Not” (“Der bewegte Mann”), which was the most successful German film of the 1990s, soccer drama “The Miracle of Bern” (“Das Wunder von Bern”), and “Pope Joan” (“Die Päpstin”).
“Contra” follows the fallout for a university professor, Richard Pohl, after he directs a xenophobic insult at law student Naima Hamid. After...
- 11/5/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has acquired the rights to German period hospital drama series “Charité” in multiple territories, including the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia. The show is produced by Ufa, whose credits include “Generation War,” “Deutschland 83” and “Ku’damm 56 – Rebel With a Cause.”
In a deal with sales agent Global Screen, the streaming giant has taken rights to the six-part production in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and German-speaking Europe. The series delivered stellar ratings for Germany’s public broadcaster Ard/Das Erste when it premiered last year. The first two episodes reached more than 8.41 million viewers and an audience share of 25.9%, delivering the best performance of a primetime series in 13 years and the most successful launch of a series in more than 25 years for Ard/Das Erste.
The series is set in Berlin in 1888. After penniless Ida is operated on as a patient at the Charité Hospital,...
In a deal with sales agent Global Screen, the streaming giant has taken rights to the six-part production in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and German-speaking Europe. The series delivered stellar ratings for Germany’s public broadcaster Ard/Das Erste when it premiered last year. The first two episodes reached more than 8.41 million viewers and an audience share of 25.9%, delivering the best performance of a primetime series in 13 years and the most successful launch of a series in more than 25 years for Ard/Das Erste.
The series is set in Berlin in 1888. After penniless Ida is operated on as a patient at the Charité Hospital,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
COLOGNE, Germany -- Senator Entertainment has signed a deal with Internet group T-Online to supply films from Senator's catalog to T-Online's video-on-demand service. The deal, announced Monday, will include such German-language hits as soccer film The Miracle of Bern and children's feature Captain Bluebear. Senator CEO Helge Sasse also indicated the company was in the market for a TV production firm to complement its Film Production unit. Sasse told German daily the Berliner Morgenpost that he expects to acquire "an established, mid-sized TV production company" by the fall.
MUNICH -- Der Untergang (The Downfall), about Hitler's final days, continued at the No. 1 spot in German theaters for a fourth week in a row and broke through the 3 million-ticket barrier only 27 days after its release, distributors Constantin Film said Wednesday. So far this year, Untergang has been the second homegrown production to rise above the three million mark. The other movie, (T)Raumschiff Surprise -- Periode 1, also a Constantin film, managed that feat just one weekend after its release in late July and has sold more than 9 million tickets since then. Last year, two homegrown productions sold more than 3 million tickets in Germany: Good bye, Lenin! which scored 6 million, and Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern) with 3.1 million.
- 10/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- German pubcaster ARD was the big winner at the sixth annual German Television Prize, Germany's Emmys, Saturday night, taking home nine of the 22 crystal statuettes, including the top prize for best TV movie/miniseries for Stauffenberg, an historic reconstruction of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Fellow pubcaster ZDF was ARD's closest competitor, winning five statuettes, including best news program for Berlin Mitte and best documentary program for The Miracle Of Bern - The True Story. Germany's commercial broadcasters were close behind, with RTL winning 4 German TV Prize awards, ProSieben taking 3 and Sat.1 winning 2 statuettes.
- 10/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Fatih Akin's Berlin Golden Bear winner Head-On blasted through the competition at this year's Lolas, winning five statuettes including best picture, best director and acting awards for stars Sibel Kekilli and Birol Unel. Rainer Klausmann nabbed the best cinematography nod to round out the film's haul. "It feels pretty good up here," Akin joked Friday as he accepted his Lola, marking the first time the critically acclaimed helmer has won Germany's top film honor. "I've been nominated a few times, and you always feel sort of lousy when you don't win -- but now that I'm up here, I can tell all of you: It's really not that bad." Soenke Wortmann's soccer drama The Miracle of Bern scored three Lolas, winning a silver runner-up prize and sweeping the public awards -- as voted by German moviegoers -- for best film and best actor, the latter for star Peter Lohmeyer.
- 6/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Fatih Akin's Head-On, the Golden Bear winner at the Berlin International Film Festival, leads the nominations for the German Film Prize, Germany's biggest film awards, with four mentions, including nominations for best picture and best director, as well as best actor noms for stars Birol Unel and Sibel Kekilli. Sonke Wortmann's boxoffice hit The Miracle of Bern, Leander Haussmann's '80s tragicomedy Berlin Blues and Christian Petzold's drama Wolfsberg were close on the heels of Head-On, picking up three nominations each.
- 4/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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