Guilt and sin.

A naked Kate Winslet as a former concentration camp warden invites to lots of heated discussions. But ultimately, Stephen Daldrys of "the lecture" just a good retelling of his novel.

 

You can find this tasteless film, too trivial, confused or cool, and yet there still remains a reason left to "the readers' view: Kate Winslet. The Oscar,
On Sunday they will receive for doing so, it is absolutely justified, even if they Ehedrama "times of rebellion" was still a lot more interesting.

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What is hard to believe, for the whole vertebrae, just to Stephen Daldrys filming of Bernhard Schlink's novel is being made. "The reader" is now available for all times of the "Holocaust-Sex Film", one of these scandals entwined movies, you probably have seen in order to be able to say.

It adheres rigidly to the movie plot and structure of the text: A 15-year-old experienced in post-war Germany, his sexual awakening with the mysterious, quiet 36-year-old Hanna Schmitz, who before and after sex from works of world literature aloud.

He forfeited her, but she disappears one day, and only years later, he sees them during his law studies again - it is the process, because she as a former concentration camp warden for the deaths of hundreds of people responsible should be. She shows no remorse, she has another secret, for they are more ashamed. The secret they could before a life-long imprisonment, even her former lover knows it, but both remain silent.

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Like the novel, the film often moves between four levels of time - tells how the boys of the past (David Kross, excellent) a successful but emotionsgestörter lawyer (Ralph Fiennes) has become, and how the mysterious mature woman remains a mysterious prisoner who do not wants to disclose whether their debt sometime accessed or understood it.

The book seemed like a game of philosophical thought guilt, atonement and sin, to the silence of a generation and to the helplessness of the following.

The film has been the medium for less opportunity for introspection and trips into the thought world of his characters. Director Stephen Daldry ( "The Hours") helps with long views into the care-filled faces of his protagonists, suggests to her misfortune, without being able to explain.

In some ways, even charming, precisely because the main character so morally Hanna Schmitz still remains opaque than in the template. Many, however, the cool restraint rather than frustrating it.

Sure, the sex scenes are not exactly squeamish and perhaps a touch too schwelgerisch captured, but ultimately is "the lecture" an adequate, even after careful presentation of his posts.

Scandalous film can only be there, where the novel has been, or was perceived as some. Who the book is brilliant for keeps, for a major confrontation with the Holocaust from the perspective of a guilty party may also sign the film. Who the gracious absolution obstinate perpetrator of a defendant, it will do so again here.

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But while watching, as the great Kate Winslet is devoted to this figure as a puzzle to make a human being, with no simple answers to want to - this is a perfect adventure drama.

Who will have a truly masterful literature wants to see, there still remains the "times of turmoil" after the novel by Richard Yates.

Leonardo DiCaprio plans to remake.

Ask yourself what role the Hollywood toying Star: Leonardo DiCaprio is planning apparently, Michael end children's classic "The Never-Ending Story" to be filming. For Atréju Bastian and he is probably a bit too old. Maybe he decides yes for the dragon Fuchur!

 

Los Angeles - Der Autor Michael Ende war mit Wolfgang Petersens Verfilmung seines Kinderbuches "Die Unendliche Geschichte" 1984 bekanntlich nicht zufrieden - er nannte den Film spöttisch "Die unsägliche Geschichte". But now the actor is planning Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be a remake of the classic children's book. Even if it is the 1995 deceased writer has come too late, would the film in time for the 30-year anniversary of the book.

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DiCaprios production company Appian Way and the producers of the Oscar-nominated drama "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" is currently with the rights holder Warner in negotiations, as the industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter reported.

The Adventures of Bastian pupil in fairyland fantasies, the boys Atréju childishness and the Empress had been filmed by Wolfgang Petersen, and 1984 in the cinema came. The new version will be reported to the story in more detail and describe it to a modern painting.

Freida Pinto rotates with Woody Allen.

Only Oscar the rain, now a commitment from the comedy master personally: "Slumdog Millionaire" actress Freida Pinto was by Woody Allen for a film bound. The rest of the cast can be seen.

 

He is regarded as women's director, his films are also studies in femininity. By Mia Farrow about Diane Keaton to Mia Sorvino, Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson is the series of actresses, in Woody Allen's films were allowed to shine. Cruz was for her role in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" this year even with the minor roles Oscar awards.

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Allen now has the young star Freida Pinto for themselves. The 24-year-old actress, as the Hollywood magazine "Variety" reports for the upcoming New York director, in front of the camera stand.

Allen also claims that top-performers such as Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Josh Brolin committed.

As the film "Match Point" and "Cassandra's Dream" is the movie playing in England.

Pinto made their breakthrough with her role in Danny Boyle movie drama "Slumdog Millionaire." The film, the rise of a boy from an Indian slum million to winners of a prize in a TV quiz told, won in the night to Monday eight Oscars, including for best film and best director.

The last gladiator.

Even the great destroyer of the U.S. cinema is back: Mickey Rourke is brilliant with his role as desolate professional wrestlers. But beware: Darren Aronofskys film is not only a bizarre sport, but also by the violence of the show's content.

 

The mob wants to see blood. And at every damn day, the god for the last gladiator in the Western world can be. It belongs to the tight shiny trousers the combatants, the trashy hair, the edges of the sunbed tan.

"Slumdog Millionaire" fills cinemas.

What if only a few nominations so everything can: Even before "Slumdog Millionaire" in the Oscar-night abräumte really attracted the production of abnormally small number of viewers in the U.S. cinemas. Germany laughed about Jim Carreys inclination to say yes.

 

Hamburg - nominations are apparently just enough to the public interest for an Underdog anzuheizen: The
Oscar-clearing "Slumdog Millionaire" presented in the U.S. before the awards ceremony on Sunday at ten percent and played - now ranked five of the U.S. cinema charts - all eight million U.S. dollars one. Thus, Danny Boyle touching drama about a poor Indian, who participates in a quiz, according to "Focus on Film" is already implemented in 98 million U.S. dollars.

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Also ran a whole is good for the industry. The weekend sales were 30 percent higher than last year, not least because "96 Hours" and "Coraline" in second place and three continued to hold formidable. The revenge thriller with Liam Neeson was delighted with a minus of 40 percent more than 11.4 million U.S. dollars and now stands at 95.2 million U.S. dollars. The Stop Motion 3D animation by Henry Selick, however, built only 25 percent and has 11 million U.S. dollars at the weekend total of 53.4 million U.S. dollars into - the best result for a Selick film so far.

Spectacular was the performance of the American Boxoffice phenomenon Tyler Perry. With "Madea Goes to Jail", the comedian 41.1 million U.S. dollars to restore order and start the best weekend of the year in his last lurch precarious Lionsgate hire new stability. The third film of "Madea" series, which so far in Germany under the title "Crazy Family Feast" and "Crazy diary" video premieres were evaluated, it was also the best Lionsgate start ever and the old Primus übertrumpfte "Saw III" , with 33.6 million U.S. dollars was started.

It went downhill rapidly, however, with the remake of the slasher classic "Friday the 13th", which at a historic loss of 81 percent only 7.8 million U.S. dollars recordings. The total box office earnings of 55 million U.S. dollars. The stars filled with lots of relationship comedy "It is simply not for you" (among other things, with Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck and Scarlett Johansson) with documented 8.5 million U.S. dollars in fourth place and can be used on a total box office of 70.1 million U.S. dollars refer.

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Among this week boot in the German cinema was, according to "Focus on Film" is not Ãœberflieger. With a total of more respectable 1.8 million visitors, the industry so far the weakest weekends of the year. The race made "Lilli Witch - The Dragon and the magic book" and Jim Carreys "Der Ja-Sager", according to visitors or sales place occupied. The Disney franchise "Hexe Lilli" came in 454 cinemas around 230,000 spectators and wrote a turnover of 1.2 million euros. "Der Ja-Sager" in 579 cinemas attracted 220,000 visitors and recorded a turnover of 1.5 million euros.

Next up front with it at the German Kinogängern is the loser of the Oscar-night,
"The Strange Case of Benjamin Button". On the fourth weekend drew the filming of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story again to 170,000 cinema-goers and took the 1.5-million-visitor threshold. Fourth place went to
Tom Tykwer banks thriller "The International", which with 130,000 viewers in fourth place before "It is simply not for you" pushed it to 120,000 visitors brought.

In the United States as successful thriller "96 Hours" with Liam Neeson in Germany had a solid start in 350 cinemas with 120,000 viewers also satisfied. That he landed in front of the Turkish Sensationshit "Recep ivedik 2", on the second weekend in just under 50 percent had suffered losses, but with 100,000 Kinogängern still lies well in the race.

New in the top 20 were also
"Milk" with Oscar winner Sean Penn, who in 75 cinemas resolved to 30,000 tickets could refer, as well as
"The Bone Man" for a wolf-Haas novel. The thriller came Ösi according to "Focus on Film" in 53 cinemas to nearly 25,000 visitors and started so as good as its predecessor, "Silentium", according to Senator four years ago, a total of nearly 180,000 visitors attracted to the cinema.

American dream, made in India.

At the Oscars, Hollywood finally presented itself again in fine form: emotional, modern - and surprisingly global. The main prize went to the Indian Shakers film "Slumdog Millionaire" - and the Germans got an Oscar, with whom she had not expected.

 

"Bloody wonderful!" With this very British statement said Danny Boyle is not only his victory in the category "Best Director", but also the 81st Oscars, the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Indeed, it was realized the venerable Academy Awards little again. After rate-flops and boredom allegations against up to four-hour show monster, the organizers had not much to lose and turned neatly on the adjuster.

Even the scenery betrayed the courage to change: a huge silver glitter curtain, in the semi-hung over the events, provided elegant glamor, while the bottom part of the stage directly into the auditorium vorwagte, as usual at rock concerts usual. The stage floor itself was an organic blue lines running through. Tradition meets modernity, so this could be summed optical concept, which is also slightly different approach in the presentation and, ultimately, in the awarding of the Oscars continued.

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Host Hugh Jackman did not just good for him typical figure, but was also a passable singing in his opening presentation, the major nominated films to an old-fashioned musical numbers summed - and that even the somewhat flabbergasted Anne Hathaway pulled from the audience. The fact that something is happening spontaneously, is an illusion, but still had the unusual interaction refreshing. The limited in recent years, finally, the feist grinning Jack Nicholson with changing sunglasses to show. Very pleasant, that you switched to this little running gag this time had become abandoned.

Lacrimal gland total

Old braids were cut off. For example, accounted for the speech by the Academy president (he was allowed only once in the round win), and the deaths last year were from a live singing accompanied number. While Queen Latifah long evening dress in the Broadway classic "I'll Be Seeing You" anstimmte, swam behind her on a black screen the images of the deceased as a Flickr photo cloud over - the show industry enters the electronic age.

To the show to give a more cohesive, it was also invented, the awarding of prizes by analogy to the emergence of a movie to make, so after a little story was told. The best idea but it was the actors, each nominated a mentor to allocate, on the stage of a brief assessment of the candidates vortrug. With this effective innovation played the Academy has always been their greatest asset once correctly: Hardly an industry dominated the sustained pressure on the lacrimal gland as well as Hollywood. And when a heavyweight Robert De Niro as a so-humorous pathos as charged homage to "his friend" Sean Penn believes, for its representation of gay politician Harvey Milk was nominated and won, it remains just barely a dry eye.

There were many such emotional moments in this three and a half hours with fairly slender award, from the flaming Plea of victorious
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black ( "Milk") for the equality of homosexuals, on the moving speeches of thanks of the survivors posthumously excellent Joker actor Heath Ledger ( "The Dark Knight"), to the performances of Oscar-winners Penélope Cruz and Kate Winslet , both with the text and - jokingly - threatened with impotence wrestled. Another highlight of feelings With a nod in the direction of his favorites as a set but defeated fellow Sean Penn said in his acceptance speech: "Mickey Rourke will rise again."

Pleite for (almost) all Germans

The awarding of the prizes offered few surprises - but not what Kate Winslet: the British woman was nominated five times for her empathetic and representation of the body emphasized uneducated camp warden Hanna Schmitz in The readers' set - and rightly won against already oscardekorierte competitors such as Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. Anne Hathaway and Melissa Leo were both Oscar-novices. Your time will come, this time, the hour of the fearless "Titanic" survivor in the past year as the frustrated wife in "Revolutionary Road" convincing.

Sean Penn has already made a major roll Oscar (for "Mystic River"), it was his victory over Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella and Mickey Rourke eventually earned: The method actor not only changed his appearance, but his entire body language to the charismatic gay Harvey Milk on the canvas to life. Robert De Niro brought Penn theatrical transformation from macho to pithy jovial Homo witty in his speech to the point: "How the hell do you have in the past few years all these hetero roles get it?"

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Other winners:

Best Animated Film: "Wall-E"
Best Actress: Kate Winslet "The readers'
Best Actor: Sean Penn "Milk"
Best Actress (supporting role): Penelope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Best Actor (supporting role): Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Best Costumes: "The Duchess"
Three Oscars, "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"
Best Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire"

Mickey Rourke is not the only one on this Monday with a hangover is to wake up. The losers of the evening include Oscar
unfortunately, the German filmmaker, except one, which nobody had really expected: The
Berlin Jochen Alexander Frey won thanks to his short film "Toy Land", while grandees such as Werner Herzog (documentary "Encounters at the End of the World") and Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel ( "The Baader Meinhof Complex") in their categories empty box. The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film goes to Japan to Yojiro Takitas film "Departures," a meditation on dying.

Life and death, that would really good to over-fit the show favorites:
For 13 Oscars was "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" nominated, he has won only three awards in addition to categories. The opulent, very imaginative literature and stirred by David Fincher with Brad Pitt as a man in the body of an old and born in the course of his life is getting younger, the big loser in this Oscar-night. Proponents of a more than Bolly-Hollywood-inspired story about an Indian boy who is in the TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire" players and given the chance, the misery of the ghetto to escape - and the love of his life in the arms to close. "Slumdog Millionaire" (Germany Start date: March 19) was the second big favorite in advance of the ceremony and led eight of his ten nominations, including Oscars for best director and best film.

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It is a European-dominated world cinema, which this evening clearly on the old Hollywood-style triumph. The social change that is Barack Obama's election as U.S. president takes, has - consciously or unconsciously - even at the Oscars first traces left behind. "Benjamin Button" is, despite all the brilliance of the good old, something bad always sedate American narrative cinema, during the fast, sleek, with British money-financed and shot in Mumbai "Slumdog Millionaire" the eternal story of the American Dream from a global perspective tells .

From dishwasher to millionaire? This is now also in the Third World, not only in the formerly new. From the Oscars, which will be happy to Gralshüterei tend to have so much clairvoyance did not expect. How beautiful, if you will be surprised. Bloody wonderful!

Oscars 2009 - Winners

Best Film
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best foreign language film
  "Okuribito" (Japan)

Best Animated Film
  "Wall-E"

Best Actress (leading role)
  Kate Winslet ( "The readers')

Best Actor (main role)
  Sean Penn ( "Milk")

Best Actress (supporting role)
  Penélope Cruz ( "Vicky Cristina Barcelona")

Best Actor (supporting role)
  Heath Ledger ( "The Dark Knight")

Best Director
  Danny Boyle ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Original Screenplay
  Dustin Lance Black ( "Milk")

Best adapted screenplay
  Simon Beaufoy ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Camera
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Cut
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Sound
  "The Dark Knight"

Best Sound Effects
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Soundtracks
  A.R. Rahman ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Film Song
  Jai Ho ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Costumes
  "The Duchess"

Best mask
  "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Equipment (Scene)
  "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Special Effects
  "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Documentary
  "Man on Wire"

Best Short Documentary
  "Smile Pinki"

Best short animated film
  "La Maison en Petits Cubes"

Best short film Real
  "Toy Land" (Thanks Jochen Alexander Frey, Germany)

Honorary Oscar
  Jerry Lewis

Jochen proposes Goliath.

It was the night of the underdogs in Hollywood, even for the Germans: The large-scale production "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex" was at the Oscars empty-handed, but admitted Jochen Frey Thanks from Alexander. The modest short films from Berlin took it with irony - and rejoiced over the good food.

 

Los Angeles - The life, the most beautiful stories. Only two weeks ago so have David and John Bunner a film production company. To the brothers wanted, says David, more control over their work and to maintain "just to protect" against the very big names in business. The name of their company: David vs.. Goliath movie.

A better motto for the night could hardly give it really. It is shortly after 23 clock in West Hollywood, and Bunner brothers from Berlin fall in front of the entrance of a luxury hotel near the Sunset Boulevards in the arms - this extra for the TV cameras, but still genuinely stunned. "That was the absolute hammer," says David. "We still do not really categorize them."

Just they are from the Kodak Theater came from the Oscar award. As they sat in the very top rank, "almost at the ceiling," and have seen the German large-scale production "The Baader Meinhof Complex" blank out, while her heart object "Toy Land" - a 13-minute vignette Holocaust, which they director and co-author Jochen Alexander Feydank without any studio assistance were turned - the Oscar for best short film got. David is Goliath.

An hour later immersed himself Freydank, in tuxedo and black silk shirt, the Oscar he clasped firmly with both hands. He had received the statuette, and then at the Governors Ball still slightly below the superstars mixed. His shiny bald head, his voice swings between euphoria and irony. How was it? "The food was good."

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The Oscars had many great moments, especially the Durchmarsch of the indie film "Slumdog Millionaire." From a German point of view, however, there was a further voltage level: Underdog to Top Dog.

Four German productions were in several Oscar categories promises - even five from the German-speaking lands, is expected to Austria.

At the end, however, must be the most famous of them beaten - in the RAF thriller "Baader Meinhof Complex" by Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel and the large-Antarctic documentary "Encounters at the End of the World" by Cinema legend Werner Herzog. No: The only Germany Oscar goes to a group of young filmmakers whose work has cost 30,000 euros and on the invitation to the German Oscar party afterwards not even mentioned by name.

This fits the evening. Even the Star-epic "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button 'cuts despite 13 nominations so poorly - at the end of the storm Indian children from the ghetto" Slumdog Millionaire "jubilantly the stage.

And so it goes for Germany too, after an initial startle second, the former GDR citizens Freydank through the auditorium to the front - with extensive giant steps, accompanied by applause nominated Hollywood greats such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep (which, incidentally, also empty-handed ).

At this moment, thanks to Frey, 41, is secretly prepared - even a brief acceptance speech, he has prescribed. But then everything comes naturally quite different. It begins, as an actor James Franco ( "Milk") tearing open the envelope and the German film titles can not pronounce - what he says sounds like "Jump-Sugländ".

"Toy Land" actress Julia hunters who Freydank as "Date" on the red carpet accompanied has Kodak and sits next to him, it is savvy at the top do not. "Only when he jumped up," she says, "I was that clear."

Front in bright spotlight forgets Freydank outlined his speech immediately and chatters "Just what else entirely," as he afterwards laughingly told. "Thanks to you all," he calls his team in the hall. And for him as an ex-DDR'ler West Germany had already been far away - let alone Hollywood.

Behind the stage, the backstage interview with the Oscar-winner, makes him the Hollywood press exactly two questions. First: Whether shorts ever had an audience? Second: Why such a Holocaust story is still worth telling to believe?

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As is Freydank seriously. "There are so many stories that have not yet been told," he says, and describes his motivation as "a kind of anger, such as Holocaust deniers.

"Toy Land" is about a boy missions in the Third Reich and his best (Jewish) friend whose family is deported to concentration camps. The mother (Julia Jäger) wants her son to protect the truth and lies, the neighbors went to the "Toy Land". Then tears from the boy to his friend to follow. Against expectations, the film but still a good, albeit simultaneously heartbreaking twist. "A Holocaust story with a happy ending," says the cinematographer Christopher Frey Danks ( "Cico") Nicolaisen.

The story - in less than a quarter of an hour more emotions aufwühlt than some length feature film - had a U.S. tour of the nominated shorts always moving reactions. Nevertheless, thanks to Frey at the huge press hype before the Oscars, the whole last week rather modestly in the background.

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For example, the first ever PR event on the red carpet on Thursday. A ZDF team smuggled Freydank - not even an Oscar-accreditation had only one ticket for the show - to interview the semi-construction site on Hollywood Boulevard at the Kodak Theater.

But when the cameras began to turn, suddenly someone with more appeal to: VIP chef Wolfgang Puck, a few meters straight official Oscar menu presented. Immediately Scharten the puck to reporters, while Frey thanking been marginalized.

Even at a gala reception on Saturday in honor of the German nominee Freydank promptly landed in the background - the growing frustration of his Californian PR woman, who for so long for photographs feilbot until her hoarse voice failed cold.

OSCAR 2009 - THE WINNER

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The clearing: Eight Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire

Other winners:

Best Animated Film: "Wall-E"
Best Actress: Kate Winslet "The readers'
Best Actor: Sean Penn "Milk"
Best Actress (supporting role): Penelope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Best Actor (supporting role): Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Best Costumes: "The Duchess"
Three Oscars, "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"
Best Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire"

The German reception of the day before the Oscars - at the Villa Aurora, Lion Feuchtwanger Exilantendomizil old high above the ocean in Pacific Palisades - was devoted to the "Baader Meinhof Complex" and his team: Producer Eichinger, director Edel, the stars Martina Gedeck , Moritz Bleibtreu and Johanna Wokalek. When the troupe in the garden to the group photo was formed (including ex-CEO blogs Stefan Aust, the book was written), stood Frey Thanks again barely visible in the last link.

Sun is also in the night on Monday is an interesting tension, as Frey & Co. Thanks, finally, the Oscar is always included on the official German Oscar party show up - not as a host, but as regular guests.

The Constantin Film, the "Baader Meinhof Komplex" produced, the sauce on behalf of her boss Eichinger, and approximately 200 German celebrities and industry insiders into the garden restaurant of a luxury hotel in West Hollywood is loaded. Below Klaus Emmerich, Wolfgang Peterson and Jürgen Prochnow. Between gurgelnden fountains, palm trees and orange trees waiters served roast, sitting areas with scented candles to the guests to the fun captivated.

The mood is, even after the defeat of the "Baader Meinhof Complex," says cheerfully. Eichinger - in jeans and white sneakers - there is nonchalant about the Oscar-missed opportunity: "I'm not a competitor for Germany."
Even before he has the prospects of his film so as rather low. Either way: It was already "an absolute pleasure to be here." Whether he is now perhaps time with Freydank wants? "I do not know," grumbles Eichinger. "I know but do not."

Martina Gedeck raves about the "euphoria" in the Kodak Theater, Nobly Trunk Expresses Lust: "We Germans do not have to win to hard to be able to celebrate." But when midnight Freydank appears to polite applause of the remaining residual guests, because they all want but with his Oscar photographed - especially "Bunte" editor in chief Patricia Riekel, the Dictaphone and its first with the picture pushes.

Frey can thank all about themselves gallantly taken, smiles iron and repeatedly answered the same questions. "To properly implemented," he says quietly, "I have not's."

Triumph for "Slumdog Millionaire".

An evening for Ghetto Millionaire: Danny Boyle drama "Slumdog Millionaire" is the overwhelming winner of the 81st Academy Awards. The cast won Kate Winslet, Sean Penn, Penélope Cruz and - posthumously - Heath Ledger.

 

Hollywood - Though "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton was busy: Against "Slumdog Millionaire", which in India playing Cinema drama by Danny Boyle, had the film at the Oscars no chance. A total of eight times, was the work of British director awards, among them were also the award for best director and best film. "Benjamin Button" section with only three Oscars in categories Besides relatively poorly.

Mickey, Milk and Millionaire.

"Benjamin Button" or "Slumdog Millionaire"? Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke? Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep? Before the 81st Oscar Awards in Hollywood, the tension rises. The film critics of blogs and blogs ONLINE call their favorites for the movie night of the year.

 

Thumb for pressing the buttons

For many, many years I was no longer so dehydrated film like "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button". I drank during the demonstration to bottle mineral water bottle, and yet I could the fluid loss, which by my wailing and blubber was not nearly compensate. Had the film is only half an hour longer, I probably would have disintegrated to dust. Here I thought at the same time incessantly about compositions, camera movements and cuts down, the film called out my analytical instruments, yes, he is forced to the highest activity.

That a film so deeply touching, while he dissects that the spirit and the heart moves with the same intensity, is one of these great wonders of the cinema, which is very rare, but from time to happen. I know there is such a nouveau riche British Indians, and the fix is hip and so damn good mood that he had at the end of all the major Oscars is pressed. But "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" is on this Sunday one way or the largest profit for the cinema.

Lars-Olav Beier

"Hope dies last".

Six German films this year are nominated for Oscars, especially the "Baader Meinhof Complex" and the Antarctic documentary "Encounters at the End of the World". But the competition is fiercer than ever this time - the prospects are poor.

 

Los Angeles - actually likes Bernd Eichinger only smile about the critics. "A form of hysteria," he cites the debate that his RAF-Film "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex" in Germany last year triggered. Daheim past was in the cinema just to present a complicated topic: "The Germans", he finds, "are traumatized."

Eichinger, 59, sits in a garden restaurant Nobel Hotels in West Hollywood, near his office on Sunset Boulevard - and even further away from German hysteria. A fountain splashes, glasses clink, birds chirp, everything is "very Zen," as they like to say here. Dumb waiters scurry over and give a calm water. The calm before the storm.

Schön Eichinger is also relaxed in jeans, jacket and sports shirt. Although "BMK" to an Oscar as best foreign language film is struggling to move the producer and scriptwriter less about the voltage as a kind of inner satisfaction at the belated recognition in his adopted U.S. homeland, after all the German critics. So he remembers pointed to the "FAZ", the movie "political pornography" has called the scratches Eichinger probably still at least he brings it to the unquestioned language.

"The nomination can not take us"

"What makes us really proud is that we have received the nomination," he says so. Rasselt And immediately all the international film award nominations for "Baader Meinhof Complex" here. Golden Globes, BAFTA, and now the Oscars: "The attention abroad," says Eichinger and gently leans back, "can take us no more."

Stefan Aust comes to the table to say hello. The ex-blogs-in-chief, whose Bestsellers by Eichinger and director Uli Edel has written screenplay is based, has just arrived to attend the whole fuss with Oscar participate. "Schön're brown," says Eichinger. And, Aust asked how would the Oscar chances? As Eichinger can only loud laugh: "Hope dies last."

In fact: this might be that for the Germans in the hope remains. Although rarely so many German productions and co-productions nominated for Oscars: Overall there are four films on - five, if we Austria with six, including the co-produced Hollywood drama "The readers'. But rarely was the competition, as it formulates Eichinger, so "brutal".

Heavy caliber of the competition

In the foreign category is "BMK" against heavy caliber to. "This year was extremely strong," says AMPAS director Bruce Davis. "Entre les murs" from France, in Cannes, the Palme d'Or abräumte. "Okuribito" until Friday for the best Japanese film magazine. "Revenge" from Austria, at the Berlinale-wide attention. And "Waltz with Bashir," the Israeli animated film about the war in Lebanon 1982, in Cannes, "into orbit was" as its director Ari Folman brags on Saturday at a panel discussion with his four colleagues in rival Beverly Hills.

As they all sit side by side like on the stage of the opulent Goldwyn Theater, the home cinema of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), flanked by two giant Oscar statues. But unlike the traditional rendezvous of earlier years, the mood is noticeably tense this time. Hands are rarely shaken, eyed it from the angle of the eye, and Edel - black leather jacket and white sneakers - stick with serious nervous-face in the chair.

Almost reluctantly gives precious information for the umpteenth time about the genesis of 'BMK', on the financing ( "Then you should better ask the Bernd"), about the occupation of the 130 speaking roles, almost the entire German-elite actors have employed. And he proposes in the same line as Eichinger: "It is particularly important that a German film abroad so recognized."

Fears in the category Short Film

Similar nail-biting play is also reflected in the short film category from - but much more jovial. There are two German productions nominated: "On the trail" of the German-Swiss Reto Caffi - already in 2008 for the Student Oscar got - and "Toy Land" of Berlin's Alexander Jochen Frey thanks. The two are in the many photo ops this week here so often now on the run way that they are friendly slap on the shoulder.

"It is very difficult, as a prediction to make," says in an interview with Caffi ONLINE blogs about his chances. A graduate of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) sees itself anyway as ambassadors of a single nation: His 30-minute parable about guilt, courage and cowardice KHM was a student and was working in Bern and Zurich shot. "Filmmaking," says Caffi, "is international, cross-border, I do not like for a country drawn into the race."

Caffi sitting by the pool of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, 1929 where the first Oscars were awarded - in front of the Kodak Theater, where the spectacle since 2002. From his room window can Caffi directly on the red carpet look, where the workers just last Zierhecken drive.

The AMPAS-hype has already Caffi While students at the Oscars join. But of course this is again a completely different level of insanity. With all the nonchalance he can not resist a spark: "Would of course be great if it would work."

Oscar-award from the interior view

So much to thank Jochen Alexander Frey does not even think. "Not even as a child I would have my dream," says the former GDR citizens blogs ONLINE for a preliminary visit to the red carpet. Scurry around setting slide easily beschürzte TV ladies, Freydank a grin can not resist: "My biggest dream was once at most, that I Defa times to come."

Two and a half years, thanks to the money Frey for his Holocaust-Vignette zusammengekratzt. He received 30,000 euros, 200,000 euros, I would have used. " Why him the Oscar nomination alone means a lot - even if he is still "such a damned Smoking" did have to buy.

The cinema will also legend Werner Herzog, if he and his wife Lena for the first time in his life on the red carpet at the Kodak will be running. The eccentric Tausendsassa ( "Fitzcarraldo") is responsible for his documentary "Encounters at the End of the World" nominated an eclectic portrait of Antarctica, and researchers in the cold there.

Despite all the stressed distance, the Duke always popcorn movie machine keeps, he is now a fun treat: "The beauty of the thing is that I look at the interior view can experience," he says in an interview with blogs ONLINE. "That's wonderful, of course."

For Eichinger is a lot at stake

Still attracts Herzog - in Los Angeles lives - here his own program. So he presented on Friday evening on the idyllic campus of the University of California (UCLA) in dialogue with Paul Holdsworth Graves, the director of the public education program of the New York Public Library. The event was sold out within an hour, and nearly 2000 spectators follow with bated breath, as his friend Hold graves Duke always new robber pistol on his life, his work and Klaus Kinski moves from the nose.

In the audience sits the French tightrope artist Philippe Petit. Meanwhile, air-walk between the towers of the World Trade Center 1974 is the subject of the U.S. documentary "Man on Wire", also in the Oscar race, and according to many critics the best victory prospects.

The Oscars are for Duke because even more of a footnote, as he subsequently stated in his wardrobe. In a week he was with the filming of his new movie, because there were still "problems with the occupation", in parallel to be his last movie "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" with Nicholas Cage in the cinemas. And then he still has 320 pages of his diary "conquest of the useless" durchzukorrigieren.

"The urgency and the drama," grumbles Duke, "are not on a Sunday afternoon."

At least not for him. For others, however, is already a lot at stake. For Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel, and for example this would be her first Oscar - and the culmination of a collaboration in 1981 with "Christiane F. - We Children from Bahnhof Zoo" has begun.

And both would be of deep personal nature: With "Baader Meinhof Komplex" yes, they have also processed private life story. In his own past research, Eichinger said, "that was very odd and sometimes painful." After all the barrage from Germany at least they now had the satisfaction, but only with an Oscar nomination honored to have been: "Why? Because it could keep a good film!"

Dress rehearsal for the Oscar show.

Nor can it not be - he is in Hollywood: The Berlin Jochen Frey Thanks Alexander is with his short film "Toy Land" for an Oscar nomination. While all around him as the backdrop for the mega event is established, sets the former GDR citizens have the right times thanks to cope.

 

Los Angeles - Thanks Jochen Frey Alexander stands at the edge of the red carpet, in his countenance blogs are a mix of insecurity and amusement. TV reporter, deep dekolletierte Women and tattooed construction workers umschwirren him here in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, where on Sunday the 81st Time the Oscars are awarded. But nobody attends the Berlin really - except for a camera crew from ZDF, but annoying problems with the tone has.

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Thanks Frey enjoys the chaotic scene anyway. It is the dress rehearsal for the big show: Straight is the 150-meter carpet rolled out and cut into shape, still stuck to the golden Oscar statues in plastic film, the grandstands for spectators red lacquered. "Not even as a child," mutters Frey Thanks, "I would have my dream." And yet now here he stands in the middle of this Hollywood hubbub - the former GDR citizens, nominated for an Academy Award.

"Toy Land", Frey Danks 13-minute "Feel Good" story ( "Salon") through an "Aryan" boy and his Jewish friend in the "Third Reich" is the best short film in the race - and has a good chance to win. She also "On the track," the mini-drama of the German-Swiss Reto Caffi, who last year, the students here have won Oscar. Either way: Thanks to Frey intends to become even more "rightly put three words" for the big moment. Better safe than sorry.

These thoughts do gymnastics not only Berlin's young star by the bald head. But also the very great, this year again, the running the gauntlet of the paparazzi to take over: About the middle of the Hollywood Boulevard strunzhässlichen designed carpet and through a shopping mall kitsch goes round the staircase up to the Kodak Theater. On top, they may then be 45 seconds in its own way, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" (Tilda Swinton, best supporting actress, 2007) and their granddads stammeln, grannies, moms, dads and other relatives to thank.

Once again, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which this whole marathon-oriented marketing, a whole latte of superlatives. 281 films from 67 countries were submitted. 43 statuettes, it is important to distribute, each is 34 inches high. A total of 1974 journalists have been accredited, including 95 alone are photographers who are at the "Red Carpet" will jostle. And the best: The organizers hope to hundreds of millions of viewers in more than 200 countries.

What hides the AMPAS prefer: With just reached the 32 million American TV audiences last year, the lowest spectator stand of all time. Among the familiar lament "Are the Oscars at the end?" Now comes a new one: "Are the Oscars anachronistic, especially in a recession?"

The producers hope in any case, this talk on Sunday from the world. With a new, spectacular stage technique, with even greater secrecy than usual (Who will present the prizes? Will Beyoncé sing?) - And with the supposedly most beautiful man in the world as MC, the charismatic Australian Hugh Jackman.

Thanks Jochen Alexander Frey is ultimately no matter how many people the spectacle at the end watch live or recorded, as a web video or via TiVo. "My greatest dream," he says and looks around, "was once at most, that I Defa times to come."

Welcome to the Shoah-sanatorium.

So radical is rarely a film director, the mass murder of the Jews processed. In "A Life for a Life" Paul Schrader tells the life of a concentration camp survivors as a mixture of passion story, and Psychiatry Satyrspiel experiment - and breaks through any Holocaust folklore.

 

The sun is shining so bright and gleißend as heroes when they wanted this film with all his might the memories of the Holocaust cauterize: Variety Artists Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) had once played violin in the camp, as his wife and daughter in the gas chambers were sent. Almost 20 years later fristet his life modernistic-up in a sanatorium, a patron in the desert of Israel has made.

The barracks of the concentration camps, the indignities of the bunnies, rußverhangene the sky over the camps - all this could be for Adam Stone in that place of cultural and social-round care, this spa oasis for genocide survivors, also not his. Thus, at least it seems.

Director Paul Schrader has a holocaust drama filmed - the rigidity of the folk genre, but he is far behind. Galt genocide for decades about the cinema as a unabbildbar, so we rehearsed in recent years always dedicated his cinematic high point - by Volker Schlöndorff, who in "The Ninth Day" precipitous mass murder widespread showers to Tim Blake Nelson, and probably the most explicit representation the Nazi extermination machinery Ash nightmare in "The Gray Zone."

Almost obsessed with the show directors, the genocide in its logistical rigorousness to illustrate. That's enough to start next week-end offender Schmonzetten "The readers, in the kitchen with the story of a psychology concentration camp Wärterin will spread. In order to ward off suspicion of oversimplification, be sometime the exhibition spaces of the Auschwitz memorial built into the plot, where mountains of shoes and other Opferhabseligkeiten the dimension of humanity crime awareness should call.

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But blocking the numerical measurement of the Shoah is not the view of individual stories? Converts the national measure is not pedagogically correct in fictionalisation automatically hollow gesture, in which the victim dramaturgically extras to its own history of suffering to be demoted?

From this point of view is Paul Schrader bunt frightening psychological profile of the victims staged a real watershed in the history of the Holocaust drama dar. free after Yoram Kaniuks novel, "Adam Sohn Dogs", the director of the history of magic and wonder artist violinist Stein Sexkomödie as a mixture of passion and history, and Satyrspiel Psychiatry experiment. Fellini's "8 1 / 2" comes as well when viewing in the sense like "One flew over Kuckucksnest".

Who is this Adam Stein? At the beginning, it is the year 1961, we learn about him as a seducer and Lebemann know, with slightly graying hair, but the more white suit from affair to affair hunts - both outside and inside the hospital. Get him the keeper of his erotic excursion into the closed-Shoa Sanatoriums back, treat the stone first and a good drop, the attractive sister Gina (Ayelet Zurer) to target, which is sometimes really unusual fetish lets talk about games.

"A LIFE FOR A LIFE" (GERMANY, USA, ISRAEL 2008)

Director: Paul Schrader
Screenplay: Yoram Kaniuk, Noah Stollman
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Vasile Albinet, Idan Alterman, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jenya Dodina, Ayelet Zurer, Veronica Ferres, Joachim Król
Rental: 3L Filmverleih
Running time: 102 minutes
Start: 19 February 2009

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The exterior is stone, the remains of what he at the Berlin vaudeville theaters of the twenties was celebrated: clown and magician, seducer, and role players. Inwardly rip him his feelings of guilt, the genocide to have survived. Because it helps little that all around him, praying her therapeutic mantra: "It is a crime itself and not blame them to give."

To "them" to the perpetrators, one of those sad little man, the Adam Stein in their twenties with a stage performance which has held to suicide. After his deportation he met once again rescued in Dachau - it's camp Commandant Klein (Willem Dafoe), who offers him a deal: Stone may be a personal lap dog to live a life for a life. And then Stone family was murdered, while he himself at night in the kennel next to a German shepherd the stars anjault.

Was there for the Nazis ever Entmenschlichungsapparat a cruel picture? The portrayal of the ultimate horror, in which directors in recent years with increasingly explicit hell unsuccessfully processed scenarios have actually only worked on the refraction of the grotesque.

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Paul Schrader was exactly the right thing to Yoram Kaniuks appearance in Israel in 1969 fought fiercely with the novel offered reflected madness in scene setting. "The story of a man who once was a dog and a dog meets once was a boy" - as the director summed up the book once. Because in the desert soon will sanatorium a child received, the barks and growls like a monster neglected. Artist stone slips again in the role that he played for survival in the concentration camp had to deal with the disturbed boy to approach. He finds his peace so?

Hochsymbolische that this healing process is kept free from any Bewältigungskonfektionismus, is located on Schrader very own handwriting. Unmistakable is the author of the Passion frivolous story "The Last Temptation of Christ" and the director of screaming sex comic tragedy "Auto Focus" at work. Old Testament burning thorn bushes and ritualised Beischlaf position in the dog with him form part of the same salvation history.

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The radicalism of "A Life for a Life" (Written by: Noah Stollman) is all the more surprising since the film but the first Israeli-German production of a substance represents the Holocaust, in addition to the U.S. stars Goldblum and Dafoe also a handful of local celebrities (Ferres, Bleibtreu, Król) mitmischte. Too diplomatic zeal offs, such kind of international projects are often characterized, however, would only have been a hindrance.

Because Schrader is working with his tour de force superelevation between religious and mental abyss, between meaning and noise psychopathology to a size, which in many nummernfixierten and yet completely harmless Holocaust reappraised in recent years always remained hidden: the people behind the numbers

Gold bears boy ash mantle.

Gloomy times for the glittering world of Hollywood: The producer of the Oscar ceremony, although offer a great show - but in times of recession, while modest type. This balancing act to master, it is so difficult, because the gala already in a deep crisis.

 

Los Angeles - This Oscar smells of fish. More precisely, according to smoked salmon. Dozens of small, handy salmon canapés at Oscar statuettes punched and refined, each with one spoon of caviar on the trophy chest. How are they edible tin soldiers lined up on trays, ready to be eaten by the stars.

Wolfgang Puck, Hollywood VIP Koch, bends over the table like a salmon father on the baby crib. The Austrian is in his element. His forehead shines, his face is full of joy, his fingers flit over all the courts, which he has designed for the Food: Tuna tartare on sesame croissant, vegetable salad with ginger-soy vinaigrette, Maine Lobster ( "everything organic ingredients" ). And of course his patented mini chocolate Oscars, with 24-carat gold pollinating.

"Elegant's should look," says Puck the slogan of this year, "but not too exaggerated."

And that should not only be the motto of Pucks mega party, the traditional governor Ball, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the Oscar ceremony on Sunday, and the puck as always cared culinarily. It is also the motto for the entire 81st Oscar ceremony - a ritual from entrenched gloss, glamor and navel-gazing in the recession year 2009, threatening to act anachronistic than ever.

This dichotomy manifests itself in a tent in front of the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, where the Academy Awards since 2002 are over. Outside, just start working, the red carpet manner, on the parade of those soon Couture Coiffure and will expire, which an equally important role PR meets as the Oscar show. Inside the tent served Puck and his co-caterer tastings of their Oscar-menus - a sensitive issue in several ways.

Symbol of the excess

One offering a leggy hostesses since the ancient symbol of excess, Moët & Chandon ( "Mo-Etten-Shandong") in green magnum bottles. Other hand, there even Napa Vintners Mike West-Ring - the "official Oscar wines" there is nowhere else - to feel the recession: "A little bit anyway."

The Oscar organizers practice the balancing act: Is the Hollywood marketing machine beweihräuchern itself, while the whole world in the economic crisis is sinking? Send it to the stars, their riches on display to make on the red carpet and the Kodak Theater - while the CEOs of the financial world by train to Washington zuckeln to new modesty about mimes?

These are legitimate questions that the Oscar producers since weeks. Especially since their mammoth gala, in the night on Monday live in more than 200 countries will this year, even deep in the crisis.

Already the last time before the recession in the U.S. so allocated had decreased rates of glittering show at its lowest level ever: 32 million U.S. viewers, one fifth less than in 2007. Disney's ABC Network, which holds TV rights, was forced to raise the price for a 30-second commercial from 1.7 to 1.4 million U.S. dollars to cut.

Everywhere is saved

Despite saying this large number of Oscar-sponsors from their participation. For example, the ailing auto company GM and L'Oreal Paris, the cosmetics company, the Oscar-viewers, on average, have become too old. American Express makes just a TV spot. Expected total advertising revenue: 68 million U.S. dollars - 14 million U.S. dollars less than the 2008th "Oscar," writes the Los Angeles Times, "is less golden."

Everywhere is saved. The presidential suites in which stars previously free gifts for product placement on your body can pick up, are less abundant this time equipped. Even the after-parties engage in frugality. Elton John invites while back on his charity event, others, like Madonna and Prince, however, refrain, and the magazine "Vanity Fair" has his party - which traditionally heißbegehrteste ticket the night - significantly reduced. Hollywood party outfitter Michael Gapinski complained about cuts querbeet: Some would have their holiday budget by up to 75 percent cut, he told the Reuters agency.

Even in the pre-fashion show on the red carpet, there is modest. Since 2002 designer Stuart Weitzman missed a selected Star "Cinderella" Pumps, which he set with diamonds, worth one million dollars had occupied. This time he sees by this marketing gimmick pietätvoll from.

Covered tones were announced, the stylists whisper - like 1941, when the guests were asked to match the war raging in Europe to wear dark colors. Oscar-favorite Kate Winslet was in this season is already almost entirely in black look. Even price tag-Protzerei is passé: "It was once chic to boast that 16-million-dollar jewels bears," said celebrity publicist Howard Bragman of the Los Angeles Times. "It is now considered a bad taste."

Not all the new tastes humility. "Who wants to turn on the TV and a bunch of women in black trouser suits on the red carpet to see run?" Said Hal Rubenstein, fashion head of the VIP newsletter "Instyle", an ABC-TV breakfast. "This is a recession, no apocalypse." Even celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe warns against Oscar Tristesse: "Teach us to make people smile, even when it's only for an hour."

It's the film industry itself not too bad. The 2009 cinema revenues are currently at nine percent above those of 2008, the last holiday weekend was the strongest in the history of Hollywood. The problem lies elsewhere - in the case of ailing companies, which the studios include: Viacom, GE, Time Warner, News Corporation. The need to save all around.

Much intimacy and little Lamé

The Oscar producers try any case, to break the curse - with a production that "the DNA of the entire show to redefine" is, as the architect David Rockwell says that the current Bühnensets designed. Co-producer Bill Condon ( "Dreamgirls") wants to date "more intimacy, less Lamé," Virile and Hugh Jackman, the "Sexiest Man Alive" ( "People"), will serve as a new MC women as men to lure Mattscheibe.

Whether that's enough, you will only know on Monday. Some criticized the poor quality of the films nominated for the David Denby, the influential film critic of the "New Yorker", even the word "scandal" was: "2008 was not a good year for movies." Other bekritteln anything other than the Oscar-faire Abstimmsystem, which is unchanged since 1936. Concerns: Many viewers will be away from the outset.

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck may not disturb anything. Whether or not to recession: It has more than a thousand people for a gala dinner to be off. While he strives to crisis emphasizes friendly understatement, for example by giving clear mini Kobe burger served in Hollywood gourmet circles currently the court-du-jour.

At the end of the Oscar, but can not otherwise veteran: "There will be a crazy party. One has but to spend money so that Obama's economic package is working."

Sweet-sour chicken.

Wolfgang Murnberger look in his third film about the private detective abgehalfterten burner again with cold derision behind false idyll in Austria.

 

In Vienna, it was the murderous battles between two rival competitors rescue companies. In Salzburg, he has the scandalous operations in a Knabenkonvikt revealed. If the private detective abgehalfterte Brenner (Josef Hader) are identified, then he finds the dirt where there is nobody else expected. And this is a very special icon Austrian tradition and idyllic in the series: the chicken is baking station.

Because something is wrong in this idyllic inn Löchenkohl, which is the tastiest chicken back in the country boasts, in its monstrous Knochenmahlmaschine next Geflügelgebein but apparently sometimes a human bone is crushed.

Actually wanted Brenner, missgelaunt as always, only the artist Horvath find a lease rate for its rental cars involved. But he is gone. And none may tell you where he is. So is the burner a little bit here and sniffs with his not being overly enthusiastic kind in the area around. If yes nothing else to do, and the lovely waitress Birgit (recently deservedly with the Silver Bear excellent Birgit Minichmayr) is married, but are interested. And because there where the burner is present, the swamp of the crime had been particularly deep, it is also not in a missing persons case. Because to hide something here everyone: whether the old Löchenkohl personally (Josef Bierbichler), his incompetent offspring (Helmut Vinaccia), or the silent waitress (Pia Hierzegger).

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After "Come, sweet death" and "Silentium" is Wolfgang Murnberger "The Bone Man" the third film adaptation of Wolf Haas' crime novel series to the Austrian private detective. As always, he has the act of submission, together with the author himself and the main actor Hader has clearly changed, also to connoisseurs of the template in a good mood to keep it without vergrätzen. All characters and plot lines are gone, the old woman deleting Kohl and the enigma of her disappearance, there is not - but the scene and especially the spirit of the original remain. As with its predecessors served Murnberger this sweet-sour story with wit and a quiet calm but merciless wickedness. Idyllically is behind the postcards in this motif nothing Austria. But exciting.

How Milk was the Messiah.

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politicians in the U.S. - 30 years ago, he was shot. Gus Van Sant has a gay martyr now a cinematic monument set, perfect for the zeitgeist of the Obama-era suits. And nominated for eight Oscars is.

 

When one turns ever the right movie at the right time? Gus Van Sant looks good from that morning in his cozy hotel in the heart of Berlin. On the eve of Klaus Wowereit, he has shaken hands. The Governing Mayor of Berlin was at the Berlinale premiere of Van Sant film "Milk" appeared. "Unfortunately, he had not much time, but he seems a nice guy to be," says the director, and smiles shyly.

Perhaps Wowereit not in office, there would have been the man not given by the Van Sant film: Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual politicians, the public office in the United States gained - and 30 years ago by a conservative colleague was shot .

"Milk," said the simple title, is nominated for eight Oscars, including best film, for best screenplay, best actor and best director. Two years after "Brokeback Mountain," the story of two gay cowboys, almost to the best film would have been chosen, is again a favorite topic of homosexual for the main prize, the Hollywood has awarded. And should "Milk" on the coming Sunday in discipline against the King "Benjamin Button" or "Slumdog Millionaire" lose, it could still Van Sant directed the Oscar-get. What he is from the Oscar-night's sleep? "Well, I guess we are at least four hours rumsitzen."

Gus Van Sant is relaxed. And why not? In Berlin, accompanied him, the young screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, the 56-year-olds obviously not only much of his media shyness is normal, but also is responsible for ensuring that Harvey Milk story about the movie was.

Black, born 1974, saw Rob Epstein's 1984 shot, award-winning documentary about Milk assassination and wanted to learn more about the unusual man know from the insurance agent for politicians and civil rights, and after his death to the martyrs of the gay movement. He began to deal with the former companions to take Milke, won their confidence and wrote a screenplay.

About friends and acquaintances, but not coincidentally, the script came into the hands of Van Sants, which is already the beginning of the nineties intensely with Harvey Milk had employed: "At that time there was a screenplay, based on the book" The Mayor of Castro Street " by Randy Shilts was based, and directed by Oliver Stone wanted to lead. " But the "JFK" director and recommended jumped from the then still emerging Van Sant, with "My Own Private Idaho" and "Drugstore Cowboy" just started in Hollywood indie scene to earn money.

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Even Van Sant was not long in the project, but withdrew, in order shortly after his greatest commercial success to rotate: "Good Will Hunting" and "Finding Forrester". From 2000, since the mid-eighties living openly gay director, however, the experimental indie cinema and turned with "Elephant" a reflection on the oppressive high school massacre at Columbine.

In "Last Days", he recapitulated - purely fictional - the last days of rock musician Kurt Cobain before his suicide. In "Paranoid Park" he told the story of a teenager who accidentally caused the death of a man is responsible. The shadow of mortality is a subject that is identified by many of his recent films draws. So marked "Milk" While Gus Van Sant returns to the classic narrative cinema, the hidden leitmotif, the chronicle of a death, but he remains faithful.

Milk Because history is told from beyond the grave. The real Harvey Milk had tapes of the last thoughts and wishes to leave in the event that he was assassinated would fall. Van Sant film begins, like Milk, played by Sean Penn, discusses these bands. Only then rolls the fascinating story of the dazzling charismatic gradually on.

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Black it was "a personal approach to find" to Milk story not of external circumstances, but from his character out to tell. Consequently, increases in the film the life story of Milk with a flirtation scene between the then still employed as a representative of Harvey and an attractive young man (James Franco). It's the early Seventies, and the gay life is socially stigmatized, but still free from AIDS. After a few verbal repartee, the two arm in arm together going in Milk apartment. The next scene shows the two in bed, sex is over, but the affection remains. Harvey's birthday, he is 40 and there is a small cake. The younger, he says Scott, pulls him because of his age, then kiss the two men tenderly.

Valentine Greetings from the butcher.

It must again be gebibbert - mask killer Jason is back: On Valentine's Day weekend of sex offender drove lovers in the U.S. cinemas - how fitting that Friday the 13th was. In Germany, surprised a comedy from Turkey.

 

Berlin / Los Angeles - The situation is made teen movies widely known: Who in the Movies examines physical contact, looks best in a horror movie. Splashing blood on the canvas, drawing perhaps the beloved or the key to a centimeter up to then - oh horror! - In the arm to be taken.

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A scene from "Friday the 13th ': Happy Valentine's Day!

The U.S. as a nation cinema know this trick from the course effeff. For Valentine's Day last weekend gave many Americans their great love for a ticket for "Friday the 13th" - And so brought the infamous remake of the original slasher movie the best start of a horror movie ever. 42.2 million U.S. dollars (3105 copies) to the slaughter played hockey mask killer Jason, according to "Focus on Film" on the first weekend - already more than double the roughly 19 million U.S. dollars production costs.

It was the best place to start a film with an R rating since the Angelina Jolie-orgy-Shooter "Wanted." And by "Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Amityville Horror" was the third successful restart a horror franchise by Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes, which is now on a reboot of Nightmare - Murderous Dreams "works.

If "Friday the 13th" despite Händchenhalt warranty then it was too hard, was with Jennifer Aniston and fun communication problems between husband and wife relax. Their comedy "It is simply not for you" stayed in the second week with sales of 19.6 million U.S. dollars in second place. Overall, the film is 55.1 million U.S. dollars already implemented.

It landed classic action movie with Liam Neeson as an ex-agent on the hunt for his abducted daughter. "Taken - 96 Hours" also played on the third weekend strong 19.3 million U.S. dollars - a minimum of minus six percent. Overall, the revenge thriller 77.9 million U.S. dollars already implemented. After "Gran Torino" and "The cop shop", which also significantly exceeded expectations, he will the third movie this year, the 100-million-dollar barrier takes.

The romantic Jerry Bruckheimer comedy "Shopaholic - The bargain hunter" won the second restart of the week with 15.4 million U.S. dollars in 2507 cinemas in fourth place and landed ahead of the animated film "Coraline," with a box of of 15.3 millions of dollars just nine percent now and delivered 40.4 million U.S. dollars has recorded. Better yet, cut "The cop shop", which still than eight percent and its total box office after 11.7 million U.S. dollars over the weekend at 110.5 million U.S. dollars increased.

And Tom Tykwer could also be satisfied: the celebrated German director with
"The International" ranked six and 10 million U.S. dollars shakedown (2364 copies) of the best US-start his career.

Laughter in Turkish

In Germany, there were at least at the top no big changes --
"The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" was its leading position with 240,000 visitors for the second time to defend - was surprising, however, the continued success of the Turkish comedy "Recep ivedik 2. They landed with a cutting sensation of 2500 visitors per copy in fourth place in the German charts, but the film only ran in 75 cinemas.

Already the previous film by director Togan Gökbakar had his rental Movies Starring a successful launch brings the weekend when he was with an average of 1326 visitors per copy (at 62 locations) with 82,238 visitors to sixth place went to the starting line. Overall, the film was seen by 311,698 viewers. Part two was the number of visitors at the weekend starting with 190,000 Kinogängern more than doubled. He is now hunting for the most successful Turkish film in German cinemas, "Valley of the Wolves", which, controversially discussed, 410,005 visitors were recorded.

Tom Tykwer
"The International" in Germany, landed in second place. The Thriller ran a week after its world premiere as the opening film at the Berlinale with 210,000 viewers in 474 cinemas. It is Germany's third best start of a Tykwer film, behind "
The Perfume - The Story of a Murderer "and" Run Lola Run ".

At number three landed the comedy "He is just not for you" in 398 cinemas 190,000 viewers saw. completes the top five of the vampire romance
"Twilight - Biss at dawn" 115,000 visitors.

The first in Germany on Friday, the 13th, launched "Friday the 13th" came in 192 cinemas with 90,000 spectators on the seventh place. Almost at the Top Ten failed the Neuverfilmung of "Effi Briest." Hermione Huntgeburth Fontane was filming in 155 cinemas of 60,000 Kinogängern seen. Overall, in German cinemas on the weekend about 1.9 million. Tickets resolved.

We do not, but many ego.

What did the German cinema to say? What it tells what are his issues? Johanna Straub looked ten days Berlinale films from domestic production: documentary, drama and the omnibus "Germany 09". For blogs ONLINE deduct balance: More introspection was rare.

 

Germany. Now. Not more than twelve minutes. Under this standard, the "13 short films on the situation of the nation" from "Germany 09" emerged from a bus that film, which on Friday the 13th, at the end of the Berlinale has been demonstrated. Personally, the films should be subjective and immediate.

It is neither this requirement nor the result, which many critics unsatisfied feeling that certain causes. At first, most pressing questions - where is the red thread, why was omitted topic X,-so why is not there, and why all 13 films and 42 - we know the answer to all things in life and the universe - there is conclusive answers . In the film itself and at the press conference after the screening: the restriction to 13 episodes, which together account for just under two and a half hours long, is due to the absorption capacity of the audience. A continuation would be nice-so is pregnant and in a different production process - and the subject of X, of course, the German unit, 20 years after the fall of the wall, is not a topic that pervades the films. That there is no thread must exist, is perhaps already the first result of this film, which is therefore a substitute for the German cinema in the year 2009.

Failure on its own claim

More problematic than the film itself is the programmatic title, which the film is believed, the D-question, 31 years after the co-production "Germany in Autumn" by Fassbinder, Kluge, Schlöndorff and Co..
"Germany 09" insist on their tradition, as it was without the German rise and fall as a connecting element to have. Our presence does not make the pressure to a joint, we find it says in the press conference. And yet, despite all the assurances that this would be, the expectation of what a film on the situation of the nation promises to be the same: a statement and an attitude. A We do.

The film can not and will not be representative, it is stressed, but arbitrary and subjective. It looks like a deliberate failure on its own right. "Everything is much more complex," as stated in Sylke Enders contribution "lopsided". The fact that it is complex, we know. Perhaps it would have 42 episodes but then must order this complexity into account.

Or, even better, one would have to answer before the 42 wondering, how exactly the question really is how it is when Douglas Adams Deep Thought recommended. A dozen votes to only one of the sub-themes of education, surveillance, sexual behavior, globalization and architecture in Germany would have been brave? and no less complete. But with its global aspirations, everything, but nothing definite show to want to like the movie with the title of a serious big playground.

Significantly, a U.S. production, co-financed with German funds, the film with the most German of all the topics: "The reader", the question of German guilt and atonement past deals.

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There is in the films of this vintage just an accumulation of war crimes issue. As different as "The reader", "Storm" and "The Father Game" (directed by Michael Glawogger based on a novel by Josef Haslinger) also address this issue, the question of an overarching moral authority, and dealing with guilt and responsibility of the individual moves through all round.

But whether they be punished by the notorious gaps in the network of escape, hide, or be at large in the world, dealing with war criminals is diametrically opposed Florian Gallenberger historical epic "John Rabe", whose main character in the middle of 1937 barbarically metzelnden Nanking in Japanese on 130 minutes across quite unbroken German hero may be: Not a spot on his white waistcoat, as far as the lens extends. This is new. So? it has to be well described as Biopic - on a good Germans between evil Japanese would have a few years ago do not exist. At least not as a German production.

The competition film "Storm" and
"The International", when all the differences in genre, style and ambition, a different approach to the topic of heroes. They no longer tell the classic story where the bad guy from the system ausschert, from Heroes, and then punished by the system to ensure that good order is restored.

Return of the lonely hero

Both in Tom Tykwer's thriller globalization as well as in Hans-Christian Schmid's judicial drama, the villain in the system long übergewuchert and the hero or heroine on their being combative travel to a point where it against a glass wall run and beat the bloody nose. You need the protection of the system, for which they actually fight, and leave to the other side to change when they target you? Justice? want to achieve. The last but not least 68ern propagated by the method of the system from the inside out to fight, has apparently run out of steam. Today's movie heroes are lonely again.

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Johanna Straub, 1970 born, is a freelance writer and filmmaker. During her studies, she organized regular "Tübinger Kleinphilmnacht short and, later, she led a distribution of documentaries in Leipzig. 2007 published her first novel, "The zebra has black stripes, so that the white looks better" (Verlagsbuchhandlung love child).

Also, the protagonist in
Maren Ades film "All Others" is running against a glass wall, not only in the literal sense but also in transferring. The difference with Tykwer and Schmid is that the young Chris its borders has been internalized and basically only fighting against themselves. Precisely because the problems of prosperity two children, whose relationship to each other ruthlessly dissected here is basically just to communication difficulties and misunderstandings are based, they are understandable. It is brave, especially to show what was not happening, and an impressive performance as Ade succeed for two hours to keep a voltage, which penetrates inside, not outside.

The most touching movie moments this year are already those who are so slow that it almost hurts. In which the stop time and a space is opened, the calls for his own thoughts. One of these moments is a close-up of war veterans Hossein Pashtuns, whose unhappy love story of Helga Reidemeister documentary "My heart sees the world in black - a charity in Kabul," says. Hossein steers with his walking aid to a sleeping cat. It comes only in centimeter steps forward, and the question of whether he umrennen the cat is away, or before, will always be pressing as he tries, with a step, which is a much larger than he actually can do about the cat to climb . This moment tells a lot more about these people than anything he himself could tell.

Play makes happy

The documentary genre has always turned to love in the stranger, but this year, the urge to leave the country, with its national sensitivities abroad blogsn, particularly striking. Often deals with Germans living abroad, such as
Jochen Hicks in "Good American" or "roller coaster" in which Peter Dörfler the incredible story of the former operator of the amusement parks in Plänterwald told, with his son accidentally in a Peruvian prison brings. Or in 'terminus of the longings, "a light entertaining film by Sung-Hyung Cho on a German village in South Korea and three German men, who with the help of their Korean women trying to find home.

A playground is "Germany 09" not only in the same omnibus film. Not a pressing issue, but many of the limitations on soft. Those where Germany stops - at least as a filming location - as well as the boundaries between good and evil and the various film genres.

On a playground, that's the beautiful, tollt you around, tried it, dares to approach exercises and tricks. Play makes happy and temporarily allows even a "we. How incredibly comforting that - in the Germany episode of Dani Levy - of this play from the German film little children may fly as in "Ricky" by François Ozon, of the fantastic films in the Berlinale Competition. From up there, the very good things to be seen. Even the state of the nation.

A celebration of cinema.

Are the bad times, the movie is good. The films of the 59th Berlinale were young, enthusiastic, imaginative, uneasy world cinema - the Golden Bear went to law to Peru. Now just have the audience follow.

 

It was during these ten days full of pictures of one that was particularly impressive. It was almost every morning to see if one half to nine with hochgeschlagenem collar and coffee cup in hand to the Berlinale Palast hurried to the first press screening of the day to see. While in itself for plenty bravely held, perhaps for an inedible piece of cinema so early to be focused on many cinema fans and movie fans have been a happy hour or longer in case the icy winds at Potsdamer Platz, a ticket for one of the demonstrations for wet. The Berlinale, which showed again this year, is a public festival. 270,000 tickets, which is 30,000 more than 2008, were invited to 59th Edition of the festival sold, it was on Saturday, this is a new record.

Cause for concern, there is little for Dieter Kosslick Berlinale and his ship, and from year to year grows more sections, more programs, more journalists, more viewers - the big, evil iceberg called economic and financial crisis was not yet in Visibility in this February.

Even at the European Film Market, the selling market of the festival, there were more than expected degrees, reported the industry magazine "Focus on Film". However, so-called High Quality Projects, films with big stars and lavish facilities can grow, currently better than niche projects.

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At this year's Berlinale Competition terms this means that international co-productions such as Tom Tykwer's "The International", the many Oscar-nominated "readers" or the period drama "Chéri" by Stephen Frears will make their way into the cinemas can be found. Committed films by unknown directors such as the Iranian contribution "Elly Darbareye" Maren Ades concentrated painful relationship drama "All other" or the winning film "La teta asustada" however, have always had difficulty, a lender to find and are therefore in this year's easier.

Glamor and Film

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The decision of the jury, it is these films primarily reward is even more important. Indeed, during the cinephile audience, which at the Berlinale for one or the other contribution no ticket has gotten more, sometimes up to two years to wait until the movie with a handful of copies to the cinema, you can with silver and gold Bears honored directors, actors and screenwriters gained attention thanks to the work, collect and finance new projects pushing. The principle of this policy is still Festivals A-League, it was always, the two essential aspects of the cinema together: the glamor, the big stars and narrative films exude opulent - and the experimental, ambitious filmmaking, the new image and tried unvarnished language of social life reported. Berlin is once again this year managed to work out this calculation for you.

Of course you can always argue: Is the Golden Bear for a bit esoteric, more difficult to access Peruvian contribution really justified? Had the jury, chaired by the actress Tilda Swinton is not actually in its depiction of everyday life of Iranian reality radically open "Darbareye Elly" must reward, rather than merely director Asghar Farhadi with a silver bear to honor? Or would not the wonderfully simple parable told of a possible world cultural understanding, Rachid Boujarebs "London River" earned more than just the actor award for the 72-year-old Sotigui Kouyaté? And why has actually "All other" only the Grand Jury Prize will receive, and why was "Storm", the second German film competition, totally empty?

Berlinale-winner

Category
Prize Winners

Golden Bear
"La Teta Asustada"

Grand Jury Prize
"All others" / "Gigante"

Best Director
"Everything about Elly

Best Actress
Birgit Minichmayr

Best Actor
Sotigui Kouyaté

Outstanding artistic achievement
Gábor Erdélyi / Tamás Székely

Best Screenplay
"The Messenger"

Best First Film
"Gigante"

Alfred Bauer Prize
"Gigante"

Of course, there are no satisfactory answers to these questions, but it does not matter. Indeed, one of so many successful movies passable and there were outstanding contribution this year in competition, so the jury is the only right thing done: Parity and after - often unanimously - Gusto prizes. Even two more than planned, because both the Alfred Bauer prize for outstanding artistic achievements, as well as the Grand Prize of the Jury, there were two winners. Of these, especially the Argentine debut film "Giant" benefit, with a total of three awards of actual winner of the festival is: The young director Adrián Biniez also still got the prize for best first film.

His film tells the story of a security official who is in love with a collaborator, but no one dares to address. With a growing obsession with the beloved one he watched on surveillance cameras in the supermarket, where both are working - and directed his whole life according to the daily lives of strangers from. There are those miniatures on the life of ordinary people who are inconspicuous, but large and deep impression truths include. Whether "Gigante", "La teta asustada", "London River" or "all others": In order to films like these amid the roar of event movies and blockbuster sequels to give attention and viewers that, there are festivals like the Berlinale.

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And while there is an audience there that morning at eight in the wind and weather into a long snake is, not "Harry Potter" or "KeinOhrHasen" to see, but small, alien, committed films in Spanish, Farsi and Polish view, can not speak of crisis. "We have in the past few days celebrating the cinema and we have celebrated the stars", has Berlinale Kosslick boss, always a friend of the simple words, at the Closing Gala said. That can leave so times.

Golden Bear goes to Peru.

Premiere debut to measure: the first time in Peru took part in the Berlinale - and has been for "La teta asustada" like the Golden Bear award. The best actress comes from Austria, her male counterpart from Mali. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to a German film.

 

Berlin - The Golden Bear of the 59th Berlinale goes to the Peruvian film "La Teta Asustada" ( "The milk of suffering"). That, the international jury of the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday evening. The 32-year-old director Claudia Llosa recounts in the film by a young woman who died as a result of the annual past terrorist system in Peru is suffering. The Andean country was the first time at the Berlinale competition and brought immediately to the main prize.

The decision, the Peruvian-Spanish production, as the best film award, was, according to President of the Jury unanimously Tilda Swinton. Director Llosa was overjoyed and told some 1600 guests, the price is a great honor. Actress Magaly Soli said: "It touches me greatly, I tremble formally."

"La Teta Asustada" is the second feature film by Llosa, the niece of the writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The young Fausta, the impressive solos played by, lives in a poor district of Lima and suffers from a mysterious illness. This was confirmed by the milk of mothers transferred during pregnancy or lactation during the period of terror in the country have been raped - including her mother. After whose death starts the traumatized Fausta a journey from fear to freedom. The film has not yet German rental.

Two prizes were awarded to the German film "All Others" by Maren Ade. For her role in the relationship drama, the Austrian actress Birgit Minichmayr a Silver Bear. "All others" was also the Grand Prize of the jury award. The prize was awarded in equal parts to "Gigante" by Adrián Biniez from Uruguay.

Berlinale-winner

Category
Prize Winners

Golden Bear
"La Teta Asustada"

Grand Jury Prize
"All others" / "Gigante"

Best Director
"Everything about Elly

Best Actress
Birgit Minichmayr

Best Actor
Sotigui Kouyaté

Outstanding artistic achievement
Gábor Erdélyi / Tamás Székely

Best Screenplay
"The Messenger"

Best First Film
"Gigante"

Alfred Bauer Prize
"Gigante"

Ade director said the award meant it very much. It was a great honor, a prize at a festival to win, that they love. "I am very happy, even if I do not really act," she said. In "All Others" with Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger Ade tells the tragicomic story of a young couple in the holidays, the only light left and starts suddenly in a crisis.

As was the best actor from Mali-born Sotigui Kouyaté with a Silver Bear award. He embodies in the drama "London River" on the impact of the bomb attacks in London 2005 (Director: Rachid Bouchareb / France), the male main character. He hoped that the Berlinale is still forever give, Kouyaté said. The prize for best director went to the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi Society for his panoramic "All about Elly."

For the best screenplay was director Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for the U.S. anti-war drama "The Messenger" honored. A Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement got the sound designer and Gábor Erdélyi Tamás Székely for their work on the film 'Katalin Varga' by Peter Strickland (Romania / United Kingdom / Hungary).

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The tragi-comedy "Gigante" was next to the Grand Jury Prize, the award for best debut film and also divides the Alfred Bauer Prize with Andrzej Wajda's "The calamus" from Poland.

The Berlinale has this year with 270,000 tickets sold, a visitor record. Over the past year, 240,000 tickets have been sold. "Thanks to the new venues Friedrichstadtpalast Cinema Paris and we were able this year even more film fans the opportunity to witness the festival program," stressed the Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick on Saturday. "The Berlinale proves that it is a film enthusiastic audience, which loves the cinema."

Overall, at the 59th Berlinale 383 films in 1238 demonstrations showed. Almost 20,000 accredited festival guests came from 136 countries.

Everything is good - even the Germans.

With the fabulous immigrant drama "Eden À L'Ouest" by Costa-Gavras is the 59th Berlinale to an end. On Saturday evening at Potsdamer Platz, the Bears awarded. The conclusion of the Festival: Even in hard times, there are many nice people.

 

Berlin - The Berlinale visitors must be in the final days of the festival a lot of listening. For example, "You see but bad! And so pale. Warst too often in the cinema." Or: "You poor, have quite red Äuglein! Well, in many films." But when I look in the mirror, I see a ausgeschlafenen, fairly good-tempered man mid-forties, in enviable physical and mental constitution.

Nevertheless, people see me, when I would have with me the last strength from a leprosy area rescued. It was at the festival this year thanks to the sponsor, even for clean drinking water provided. And yet asserts the vernacular still unteachable stolidness: The Berlinale and Suffern, which describe the men uff.

Of course, pants, hüstelt and schnieft it at any festival in the world so much as at the Berlinale. On Saturday morning, for instance, as the closing film "Eden à l'Ouest" by Costa-Gavras ran, you felt in the Berlinale Palast on how the intensive care unit of a lung clinic.

A test for the vital functions

Since the first movie but accidentally was presented without sound, was a delightful audiovisual counterpoint: During the audience a refugee boat in the Mediterranean saw the people nested in the sun, let him sound the Eishauch felt a cold wave. But the audience suddenly awoke from his infirmity, the audience whistled, drummed and screamed until the film is stopped and again restarted. As it became clear: The supposedly so unhealthy Berlinale is no stone unturned to ensure the spirits of their audience to awaken.

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So if we are in the Berlinale diaries last week, the press office of the festival with a "
Folterkeller "or, on some films
Reports of the pain threshold "wrote, so we just wanted to express how grateful we are for the Berlinale that they always test our vital functions. Finally, we do not want it like that wegdämmern journalist, yesterday at the press screening of Andrzej Wajda's competition entry "Tatarak" sat next to me and firmly asleep, although he wore a headset, a German on the simultaneous translation was eingesprochen. The sound of the headphones was so loud that I come from a meter away, not only could understand every word, but also the devotion of Spokeswoman felt. Wajda's Star During Krystyna Janda lethargic to go out monologisierte, I saw the speaker in front of my mind's eye gesticulate wildly. But all in vain. The colleague did not wake up.

To be polite and nice despair

This must not happen. That's why we go there, where it hurts. But was the 59th Berlinale actually "Festtage for masochists, as we are facing a week in the diary so full promised? Well, it was for everyone. In Romuald Karmakar also instructive as amusing contribution to the episode film "Germany 09" around, you can learn which articles are some of our fellow citizens in their body orifices slide, bump, or screws, in order to experience high emotions. But from a lasting torment at the festival could not be any question. Ultimately, we were able to delight in the pain never really savor, because they always of good movies has been interrupted.

From the clever, amusing and touching love story "Gigante" about where the Argentine director Adrián Biniez a big, strong guard his heart for a gentle cleaning lady can discover, or of the American War homecoming drama "The Messenger", in which the magnificent actor Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton show what Schauspielkunst capable, or by Rachid Bouchareb haunting drama "London River" about two people whose paths cross because their children in a terrorist attack were killed. Sometimes the films were so good that we immediately into the Berlinale press office went to our masochism to satisfy. But what a shock: no chicane instead friendly faces and perfect courtesy. It was despair.

One Touch Cinema

Luckily, at least on some of our local filmmakers rely, in their contributions to "Germany 09" extremely himself and fremdquälerisch "the state of the nation" lit. Germany 09? it sounds somehow after a football club, Schalke 04 or after 96th Hanover Unfortunately, work the eleven plus three directors as a team pretty bad. As Dani Levy celebrated game of wit, while Wolfgang Becker's comedy into the offside running, Tom Tykwer is urgent because a rapid pace from scene to scene, but his one-touch movie takes place in the Berserker liable storm tank Hans Weingartner, with full force in every defensive wall running, on the BKA draufsteht no buyers.

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Given their obvious suffering on their own country it's no wonder that German directors are increasingly looking for the width. Tykwer and Hans-Christian Schmid rush into their films, "The International" and "Storm" across the world, including the director Maren Ade said adé Germany and turned their relationship drama "All Others" in Sardinia.

But abroad, the Germans were in this year's Berlinale films show that they are in the toughest times of the best people can be: Ulrich Tukur rescues in the Historienepos "John Rabe" as the title hero helpless against brutal Chinese and Japanese press as a magician in the closing film "Eden à l'Ouest" a desperate migrants a magic dust in his hand, with this to the Eiffel Tower will sparkle. Everything is good from the Berlinale this year - even the Germans.