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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!"
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