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 "
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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.