Author-filmmaker summit without German.

The competition participants have been selected at Cannes - the shortlist is excellent occupied by the Golden Palm to compete this time the main author of the film world. Only in Germany is not a director nominated.

 

Hamburg / Paris - Rarely has the competition of the Cannes Film Festival so well filled as this year - a director from Germany, however, can not this year at the Palme d'Or hope.

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Director Quentin Tarantino with "Inglourious Basterds" in competition at Cannes

The selection of the 19 participants, who on Thursday were in Paris, contains some of the most important filmmakers worldwide Author: Included are, inter alia, the Spaniard Pedro Almodovar with "Los Abrazos rotos', Danish director Lars von Trier with" Antichrist ", and the Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee for "Brokeback Mountain" four years ago won an Oscar. He is in Cannes for the comedy "Taking Woodstock" nominated.

Even the New Zealand director Jane Campion and the Austrian Michael Haneke may be on the Palme d'Or hope. Campion was in 1992 for "The Piano" as the first director with the Golden Palm award, now it is her film "Bright Star" nominees. The British filmmaker Ken Loach is in line with the football film "Looking for Eric" in the competition.

Quentin Tarantino
occurs with "Inglourious Basterds" in a drama for a retaliatory action in the Second World War.

From Germany comes this year is no contest participants. Until recently also for the selection traded film "Soul Kitchen" of the Hamburg director Fatih Akin was not ready.

In 2008, the French filmmaker Laurent Cantet with "The Class" fetched the Golden Palm. The 62nd Cannes film festival lasts from 13 to 24 May. The jury is headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert.

Opening film, but not represented in the competition, is "Up", an animated film from Pixar Studios.