Gutmensch unwilling.

A Palestinian man leaves the bodies of his dead son's donation - to patients in Israel, irrespective of their religion. A feel-good story? No way: The documentary "The Heart of Jenin" is not easy.

 

Ahmed Khatib was twelve years old when he was shot. The boy from the autonomous Palestinian town of Jenin was with a machine gun on the plastic, which looked so real that it was Israeli soldiers held for a terrorist. A terrible mistake, bitter and tragic, just as it can happen in a permanent state of war.

Ahmed's father Ismael, the bodies of his son to donate. Heart, kidney, liver and lungs, in six patients in Israel, the case in late 2005 for a large media interest ensured. A baby has not survived the transplant, two of the recipients remained anonymous - the other three children Ismael Khatib with a film crew visited: the Bedouin's son Mohammed, the small Samah, which belongs to the Druze, and Menuha from an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem.

On this Thursday, the resulting documentary "The Heart of Jenin" to the directors from Israel, Lior Geller and Marcus Vetter from Germany to the cinema, and most spectators are expected to have a moving feel-good story expect the story of a noble man of his grief back in place in order to do something good, irrespective of political and religious boundaries.

And partly it is so simple but it makes the film not. The first scenes are anything but heart warming: There are pictures of the dead Ahmed, from the morgue of the Israeli hospital in an ambulance and brought to his parents in the West Bank will be driven. They rallied in addition to the crying family immediately a crowd of people around the corpse, it shall wind up in a Palestinian flag and carries it through the city. "Raise high the martyrs," calls the angry mob. And: "Each death is avenged by 100".

Even the father, at the center of the film, is not just a sacred gentleman. It was an act of humanity was, he says, "with politics has nothing to do". But later he says, his humanity is to be understood as resistance. "Do you think it has fallen to the Israelis what I have done?" He says.

He calls himself a former resistance fighter, says that he and Molotov cocktails and stones thrown in jail several times landed. Before the donation, he has to a chief of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, demanded whether he really should make, including the mufti of Jenin had his approval.

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Ismael Khatib believes in no reconciliation, just as the devout Jew Jakoov Levinson, the daughter of Ahmed got a kidney. He is eternally grateful that his child should live, but for Palestinians it will remain a threat. "Those crazy Arabs are trying constantly kill us," he says into the camera, and the meeting of the two men is so subliminally unentspannt and hostile that no one can take seriously, the two camps could ever find each other.

There are no heroes in "The Heart of Jenin, just people trying to get the right to do so. Whether this is cause for hope for peace there can be only one viewer to interpret for themselves. That makes this film worth seeing.

Icy objects of desire.

Some movies require decades to return to the classics to be, for some it is quite fast: For the DVD Collection "Great movie moments", the culture blogs coming 50 classics selected. We make every week a new film in the series before. Today: the nature documentary "Our World".

 

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A scene from "Our Earth": Epic World

If tomorrow the world goes down, we still shoot a movie about it - under this motto, the Briton Alastair Fothergill and his colleagues from the Natural History Unit of the BBC in 2007, the costliest and most expensive so far nature documentary ever completed.

"Our Earth" is an epic journey around the world in just 90 minutes from the North to the South Pole - with many stops on all continents and very telecharger gene Stars: humpback whales, sharks, elephants, lions, polar bears and birds of paradise.

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Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

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That sounds easier than it is. Animal documentaries bring the people they make to their limits. I know that since I director in April 2007 Fothergill and his team at work could watch, when filming on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, only 1200 kilometers from the North Pole. For three days we explored snowmobiles on the bitter cold desert along the 78th Latitude, always on the lookout for polar bears. Supposedly there are still around Spitzbergen 5000 copies, one fifth of the total population.

In principle, polar bears here come from all sides; in doubt accelerate faster than a snowmobile. "Sometimes they just want to play," said Fothergill. But that's really nobody in the wilderness is eaten, or starved erfriert, escorted us to the Bears being two local leaders in the Arctic, armed with pepper spray and heavy turrets.

Climate change, the underlying theme throughout the film, was also felt on Spitsbergen, but differently than I thought: The weather changed every ten minutes. Sun, fog and snow storms alternated succession. With snow drifting blurred sky, horizon and ground in the Arctic into a single gray wall. With a little luck, you will still recognize the taillights in front of a moving snowmobile. A polar bear could be directly behind a herhecheln without being noticed him immediately.

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Not all locals in the Arctic are so unpredictable. We observed reindeer, seals and an Arctic fox, for Central European city dwellers a sensation. Fothergill & Co. But that did not even packed up their cameras. Polar bears, the objects of desire, settled in this expedition does not look - animal film everyday.

Never mind. In the finished film, there is enough to see polar bears. The most spectacular scene - a polar bear who swims - Alastair Fothergill even turned itself helicopter.

The best pajama party in space.

Beamer, phaser, Warpgeschwindigkeit: Can all these classics of the "Star Trek" universe once more interesting and timely to make? Director J.J. Abrams has succeeded - his film version of the Sci-Fi myth is sexy, exciting, fast and - scandal! - Spock gives even a lover.

 

As always a distant future also looks like the pub brawl left us. For example, at least director JJ Abrams, in his with plenty of inflated expectations' Star Trek 'Prequel a futuristic beer glut quite the showplace jetztzeitiger Keilerei makes.

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All and powerful: The new old Enterprise spaceship in "Star Trek"

In the center of the wrangling shares a young man particularly strong, and his peculiar body language when fistfight allows only one conclusion: This must be James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the legendary spaceship Enterprise and Ur-hero of almost five decades, six TV series and now eleven films comprehensive science-fiction franchise company.

Alone, the sultry rioters did not know his happiness, and finally with a new cast is the history of the classic series from 1966 told. Instead of the merry Fossil William Shatner is about young actor Chris Pine in Kirk neat boots, and even more impressed with his physical play in this scene. Perfect Pine plays the little ticks and Manierismen after Shatner, whose Captain always tangible arguments to have been: The Kirk is dead, long live the Kirk.

Oil, egg, salt and stir. "

Looks like silence? With the exhibition "Silences" is trying the French cinema legend Marin Karmitz as an art curator - and designed with a jukebox, a beach scene and a glass igloo is disappointing confusion.

 

Misleading is the title. "Silences" - silent, still on top in the plural, promises the show, and already here is a hidden confusion. Because in truth it whimpered between the works, characters in the half whisper, whisper number combinations speakers, videos, sound spread from a U.S. pop music jukebox drips. Does not even a siren?

The tour through the narrow, artificial maze reinforced the acoustic confusion. The environment acts as a menacing, urban environment, between the four, five meter high panels are narrow gorges, usually dipped in aseptic white. The scenery almost reminiscent of the expressionist films of the twenties, the path between the works, such as a switch between total, Halbtotale and sudden Naheinstellung.

No coincidence: The exhibition is the brainchild of Marin Karmitz, 70, of his professional biography began as a cameraman, shot short films and later as a producer, distributors and cinema owners reüssierte. His chain of MK2, with rights to more than 400 international titles, is one of the most successful in France. In 2005, Karmitz the management to his son - and almost simultaneously came the vision of an exhibition.

"I wanted to establish connections between film, video, literature, painting, music and visual art," says Karmitz, with this idea of the cross when the former Director of the Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art in "surprisingly positive response" was - long before the beginning of the year by President Nicolas Sarkozy to the General Delegate of the newly created Council for artistic creation "was appointed.

The ground floor of the building floor, next to the historic city of Casemates received Karmitz an area of 580 square meters - and completely free hand for the selection of works by 15 modern artists. "I have a rare degree of trust and generosity increases," says Karmitz. Especially as the city of Strasbourg, the project looked without skepticism. "We have here a man free hands, neither artist is still a painter, not a critic, not even a collector," says the Director General of the municipal museums Joelle Pijaudier-Cabot on the experiment.

Also by the film producer (Kieslowski's color trilogy) to the museum curator changed Paris, it was a "decision is not without risk", even if the man cinema in 1966 with a film about a piece of Beckett's attempts to film and video stage language to unite . Still standing Karmitz, later with a short, play movies and protest domestic and international prices finally into specialized manufacturing moved in front of an unusual problem: "Where is the substance crystallizes what works choose what era of presence at the center? What story? me before I arrived as a director without a script, "says Karmitz in Strasbourg," and only to the extent where I gathered the works, was also the match, cross-conception. "

"It's like mayonnaise"

Is characterized by the attempt to artists in relationship to. "It is a reflection of some artists, the beginning of the seventies began to seek the silence through the screen - to words, sentences, scraps of language. I have chosen people who overcame the silence with film, video, sound installations. "

"Silences", Karmitz and built by the architect Patrick Bouchain, starts with a lock, in the letters from plush (Annette Messager) the word "Ciineeemaa" form and in the vanishing point to a scare piece ( "One Laughing at the Red Ball") Juan Munoz lead. Then the visitor emerges into the half. Between open chambers, rooms, boxes - small refuges for the productions of the works: "One space per Oeuvre, a specific volume, Karmitz comes from the film, it was quite natural for him to work in the right light," says Bouchain.

The visitor encounters among others on the leisure of an American nightmare beach staging (Martial Raysse, 1962/2007), to a Glasiglu by Mario Merz (1969/1991), passed an almost appear as an emergency exit door (Robert Gober, "Door with Light Bulb ", 1992). Then he loses in the "Labyrinth" by Ilya Kabakov and Emilie - a maze in the maze ( "My Mother's Album", 1990) - and suddenly sees himself surrounded with Christian Boltanski's masked figures, disturbed passers between the rows, the short sentence Tatters murmur. Will be dismissed with the frontal view of Georg Baselitz ' "Three heads with snail" (1966) - a disturbing, provocative finale.

The result is a cohabitation of various works between time and space in a territory "(Karmitz), which is not immediately opens.

"Yes, it takes a little time to access to find, but it will work Marins bridge," says Christian Boltanski. "It's like mayonnaise - oil, egg, salt and stir it takes to succeed in the sauce?"

"Silences," in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art "until 23 August, 26 October 2009 until 10 Januaar 2010 in the Berardo Museum in Lisbon.

Clawed Wolverine, the box office.

Good cut: The action-packed comic filming "Wolverine" with Hugh Jackman had the best start so far this year at the U.S. box office. In Germany, too, opted for the spectators krallenbewehrten mutants. This was after seeing Julia Roberts.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - real fans look no unfinished pirated copy on the computer to real fans go to the cinema. This summary could be starting from the furious draw the comic adaptation "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" at the weekend in the U.S. and Germany.

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Scene from "Wolverine" (with Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber): impressive start to the summer season

87 million U.S. dollars played
Action movie with Hugh Jackman in the lead last weekend in American cinemas in 4099 - and made the Marvel production according to "Focus on Film" to the film's most successful start of the year. In Germany around 400,000 spectators wanted the background to the claws with metal reinforced mutants see Logan.

Of course, one could speculate whether "Wolverine" an even better start would result, if this is the one month before the published start movie piracy on the Internet did not exist. But just as well can only speculate how many Americans at the weekend, the multiplex cinema for fear of the swine flu virus have shunned - and sales also pushed down.

Overall, one can at 20th Century Fox and Marvel very satisfied: "Wolverine" cut better than the first two "X-Men" films between 2000 and 2003, only the third part of the series, "The Last Stand", played 2006 on a four-day weekend 122.9 million U.S. dollars is only slightly more than the latest offshoot of the franchise.

The runners-up the American charts landed the romantic comedy "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" ( "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends"). The movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner put 15.3 million U.S. dollars in 3175 to movie theaters.

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Vorwochenspitzenreiter "Obsessed" landed with 12.2 million U.S. dollars revenue in third place (after ten days of total sales: 47 million U.S. dollars).

In fourth place, the comedy "17 Again" with Teen Star Zac Efron to 6.3 million U.S. dollars, while the hitherto strongest American film of the cinema year, slowly but surely from the leading group passed: "Monsters vs.. Aliens" played on Rank five have yet to times 5.8 million U.S. dollars and has a turnover reached 182.4 million U.S. dollars.

In German cinemas made "Wolverine" also caused a sensation, but had sunny weather with which to fight. With 400,000 spectators said in 691 cinemas remained the "X-Men" episode clearly behind "X-Men: The Last Stand" (680,372 visitors) and "X-Men 2" (893,412 visitors) back.

Besides the sun, there was little competition: Tony
Gilroys thriller "Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" came despite largely good reviews and star cast with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen with a modest 80,000 spectators in 272 cinemas only in second place.

It landed long-running "Slumdog Millionaire", at its seventh weekend in German cinema, not only placed third, but even with 75,000 Kinogängern back to viewers, respectively (total: 1.5 million visitors).

Reboot "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" has started strong with 75,000 viewers in 311 cinemas. "Crank 2: High Voltage" occupied with 70,000 spectators five. "Phantom pain", the new comedy with Til Schweiger, came in 141 cinemas only 25,000 visitors. The slight increase in ticket revenue to 1.2 million benefited especially "Wolverine".

Actor Fred Delmare is dead

He was one of the most popular actor in the GDR, played in classics like "Naked among wolves." Last Delmare Fred stood in the ARD series "In all friendship" as a grandfather Frederick in front of the camera. Now died the 87-year-old died as a result of pneumonia.

 

Leipzig - It was a hard life, despite the success. "Happily, I am in no way," was the sober conclusion by Fred Delmare on his 80th Birthday 2002nd

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Actor Delmare: Designated "Naked among wolves" as its main film

Delmare was 1922 in the Thuringian town of Sonneberg, in the suburb of Cottage Steinach as Werner Vorndran born. Already as a youth he participated in stage performances with a farmer, and later refined his acting as an external student of the drama school of the renowned Berliner Hebbel-Theater.

The breakthrough on the big screen he made in "The vicious circle," a film about the Reichstag fire process. Delmare played the arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe. In the 60-years he was Delmare victim of political censorship. In "Do not Think I heule" about a society against lethargy and hypocrisy rebellious student he played Brigadier. The strip has been described as "antisozialistisch" branded and disappeared into the archives of the DEFA. When he was in January 1990 will finally be, was it as "masterpiece of critical realism 'is celebrated.

Delmare career includes more than 100 television and movie roles. From 1999 until early 2006, he was as Friedrich Steinbach in successful hospital-series "In all friendship" to see.

When his most important films he 'nude among wolves "in which he played Buchenwald prisoner, and" Everybody dies for himself alone. " In the cult film "The Legend of Paul and Paula" he mimes thwarted lovers. After German reunification was seen Fred Delmare also in the "Lime Street", "Cast off for MS Königstein" or the pensioner comedy "Matulla and bush."

The comedy was his favorite genre. He gives his characters in the severe "light form" cleverness, sometimes even a portion Bauernschläue.

Hard fate

Private but had just 1.60 of a lot of great actors cope. Four marriages fell apart. 1980 Fred Delmare escaped to the West's daughter Felicitas life. 1993 erstach Nici his youngest son his former girlfriend. Doctors diagnosed in 2000 with its fifth wife Renate, breast cancer, died in October 2001, his 41-year old son Tino from liver cancer.

His last role in the medical series also offered him warmth. Delmare felt the team as a Rotary family, and described the work as beautiful. On 7 November 2005 was the door for him, his colleagues, giving him a touching farewell with red roses and Hildegard Knef "For you to be red roses's raining."

Then vanished in the Thuringian increasingly born out of the public. After Alzheimer's disease when he was diagnosed, lived in 1922 when Werner was born Vorndran Mime withdrawn in a nursing home. Already in his 85th Birthday he lived in silence. Now is the little big actor dead He died on 1 May in a Leipzig hospital from the effects of pneumonia.

From the witty mourning.

A traumatic loss, a farewell replaced by Monika Treut's new film "Ghosted" Grief makes working with the tools of cinema. And is a wide visual journey into a foreign culture to their own soul life to explore.

 

"While working, I have often reminds Silvia Brugnera," says Monika Treut. Filmmaker igniting the second cigarette and looks at the question mark of a hair between their fingers.