Local titles take over screens
Only three US titles (including Michael Moore’s latest film) opened on German screens yesterday, outnumbered by a veritable battalion of German films, including 10 re-releases of films from the 1950s and 1980s: nine children’s titles by Fritz Genschow (distribution: Croco Film) and Frank Beyer’s crime comedy Der Bruch (Progress).
Six new releases (co)produced by Germany arrive on screens, starting with the intriguing new film by the director of Sophie Scholl: The Final Days [+see also:
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film profile]. With Pornorama [+see also:
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The film centres on two very different brothers: Bennie (Tom Schilling, Before the Fall and Atomised [+see also:
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film profile]), who agrees to filming student protests for the police, and Freddie (Benno Fürmann, Christian Petzold's Ghosts), who persuades him to make a completely different, low-budget genre film. The title – produced (Benrd Eichinger) and distributed by Constantin – also stars Karoline Herfurth.
W-Film is releasing another much-anticipated film, Jan Bonny's Counterparts [+see also:
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film profile] (see Making Of), a Heimatfilm production screened in Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, which depicts domestic violence between a seemingly respectable couple (see article.
Peripher is bringing to screens Afternoon, a story of summer love written, produced, starring and directed by Angela Schanelec (Passing Summer, Marseille) and adapted from Chekov’s The Seagull.
Further new arrivals are two co-productions: Srdjan Golubović’s Serbian/German/Hungarian film The Trap [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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