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CANNES 2010 Market / Germany

Beta Cinema out in force on Croisette

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Beta Cinema has more than one trick up its sleeve, as it gets ready to present its catalogue at the Cannes Film Market.

Titles include this spring’s surprise German box office hit: Ralf Huettner’s road movie Vincent Wants to Sea, produced by Olga Film and released on April 22 by Constantin. The film centres on Tourette’s syndrome sufferer Vincent (Florian David Fitz, also screenwriter), who goes to scatter his mother’s ashes in the sea, accompanied by two other misfits played by Karoline Herfurth and Heino Ferch.

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Beta’s rhythmic selection also includes Electro Ghetto by Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex [+see also:
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), produced by Bernd Eichinger for Constantin and Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The film, about the life of Germany’s biggest rapper, Bushido, has attracted over 500,000 German cinemagoers since its domestic release at the start of February.

Buyers on the Croisette will also get the chance to discover Philipp Stennert and Cyrill Boss’s Jerry Cotton [+see also:
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, which is adapted from the eponymous internationally-famed series of novels. It stars Christian Tramitz as an FBI agent, alongside Heino Ferch and Mónica Cruz (sister of Penelope). Produced by Rat Pack, the film was launched on screens by Constantin in March.

Beta is handling sales for another title distributed by Constantin: Peter Gersina’s Tiger-Team, which is also adapted from a series of novels. Released yesterday, the film centres on three young detectives carrying out an investigation in China.

Beta will also show the first reels from Philipp Stölzl’s Goethe!, which is produced by deutschfilm/Senator and has been pre-sold for Greece, Slovakia and the Czech Republic; Wolfgang Murnberger’s My Best Enemy, starring Moritz Bleibtreu as a Jewish man who decides to dupe his friend who has become a Nazi; and Claudio Cupellini’s A Quiet Life, featuring Toni Servillo (Il Divo [+see also:
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) as a former mafioso who has settled in Germany.

Beta Cinema’s catalogue also includes John Turturro’s musical documentary Neapolitan Songs; Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s war drama Hidden, which is in post-production; multiple award-winning film Au Revoir Taipei; Bjoern Richie Lob’s documentary Keep Surfing, about surfers in Munich; and Spanish director David Pinillos’s European co-production Bon Appétit [+see also:
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, which triumphed at the recent Malaga Film Festival.

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(Translated from French)

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