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RELEASES Germany

Eleven European films in line-up

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Most German distributors are playing at home this week, with 11 European titles in the line-up. These include five German productions and one co-production, which is none other than Daniel Alfredson’s Swedish film The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest [+see also:
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, the last instalment in the famous trilogy based on Stieg Larsson’s novels.

Among the German titles in the line-up is the documentary The Two Horses of Genghis Khan [+see also:
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, the third work by Mongolian-born director Byambasuren Davaa (The Story of the Weeping Camel). The film is produced by Munich’s Atrix Films and Grasland and distributed by polyband.

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Reverse is launching Rolf Peter Kahl’s Bedways [+see also:
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, in which a young female film director and two actors are brought together in an abandoned Berlin apartment to film a sex scene where each of them thinks they’re in control (production: Independent Partners and Mogador).

Kahl also has a minor acting role in Mein by actor-turned-director Detlef Bothe. Produced by the director’s Munich-based company B-Filme, who are also handling distribution, the film stars Bothe as a middle-aged man on holiday with a female companion who is half his age and falls in love with another camper.

The list of today’s new German releases is completed by Michael Kupczyk’s comedy Diamantenhochzeit (“Diamond Wedding”), in which a wedding turns to disaster, with a dead body, mafia, neurosis and screaming thrown in (produced by Aquafilm, distributed by Alpha Medienkontor); and Simone Jung’s documentary Königin Im Ring, about female boxer Regina Halmich (distributed by Progress).

Other European documentaries are hitting German screens: Franny Armstrong’s disturbing UK film The Age of Stupid about the future of the planet (Tao Cinemathek); Miguel Gomes’s Portuguese musical documentary Our Beloved Month of August [+see also:
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; and French film Substitute [+see also:
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by Fred Poulet and Vikash Dhorasoo, in which the latter describes the frustrating experience of spending the Football World Cup 2006 on the French national team’s substitutes’ bench. The latter two films are being released by Arsenal Institut.

Finally, the programme also includes Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini’s UK musical film StreetDance 3D [+see also:
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(distributed by Universum); and US thriller Splice, co-produced by France (Senator).

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(Translated from French)

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