A good-looking German and European line-up to the beat of Russendisko
- German cinemas today welcome a new comedy starring Matthias Schweighöfer, in a great selection of local and European productions
Paramount today released a long-awaited Black Forest Films and Seven Pictures production in German cinemas. Russendisko [+see also:
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The actor appears once again alongside Friedrich Mücke, with whom he also acted in Goller’s popular comedy. But while both films are set around the time of the fall of the Berlin wall, Russendisko is set entirely in Eastern Europe. Its heroes are three friends from Moscow, Wladimir (Schweighöfer), Mischa (Mücke), and Andrej (Christian Friedel), who manage to make it to Berlin at the beginning of the 1990s, and find themselves in a completely different universe to what they know.
For a younger audience, Universum has released Sams in Glück [+see also:
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Production and distribution company WTP International has released bedroom drama Die Wahrheit der Lüge by Roland Reber, in which a writer pushed by his editor detains two women underground and invents ways to torture them, both physically and psychologically, to bring them to their limits.
The other new German films this week are the documentary Out of the Darkness by Stefano Levi (distr. Barnsteiner) and French-German-Polish co-production Elles [+see also:
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But this is not all for Europe, as debese.film has released Aurora [+see also:
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From the United Kingdom come The Woman in Black [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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