The relentless 15-year hunt for Adolf Eichmann, the notorious high-ranking Nazi criminal who fled Germany at the end of WW2 and hid in Argentina with his family, will be charted in a thriller series by Rose Bosch.
Titled “The Capture,” the six-part English-language series is being produced by Marc Missonnier and Christine de Bourbon-Busset at Lincoln TV, the Paris-based banner behind “Mirages” and “Cheyenne & Lola.” The script is now completed and the veteran producers are getting ready to introduce the project to potential partners, including broadcasters and streamers.
Bosch, a former investigative journalist who is passionate about history, previously wrote the script of Ridley Scott’s Christopher Columbus film “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” as well as penned and directed “The Roundup” which depicted the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv) in Paris. The 2010 movie, which sheds light on the lesser-known mass arrest of Jews, including children,...
Titled “The Capture,” the six-part English-language series is being produced by Marc Missonnier and Christine de Bourbon-Busset at Lincoln TV, the Paris-based banner behind “Mirages” and “Cheyenne & Lola.” The script is now completed and the veteran producers are getting ready to introduce the project to potential partners, including broadcasters and streamers.
Bosch, a former investigative journalist who is passionate about history, previously wrote the script of Ridley Scott’s Christopher Columbus film “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” as well as penned and directed “The Roundup” which depicted the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv) in Paris. The 2010 movie, which sheds light on the lesser-known mass arrest of Jews, including children,...
- 2/18/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The prevalence of female directors is higher in documentary than fiction or animation, study finds.
The share of films made by female directors in Europe is “growing slowly,” reaching 19% in 2017 according to a study.
Overall, only 17% of European feature films were directed by women between 2003 and 2017, with females representing 21% of all directors that made a European film during that time.
In the report on the gender of directors by the European Audiovisual Observatory, 49% of all women directors included in the study had made just one film since 2003.
The study, which considered more than 21,000 European films, also found that the prevalence...
The share of films made by female directors in Europe is “growing slowly,” reaching 19% in 2017 according to a study.
Overall, only 17% of European feature films were directed by women between 2003 and 2017, with females representing 21% of all directors that made a European film during that time.
In the report on the gender of directors by the European Audiovisual Observatory, 49% of all women directors included in the study had made just one film since 2003.
The study, which considered more than 21,000 European films, also found that the prevalence...
- 10/22/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French sales company to unveil teaser and first images of coming-of-age-horror tale.
Gaumont has picked up sales on Danish filmmaker Jonas Arnby’s When Animals Dream about a young girl who is hunted down by the inhabitants of her remote fishing village when it emerges she is a werewolf.
“Think Let The Right One In and Carrie,” says Gaumont sales chief Cécile Gaget. Dubbed a coming-of-age horror film, When Animals Dream is commercials and shorts director Arnby’s feature-length debut.
Newcomer Sonia Suhl stars as the tragic protagonist Marie, who wreaks a bloody revenge on her persecutors, with support from Lars Mikkelsen and Sonja Richter as her parents and Jakob Oftebro as her love interest.
Gaumont will unveil a teaser and photos for the production which started shooting in the remote Danish region of North Jutland in early September. The picture is due for delivery in time for Cannes next year.
The company...
Gaumont has picked up sales on Danish filmmaker Jonas Arnby’s When Animals Dream about a young girl who is hunted down by the inhabitants of her remote fishing village when it emerges she is a werewolf.
“Think Let The Right One In and Carrie,” says Gaumont sales chief Cécile Gaget. Dubbed a coming-of-age horror film, When Animals Dream is commercials and shorts director Arnby’s feature-length debut.
Newcomer Sonia Suhl stars as the tragic protagonist Marie, who wreaks a bloody revenge on her persecutors, with support from Lars Mikkelsen and Sonja Richter as her parents and Jakob Oftebro as her love interest.
Gaumont will unveil a teaser and photos for the production which started shooting in the remote Danish region of North Jutland in early September. The picture is due for delivery in time for Cannes next year.
The company...
- 11/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
If we accept that Holocaust films have become a genre onto themselves, espousing survival against impossible odds or perhaps bravery in the face of organized genocide, a chance to hold on to a shred of humanity when up against deplorable conditions, then it's fair game to discuss the cliches many lesser and greater films about the time period trade in. One of the key cliches, a foundation really, is the film taking a moment to establish the vibrant and diverse Jewish communities, frequently caught unawares, expecting mere discrimination while the specter of annihilation creeps up and swings open the doors of stifling cattle cars. It's a chance for a film to show how people who aren't so different from their non-Jewish neighbors are reduced to second class citizens, enemies of the state, and finally subhuman vermin, barely fit to work themselves to death. It's also not particularly compelling to see after the tenth go-round,...
- 11/16/2012
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- The Playlist
Did you know that on July 16, 1942, French police arrested more than 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children? What has become known as the Vel' d’Hiv Roundup was the result of Nazi pressure on Vichy officials who opted to do the dirty deed themselves rather than appear weak and unhelpful to the Nazis. In The Round Up, writer-director Rose Bosch does attempt to show the French officials making some objections -- such as not wanting to arrest any Jews who are French citizens -- but saying no to Hitler was not acceptable to the Nazis. The Jews -- French citizens or not -- are first brought to the Winter Velodrome, a colossal stadium that offers horrendously inhumane living conditions. Next they are taken to a French interment camp at Drancy, which turns out to be a mere pit stop before being sent to their death at Auschwitz. It is inside the Velodrome that a kind Jewish doctor,...
- 11/15/2012
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The Roundup (La Rafle)
by Rose Bosch (Isa: Legende). U.S. Menemsha. France: Gaumont, TF1, Canal +, France Television
Until the 1990s when then-Prime Minister Jacques Chirac officially accepted the idea of French complicity for the Vichy regime of France, all Frenchmen seem to have claimed to have been part of DeGaulle’s Resistance Movement. Recently, the new Prime Minister Hollande apologized again for France’s role in rounding up the Jews, especially 13,000 in Paris who were herded into the Vel’ Hive (The Winter Velodrome). Because of the acknowledgement, filmmaker and former journalist Rose Bosch could raise private equity to make the feature The Roundup (La Rafle) on the same subject. With a 47% increase in Anti-Semitism in France, when the film aired on TV, Twitter was inundated with Anti-Semitic remarks and jokes which is frightening today to those whose ideals remain on the side of democratic multi-culturalism.
No Place On Earth (The Cave)
by Emmy Award winning director Janet Tobias (Isa: Global Screen GMBh). U.S. contact Submarine
The longest recorded underground survival story in human history was 511 days. This record was set when 5 Jewish families in the Ukraine who descended into a pitch black cave to escape the Nazis.
The Third Half
by Darko Mitrevski, Macedonia's submission for Oscar Nomination for est Foreign Language Film (Isa: The Little Film Co.).
Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city in 1939. When Rebecca, the beautiful Jewish daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry’s plans must change. The Third Half was born twelve years ago, while the director Darko Metrevski was digging up forgotten stories for a historical TV series. "I remember that, while I was seeking witnesses of various historic periods, someone mentioned the old Mrs. Neta Koen, recently interviewed by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Soon I found myself in her apartment listening to her stories: She was one of the few Holocaust survivors in Macedonia, a country in which 98% of the Jewish population was brutally wiped out during the WW2. I remember I couldn’t resist asking: “Pardon my curiosity, but how did you survive?” She answered with equal sincerity: “Well, I eloped with a poor football player, and my family renounced me, so my name was not on the lists for deportation. My forbidden love saved my life and the continuity of my family tree as well.” And of course, as in every big, important, monumental event – there is a woman behind all of that.
"Finally, it is a story of my grandfather Vlastimir, a soccer referee and a Holocaust survivor whose written remembrances were the first horrible experience of my childhood.This movie is dedicated to the loving memory of my father, who taught me that creating art is like playing sports – one should never give up as long as his feet stand on the pitch."
Upcoming: Sylvain Bursztejn of Sequoia Films in Paris is now shooting The Last Man in Cologne directed by Pierre-Henry Salfati.
by Rose Bosch (Isa: Legende). U.S. Menemsha. France: Gaumont, TF1, Canal +, France Television
Until the 1990s when then-Prime Minister Jacques Chirac officially accepted the idea of French complicity for the Vichy regime of France, all Frenchmen seem to have claimed to have been part of DeGaulle’s Resistance Movement. Recently, the new Prime Minister Hollande apologized again for France’s role in rounding up the Jews, especially 13,000 in Paris who were herded into the Vel’ Hive (The Winter Velodrome). Because of the acknowledgement, filmmaker and former journalist Rose Bosch could raise private equity to make the feature The Roundup (La Rafle) on the same subject. With a 47% increase in Anti-Semitism in France, when the film aired on TV, Twitter was inundated with Anti-Semitic remarks and jokes which is frightening today to those whose ideals remain on the side of democratic multi-culturalism.
No Place On Earth (The Cave)
by Emmy Award winning director Janet Tobias (Isa: Global Screen GMBh). U.S. contact Submarine
The longest recorded underground survival story in human history was 511 days. This record was set when 5 Jewish families in the Ukraine who descended into a pitch black cave to escape the Nazis.
The Third Half
by Darko Mitrevski, Macedonia's submission for Oscar Nomination for est Foreign Language Film (Isa: The Little Film Co.).
Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city in 1939. When Rebecca, the beautiful Jewish daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry’s plans must change. The Third Half was born twelve years ago, while the director Darko Metrevski was digging up forgotten stories for a historical TV series. "I remember that, while I was seeking witnesses of various historic periods, someone mentioned the old Mrs. Neta Koen, recently interviewed by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Soon I found myself in her apartment listening to her stories: She was one of the few Holocaust survivors in Macedonia, a country in which 98% of the Jewish population was brutally wiped out during the WW2. I remember I couldn’t resist asking: “Pardon my curiosity, but how did you survive?” She answered with equal sincerity: “Well, I eloped with a poor football player, and my family renounced me, so my name was not on the lists for deportation. My forbidden love saved my life and the continuity of my family tree as well.” And of course, as in every big, important, monumental event – there is a woman behind all of that.
"Finally, it is a story of my grandfather Vlastimir, a soccer referee and a Holocaust survivor whose written remembrances were the first horrible experience of my childhood.This movie is dedicated to the loving memory of my father, who taught me that creating art is like playing sports – one should never give up as long as his feet stand on the pitch."
Upcoming: Sylvain Bursztejn of Sequoia Films in Paris is now shooting The Last Man in Cologne directed by Pierre-Henry Salfati.
- 11/9/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Title: La Rafle (The Roundup) Menemsha Films Director: Rose Bosch Screenwriter: Rose Bosch Cast: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Hugo Leverdez Screened at: Broadway, NYC, 8/23/12 Opens: October 5, 2012 Many people are aware that the Holocaust was perpetrated on Jews by Germany but not so many realize that the roundups could not have been so efficient if the Germans did not have help from people in the occupied territories. Perhaps the worst case of collaboration between Germans and locals was that involving the French police, whose rationalization may have been that they were following orders of the people in authority but in reality could have refused to obey [ Read More ]...
- 8/24/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Kristin Scott Thomas is a journalist who uncovers a secret while researching a piece about the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942
A few weeks ago, Rose Bosch's 2010 film La Rafle, or The Roundup, was released here. It was a decent attempt to dramatise one of French history's most horrifying episodes: thousands of Jews in occupied Paris in 1942 were rounded up at the Nazis' bidding, herded into a sports centre (the Winter velodrome, or Vel d'Hiv) before being sent on to the death camps. It took what might be called a top-down view of this event: narrating the story and showing the political machinations of high-ranking French and German officials who had decided on this horrendous action. This film, by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, comes at the same subject from a different angle. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia Jarmond, a modern-day journalist working on a magazine feature about the Vel d'Hiv affair.
A few weeks ago, Rose Bosch's 2010 film La Rafle, or The Roundup, was released here. It was a decent attempt to dramatise one of French history's most horrifying episodes: thousands of Jews in occupied Paris in 1942 were rounded up at the Nazis' bidding, herded into a sports centre (the Winter velodrome, or Vel d'Hiv) before being sent on to the death camps. It took what might be called a top-down view of this event: narrating the story and showing the political machinations of high-ranking French and German officials who had decided on this horrendous action. This film, by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, comes at the same subject from a different angle. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia Jarmond, a modern-day journalist working on a magazine feature about the Vel d'Hiv affair.
- 8/4/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
From writer-director Rose Bosch comes La Rafle (The Roundup), a film that tells the story of the 1942 'Vel' d'Hiv Roundup'. Its main cast includes Jean Reno (Leon The Professional, The Da Vinci Code) as a Jewish doctor, and Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, The Concert) as a Christian nurse. The film was a box office hit in France and won numerous Audience Awards at film festivals. Synopsis: In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France. Their parents do not seem too concerned either, somehow putting their trust in the Vichy Government. But beyond this view, much is going on. Hitler demands that the French government round up its Jews and put...
- 8/1/2011
- Screen Anarchy
The Round Up
Stars: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh | Written and Directed by Rose Bosch
If you’re looking for a summer feel-good film, look away now. Still with us? Good. The Round Up is a French language period drama, set in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. The fragile peace of the Jewish communities is rocked as the Nazis tighten their grip on Jewish freedoms before arresting over 13,000 people and transporting them to the Vel’ d’Hiv velodrome. There they are cared for by a small number of tireless nurses and Jean Reno’s Jewish doctor, before being moved on to a work camp. We already know all too well what fate awaited them after that.
The film is painstakingly researched from eyewitness accounts and portrays one of the most disturbing and merciless chapters of history. Writer and director Rose Bosch captures the events of the film with a dignified and humane touch.
Stars: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh | Written and Directed by Rose Bosch
If you’re looking for a summer feel-good film, look away now. Still with us? Good. The Round Up is a French language period drama, set in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. The fragile peace of the Jewish communities is rocked as the Nazis tighten their grip on Jewish freedoms before arresting over 13,000 people and transporting them to the Vel’ d’Hiv velodrome. There they are cared for by a small number of tireless nurses and Jean Reno’s Jewish doctor, before being moved on to a work camp. We already know all too well what fate awaited them after that.
The film is painstakingly researched from eyewitness accounts and portrays one of the most disturbing and merciless chapters of history. Writer and director Rose Bosch captures the events of the film with a dignified and humane touch.
- 7/31/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
We've been inundated with films about the second World War, Hitler and the holocaust, but former investigative journalist Rose Bosch tries to give us a new perspective in exploring the French angle in her new feature The Round-Up.
Still, The Round-Up is moving in its attention to detail. Signs displayed on train carriages like "people 40, horses 8” act as a constant reminder to the horrific conditions the Jews contended with, as do the crammed stadium scenes and reflections from a WW1 Verdun nurse who claims facilities were better in the trenches. Talk of “only four suicides so far” during the round-up highlight the shocking disregard for human life prevalent in some warped leaders' minds during WW2. One of the most stirring moments is when the ever-optimistic “parasites” walking from the station to the camp start singing. It's certainly difficult viewing - especially when considering the sheer brutality of the Nazi regime...
Still, The Round-Up is moving in its attention to detail. Signs displayed on train carriages like "people 40, horses 8” act as a constant reminder to the horrific conditions the Jews contended with, as do the crammed stadium scenes and reflections from a WW1 Verdun nurse who claims facilities were better in the trenches. Talk of “only four suicides so far” during the round-up highlight the shocking disregard for human life prevalent in some warped leaders' minds during WW2. One of the most stirring moments is when the ever-optimistic “parasites” walking from the station to the camp start singing. It's certainly difficult viewing - especially when considering the sheer brutality of the Nazi regime...
- 7/4/2011
- Shadowlocked
A popular hit in France, Rose Bosch's La Rafle is a dramatisation of the night of 16 July 1942, when Paris gendarmes arrested more than 13,000 Jews in their homes and interned them in the winter velodrome. The film also depicts life under German-occupation for Jews in Paris (wearing yellow stars, being sacked from public jobs such as teaching) and contains scenes of Hitler at Berchtesgaden that are clearly based on Eva Braun's home film footage, and reconstructions of Maréchal Pétain signing the Jews' death warrants. The film's glossy colour palette and stylisation may initially give the impression of a quaint period film (more shoah-business), but ultimately there is no denying the power of the events, the importance of them now being told in movie form, nor the clear-eyed way that Bosch dramatises previously dry historical facts – in order to leave us misty-eyed.
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- 6/18/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Life In A Day (12A)
(Kevin Macdonald, 2011, Us)
Compiled from amateur submissions of what people all over the world did on 24 July 2010, this documentary sets itself an almighty challenge. It's fashioned into some sort of narrative order, with recurring themes and music, and moments of emotion and illumination, which saves it from becoming a random global channel-surf. But you could say the subjective "direction" and homogenising technical treatment are at odds with the democratic intentions.
The Beaver (12A)
(Jodie Foster, 2011, Us) Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin. 91 mins
Having crucified Jesus, Gibson now nails himself to the cross in a bizarre talk-to-the-hand family drama that feels more like the actor's own public therapy session.
Green Lantern (12A)
(Martin Campbell, 2011, Us) Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard. 114 mins
Like banks, summer superhero movies are now too big to fail. But will Reynolds's charm, a virtual costume and some interplanetary effects be...
(Kevin Macdonald, 2011, Us)
Compiled from amateur submissions of what people all over the world did on 24 July 2010, this documentary sets itself an almighty challenge. It's fashioned into some sort of narrative order, with recurring themes and music, and moments of emotion and illumination, which saves it from becoming a random global channel-surf. But you could say the subjective "direction" and homogenising technical treatment are at odds with the democratic intentions.
The Beaver (12A)
(Jodie Foster, 2011, Us) Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin. 91 mins
Having crucified Jesus, Gibson now nails himself to the cross in a bizarre talk-to-the-hand family drama that feels more like the actor's own public therapy session.
Green Lantern (12A)
(Martin Campbell, 2011, Us) Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard. 114 mins
Like banks, summer superhero movies are now too big to fail. But will Reynolds's charm, a virtual costume and some interplanetary effects be...
- 6/17/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A straightforward, heartfelt drama about the Nazi occupation of France. By Peter Bradshaw
The Nazi occupation is still a controversial subject in France. Just last month, on getting the red card at Cannes for his "Nazi" joke, Lars von Trier flung the "Vichy" jibe at the festival organisers: reminding them of the collaboration. This drama, from writer-director Rose Bosch, does a decent job of recreating the horror of this period. Thousands of Jews were rounded up in Paris in 1942, herded into a sports arena and then sent off to the camps, never to return. A single line over the final credits recalls that thousands more Jews were in fact hidden from the Gestapo by brave Parisians – but the drama itself toughly focuses on those who were cravenly delivered to the Nazis by complicit French police officers and civil servants. Jean Reno plays a kindly Jewish doctor who stayed with his...
The Nazi occupation is still a controversial subject in France. Just last month, on getting the red card at Cannes for his "Nazi" joke, Lars von Trier flung the "Vichy" jibe at the festival organisers: reminding them of the collaboration. This drama, from writer-director Rose Bosch, does a decent job of recreating the horror of this period. Thousands of Jews were rounded up in Paris in 1942, herded into a sports arena and then sent off to the camps, never to return. A single line over the final credits recalls that thousands more Jews were in fact hidden from the Gestapo by brave Parisians – but the drama itself toughly focuses on those who were cravenly delivered to the Nazis by complicit French police officers and civil servants. Jean Reno plays a kindly Jewish doctor who stayed with his...
- 6/16/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Mysterious, complex, contradictory – all qualities often ascribed to Grigori Rasputin. Okay, sure, most people looked at him with terror and with fear. But, it must be noted, to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear. Director of The Round Up, Rose Bosch, is prepping a new movie about Rasputin, with Jean Reno in the lead role, and I recently spoke to her about it.
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- 4/6/2011
- by PaulMartin
- indiemoviesonline
French comedians Gad Elmaleh and Manu Payet have joined the cast of Woody Allen.s romantic comedy "Midnight in Paris."According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is currently shooting on location in Paris.The all-star cast includes Adrien Brody, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Elsa Pataky, Michael Sheen, Marion Cotillard and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.The film focuses on a family traveling to Paris for business, including a young engaged couple whose lives are changed throughout the journey.Elmaleh recently starred in Francis Veber's "The Valet," opposite Audrey Tautou in "Priceless" and Roselyne Bosch's Holocaust drama "The Round-Up" opposite Jean Reno and Melanie Laurent. Payet recently starred in Elmaleh's film "Coco."...
- 7/15/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Paris -- Marion Cotillard and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy won't be the only Frenchies spending "Midnight in Paris" with Woody Allen with Gallic comedians Gad Elmaleh and Manu Payet tapped for the prolific director's France-based film currently shooting in Paris.
Both will have only small roles, with Elmaleh shooting for three days and Payet for just one. Elmaleh has recently starred in Francis Veber's "The Valet," opposite Audrey Tautou in "Priceless" and more recently Roselyne Bosch's Holocaust drama "The Round-Up" opposite Jean Reno and "Inglourious Basterds" star Melanie Laurent.
Payet, a well-known funnyman on French small and big screens, recently starred in Elmaleh's film "Coco."
The Gallic cast will break bread and fromage with the already-announced all-star cast that includes Adrien Brody, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Elsa Pataky and Michael Sheen in the story about an American family who head to the French capital on business.
The pressure...
Both will have only small roles, with Elmaleh shooting for three days and Payet for just one. Elmaleh has recently starred in Francis Veber's "The Valet," opposite Audrey Tautou in "Priceless" and more recently Roselyne Bosch's Holocaust drama "The Round-Up" opposite Jean Reno and "Inglourious Basterds" star Melanie Laurent.
Payet, a well-known funnyman on French small and big screens, recently starred in Elmaleh's film "Coco."
The Gallic cast will break bread and fromage with the already-announced all-star cast that includes Adrien Brody, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Elsa Pataky and Michael Sheen in the story about an American family who head to the French capital on business.
The pressure...
- 7/13/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Grigori Efimovich Rasputin: mystic, healer, political mischief-maker, charlatan. He was a cat that was really gone. It was a shame how he carried on. He's been played onscreen by Christopher Lee, Tom Baker, Alan Rickman and Karel Roden (among others). And according to Variety, Rasputin is en route to the movies again, in two separate projects: one written and directed by Roselyne Bosch, and one starring Gerard Depardieu.Both films seem focused on the final two years of Rasputin's life: the time from 1914-1916 in which he was inveigled in the St Petersburg court, manipulating Tsaritsa Alexandra, and heading towards his complicated and spectacular murder (he was poisoned, beaten, shot, strangled, castrated and drowned, in that order. They wanted to be really sure).Bosch was the writer of 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Ridley Scott's unloved 1992 epic in which Depardieu played Christopher Columbus. Her English-language Rasputin: The...
- 5/20/2010
- EmpireOnline
He's been seen running rampant across the screen in a Hammer Films production (with Christopher Lee looking wild-eyed). And he's served as a deft foe against Hellboy. Now Rasputin is getting his own biopic in Rasputin: The Healer . Roselyne Bosch will direct from her own script. She also penned Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise . Producer Alain Goldman (also of 1492 and Martin Scorsese's Casino ) tells the trades the film "will focus on two years in the life of charismatic monk Grigori Rasputin, who dominated the court of pre-Revolution Russia. Set at the St. Petersberg royal court, 'Rasputin' aims to capture the complexity of Rasputin's character." The film will reportedly be ready for late 2011.
- 5/18/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Film attempts to recreate the terror of the 1942 Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, in which 13,000 Jews were rounded up in Paris
When, in 1995, Joseph Weismann reflected on the chances of a film being made about the horrors he witnessed in the thick heat of a Parisian summer more than 50 years earlier, his answer was uttered through tears: "I don't think that anyone would ever dare."
Tomorrow, 15 years after his words were broadcast on television, and almost 70 years on from arguably the most terrible and taboo episode in modern French history, Weismann will be proved wrong. For the first time since 19 July 1942, when about 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by members of their own country's police force and locked inside a velodrome in western Paris, before being taken to concentration camps, a film director has attempted to recreate the terror of the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv.
A harrowing drama following the events...
When, in 1995, Joseph Weismann reflected on the chances of a film being made about the horrors he witnessed in the thick heat of a Parisian summer more than 50 years earlier, his answer was uttered through tears: "I don't think that anyone would ever dare."
Tomorrow, 15 years after his words were broadcast on television, and almost 70 years on from arguably the most terrible and taboo episode in modern French history, Weismann will be proved wrong. For the first time since 19 July 1942, when about 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by members of their own country's police force and locked inside a velodrome in western Paris, before being taken to concentration camps, a film director has attempted to recreate the terror of the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv.
A harrowing drama following the events...
- 3/9/2010
- by Lizzy Davies
- The Guardian - Film News
France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...
Budgeted at E20 million ($26.4 million) and set during the second World War, The Round Up is about a French police operation involving 9,000 officers, which rounded up 13,000 Jews, mostly the elderly, women and children, on the night of July 16, 1942. Most were kept at Paris' Velodrome d'Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France's Vichy government.
"America has a lot of movies, about Vietnam, the CIA, the Iraq War. This round-up is probably the biggest tragedy in French history, but it's never been told in film," producer Alain Goldman said.
The Round Up stars Jean Reno and...
Budgeted at E20 million ($26.4 million) and set during the second World War, The Round Up is about a French police operation involving 9,000 officers, which rounded up 13,000 Jews, mostly the elderly, women and children, on the night of July 16, 1942. Most were kept at Paris' Velodrome d'Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France's Vichy government.
"America has a lot of movies, about Vietnam, the CIA, the Iraq War. This round-up is probably the biggest tragedy in French history, but it's never been told in film," producer Alain Goldman said.
The Round Up stars Jean Reno and...
- 11/4/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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