Thriller marks Emma Watson’s first lead role since Harry Potter.
Pincipal photography is about to begin on thriller Colonia, from German director Florian Gallenberger (John Rabe).
The film stars Emma Watson in her first lead role since the Harry Potter franchise and Daniel Brühl, the German star of Rush and The Face of an Angel.
The film will shoot in Luxembourg, Munich, Berlin and South America, until the end of the year.
Colonia tells the story of Lena and Daniel, a young couple, who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973.
Daniel is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad.
The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel.
Gallenberger is directing...
Pincipal photography is about to begin on thriller Colonia, from German director Florian Gallenberger (John Rabe).
The film stars Emma Watson in her first lead role since the Harry Potter franchise and Daniel Brühl, the German star of Rush and The Face of an Angel.
The film will shoot in Luxembourg, Munich, Berlin and South America, until the end of the year.
Colonia tells the story of Lena and Daniel, a young couple, who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973.
Daniel is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad.
The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel.
Gallenberger is directing...
- 9/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Thriller marks Emma Watson’s first lead role since Harry Potter.
Pincipal photography is about to begin on thriller Colonia, from German director Florian Gallenberger (John Rabe).
The film stars Emma Watson in her first lead role since the Harry Potter franchise and Daniel Brühl, the German star of Rush and The Face of an Angel.
The film will shoot in Luxembourg, Munich, Berlin and South America, until the end of the year.
Colonia tells the story of Lena and Daniel, a young couple, who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973.
Daniel is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad.
The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel.
Gallenberger is directing...
Pincipal photography is about to begin on thriller Colonia, from German director Florian Gallenberger (John Rabe).
The film stars Emma Watson in her first lead role since the Harry Potter franchise and Daniel Brühl, the German star of Rush and The Face of an Angel.
The film will shoot in Luxembourg, Munich, Berlin and South America, until the end of the year.
Colonia tells the story of Lena and Daniel, a young couple, who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973.
Daniel is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad.
The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel.
Gallenberger is directing...
- 9/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
German helmer Florian Gallenberger won an Oscar for his 2000 short film Quiero Ser (I Want To Be…) and followed that up with such features as Honolulu and City Of War: The Story Of John Rabe. Both those films starred Daniel Bruhl with whom the director is reteaming on Colonia. Principal photography is about to begin on the thriller that has Emma Watson opposite Bruhl in a tale inspired by true events. They play a young couple who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel (Bruhl) is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena (Watson) tracks him to a sealed-off area in the south of the country called Colonia Dignidad. The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by a lay preacher, but is in fact a place from which no one has ever escaped. In order to find her beloved, Lena decides to join the cult.
- 9/29/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Berlin -- Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" may have missed out on the best foreign film Oscar but the Austrian filmmaker is all but certain to sweep the German Film Awards after "The White Ribbon" received 13 nominations for the country's top prize, the Lolas.
"The White Ribbon" picked up Lola noms in all possible categories, including best film, best director and best acting noms for stars Burghart Klaussner and Susanne Lothar.
Cinematographer Christian Berger, whose stark black-and-white images earned him an Oscar nomination, is the favurite to win the Lola for best cinematography at the German Film Awards on April 23 in Berlin.
"When We Leave," a drama from first-time director Feo Aladag, was the big surprise, earning six Lola nominations including ones for best film and best actress for Sibel Kekilli ("Head-On") in her comeback role as a young woman banished from her devout Muslim family.
Hans-Christian Schmid's...
"The White Ribbon" picked up Lola noms in all possible categories, including best film, best director and best acting noms for stars Burghart Klaussner and Susanne Lothar.
Cinematographer Christian Berger, whose stark black-and-white images earned him an Oscar nomination, is the favurite to win the Lola for best cinematography at the German Film Awards on April 23 in Berlin.
"When We Leave," a drama from first-time director Feo Aladag, was the big surprise, earning six Lola nominations including ones for best film and best actress for Sibel Kekilli ("Head-On") in her comeback role as a young woman banished from her devout Muslim family.
Hans-Christian Schmid's...
- 3/19/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MUNICH -- Imagine Steve Martin's Bowfinger making a film based on the unshaved illustrations in the original edition of The Joy of Sex, and you have a pretty good idea of what Pornorama is all about. It's not as broadly comic as Bowfinger, not as brilliantly caricatured, and not as tightly edited, but at least there are some cute sex scenes and a young love story.
The most interesting aspect of Pornorama to American audiences, and the main reason that it will likely be an attraction at festivals if not the arthouse circuit, is its European attitude toward the human body in general and sex in particular. The film is set in late '60s Germany, when a long tradition of nudism was mixing with both a ban on smut and an explosion of perversely clinical sex education films (which were, thanks to the ban, consumed salaciously).
Pornorama features a crucially funny scene in which the baby-faced director Bennie (ably portrayed by Tom Schilling) watches a medley of such "explanatory" films to get ideas for his own movie. Unfortunately, the possibilities inherent in that scene are never really explored, and the movie becomes a less caustic and captivating twist on Bowfinger, including the endearingly oddball crew and the star who doesn't realize what the film is about.
In a direct comparison, the contrast becomes crystal clear: When Bennie needs tears from his Italian bombshell heroine (played exceptionally well by Valentina Lodovini), he sets up the makeup girl offscreen with a big onion and a grater. When Bowfinger needs fear from his hero, he dresses his dog in pumps.
Pornorama remains genial as opposed to biting, leaving the audience somewhat more cheerful than when they came in as opposed to gasping for air between laughs.
The production values are high with hippie-era Munich lovingly recreated, if a bit tongue-in-cheek, by production designer Bernd Lepel and costume designer Natascha Curtius-Noss. A soundtrack by top German producer Mousse T., while inauthentic to the period, gets the viewer's attention.
The most interesting aspect of Pornorama to American audiences, and the main reason that it will likely be an attraction at festivals if not the arthouse circuit, is its European attitude toward the human body in general and sex in particular. The film is set in late '60s Germany, when a long tradition of nudism was mixing with both a ban on smut and an explosion of perversely clinical sex education films (which were, thanks to the ban, consumed salaciously).
Pornorama features a crucially funny scene in which the baby-faced director Bennie (ably portrayed by Tom Schilling) watches a medley of such "explanatory" films to get ideas for his own movie. Unfortunately, the possibilities inherent in that scene are never really explored, and the movie becomes a less caustic and captivating twist on Bowfinger, including the endearingly oddball crew and the star who doesn't realize what the film is about.
In a direct comparison, the contrast becomes crystal clear: When Bennie needs tears from his Italian bombshell heroine (played exceptionally well by Valentina Lodovini), he sets up the makeup girl offscreen with a big onion and a grater. When Bowfinger needs fear from his hero, he dresses his dog in pumps.
Pornorama remains genial as opposed to biting, leaving the audience somewhat more cheerful than when they came in as opposed to gasping for air between laughs.
The production values are high with hippie-era Munich lovingly recreated, if a bit tongue-in-cheek, by production designer Bernd Lepel and costume designer Natascha Curtius-Noss. A soundtrack by top German producer Mousse T., while inauthentic to the period, gets the viewer's attention.
- 10/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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