“Stella. A Life.,” which stars Berlinale best actress award-winner Paula Beer, has been sold to France, Scandinavia and Australia. The film will have a market screening at Toronto Film Festival, and will have its world premiere with a Gala Screening at the Zurich Film Festival.
Kinovista has taken distribution rights in France, with a theatrical release set for Jan. 17, in a deal negotiated by sales agency Global Screen. Further deals were closed with Mis. Label for Scandinavia and Moving Story for Australia.
The film had previously been sold to Spain (Twelve Oaks Pictures), Portugal (Films 4 You), Latin America (Cdi), Japan (The Klockworx), South Korea (Mediasoft) and Taiwan (Eagle Intl.), as well as for worldwide inflight rights.
Set in Berlin during World War II and inspired by a true story, the film focuses on Stella Goldschlag, who dreams of a career as a jazz singer. When the Gestapo arrests her,...
Kinovista has taken distribution rights in France, with a theatrical release set for Jan. 17, in a deal negotiated by sales agency Global Screen. Further deals were closed with Mis. Label for Scandinavia and Moving Story for Australia.
The film had previously been sold to Spain (Twelve Oaks Pictures), Portugal (Films 4 You), Latin America (Cdi), Japan (The Klockworx), South Korea (Mediasoft) and Taiwan (Eagle Intl.), as well as for worldwide inflight rights.
Set in Berlin during World War II and inspired by a true story, the film focuses on Stella Goldschlag, who dreams of a career as a jazz singer. When the Gestapo arrests her,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based sales agency Beta Cinema has launched the international trailer (below) for “In a Land That No Longer Exists,” which has its international premiere on Oct. 21 in the competition section of the Rome Film Festival.
Aelrun Goette’s feature debut, which was released in Germany on Thursday by Tobis, is inspired by the director’s own experiences in East Germany during the late 80s, when she worked as a model for fashion magazine Sibylle, the so-called “Vogue of the East.”
The action takes place in East Berlin in the early summer of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Wall. Eighteen-year-old Suzie is thrown headfirst into the vibrant fashion scene in socialist East Germany when a photograph of her ends up on the cover of Sibylle.
Together with the glamorous Rudi, she dives into the underground subculture working on their own fantastic fashion designs. When she falls in love...
Aelrun Goette’s feature debut, which was released in Germany on Thursday by Tobis, is inspired by the director’s own experiences in East Germany during the late 80s, when she worked as a model for fashion magazine Sibylle, the so-called “Vogue of the East.”
The action takes place in East Berlin in the early summer of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Wall. Eighteen-year-old Suzie is thrown headfirst into the vibrant fashion scene in socialist East Germany when a photograph of her ends up on the cover of Sibylle.
Together with the glamorous Rudi, she dives into the underground subculture working on their own fantastic fashion designs. When she falls in love...
- 10/10/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” with cinematography by Greig Fraser, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman, and Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” with cinematography by Dariusz Wolski, are among the movies selected in the main competition section of EnergaCamerimage. The 29th edition of the festival, which focuses on the art of cinematography, runs Nov. 13-20 in Toruń, Poland.
Villeneuve will be the recipient of this year’s Special Camerimage Award for Outstanding Director, with the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker attending in person to receive the award and present his film to the audience.
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will also play in competition and will open the festival, with Coen and cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel introducing the film in Toruń in person. Coen and Delbonnel previously worked together on “Tuileries”, “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
Other titles competing for the festival’s top prize,...
Villeneuve will be the recipient of this year’s Special Camerimage Award for Outstanding Director, with the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker attending in person to receive the award and present his film to the audience.
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will also play in competition and will open the festival, with Coen and cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel introducing the film in Toruń in person. Coen and Delbonnel previously worked together on “Tuileries”, “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
Other titles competing for the festival’s top prize,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Susanne Wolff is a force to be reckoned with in Styx Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Wolfgang Fischer's impassioned Styx, co-written with Ika Künzel, shot by Benedict Neuenfels, and edited by Monika Willi, takes us on an unexpected journey. Rike is a German emergency doctor. She sails alone, heading to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, where Charles Darwin experimented with the coexistence of native and non-native flora and fauna.
Wolfgang Fischer on Susanne Wolff as Rike: "It was important that she's an emergency doctor, she's got the skills."
After a violent storm, Rike finds herself confronted with a leaky, sinking, overcrowded fishing boat carrying desperate refugees. One of them, a boy with a bracelet spelling out Kingsley (Gedion Oduor Wekesa), manages to swim over to her. What is she to do? The Coast Guard seem to be stalling...
Wolfgang Fischer's impassioned Styx, co-written with Ika Künzel, shot by Benedict Neuenfels, and edited by Monika Willi, takes us on an unexpected journey. Rike is a German emergency doctor. She sails alone, heading to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, where Charles Darwin experimented with the coexistence of native and non-native flora and fauna.
Wolfgang Fischer on Susanne Wolff as Rike: "It was important that she's an emergency doctor, she's got the skills."
After a violent storm, Rike finds herself confronted with a leaky, sinking, overcrowded fishing boat carrying desperate refugees. One of them, a boy with a bracelet spelling out Kingsley (Gedion Oduor Wekesa), manages to swim over to her. What is she to do? The Coast Guard seem to be stalling...
- 4/29/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Susanne Wolff with Styx director Wolfgang Fischer on rescuing Kingsley (Gedion Oduor Wekesa): "I remember that we had a rehearsal to check out how difficult it is." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When Volker Schlöndorff was filming Return To Montauk near Lincoln Center and on the steps of the New York Public Library with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Bronagh Gallagher, Isioma Laborde-Edozien, and Mathias Sanders, he introduced me to the cast and his co-writer Colm Tóibín. At Film Forum before the Us theatrical premiere of Wolfgang Fischer’s Styx, I spoke with the director and his formidable star Susanne Wolff about the challenges of shooting on the high seas and how Jc Chandor's All Is Lost with Robert Redford did not encounter the same obstacles.
Susanne Wolff is Rieke in Wolfgang Fischer's Styx: "90% of the movie we shot on open ocean."
Wolfgang Fischer's impassioned Styx, co-written with Ika Künzel and shot by Benedict Neuenfels,...
When Volker Schlöndorff was filming Return To Montauk near Lincoln Center and on the steps of the New York Public Library with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Bronagh Gallagher, Isioma Laborde-Edozien, and Mathias Sanders, he introduced me to the cast and his co-writer Colm Tóibín. At Film Forum before the Us theatrical premiere of Wolfgang Fischer’s Styx, I spoke with the director and his formidable star Susanne Wolff about the challenges of shooting on the high seas and how Jc Chandor's All Is Lost with Robert Redford did not encounter the same obstacles.
Susanne Wolff is Rieke in Wolfgang Fischer's Styx: "90% of the movie we shot on open ocean."
Wolfgang Fischer's impassioned Styx, co-written with Ika Künzel and shot by Benedict Neuenfels,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Titles on Beta’s slate include films from Agnieszka Holland and Stefan Ruzowitzky.
German sales powerhouse Beta Cinema has revealed details of its new Cannes titles, among them the latest features from Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, Oscer nominee Agnieszka Holland, Un Certain Regard-winner Andreas Dresen and Golden Bear-winner Calin Peter Netzer.
Beta’s auteur-driven slate is headed by hard-boiled genre film Hell (working title, pictured), from Ruzowitzky, who won his Oscar for The Counterfeiters. Hell is a taut thriller about a young woman witnessing a brutal murder by a fanatic Islamist serial killer.
Shot by DoP Benedict Neuenfels (The Counterfeiters, Anonyma – A Woman In Berlin) and starring Violetta Schurawkow and Tobias Moretti, Hell is produced by genre experts Allegro Film and Amazing Film Company and is currently in post-production. First footage will be revealed at the Beta Cinema Cannes office.
Beta is also introducing buyers to Agnieszka Holland’s Game Count, a thriller...
German sales powerhouse Beta Cinema has revealed details of its new Cannes titles, among them the latest features from Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, Oscer nominee Agnieszka Holland, Un Certain Regard-winner Andreas Dresen and Golden Bear-winner Calin Peter Netzer.
Beta’s auteur-driven slate is headed by hard-boiled genre film Hell (working title, pictured), from Ruzowitzky, who won his Oscar for The Counterfeiters. Hell is a taut thriller about a young woman witnessing a brutal murder by a fanatic Islamist serial killer.
Shot by DoP Benedict Neuenfels (The Counterfeiters, Anonyma – A Woman In Berlin) and starring Violetta Schurawkow and Tobias Moretti, Hell is produced by genre experts Allegro Film and Amazing Film Company and is currently in post-production. First footage will be revealed at the Beta Cinema Cannes office.
Beta is also introducing buyers to Agnieszka Holland’s Game Count, a thriller...
- 5/11/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Match Factory is working again with Belgian director Sam Garbarski on international sales for his new feature film, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Alba Rohrwacher.
Described by Garbarski as “a historical comedy, a comedy of life, more moving than humorous because it’s true”, Bye-Bye Germany (working title) reunites with the Cologne-based sales company after their previous collaboration on the Locarno 2013 title Vijay And I.
The film will also see him reunited with German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, the star of Vijay and I, as a Holocaust survivor with a remarkable secret.
The international cast includes Alba Rohrwacher as an Italian Jew with a Harvard degree who hunts down Nazis, Hungarian actor Pal Macsai (‘Terapia’), Anatole Taubmann (Quantum Of Solace), La-based Israeli actor Mark Ivanir (Schindler’s List, ‘Homeland’), the German Film Award-winning Swiss actor Joel Basman (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) and Berlin-based, Turkish-born Tim Seyfi (‘Spiral’).
Adapted by Michel Bergmann from his own novel...
Described by Garbarski as “a historical comedy, a comedy of life, more moving than humorous because it’s true”, Bye-Bye Germany (working title) reunites with the Cologne-based sales company after their previous collaboration on the Locarno 2013 title Vijay And I.
The film will also see him reunited with German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, the star of Vijay and I, as a Holocaust survivor with a remarkable secret.
The international cast includes Alba Rohrwacher as an Italian Jew with a Harvard degree who hunts down Nazis, Hungarian actor Pal Macsai (‘Terapia’), Anatole Taubmann (Quantum Of Solace), La-based Israeli actor Mark Ivanir (Schindler’s List, ‘Homeland’), the German Film Award-winning Swiss actor Joel Basman (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) and Berlin-based, Turkish-born Tim Seyfi (‘Spiral’).
Adapted by Michel Bergmann from his own novel...
- 9/4/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Shooting began this week on Academy Award winner Stefan Ruzowitzky’s action-thriller, Patient Zero.
The feature stars Matt Smith (“Doctor Who,” Terminator Genisys), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”), John Bradley (“Game of Thrones”), Agyness Deyn (Clash of the Titans) and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games).
Production is based in the UK at Shepperton Studios and will shoot in and around London until April 18, 2015.
In Patient Zero, an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies has turned the majority of humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers known as ‘The Infected.’ One victim, Morgan (Matt Smith), who is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected, leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
Patient Zero is directed by Austrian Writer/Director, Stefan Ruzowitzky, best known for the 2008 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film The Counterfeiters, and is from a screenplay written by Mike Le.
The feature stars Matt Smith (“Doctor Who,” Terminator Genisys), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”), John Bradley (“Game of Thrones”), Agyness Deyn (Clash of the Titans) and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games).
Production is based in the UK at Shepperton Studios and will shoot in and around London until April 18, 2015.
In Patient Zero, an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies has turned the majority of humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers known as ‘The Infected.’ One victim, Morgan (Matt Smith), who is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected, leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
Patient Zero is directed by Austrian Writer/Director, Stefan Ruzowitzky, best known for the 2008 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film The Counterfeiters, and is from a screenplay written by Mike Le.
- 3/9/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
- Last year The Lives of Others cleaned up the "German Oscars", with eight nominations apiece, this year we find a tight race between Tom Tykwer's take on the Patrick Suskind novel a prison drama by helmer Chris Kraus. Perfume - The Story of a Murderer got a theatrical release stateside in late December. The Golden and Silver Lolas will be presented in a gala ceremony in Berlin on May 4. Here are the noms:Best Feature Film Emma's Bliss (dir: Sven Taddicken)The Counterfeiters (dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky)Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer (dir: Tom Tykwer)Four Minutes (dir: Chris Kraus)Grave Decisions (dir: Marcus H. Rosenmueller)Winter Journey (dir: Hans Steinbichler)Best Documentary The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez (dir: Heidi Specogna)Working Man's Death (dir: Michael Glawogger)Best Children's and Youth Film Hände Weg Vom Mississippi (dir: Detlev Buck)The Cloud (dir: Gregor Schnitzler)Best Direction
- 3/19/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
"A Map of the Heart" (Der Felsen) is a dreary tale about a distraught tourist losing her emotional balance on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Hoping to sell audiences on its deeper meanings, though, veteran German director Dominik Graf lavishes every trick of lighting and video camerawork he knows on this meager story populated with many unsympathetic characters.
It's No Sale, but, hey, you can't blame a guy for trying. You can, however, blame him for trite characters, contrived situations and implausible coincidences. Even these Graf and co-writer Markus Busch try to explain away by unraveling the tale within the African tradition of improvisational storytelling. Practitioners, who still ply this trade in Corsica, must link three random objects with an impromptu story, thus excusing the weird contours of its plot lines.
Mostly, Graf makes himself the movie's star by using the story as a pretext for his self-serving visuals. There will always be critics, some adult moviegoers and even festival juries impressed by such showoffs, so who knows how this competition film will fare at the Berlin International Film Festival? In the commercial marketplace, though, "Map" can expect only the shortest of theatrical runs.
Katrin's (Karoline Eichhorn) holiday becomes a nightmare when her married lover (Ralph Herforth) informs her that his wife is pregnant. (Doesn't your heart go out to her already?) When he splits, the unhinged Katrin strays from her "tourist sanctuary" to the company of male lowlifes who seemingly lurk around every corner on Corsica.
She falls in with a German youth named Malte (Antonio Wannek), who turns out to be a resident of a nearby camp of juvenile delinquents. His puppy-dog devotion to Katrin distracts her from the island's other sexual warriors. Malte goes AWOL from the camp, taking Katrin and his 11-year-old brother Kai (Sebastian Urzendowsky) on a volatile journey into the mountains.
What Malte's brother is doing on Corsica is never explained. Kai spends most of his time collecting junk from the beaches and trying to convince German tourists to adopt him.
The story bears scant scrutiny, but the characters are noteworthy for being among the most dislikable encountered in recent movies. Seemingly, they all lack brains, morality or even survival instincts. Wannek's Malte is the most viable character, an instinctual, amoral youth thrown for a loop by his first encounter with absolute love. Eichhorn projects an earthy sensuality, but Katrin is such a dummy that she can do little but go for broke in playing the emotive extremes.
The movie is jumpy and impressionistic, with the fatalistic drone of an unknown narrator playing against Hana Mullner's nervous editing and cinematographer Benedict Neuenfels' mix of light levels and weather conditions.
A MAP OF THE HEART
Kinowelt/ZDF/Bavaria Film
Producer: Gloria Burkert
Director: Dominik Graf
Screenwriters: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf
Director of photography: Benedict Neuenfels
Production designer: Claus Jurgen Pfeiffer
Music: Dieter Schleip
Costume designer: Barbara Grupp
Editor: Hana Mullner
Color/stereo
Cast:
Katrin: Karoline Eichhorn
Malte: Antonio Wannek
Kai: Sebastian Urzendowsky
Jurgen: Ralph Herforth
Robert: Peter Lohmeyer
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
It's No Sale, but, hey, you can't blame a guy for trying. You can, however, blame him for trite characters, contrived situations and implausible coincidences. Even these Graf and co-writer Markus Busch try to explain away by unraveling the tale within the African tradition of improvisational storytelling. Practitioners, who still ply this trade in Corsica, must link three random objects with an impromptu story, thus excusing the weird contours of its plot lines.
Mostly, Graf makes himself the movie's star by using the story as a pretext for his self-serving visuals. There will always be critics, some adult moviegoers and even festival juries impressed by such showoffs, so who knows how this competition film will fare at the Berlin International Film Festival? In the commercial marketplace, though, "Map" can expect only the shortest of theatrical runs.
Katrin's (Karoline Eichhorn) holiday becomes a nightmare when her married lover (Ralph Herforth) informs her that his wife is pregnant. (Doesn't your heart go out to her already?) When he splits, the unhinged Katrin strays from her "tourist sanctuary" to the company of male lowlifes who seemingly lurk around every corner on Corsica.
She falls in with a German youth named Malte (Antonio Wannek), who turns out to be a resident of a nearby camp of juvenile delinquents. His puppy-dog devotion to Katrin distracts her from the island's other sexual warriors. Malte goes AWOL from the camp, taking Katrin and his 11-year-old brother Kai (Sebastian Urzendowsky) on a volatile journey into the mountains.
What Malte's brother is doing on Corsica is never explained. Kai spends most of his time collecting junk from the beaches and trying to convince German tourists to adopt him.
The story bears scant scrutiny, but the characters are noteworthy for being among the most dislikable encountered in recent movies. Seemingly, they all lack brains, morality or even survival instincts. Wannek's Malte is the most viable character, an instinctual, amoral youth thrown for a loop by his first encounter with absolute love. Eichhorn projects an earthy sensuality, but Katrin is such a dummy that she can do little but go for broke in playing the emotive extremes.
The movie is jumpy and impressionistic, with the fatalistic drone of an unknown narrator playing against Hana Mullner's nervous editing and cinematographer Benedict Neuenfels' mix of light levels and weather conditions.
A MAP OF THE HEART
Kinowelt/ZDF/Bavaria Film
Producer: Gloria Burkert
Director: Dominik Graf
Screenwriters: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf
Director of photography: Benedict Neuenfels
Production designer: Claus Jurgen Pfeiffer
Music: Dieter Schleip
Costume designer: Barbara Grupp
Editor: Hana Mullner
Color/stereo
Cast:
Katrin: Karoline Eichhorn
Malte: Antonio Wannek
Kai: Sebastian Urzendowsky
Jurgen: Ralph Herforth
Robert: Peter Lohmeyer
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/27/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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