This 3D adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s bestseller Measuring The World re-imagines the lives of the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt and explores their groundbreaking methods of measuring the world. Shooting on location in South Africa and Cologne wrapped at the end of May for the co-production between Pandora Filmproduktion, South Africa’s DV8 Films, Zinebar and Spier Films, Paris-based Cinema Defacto, Amsterdam’s Topkapi Film and broadcasters WDR and ARTE.Ĭontact The Match Factory - Measuring The World
“Set in the present, in the more rural parts of South Africa and of course in a casino complex, Layla Fourie depicts a side of this land which is probably less familiar,” Marais says. Her third feature, Layla Fourie, is a thriller that sees the director return to South Africa, where she was born. Also starring Janet McTeer, Axel Milberg, Julia Jentsch and Ulrich Noethen, Hannah Arendt was written by von Trotta and Pamela Katz and is a co-production by Germany’s Heimatfilm with France, Luxembourg and Israel.Ĭontact The Match Factory - Layla Fourieīerlin-based director Marais drew acclaim for her first two features, The Unpolished and At Ellen’s Age, with the former winning a Tiger at Rotterdam in 2007. German actress Barbara Sukowa plays Arendt, collaborating with von Trotta for the seventh time after such films as Rosa Luxemburg, which screened in Competition at Cannes in 1986, where Sukowa was named best actress. Premiering in Toronto as a Special Presentation, the latest from veteran film-maker von Trotta follows German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt’s life of exile in New York and the controversy surrounding her coining of the phrase “banality of evil” to describe Adolf Eichmann’s actions as a member of the Nazi regime. The film had its market premiere in July at the German Films Previews in Hamburg and is a co-production between Meerapfel’s Malena Filmproduktion, Geissendörfer Film & Fernsehproduktion and Argentina’s Jempsa.Ĭontact The Match Factory - Hannah Arendt
Celeste Cid and Max Riemelt star as the thwarted lovers.
When Friedrich learns his father was an SS lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany, he breaks off all contact and returns to Germany. Meerapfel’s first feature since Anna’s Summer in 2001, The German Friend weaves autobiographical elements into a love story about Sulamit, the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants growing up in Buenos Aires in the 1950s, and Friedrich, a German boy whose parents escaped to Argentina after the war. The three-hour epic will be released in German cinemas in summer 2013 by Concorde Film and might premiere beforehand in Cannes.Ĭontact ARRI Worldsales - The German Friend Principal photography on the $9.8m (€7.9m) co-production between Munich-based Edgar Reitz Film-produktion and France’s Les Films du Losange wrapped on August 21.
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While the Heimat series were set in the 20th century, Die Andere Heimat takes place between 1840-43 when thousands from Germany’s Hunsrück region emigrated to Brazil to escape famine and poverty.
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Veteran German director Reitz - who turns 80 on November 1 - revisits the fictional village of Schabbach, the setting for his internationally acclaimed Heimat TV series, in this feature prequel.
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