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German sales outfit Global Screen has snapped up world sales rights to odd couple romantic comedy The Intangible Joy Of Love, directed by Lars Kraume and will start talking to buyers at TIFF.

Based on Simon Stephens’ play Heisenberg, the film stars Caroline Peters and Burghart Klaussner, who both also starred in the original stage production. The film is about the unlikely romance between a bankrupt elderly butcher and an unpredictable school secretary.

Klaussner initially brought the project to X Filme and made the first connection with Stephens. The film is produced...

Director Lars Kraume knows a bit about the hidden corners of German history. His award-winning 2015 drama The People Vs. Fritz Bauer looked at the role played by the eponymous German Jewish state Attorney General in tracking down and bringing Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. And his 2018 The Silent Revolution followed the true story of a group of grade 12 pupils in 1956 East Germany who defy the authority of their teachers and state authorities by staging a silent protest in solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

But until he visited Africa himself in the early 1990s, Kraume had never heard of the darkest chapters in German history: the massacre, between 1904 and 1908, of tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people by officials and soldiers of the German colonial empire in what is now Namibia. The killings of the Herero (now often known as the Ovaherero) and Nama is widely...

"What's the idea?" The German Film Awards were held this weekend, and top prize for Best Picture went to a film titled Gundermann. Never heard of it? This is not uncommon with whatever the "equivalent of the Oscars" film prize is in each country, usually local films that don't play outside of their country, but a few big ones can break through. Gundermann tells the true story of an East German singer & writer named Gerhard Gundermann, played by Alexander Scheer, and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner, and the secret police (Stasi) of the Gdr. It just won Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Lead Actor, Scenery, and Costumes at the Deutscher Filmpreis. This also stars Anna Unterberger, Milan Peschel, and Peter Schneider. If you're curious to see what it's all about, watch below (with translation). Here's ...

Berlin follows in the footsteps of Oldenburg and Tribeca.

Source: Studiocanal

The Silent Revolution

The Berlin Film Festival (February 15 - 24) will screen a film in a local prison for the first time this year.

The festival’s local outreach strand Berlinale Goes Kiez, which spotlights neighbourhood cinemas, has been extended to include a screening at the penal institution Jva in Tegel on February 23.

Lars Kraume’s (The People vs Fritz Bauer) Berlinale Special feature The Silent Revolution has been selected for the prison screening. Starring Joerdis Triebel (Emma’s Bliss) and Maxim Mehmet (The Red Baron), the film tells the true-life story of a class of sixth-grade students who in 1956 stood up to the East German regime. They initially showed their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging a minute’s silence in class. Kraume will be on hand after to discuss the film with inmates.

Germany’s Oldenburg Film Festival has screened films in prisons...