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During a roundtable interview at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where star Daniel Brühl is being feted with the Kviff President’s Award, the actor-director-producer recalled the “very bittersweet memories” of his directorial debut, the dark German comedy “Next Door,” being chosen for competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, only for the festival to be held virtually that year. Three years later, as part of Kviff’s celebration of Brühl’s career, “Next Door” is set to screen at the Grand Hall, the festival’s premiere venue, with a proper in-person audience.

Inspired by an idea that came to him while dining in a restaurant in Spain a decade ago, Brühl’s prickly film combines a meta examination of movie stardom with a stark critique of rampant gentrification. The two-hander stars Brühl as an egotistical actor, also named Daniel, who stops into a local Berlin...

Se trata del segundo largometraje dirigido por Brühl tras ‘La Puerta de al Lado’. © Getty Images

Según ScreenDaily, Daniel Bruhl dirigirá la película “Break”, protagonizada por la estrella de “Sin Novedad en el Frente”, Felix Kammerer, y basada en el libro “Un Esplendor Terrible: Tres Hombres Extraordinarios, un Mundo Preparado para la Guerra y el Mejor Partido de Tenis jamás Jugado”, de Hossein Amini.

Kammerer interpretará a Gottfried von Cramm, un campeón de tenis alemán cuya carrera tuvo como telón de fondo el ascenso del Tercer Reich en la Alemania de los años treinta, que veía en el joven y apuesto campeón un instrumento ideal de propaganda. La vida de Von Cramm estuvo llena de complejidades políticas y personales, incluido un triángulo amoroso de alto riesgo y un secreto que podría haberle costado la vida. En la Copa Davis de 1937, en Wimbledon, Von Cramm se enfrentó a la estrella estadounidense...

Maren Eggert won Berlin’s Silver Bear for her performance in Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy.

Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s dark comedy Next Door in a brace of deals with Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema.

Both German features received their world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in March, where Maren Eggert won the Berlinale’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for her leading performance in I’m Your Man.

Curzon will release I’m Your Man, which also stars Dan Stevens,...

There’s sardonic self-deprecation in the part Daniel Brühl has chosen for himself in his first feature as director, that of a European movie star sweating over an audition for a Hollywood superhero film that stands to push his fame — and his bank account — to the next level. But celebrity entitlement is only one part of the package. It eventually takes a back seat to gentrification when the protagonist’s obliviousness to those left behind in the moneyed makeover of post-reunification East Berlin comes back to bite him in his self-absorbed ass.

An amusing, accomplished debut on its ...

Two fine actors volley for advantage across 90 minutes in the tastily insidious little melodrama Next Door (Nebenan). Stepping behind the camera for the first time while also remaining in front of it, Daniel Bruhl shows a sure grip on this mostly two-handed bar room encounter between an international film star (played by Bruhl himself) and a portly older fellow (Babylon Berlin’s Peter Kurth in a terrific turn) who knows far too much about the actor’s private life for comfort. This sharp-minded and engrossing drama of wits and secrets succeeds both in keeping the audience keen to know what’s really going on here and achieving lift-off for Bruhl’s directorial career if he seeks one.

A smart, crowd-pleasing choice (albeit remotely) for the 2021 Berlin Film Festival competition, this is an unusual film in that you’d swear was originally written as...