After announcing new Akin and Wenders and Schloendorff and Graf here before, there are a handful of projects still to add to the “highly anticipated in 2017” section: WORK WITHOUT AN AUTHOR (German trailer) comes out this fall by THE LIVES OF OTHER director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who has to redeem himself for the fall he took with THE TOURIST. In the drama starring Tom Schilling (OH BOY) and newcomer talent Paula Beer (interview), a young artist has escaped from East Germany but is tormented by his upbringing under the Nazi and GDR regimes. Then he meets Ellie, the love of his life, and begins to process the traumatic past in his paintings.
Tuesday, April 11. 2017
Most anticipated German films of 2017 (part 2)
After announcing new Akin and Wenders and Schloendorff and Graf here before, there are a handful of projects still to add to the “highly anticipated in 2017” section: WORK WITHOUT AN AUTHOR (German trailer) comes out this fall by THE LIVES OF OTHER director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who has to redeem himself for the fall he took with THE TOURIST. In the drama starring Tom Schilling (OH BOY) and newcomer talent Paula Beer (interview), a young artist has escaped from East Germany but is tormented by his upbringing under the Nazi and GDR regimes. Then he meets Ellie, the love of his life, and begins to process the traumatic past in his paintings.
Harking back to themes of political oppression and creative freedom, Donnersmarck is also reuniting with international star Sebastian Koch from THE LIVES OF OTHERS, who recently also joined the romantic drama BEL CANTO alongside Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
In a complete departure from his preoccupations with totalitarianism (or perhaps not), Donnersmarck goes Viking with THORGAL, in development: A mysterious child, Thorgal, is found and adopted by a Viking chieftain. The child develops into a formidable warrior who is called to fight against forces far greater than anything the Vikings could ever have imagined. Donnersmarck is also said to be attached to mystery thriller THE 28TH AMENDMENT, in which the president of the United States discovers a secret cabal that runs the government and wants him dead. Clearly, he should speed up production on this project before real life overtakes fiction.
If you can’t get enough of beautiful-mysterious Paula Beer, try to catch the ZDF TV series BAD BANKS. Director Christian Schwochow (WEST; PAULA) takes us into the complex world of international finance, following investment banker Jana Liekam (Beer), who gets a new job at a giant German bank with the help of her former boss after being fired for someone else’s mistake. In her new position, Jana is promoted quickly, but soon gets sucked into an intrigue forcing her to endanger her own bank and provoking a major crisis with a global impact. Schwochow: "BAD BANKS goes for the big human abyss. Intoxication, addiction, narcissism, rise and fall -- but also the fascination with influencing the way the world turns."
From a world with lots of money and no time to one with a small budget and a lot of time: Armin, a freelancer in his 40s, is not really happy with his life but also not willing to change anything. One day, he wakes up and realizes that all humans have disappeared. In his fourth feature film, IN MY ROOM, Ulrich Köhler (known for SLEEPING SICKNESS, and now as Maren Ade’s husband) tries his hand at philosophical sci-fi, to look forward to in 2018. You might enjoy seeing Antonia Putiloff (WHO AM I) and Hans Löw (TONI ERDMANN) again.
And finally, my #TIFF17 hope (and if not ready, then Berlinale 2018 bet): TRANSIT, the new film by Christian Petzold after his huge international 2014 success PHOENIX, is a reworking of the novel by Anna Seghers, set in 1944 among refugees trying to escape the Nazi invasion of France by heading south. The film will start shooting in Marseille in May, Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski (TIGER GIRL) are announced as lead casts --and strangely no mention of Nina Hoss anymore, who Petzold mentioned as attached to the project when both were in Toronto three years ago. Beyond TRANSIT, Petzold is in script development for UNDINE: City historian Undine does guided tours around the urban development senate of Berlin. When her boyfriend leaves her, she want to live and love, not mourn and seek revenge. Which changes when she meets her ex again...
by @JuttaBrendemuhl
ímage: promo Image Paula Beer in Bad Banks c Letterbox Filmproduktion/Sammy Hart
In a complete departure from his preoccupations with totalitarianism (or perhaps not), Donnersmarck goes Viking with THORGAL, in development: A mysterious child, Thorgal, is found and adopted by a Viking chieftain. The child develops into a formidable warrior who is called to fight against forces far greater than anything the Vikings could ever have imagined. Donnersmarck is also said to be attached to mystery thriller THE 28TH AMENDMENT, in which the president of the United States discovers a secret cabal that runs the government and wants him dead. Clearly, he should speed up production on this project before real life overtakes fiction.
If you can’t get enough of beautiful-mysterious Paula Beer, try to catch the ZDF TV series BAD BANKS. Director Christian Schwochow (WEST; PAULA) takes us into the complex world of international finance, following investment banker Jana Liekam (Beer), who gets a new job at a giant German bank with the help of her former boss after being fired for someone else’s mistake. In her new position, Jana is promoted quickly, but soon gets sucked into an intrigue forcing her to endanger her own bank and provoking a major crisis with a global impact. Schwochow: "BAD BANKS goes for the big human abyss. Intoxication, addiction, narcissism, rise and fall -- but also the fascination with influencing the way the world turns."
From a world with lots of money and no time to one with a small budget and a lot of time: Armin, a freelancer in his 40s, is not really happy with his life but also not willing to change anything. One day, he wakes up and realizes that all humans have disappeared. In his fourth feature film, IN MY ROOM, Ulrich Köhler (known for SLEEPING SICKNESS, and now as Maren Ade’s husband) tries his hand at philosophical sci-fi, to look forward to in 2018. You might enjoy seeing Antonia Putiloff (WHO AM I) and Hans Löw (TONI ERDMANN) again.
And finally, my #TIFF17 hope (and if not ready, then Berlinale 2018 bet): TRANSIT, the new film by Christian Petzold after his huge international 2014 success PHOENIX, is a reworking of the novel by Anna Seghers, set in 1944 among refugees trying to escape the Nazi invasion of France by heading south. The film will start shooting in Marseille in May, Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski (TIGER GIRL) are announced as lead casts --and strangely no mention of Nina Hoss anymore, who Petzold mentioned as attached to the project when both were in Toronto three years ago. Beyond TRANSIT, Petzold is in script development for UNDINE: City historian Undine does guided tours around the urban development senate of Berlin. When her boyfriend leaves her, she want to live and love, not mourn and seek revenge. Which changes when she meets her ex again...
by @JuttaBrendemuhl
ímage: promo Image Paula Beer in Bad Banks c Letterbox Filmproduktion/Sammy Hart
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