"When film is not a document, it is dream," Swedish director Ingmar Bergman once said. In this case, it might be both: German director Margarethe von Trotta, who the Goethe-Institut Toronto recently honoured with the
film series "Margarethe & Barbara", has been invited to the Croisette this year. Her (first) documentary SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN (DE/FR) will have its world premiere in the Cannes Classics sidebar of the 71st Festival de Cannes (8-19 May 2018), which shows historically important films.
Also screening will be BAGDAD CAFE by Percy Adlon from 1987 and the German co-production THE SPECIALIST by Sergio Corbucci (FR/IT/DE, 1969) in Cannes Classics: Cinéma de la Plage.
About SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN:
Ingmar Bergman, who was awarded several Oscars and the "Palm of Palms" Honorary Prize in Cannes in 1997, is regarded as one of the most important filmmakers of all time. He would have turned 100 in 2018. On this occasion, internationally renowned German director Margarethe von Trotta (HANNAH ARENDT) takes a closer look at the work and person of Ingmar Bergman in a personal homage. They first met in Munich in 1977, and von Trotta later learnt that Bergman had placed her film MARIANNE AND JULIANE on the list of
his 11 favourite films alongside Fellini, Kurosawa, Chaplin and other giants of cinema.
In her first documentary Margarethe von Trotta sets off on a journey through various countries, immerses herself in the Bergman universe, visits close collaborators and original locations to find out what was at the core of Bergman the filmmaker and the man. She speaks with family members, his actors as well as Bergman experts. His complex female characters and a fresh interpretation of his masterpieces are the key elements of this quest. In conversation with such directors as Carlos Saura, Olivier Assayas, Ruben Östlund or Mia Hansen-Løve, von Trotta ponders the question: What significance does Bergman have for today's generation of filmmakers? What is his legacy?
Margarethe von Trotta (born 1942 in Berlin) ranks among the most important female directors in German cinema and has been called "the world’s leading feminist filmmaker." She also made a name for herself as an actress, starring in films by well known German directors such as Fassbinder and Schlöndorff. Her films are concerned with relationships between and among women (sisters, best friends), as well as with relationships between women and men, often in political settings. Her best-known films include: "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975, co-directed with Volker Schlöndorff), "The Second Awakening of Christa Klages" (1977), "Marianne and Juliane" ("Die Bleierne Zeit", 1981), "Rosa Luxemburg" (1985), and "Hannah Arendt" (2012).
All of the German films and co-productions at Cannes 2018...
source:
German Films
Images:
Margarethe von Trotta at the Goethe-Institut Toronto 2012
Ingmar Bergman on the set of "Wild Strawberries" 1957, press photo Svenska filministitutet
