Novelist/screenwriter, Christian Kracht, gives a Paddington hard stare before his conversation on Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas with Daniel Bowles and Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: David Netto
Douglas Sirk's penultimate film before emigrating from Germany to Hollywood, La Habanera (1937), with Zarah Leander and Ferdinand Marian battling "Puerto Rico fever", fits right in with the mood of Imperium, throwing geography and time frames to the wind. Jan Ole Gerster, the director of A Coffee In Berlin (Oh Boy!) is attached with Tom Schilling (as South Sea savior of a sort, August Engelhardt) to the filming of Christian Kracht's German best-seller.
In 2013, at the Montréal World Film Festival, Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, co-written by Christian Kracht, had its international premiere. The first-rate ensemble cast includes Ronald Zehrfeld and Michael Maertens (both starring in Christian Petzold's latest, Phoenix), Margit Carstensen (of Rainer Werner Fassbinder fame), Sandra Hüller,...
Douglas Sirk's penultimate film before emigrating from Germany to Hollywood, La Habanera (1937), with Zarah Leander and Ferdinand Marian battling "Puerto Rico fever", fits right in with the mood of Imperium, throwing geography and time frames to the wind. Jan Ole Gerster, the director of A Coffee In Berlin (Oh Boy!) is attached with Tom Schilling (as South Sea savior of a sort, August Engelhardt) to the filming of Christian Kracht's German best-seller.
In 2013, at the Montréal World Film Festival, Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, co-written by Christian Kracht, had its international premiere. The first-rate ensemble cast includes Ronald Zehrfeld and Michael Maertens (both starring in Christian Petzold's latest, Phoenix), Margit Carstensen (of Rainer Werner Fassbinder fame), Sandra Hüller,...
- 7/24/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian in Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera La Habanera Review: Part I And this is where I got critical of the story. We see no slow deterioration of their marriage and we have nothing on which to base her change of heart. In the earlier sequence she thought her new life was "heaven", now she calls it "hell." Just exactly why, we don’t know. What we do see is that her son has become her surrogate husband. In fact, they have a relationship that borders on the incestuous; always kissing and fondling each other. The other mystery is that her son comes down with a fever, but it apparently has nothing to do with the island sickness that is a [...]...
- 5/12/2010
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
La Habanera (1937) Direction: Detlef Sierck (aka Douglas Sirk) Screenplay: Gerhard Menzel Cast: Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Julia Serda, Boris Alekin, Michael Schulz-Dornburg Zarah Leander La Habanera First, I have to state that I watched Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera, not knowing what to expect. All I knew was the brief synopsis on the DVD box. I also knew that Sirk was a director of such lush 1950s Technicolor soapers as Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, and Written on the Wind. None of which would ever appear on my "favorites" list. But La Habanera was produced in Germany in 1937 in black and white, and starred an actress I had heard about — Zarah Leander — but had never seen before, so [...]...
- 5/12/2010
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Updated.
To my knowledge, the only film in Competition at this year's Berlinale to be booed — and vigorously booed at that — was Oskar Roehler's Jew Suss - Rise and Fall (Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen, literally "Film without Conscience"), which purports to tell the story of the making of Jud Süß, the notoriously anti-Semitic film, wildly popular in Nazi Germany and beyond following its release in 1940. Pictured up there in all but desaturated grays and browns are Justus von Dohnany as Jud Süß director Veit Harlan, Moritz Bleibtreu as Joseph Goebbels, paying a visit to the set, Tobias Moretti as Ferdinand Marian, portraying, in turn, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, and some poor fellow who goes unnamed in the photo credits. Roehler's film doesn't see a release until late summer, so let's turn first to Felix Moeller's documentary, Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss, opening today at New...
To my knowledge, the only film in Competition at this year's Berlinale to be booed — and vigorously booed at that — was Oskar Roehler's Jew Suss - Rise and Fall (Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen, literally "Film without Conscience"), which purports to tell the story of the making of Jud Süß, the notoriously anti-Semitic film, wildly popular in Nazi Germany and beyond following its release in 1940. Pictured up there in all but desaturated grays and browns are Justus von Dohnany as Jud Süß director Veit Harlan, Moritz Bleibtreu as Joseph Goebbels, paying a visit to the set, Tobias Moretti as Ferdinand Marian, portraying, in turn, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, and some poor fellow who goes unnamed in the photo credits. Roehler's film doesn't see a release until late summer, so let's turn first to Felix Moeller's documentary, Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss, opening today at New...
- 3/3/2010
- MUBI
A new film about the making of Joseph Goebbels's 1940 attempt to outdo Hollywood is itself attracting controversy
It is still one of the most notorious films ever made: a perfidious, rabble-rousing, antisemitic product of the Nazi era, an infamous work of propaganda that is still kept under lock and key in the German film archives since it was banned in 1945. Jud Süss, originally made in 1940 and currently available for viewing only by a handful of bona fide academics and film historians, is back in the public eye owing to a new film about its creation, in what is the latest attempt by German cinema to dramatise the country's recent past.
Jud Süss: A Film Without a Conscience premiered at the Berlin film festival last week, and tells the story behind the Nazi project to make a historical costume melodrama so powerful and star-studded that it had the potential to...
It is still one of the most notorious films ever made: a perfidious, rabble-rousing, antisemitic product of the Nazi era, an infamous work of propaganda that is still kept under lock and key in the German film archives since it was banned in 1945. Jud Süss, originally made in 1940 and currently available for viewing only by a handful of bona fide academics and film historians, is back in the public eye owing to a new film about its creation, in what is the latest attempt by German cinema to dramatise the country's recent past.
Jud Süss: A Film Without a Conscience premiered at the Berlin film festival last week, and tells the story behind the Nazi project to make a historical costume melodrama so powerful and star-studded that it had the potential to...
- 2/25/2010
- by Kate Connolly
- The Guardian - Film News
How would you react if I told you that this year, in the middle of Berlin, you will have a chance to see the reincarnated version of the forbidden German movie?
It’s not a joke, and we are talking nothing but the truth! Jew Suss – Rise and Fall (Jud Suess – Film ohne Gewissen), stirred a controversy at its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival Thursday In Competition.
Movie about a movie, that’s how we could start this story. Extraordinary analyze of the Nazi – time in Germany, that will give you a new look at the past, brought to you by German director Oskar Roehler.
But let me tell you just one thing, if you expect to see some old war themes in this one – forget it! This time you will have an opportunity to see smart, charming, and highly intelligent man, Joseph Goebbels, who knew how to manipulate with his knowledge,...
It’s not a joke, and we are talking nothing but the truth! Jew Suss – Rise and Fall (Jud Suess – Film ohne Gewissen), stirred a controversy at its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival Thursday In Competition.
Movie about a movie, that’s how we could start this story. Extraordinary analyze of the Nazi – time in Germany, that will give you a new look at the past, brought to you by German director Oskar Roehler.
But let me tell you just one thing, if you expect to see some old war themes in this one – forget it! This time you will have an opportunity to see smart, charming, and highly intelligent man, Joseph Goebbels, who knew how to manipulate with his knowledge,...
- 2/19/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Berlin -- Can the Holocaust be turned into entertainment? That's the question that will be obsessed over in Germany over the next few months as Oskar Roehler's "Jew Suss -- Rise and Fall" makes its way from its Berlin International Film Festival premiere to cinema screens across the country.
Boos and hisses accompanied the Berlin press screening of "Jew Suss" and at the gala premiere, polite applause was all the audience could muster.
"Jew Suss" is uncomfortable on many levels for German moviegoers. First its controversial subject: the making of the notorious anti-Semitic movie "Jud Suss" in 1940. The original film is still largely banned here -- you can only watch it under tightly controlled conditions and accompanied by explanatory commentary. Then there is Roehler's approach. Instead of the solemn serious tact typical of German World War II films, he opts for melodrama bordering on farce.
Because of this, "Jew...
Boos and hisses accompanied the Berlin press screening of "Jew Suss" and at the gala premiere, polite applause was all the audience could muster.
"Jew Suss" is uncomfortable on many levels for German moviegoers. First its controversial subject: the making of the notorious anti-Semitic movie "Jud Suss" in 1940. The original film is still largely banned here -- you can only watch it under tightly controlled conditions and accompanied by explanatory commentary. Then there is Roehler's approach. Instead of the solemn serious tact typical of German World War II films, he opts for melodrama bordering on farce.
Because of this, "Jew...
- 2/19/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin, Feb 18 (Dpa) A movie about the making of one of the most notorious Nazi propaganda films stirred a controversy at its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival Thursday.
‘Jud Suess – Film ohne Gewissen’ (Jew Suss – Rise and Fall) by German-born director Oskar Roehler charts the rise and fall of the actor Ferdinand Marian who was forced to play the leading role in Josef Goebbels’ fiercely anti-Semitic 1940 film ‘Jud Suess’.
However, the movie was met with muffled.
‘Jud Suess – Film ohne Gewissen’ (Jew Suss – Rise and Fall) by German-born director Oskar Roehler charts the rise and fall of the actor Ferdinand Marian who was forced to play the leading role in Josef Goebbels’ fiercely anti-Semitic 1940 film ‘Jud Suess’.
However, the movie was met with muffled.
- 2/18/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
The Toronto and Other Fall Festivals Rights RoundUp list looks quite sizeable for what is claimed to have been a quiet festival season. Though it's true business down, the large number of acquisitions has not been viewed as such and yet is the result of a new trend which has been sneaking up over the past few years and has now taken hold. Distributors and sales agents now acquire Before the festivals rather than during. It developed out of Cannes' prescreenings which have mostly been discontinued, and it could go so far as to change the pre-Sundance adage Not to show the film to anyone before Sundance.
This Rights RoundUp for acquisitions executives, distributors, international sales agents, investors and producers is different from my previous Rr Reports. It is no longer a report based on data and FilmFinders is out of the equation. This listing of rights acquired Before the actual festival,...
This Rights RoundUp for acquisitions executives, distributors, international sales agents, investors and producers is different from my previous Rr Reports. It is no longer a report based on data and FilmFinders is out of the equation. This listing of rights acquired Before the actual festival,...
- 9/25/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
The Toronto and Other Fall Festivals Rights Round Up for acquisitions executives, distributors, international sales agents, investors and producers is different from my previous Rr Reports. It is no longer a report based on data and FilmFinders is out of the equation. This listing of rights acquired preliminary to the actual festival, during the festival and for a couple of months afterward can also be found on MDbPro who acquired FilmFinders in 2008 and where SydneysBuzz resides on the landing page and on IMDbPro's News Desk. Whenever possible, the list is alphabetical by international sales agent (linked to IMDbPro), and the Isa's titles are also linked to IMDbPro.
If you do not yet subscribe to IMDbPro, I would advise plunking down $100 for a year's subscription. You'll get more than your money's worth I promise. By going into Pro, you will be able to see all the territorial distributors for a particular title,...
If you do not yet subscribe to IMDbPro, I would advise plunking down $100 for a year's subscription. You'll get more than your money's worth I promise. By going into Pro, you will be able to see all the territorial distributors for a particular title,...
- 9/2/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
Cologne, Germany -- German star Moritz Bleibtreu ("The Baader Meinhof Complex") has signed on to star as Mephisto, the devil, in Oskar Roehler's adaptation of the classic "Faust."
The story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, "Faust" is one of the most enduring and influential German legends and has been adapted numerous times for the screen. Austrian director Phillip Hochhauser just completed a version based on the 19th century play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Concorde, which will release Roehler's "Faust" in Germany, did not give details on the rest of the cast or when shooting will start.
"Faust" will be the fourth collaboration between Bleibtreu and Roehler. The actor starred in Roehler's "Elementary Particles" (2006) and "Agnes and his Brothers" (2004) and plays Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels in Roehler's "Jud Suss," currently shooting in Vienna. "Jud Suss" explores the life of...
The story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, "Faust" is one of the most enduring and influential German legends and has been adapted numerous times for the screen. Austrian director Phillip Hochhauser just completed a version based on the 19th century play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Concorde, which will release Roehler's "Faust" in Germany, did not give details on the rest of the cast or when shooting will start.
"Faust" will be the fourth collaboration between Bleibtreu and Roehler. The actor starred in Roehler's "Elementary Particles" (2006) and "Agnes and his Brothers" (2004) and plays Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels in Roehler's "Jud Suss," currently shooting in Vienna. "Jud Suss" explores the life of...
- 8/18/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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