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Noch bis 5. Dezember werden die Filme 23 und 24 der Ard-Donnerstagskrimi-Reihe gedreht.

Christian Kohlund und Ina Paule Klink spielen auch in den beiden „Zürich-Krimis“, die aktuell gedreht werden, die Hauptrollen (Credit: Ard Degeto Film/Pascal Mora)

Unter der Regie von Roland Suso Richter entstehen noch bis 5. Dezember die Filme 23 und 24 der Ard-Donnerstagskrimi-Reihe aus Zürich, „Borchert und der Schlüssel zum Mord“ und „Borchert und die Glut des Bösen“. In den Hauptrollen spielen Ina Paule Klink und Christian Kohlund erneut die Rechtsanwältin Dominique Kuster und den „Anwalt ohne Lizenz“ Thomas Borchert.

Im „Zürich-Krimi: Borchert und der Schlüssel zum Mord“, zu dem Wolf Jakoby das Drehbuch geschrieben hat, wird auf der Baustelle des erfolgreichen Bauunternehmers Rick Spoery (Helgi Schmid) die Leiche seiner ehemaligen Buchhalterin Luisa Weiss (Barbara Prakopenka) gefunden. Diese hatte den Bauunternehmer und seine Verlobte Hanna (Sophie Pfennigstorf) monatelang gestalkt und gegen ein bestehendes Kontaktverbot verstoßen, weshalb er sich hilfesuchend...

Asli Özge’s film opened the New German Cinema section at Munich

Screen can reveal the trailer for Asli Özge’s Black Box, the opening film of the New German Cinema section at this week’s Munich Film Festival.

Black Box sees a security lockdown put the residents of a Berlin apartment block under increasing pressure, in a film described by Screen reviewer Amber Wilkinson as a “tense ensemble drama.”

The cast includes Luise Heyer, Felix Kramer, Christian Berkel, Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Manal Issa, André Szymanski, Sascha Alexander Geršak, Jonathan Berlin and Anne Ratte-Polle

Black Box is a production of Zeitsprung Pictures...

Asli Özge’s film opened the New German Cinema section at Munich

Screen can reveal the trailer for Asli Özge’s Black Box, the opening film of the New German Cinema section at this week’s Munich Film Festival.

Black Box sees a security lockdown put the residents of a Berlin apartment block under increasing pressure, in a film described by Screen reviewer Amber Wilkinson as a “tense ensemble drama.”

The cast includes Luise Heyer, Felix Kramer, Christian Berkel, Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Manal Issa, André Szymanski, Sascha Alexander Geršak, Jonathan Berlin and Anne Ratte-Polle

Black Box is a production of Zeitsprung Pictures...

Labyrinth Of Lies director Giulio Ricciarelli Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Giulio Ricciarelli's Oscar shortlisted Best Foreign Language Film candidate, Labyrinth Of Lies, stars Alexander Fehling of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds fame, with Johannes Krisch (Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld and Götz Spielmann's Revanche), André Szymanski, Hansi Jochmann, Friederike Becht (Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt), Johann von Bülow and Mathis Reinhardt, and is dedicated to the late great stage actor, Gert Voss.

"Heimatfilm", Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl: The Final Days on the White Rose shot by Martin Langer, Vico Torriani, Caterina Valente and how the costume design of Aenne Plaumann (Goodbye Lenin!), a La Strada poster, design by Manfred Döring and Janina Jaensch were orchestrated by "card players", gender roles in the Fifties, and what's in a title.

Marlene Wondrak (Friederike Becht) with Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling)

Ricciarelli in his debut feature captures a mood of cold-sweat exhilarated revitalisation,...

Labyrinth Of Lies director Giulio Ricciarelli with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Aimee Morris

I met up with the director of Germany's Oscar submission, Labyrinth Of Lies (Im Labyrinth Des Schweigens), Giulio Ricciarelli, at the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, where I previously engaged Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth on working with Nick Cave, plus Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders on The Salt Of The Earth earlier this year. Chet Baker's music was playing in the lobby, reminding me of Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost, upon entering the labyrinth to discuss Ricciarelli's impressive debut feature. It stars Alexander Fehling of Inglourious Basterds fame, with Johannes Krisch (Finsterworld, Revanche), André Szymanski, Friederike Becht, Johann von Bülow and Mathis Reinhardt, and is dedicated to the late great stage actor, Gert Voss, who is spectacular as the unsung real-life hero State Attorney General Fritz Bauer.

Alexander Fehling as Johann Radmann

Claude Lanzmann...

Labyrinth Of Lies (Im Labyrinth des Scheigens) Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director: Giulio Ricciarelli Written by: Elisabeth Bartel, Giulio Ricciarelli Cast: André Szymanski, Alexander Fehling, Gert Voss, Johannes Krisch, Friederike Becht, Hansi Jochmann, Johann von Bülow, Robert Hunger-Bühler Screened at: Sony, NYC, 9/2/15 Opens: September 30, 2015 Giulio Ricciarelli’s film “Labyrinth of Lies” brings to mind Arthur Miller’s equally melodramatic play, “All My Sons.” In that latter work, sixty-year-old Joe Keller is guilty of shipping damaged aircraft cylinder heads to U.S. pilots during World War II, causing the deaths of twenty-one pilots. Though Keller is exonerated, he ultimately commits [ Read More ]

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Too often-forgotten and yet a key historical period in post-WW2, that began in 1958 was the revelation of the German crimes for the first time to its own people.

“Labyrinth of Lies” is based upon true events and tells the tale of Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling, “Inglourious Basterds”) a young, principled prosecutor who investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of “very normal Germans” who had actively facilitated the Final Solution at Auschwitz, but remained unpunished, and ignored, long after the war ended. The five-year investigation led to the 1963-1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. August 19, 2015 will mark the 50th anniversary of the verdict.

A hit in France and Germany, and a selection of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Beta has sold the film widely:

Argentina-Cdi Films, Australia-Madman Entertai, Brazil -Mares Filmes Lt, Canada -Métropole Films, Canada-Mongrel Media, France-Universcine, France-Sophie Dulac Di, Germany-Universal Pictu, Israel-Nachshon Films, Italy-Good Films Srl, Japan-At Entertainmen, Poland-Aurora Films, Portugal-Films4you, Taiwan-Swallow Wings F, Turkey- Fabula Films

“Labyrinth of Lies” casts light on how, despite the infamy of the Nuremberg trials, much of post-war Germany denied its war crimes. Crisply photographed, and propelled by sterling performances from Fehling, Szymanski and Krisch, the film parallels personal drama with issues of a national scale, and raises still-relevant questions about war, and how history is ultimately written.

From the first frame, the film demands attention. At times, a bit hackneyed with some heavy-handed musical cues toward “emotional” moments, and at times a bit too long, however the subject matter and the attractive stars are very engrossing. One wants to see how the action will unfold and is willing to forgive the overly melodramatic moments. This is the German submission for the Academy Award out of eight which were considered.

Director Giulio Ricciarelli was born in Milan, and has acted in numerous German films and television programs. “Labyrinth of Lies” is his feature film directorial debut. German film and stage actor Alexander Fehling, best known to U.S. audiences for his role as Staff Sgt. Wilhelm in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds”, was awarded The Shooting Star Award at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. He will next be seen in the new season of “Homeland” as Carrie (Claire Danes)’s new love interest, and has been cast as Friedrich Engels in Raoul Peck’s “The Young Karl Marx”.

Sony Pictures Classics will release “Labyrinth of Lies”, Giulio Ricciarelli’s feature film debut, Wednesday, September 30 in New York and Los Angeles.

Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli. Written by Elisabeth Bartel and Giulio Ricciarelli. Cinematography by Martin Langer, Roman Osin. Starring Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederike Becht, Johannes Krisch, Hansi Jochmann, Johann von Bulow, Robert Hunger-Buhler, Lukas Miko and Gert Voss.

121 Minutes. In German with English Subtitles.

Sony Pictures Classics has released the brand new poster for the upcoming drama Labyrinth Of Lies.

Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli, Labyrinth Of Lies opens in NY & La September 25th, followed by a national roll-out in more theaters. On writing the dialogue, Ricciarelli says, “We don’t want to give viewers a history lesson, but an emotional cinematic experience.”

Germany 1958. Reconstruction, economic miracle. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses. When the journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) causes a ruckus in the courthouse, Radmann pricks up his ears: a friend of Gnielka’s identified a teacher as a former Auschwitz guard, but no one is interested in prosecuting him.

Against the will of his immediate superior, Radmann begins to examine the case – and lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization.

The distributor has picked up North American rights to Giulio Ricciarelli’s directorial debut ahead of Friday’s world premiere.

Labyrinth Of Lies takes place in postwar Germany as a young attorney sets out to prosecute a man suspected of being a former guard at Auschwitz.

Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Johann von Bülow and Friederike Becht and Gert Voss star.

Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion produced Labyrinth Of Lies in co-production with Naked Eye Film Production.

Spc, which called Labyrinth Of Lies “the gem under the rock” at Toronto, negotiated the deal with Beta Cinema, from whom it previously acquired The Lives Of Others, The Counterfeiters, In Darkness and The Notebook.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to Giulio Ricciarelli's directorial debut "Labyrinth of Lies," based on the true story of a Nazi coverup during WWII, ahead of the film's Tiff premiere on Friday. Synopsis: The economic miracle is changing the life of Germans in post-war Germany 20 years later. Most of them are sick of the war and prefer to push their guilt to the back of their mind. When a journalist (André Szymanski) identifies a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz, no one wants to take notice. But a young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling) takes on the case and can‘t even be stopped by his boss. During his research he realizes that some Germans claim that they never heard the expression “Auschwitz,“ while others try to forget about it. As the resolute prosecutor doesn‘t give up, the Attorney General Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss...

Before it debuts in Canada, the Germany-set drama “Labyrinth of Lies” has already found a North American home. Also read: Toronto Fest Buyers Beware: Last Year's Pickups Fizzled at the Box Office The specialty label has scooped up Giulio Ricciarelli's directorial debut, a fact-based thriller that “exposes the conspiracy of certain prominent institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during WWII.” Also read: Are Toronto's Big Deals, ‘Top Five’ and ‘While We're Young,’ Worth the Money? The film stars Alexander Fehling (“Inglorious Basterds,” “Young Goethe in Love”), André Szymanski, Johann von Bülow and Friederike Becht (“The Reader,...

Exclusive: Munich based Beta Cinema has arrived in Cannes with new pick-ups that could provoke heated debate.

Beta is launching We Are Young, We Are Strong by young Afghan-German director Burhan Qurbani in the Cannes Marché. The film explores the driving forces of xenophobia during the violent riots of 1992 in freshly reunited Germany

Based on historical facts and currently in post-production, it recounts the violent xenophobic riots in Rostock in 1992 from the perspectives of three different characters: a Vietnamese woman settled in Germany, a young hooligan involved in the night’s riots and his father, a local politician, trapped in the dilemma of advancing his career or standing up for his ideals.

Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay and European Shooting Star Saskia Rosendahl headline the cast of the film, which is a Ufa Fiction production in co-production with cine plus, Zdf and Arte.

It marks the follow up to Qurbani’s Berlinale competition title, Shahada.

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