A Year Ago in Winter, the latest work from Oscar-winner Caroline Link. And A Woman in Berlin - Anonyma, a hard-hitting film about the fate of rape victims in Berlin in 1945. German entries in the international film festival in Toronto.
International and multi-cultural Canada's colourful film scene
In honor of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) KINO takes a look at the current Canadian film scene. This years TIFF opened with PASSCHENDAELE, an epic about Canadian soldiers fighting in the trenches of World War I. Some 15,000 soldiers fell in the battle near the Belgian city of Passchendaele. We spoke about the film with director and star Paul Gross. And we also met up in Toronto with legendary independent filmmaker Bruce McDonald to discuss his new film PONTYPOOL, an art house horror film about zombies overrunning a small town in northern Ontario.Toronto World Premiere Oscar winner Caroline Link and her new film
Caroline Link presents her new film, A YEAR AGO IN WINTER a dramatic story of how a family deals with tragedy. Link wrote the screenplay herself, based on the novel by Scott Campbell. Toronto has a special place in Caroline Link's career. It was here that NOWHERE IN AFRICA screened for the first time, before going on to win an Oscar. We met up with the successful director at the Festival.
The Toronto International Film Festival is the most important festival for the North American market, particularly for European film producers. So German sales companies come out in force at the TIFF. We spoke with Dirk Schürhof of world sales group Betafilm to find out what films sell well in Toronto and what international buyers are looking for in German cinema.Fall Highlight Home grown German terror
DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX is arguably the most important German film this Fall. Already nominated to be Germany's entry for the 2009 Oscar race, it is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust. Germanys number one producer, Bernd Eichinger wrote the screenplay. It tells the dramatic story of the period from 1967 to the so-called "German Autumn: of 1977, when left-wing terrorists shook the foundations of the West German state. It stars a who's who of the German film scene: Moritz Bleitreu as Andreas Baader, Martina Gedeck as Ulrike Meinhof and Johanna Wokalek as Gudrun Ensslin, the key members of the terror group the Red Army Faction. German Women as Victims A brave film tells the story of the Soviet's march into Berlin in 1945
A WOMAN IN BERLIN is the title of the new film from Max Färberböck. Its based on the diaries of an anonymous woman who lived through the war and its aftermath. The film tells of the mass rape of German women by the Soviet Red Army at the end of the Second World War. KINO spoke with Max Färberböck, who answered questions from the audience after the World Premiere of A WOMAN IN BERLIN in Toronto.From Children's Book to Fantasy Film KRABAT in Toronto
With his new film KRABAT, director Marco Kreuzpaintner has created an extravagant fantasy film loaded with special effects. The story comes from the award-winning young adult novel by Ottfried Preußler about a magicians apprentice and his battle with his dark master. KINO met up with Marco Kreuzpaintner and the films star Daniel Brühl at the films world premiere in Toronto and took a look to see how the German answer to "Harry Potter" matches up.
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whether ones left wing or right wing if you kill for your idiologies your still a terrorist and a facist either way
MuslimApostate 2 years ago
a terrorist is a terrorist regardless of what your so called bullshit reasons are. The symbionese liberation army claimed to be fighting for the same thing. That diddn't stop the very people they claimed to be fighting for from turning there asses in and letting the cops kill them all. Live by the sword die by the sword.
MuslimApostate 2 years ago
The RAF were not terrorists. They were resisting occupation of the brutal western forces, the fascist West German government, and the SS officers that were running the economy. Read some people's history and see it from their eyes. They stared down imperialism and genocides in Vietnam and refused complicity in it, then put their lives on the line to stop it. Before you do any more reporting on the RAF, I suggest you at least read some of Ranier Fassbinders commentary and watch "German Autumn"
sarcasmicfellow 2 years ago
i love this movie...i just watch it on DVD...and its worth it to watch you have so much to learn about in world war 1
punkie07ash 3 years ago