Roger Waters is reportedly under criminal investigation by German police for “suspected incitement” following his concerts in Berlin on May 17th and 18th.
As Stereogum points out, Waters came under fire for wearing a uniform of a leather jacket, gloves, armband, and rifle that appeared to resemble that of a Nazi SS soldier. His stage design also featured an inflatable pig covered in Third Reich-esque imagery and a Star of David, a prop Waters has been using since 2010. Per The Jerusalem Post, Waters began the show with a message on a screen announcing: “I condemn antisemitism unreservedly.”
“The context of the clothing worn is deemed capable of approving, glorifying or justifying the violent and arbitrary rule of the Nazi regime in a manner that violates the dignity of the victims and thereby disrupts public peace,” police chief inspector Martin Halweg told the Jewish News. “After the conclusion of the investigation,...
As Stereogum points out, Waters came under fire for wearing a uniform of a leather jacket, gloves, armband, and rifle that appeared to resemble that of a Nazi SS soldier. His stage design also featured an inflatable pig covered in Third Reich-esque imagery and a Star of David, a prop Waters has been using since 2010. Per The Jerusalem Post, Waters began the show with a message on a screen announcing: “I condemn antisemitism unreservedly.”
“The context of the clothing worn is deemed capable of approving, glorifying or justifying the violent and arbitrary rule of the Nazi regime in a manner that violates the dignity of the victims and thereby disrupts public peace,” police chief inspector Martin Halweg told the Jewish News. “After the conclusion of the investigation,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Exclusive: Picture Tree Int’l (Pti) has boarded sales on German Sophie Scholls – The Final Days Oscar-nominee and hitmaker Marc Rothemund’s heart-warming family drama Weekend Rebels, inspired by the true story of a father who forged a special bond with his autistic son through the search for a perfect soccer club.
The film, currently in post-production, is produced by Justyna Muesch, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann.
Their Oscar-winning banner Wiedemann & Berg Film company has delivered a slew of award-winning pictures over the years including The Lives Of Others, Never Look Away and Who Am I. SevenPictures Film co-produces.
Leonine Studios is also on board and will release the film in Germany on September 28, 2023.
Florian David Fitz leads the German cast as a father who gets closer to his 10-year-old autistic son through a quest to find a soccer club they can support together,...
The film, currently in post-production, is produced by Justyna Muesch, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann.
Their Oscar-winning banner Wiedemann & Berg Film company has delivered a slew of award-winning pictures over the years including The Lives Of Others, Never Look Away and Who Am I. SevenPictures Film co-produces.
Leonine Studios is also on board and will release the film in Germany on September 28, 2023.
Florian David Fitz leads the German cast as a father who gets closer to his 10-year-old autistic son through a quest to find a soccer club they can support together,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Playmaker Munich, formerly known as Arri Media Intl., has picked up Stefan Jäger’s “Monte Verità,” which world premieres in August in the Piazza Grande section of the Locarno Film Festival. The historical drama, written by Kornelija Naraks and based on true events, focuses on Europe’s first eco-community.
Set in 1906, “Monte Verità” is centered on a group of society dropouts — including the writer Hermann Hesse — who search for a paradise and find it in Ascona, Switzerland. As well as their clothes, the free-thinking radicals strive to shed the mental corsets that constrict their minds. A young mother, Hanna Leitner, is drawn to the commune to escape her middle-class life. Torn between feelings of guilt toward the family she left behind and her fascination with a life of self-determination, Hanna discovers a passion for photography, and finds her own true voice.
The cast includes Maresi Riegner (“Egon Schiele”), Max Hubacher...
Set in 1906, “Monte Verità” is centered on a group of society dropouts — including the writer Hermann Hesse — who search for a paradise and find it in Ascona, Switzerland. As well as their clothes, the free-thinking radicals strive to shed the mental corsets that constrict their minds. A young mother, Hanna Leitner, is drawn to the commune to escape her middle-class life. Torn between feelings of guilt toward the family she left behind and her fascination with a life of self-determination, Hanna discovers a passion for photography, and finds her own true voice.
The cast includes Maresi Riegner (“Egon Schiele”), Max Hubacher...
- 7/9/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Alexander Payne’s 2004 version starred Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church.
German wunderkind filmmaker and wine lover Felix Starck has optioned Rex Pickett’s Sideways and will shoot a $5 million German adaptation later this summer.
The novel follows two male friends at a pivotal point in their lives who head off together on a trip to wine country. It has already been adapted for the screen successfully by Alexander Payne in his 2004 comedy-drama starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. Now, Pickett has given his blessing to the new version by Starck, which is backed by StudioCanal and is currently being cast by Simone Bär.
German wunderkind filmmaker and wine lover Felix Starck has optioned Rex Pickett’s Sideways and will shoot a $5 million German adaptation later this summer.
The novel follows two male friends at a pivotal point in their lives who head off together on a trip to wine country. It has already been adapted for the screen successfully by Alexander Payne in his 2004 comedy-drama starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. Now, Pickett has given his blessing to the new version by Starck, which is backed by StudioCanal and is currently being cast by Simone Bär.
- 2/22/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Film directed by Marc Rothemund posted over 2 million admissions in Germany.
German sales powerhouse Global Screen, which gave a Toronto market premiere to its new 3D animation adventure Tabaluga this weekend, is continuing to rack up deals on true-life tearjerker This Crazy Heart, about a wealthy thirtysomething forced to care for a 15-year-old heart patient.
An eye-catching deal has been closed with China’s Tang Media Partners for the film, directed by Marc Rothemund and produced by Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben. Tang Media Partners have acquired all rights for China and are planning a wide release...
German sales powerhouse Global Screen, which gave a Toronto market premiere to its new 3D animation adventure Tabaluga this weekend, is continuing to rack up deals on true-life tearjerker This Crazy Heart, about a wealthy thirtysomething forced to care for a 15-year-old heart patient.
An eye-catching deal has been closed with China’s Tang Media Partners for the film, directed by Marc Rothemund and produced by Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben. Tang Media Partners have acquired all rights for China and are planning a wide release...
- 9/10/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
This Crazy Heart, last year's break-out German-language hit from director Marc Rothemund (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days), is going to Spain. And China.
The dramedy in the vein of About a Boy, which follows a rich, irresponsible 30-something forced to care for a 15-year-old heart patient, is getting local-language remakes in several territories, including China, Spain, Mexico and Turkey.
Germany's Constantin Film, which produced the original, earlier inked a deal for French adaptation of Crazy Heart with Dimitri Rassam’s Paris-based Chapter 2. The original film, which featured German superstar Elyas M'Barek as the spoiled 30-something and Philip Schwarz as the...
The dramedy in the vein of About a Boy, which follows a rich, irresponsible 30-something forced to care for a 15-year-old heart patient, is getting local-language remakes in several territories, including China, Spain, Mexico and Turkey.
Germany's Constantin Film, which produced the original, earlier inked a deal for French adaptation of Crazy Heart with Dimitri Rassam’s Paris-based Chapter 2. The original film, which featured German superstar Elyas M'Barek as the spoiled 30-something and Philip Schwarz as the...
- 5/12/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
<em>This Crazy Heart</em>, last year's breakout German-language hit from director Marc Rothemund (<em>Sophie Scholl: The Final Days</em>), is going to Spain. And China.
The film is getting local-language remakes in several territories, including China, Spain, Mexico and Turkey. <span style="font-size: 12px;">The </span>dramedy<span style="font-size: 12px;">, in the vein of </span><em style="font-size: 12px;">About a Boy</em><span style="font-size: 12px;">, follows a rich, irresponsible 30-something forced to care for a 15-year-old heart patient. </span>
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Germany's </span>Constantin<span style="font-size: 12px;"> Film, which produced the original, earlier inked a deal for the French adaptation of </span><em style="font-size: 12px;">Crazy Heart</em><span style="font-size: 12px;"> with </span>Dimitri<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>Rassam’s<span style="font-size: 12px;"> Paris-based Chapter 2. The original film, which features German superstar </span>Elyas<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>M'Barek<span style="font-size: 12px;"> as the spoiled 30-something and Philip Schwarz as the young ...</span>...
The film is getting local-language remakes in several territories, including China, Spain, Mexico and Turkey. <span style="font-size: 12px;">The </span>dramedy<span style="font-size: 12px;">, in the vein of </span><em style="font-size: 12px;">About a Boy</em><span style="font-size: 12px;">, follows a rich, irresponsible 30-something forced to care for a 15-year-old heart patient. </span>
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Germany's </span>Constantin<span style="font-size: 12px;"> Film, which produced the original, earlier inked a deal for the French adaptation of </span><em style="font-size: 12px;">Crazy Heart</em><span style="font-size: 12px;"> with </span>Dimitri<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>Rassam’s<span style="font-size: 12px;"> Paris-based Chapter 2. The original film, which features German superstar </span>Elyas<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>M'Barek<span style="font-size: 12px;"> as the spoiled 30-something and Philip Schwarz as the young ...</span>...
- 5/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
This Crazy Heart is directed by Marc Rothemund whose 2005 drama Sophie Scholl was nominated for the best foreign-language film Oscar.
In advance of the Marché, German sales outfit Global Screen has confirmed multiple sales on two of the titles on its Cannes slate.
This Crazy Heart, directed by Marc Rothemund whose 2005 drama Sophie Scholl was nominated for the best foreign-language film Oscar, has gone to Spain (Flins y Peniculas), Portugal (Pris), South Korea (Yejilim Entertainment), Cis (Voxell), Taiwan (Encore Film), Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary (Prorom), and Brazil (Globo). Negotiations are underway with distributors for France, Italy, China and Japan,...
In advance of the Marché, German sales outfit Global Screen has confirmed multiple sales on two of the titles on its Cannes slate.
This Crazy Heart, directed by Marc Rothemund whose 2005 drama Sophie Scholl was nominated for the best foreign-language film Oscar, has gone to Spain (Flins y Peniculas), Portugal (Pris), South Korea (Yejilim Entertainment), Cis (Voxell), Taiwan (Encore Film), Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary (Prorom), and Brazil (Globo). Negotiations are underway with distributors for France, Italy, China and Japan,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
BERLIN -- U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May's adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen opera set in a modern-day South African township, was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin Jury president Roland Emmerich announced Saturday. The ambitious musical, which is performed entirely in the local Xhosa language, flew under the radar of both film critics and industry execs at this year's Berlin Festival. But it won over the jury. Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl -- The Last Days was another big winner at Berlin, taking two Silver Bears for best directing and best actress for German up-and-comer Julia Jentsch as the Munich resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.
- 2/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May's adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen opera set in a modern-day South African township, was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin Jury president Roland Emmerich announced Saturday. The ambitious musical, which is performed entirely in the local Xhosa language, flew under the radar of both film critics and industry execs at this year's Berlin Festival. But it won over the jury. Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl -- The Last Days was another big winner at Berlin, taking two Silver Bears for best directing and best actress for German up-and-comer Julia Jentsch as the Munich resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.
- 2/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Taking advantage of the discovery of long buried documents in old East German archives and recent interviews with witnesses or relatives and friends of those involved in the historical episode, the makers of Sophie Scholl -- The Final Days provide a clear and compelling account of the last six days in the life of Sophie Scholl, a resister of the Nazi regime in Germany in 1943. The movie is understandably static as the guts of the film are Sophie's interrogations by Gestapo officer Robert Mohr. But it's static electricity. The film has a jumpy, nervous energy as the two verbally dual over matters of life and death.
Rock solid performances by up-and-coming German actress Julia Jentsch as Sophie and Alexander Held (Downfall) as Mohr along with an excellent cast of supporting players insure that no one mistakes this for a lifeless docu-drama. Sophie Scholl will have its largest impact, of course, in German-speaking territories. But with interest in that era recently sparked by Downfall, the film could get picked up in many other territories.
Sophie may be a major heroine in German history, but Jentsch plays her for what she was -- an ordinary young woman who in extraordinary times finds the courage to do what is right. She and her brother Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) are members of the White Rose resistance, a group portrayed in other German films, most notably Michael Verhoeven's The White Rose. A foolish decision to smuggle anti-Nazi leaflets into Munich University and secretly distribute them while classes are in session results in the arrest of Sophie and Hans on February 18, 1943.
Director Marc Rothemund and his frequent collaborator, writer Fred Breinersdorfer, then let events speak for themselves. Separated from the others, Sophie is grilled by Mohr for hours. Initially, she denies involvement and is so convincing she is nearly released. Then comes damning evidence found in a search of the siblings' apartment. When Sophie sees her brother's confession, she too admits guilt -- and does so with pride.
Now comes Sophie's verbal dance with Mohr to protect friends and fellow collaborators. Later, Mohr offers Sophie a chance to get a milder sentence at the price of renouncing her ideals. She refuses. But the most interesting part of the interrogation comes when these two debate the goals and methods of the Nazi government and the question of how posterity will remember their differing points of view.
Mohr is a long time interrogator. His interest lies in upholding the law and not who wrote the law or whether it has anything to do with justice. Sophie contends that there is a thing called right and wrong that is separate from what any particular law says.
Mohr was a man who in 1943 must have known how badly things were going in the war -- which is the major point of the students' leaflets -- as well as being aware of the heinous deeds in the Nazi's rule. Held's Mohr never equivocates or concedes any of Sophie's points. Yet he develops a grudging admiration for her and struggles to answer some points.
Certainly, his offer to save her neck is curious if he truly believes what he says he does. It may be his final, futile attempt to win the argument. And herein lies the dramatic and moral value of the movie: Their argument transcends the Nazi era. It looks to civil courage, a thing in short supply even today.
Rothemund keeps sets, costumes and camerawork simple so the greater concentration is on his actors and the play of words. He and Breinersdorfer refuse to sentimentalize any of Sophie's decisions over these few days. But they do see her battle against tyranny as a dramatic assertion of human beings' desire for freedom no matter what the cost.
SOPHIE SCHOLL -- THE FINAL DAYS
Bavaria Films International presents a Goldkind Film and Broth Film production
Credits:
Director: Marc Rothemund
Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer
Producers: Christoph Mueller, Sven Burgemeister, Fred Breinersdorfer, Marc Rotheremund
Director of photography: Martin Langer
Production designer: Jana Karen
Music: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
Costumes: Natascha Nesslauer
Editor: Hans Funck.
Cast: Sophie Scholl: Julia Jentsch
Robert Mohr: Alexander Hold
Hans Scholl: Fabian Hinrichs
Else Gebel: Johanna Gastdort
Dr. Freisier: Andre Hennicke
Christoph Pobst: Florian Stetter
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 120 minutes...
Rock solid performances by up-and-coming German actress Julia Jentsch as Sophie and Alexander Held (Downfall) as Mohr along with an excellent cast of supporting players insure that no one mistakes this for a lifeless docu-drama. Sophie Scholl will have its largest impact, of course, in German-speaking territories. But with interest in that era recently sparked by Downfall, the film could get picked up in many other territories.
Sophie may be a major heroine in German history, but Jentsch plays her for what she was -- an ordinary young woman who in extraordinary times finds the courage to do what is right. She and her brother Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) are members of the White Rose resistance, a group portrayed in other German films, most notably Michael Verhoeven's The White Rose. A foolish decision to smuggle anti-Nazi leaflets into Munich University and secretly distribute them while classes are in session results in the arrest of Sophie and Hans on February 18, 1943.
Director Marc Rothemund and his frequent collaborator, writer Fred Breinersdorfer, then let events speak for themselves. Separated from the others, Sophie is grilled by Mohr for hours. Initially, she denies involvement and is so convincing she is nearly released. Then comes damning evidence found in a search of the siblings' apartment. When Sophie sees her brother's confession, she too admits guilt -- and does so with pride.
Now comes Sophie's verbal dance with Mohr to protect friends and fellow collaborators. Later, Mohr offers Sophie a chance to get a milder sentence at the price of renouncing her ideals. She refuses. But the most interesting part of the interrogation comes when these two debate the goals and methods of the Nazi government and the question of how posterity will remember their differing points of view.
Mohr is a long time interrogator. His interest lies in upholding the law and not who wrote the law or whether it has anything to do with justice. Sophie contends that there is a thing called right and wrong that is separate from what any particular law says.
Mohr was a man who in 1943 must have known how badly things were going in the war -- which is the major point of the students' leaflets -- as well as being aware of the heinous deeds in the Nazi's rule. Held's Mohr never equivocates or concedes any of Sophie's points. Yet he develops a grudging admiration for her and struggles to answer some points.
Certainly, his offer to save her neck is curious if he truly believes what he says he does. It may be his final, futile attempt to win the argument. And herein lies the dramatic and moral value of the movie: Their argument transcends the Nazi era. It looks to civil courage, a thing in short supply even today.
Rothemund keeps sets, costumes and camerawork simple so the greater concentration is on his actors and the play of words. He and Breinersdorfer refuse to sentimentalize any of Sophie's decisions over these few days. But they do see her battle against tyranny as a dramatic assertion of human beings' desire for freedom no matter what the cost.
SOPHIE SCHOLL -- THE FINAL DAYS
Bavaria Films International presents a Goldkind Film and Broth Film production
Credits:
Director: Marc Rothemund
Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer
Producers: Christoph Mueller, Sven Burgemeister, Fred Breinersdorfer, Marc Rotheremund
Director of photography: Martin Langer
Production designer: Jana Karen
Music: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
Costumes: Natascha Nesslauer
Editor: Hans Funck.
Cast: Sophie Scholl: Julia Jentsch
Robert Mohr: Alexander Hold
Hans Scholl: Fabian Hinrichs
Else Gebel: Johanna Gastdort
Dr. Freisier: Andre Hennicke
Christoph Pobst: Florian Stetter
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 120 minutes...
- 2/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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