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German Film Festival 2017 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 AUCKLAND / 5–10 SEPT WELLINGTON / 13–16 SEPT CHRISTCHURCH / 23–24 SEPT DUNEDIN / 30 SEPT–1 OCT NEW PLYMOUTH / 3–8 OCT Sprache. Kultur. Deutschland. WILLKOMMEN ZUM DEUTSCHEN FILMFESTIVAL 2017 It is with great pleasure that I welcome you, Discover and enjoy some of the most thrilling once again, to this nationwide German Film recent films from Germany, Switzerland and Festival. For the ninth time, it will provide Austria with us! a growing audience with the opportunity to enjoy the highlights of German cinematic art. The German Film Festival is back in New Zealand in 2017 for the ninth time. It will run Among these films is Tschick (Goodbye Berlin), in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin which tells the story of two teenage outsiders and New Plymouth. who discover the eccentricities of eastern Germany during their summer holidays. It is Films such as the fast-paced road movie a road movie at heart, a genre well known to Goodbye Berlin introduce some new, lighter Kiwis since Goodbye Pork Pie. accents in German cinema as does the Swiss comedy Big & Little. The familiar rich, multi- I am confident that this festival will nurture layered texture is still there, however, in the the understanding between Germany and New story about an ailing former East German Zealand, who already share a close relationship boxing champion A Heavy Heart or in the in a multitude of different fields – including the biographical film Stefan Zweig: Farewell to co-production of films. It is my hope that many Europe about the Austrian writer on whose visitors will enjoy the German Film Festival work the film The Grand Budapest Hotel and will become enthusiasts for all that was based. German cinema has to offer. The generosity of our sponsors and partners has enabled us to make the festival happen and we would like to thank them all for their Gerhard Thiedemann ongoing support. Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Admission is free – just turn up in good time at the venue to secure your seats. Tickets will be available from the box office before the start of each screening. Please refer to the Venues & Tickets pages for further details. We look WE ARE PROUD TO SPONSOR THE forward to seeing you at a range of films. Do take this opportunity to talk to us and other 2017 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL. cinema goers. Christian Kahnt VTNZ is powered by DEKRA, the world leaders in Director Goethe-Institut New Zealand safety. With over 80 branches nationwide, we can help keep you road ready. Visit vtnz.co.nz A HEAVY HEART BIG & LITTLE (HERBERT) (DER GROSSE SOMMER) GERMANY 2015 (DRAMA) SWITZERLAND 2016 (FAMILY) Awards (selection): Music: Festivals (selection): With: German Film Award 2016 Bert Wrede Schaffhausen 2016, Mathias Gnädinger, (Best Feature - Silver, With: Solothurn 2016 Loic Sho Güntensperger, Best Actor, Best Makeup) Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Director: Mitsuko Baisho, Festivals (selection): Lena Lauzemis, Stefan Jäger Tomio Suga, Toronto 2015, Edin Hasanovic, Screenplay: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, Palm Springs 2016, Reiner Schöne, Theo Plakoudakis, Sonja Riesen, Cairo 2016 Udo Kroschwald Marco Salituro Monica Gubser Director: Production: Cinematography: Producers: Thomas Stuber Undine Filter, Knut Schmitz Katrin Renz, Screenplay: Thomas Král, Editor: Stefan Jäger Thomas Stuber, Anatol Nitschke Robin Wenger Duration: Clemens Meyer, based Duration: Music: 98 mins on an idea from 109 mins Angelo Berardi Language: Paul Salisbury Language: Swiss-German with Cinematography: German with English English subtitles Peter Matjasko subtitles Rating: At some point, Herbert Stamm’s life went off Editor: Rating: Toni Sommer (68) used to be the most M - offensive language & the rails. For a long time now, this gigantic Philipp Thomas tbc popular and successful “Schwinger” of his sexual references man, formerly a successful boxer known as time in Switzerland’s traditional wrestling “The Pride of Leipzig”, has been earning his sport, but since the fatal accident of his keep as a bouncer and an uncompromising opponent and best friend, he’s been living Screened in partnership with debt collector. His upper body is covered anonymously and lonely in a suburb of Bern. with tattoos, the largest one a reference to “…an impressively muscular His energy and his zest for life have left him, the GDR’s once notorious Torgau Prison. performance by Kurth, who and the only friend he has is the grave of his On the side, Herbert is preparing talented, convincingly maps all the former opponent. Hiro, a 10-year-old boy, up and coming boxer Eddy for his first psychological stages of his decline disturbs Sommer’s reclusiveness. He lives title fight. from raging bully to wounded, soulful, with his grandma one floor above Sommer’s remorseful ruin.” flat. Hiro wants only one thing - to become a Herbert’s daughter Sandra hasn’t seen him – Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter great sumotori, a sumo wrestler. for years, and, like a cautious boxer, he SCREENING TIMES keeps his girlfriend Marlene at arm’s length When his grandma dies unexpectedly, Hiro too. Together with his friend, tattoo artist pleads the grumpy Sommer to take him to a Auckland “Specht”, he dreams of a big motorcycle trip sumo stall in his home country, Japan. Sunday, 10 September, 3:30pm along America’s legendary “Route 66”. But And so a journey starts from Bern signs of a serious illness are becoming more to Tokyo and across Japan. The film tells - Wellington severe, until Herbert can no longer ignore SCREENING TIMES in a humorous and touching way - the Saturday, 16 September, 2:15pm them. He receives a devastating diagnosis: story of a struggle between two vastly he’s suffering from ALS, an incurable Auckland different characters and how they develop Christchurch disorder of the motor nervous system that is Thursday, 7 September, 8:30pm a deep friendship. Sunday, 24 September, 12pm advancing relentlessly. Herbert tries to put the ruins of his life in order. Wellington Dunedin Thursday, 14 September, 4:30pm Sunday, 1 October, 12pm New Plymouth New Plymouth Text: Goethe-Institut Friday, 6 October, 6:30pm Text: Tellfilm Sunday, 8 October, 4pm Image © Departures Film Image © Grischa Schmitz 1336 Final Schubert ad outline.pdf 1 18/06/15 10:49 am DEMOCRACY (DEMOCRACY – IM RAUSCH DER DATEN) C GERMANY 2015 (DOCUMENTARY) M Director: Producers: Y David Bernet Arek Gielnik, Concept: Dietmar Ratsch, CM David Bernet Sonia Otto Cinematography: Duration: MY Marcus Winterbauer, 100 mins Dieter Stürmer, Language CY François Roland, German, English Ines Thomsen (with English subtitles) CMY Editor: Rating: Catrin Vogt exempt K Music: Von Spar With: Jan Philipp Albrecht, Viviane Reding, Daniel Cohn-Bendit In January 2012, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding set an ambitious goal. By reforming the EU Data Protection Act, she “…Bernet’s film is a triumph. It wants to strengthen data protection in rewards contemplative viewing Europe. Large companies would then be and is a visual delight, with a lovely prevented from using personal data for play between the inner and outside promotional purposes and transmitting it worlds of the EU institutions, in to third parties. In addition, US companies a style reminiscent of Terrence would be subject to EU law. Malick. Hopefully, too, it draws Director David Bernet accompanies the a wider audience to the critical conservative EU Commissioner Viviane importance of data protection and Reding and the young, ambitious Green MEP the conflicts that surround it.” Jan Philipp Albrecht during their struggle to – Julia Powles, The Guardian introduce the European Data Protection Law. Lobbyists, commercial lawyers and activists appear on the scene and try to influence the course of action in this battle of David and Goliath proportions where civil rights are pitted against global economic interests. SCREENING TIMES Auckland Thursday, 7 September, 6:15pm Wellington Wednesday, 13 September, 4:30pm New Plymouth Text: Goethe-Institut Thursday, 5 October, 4pm Image © Indi-Film / David Bernet GOODBYE BERLIN LOMMBOCK (TSCHICK) GERMANY 2016 (COMEDY, ROAD MOVIE) GERMANY 2017 (COMEDY) Awards (selection): Music: Director: Producers: EFA Youth Audience Vince Pope Christian Zübert Tom Spiess, Ulf Israel, Award 2017 With: Screenplay: Sönke Wortmann Festivals (selection): Tristan Göbel, Christian Zübert Duration: Zagreb 2016, Macao 2016, Anand Batbileg, Cinematography: 106 mins Mumbai 2016, Nicole Mercedes Müller, Philip Peschlow Language: Dublin 2017, Anja Schneider, Editor: German with Kino Pavasaris Vilnius 2017, Uwe Bohm Andrea Mertens English subtitles Edinburgh 2017, Producer: With: Rating: Shanghai 2017 Marco Mehlitz Moritz Bleibtreu, R16 - drug use, sex scenes Director: Duration: Lucas Gregorowicz, & offensive language Fatih Akin 93 mins Alexandra Neldel, Screenplay: Languages: Melanie Winiger, Lars Hubrich, based German with Mavie Hörbiger, on the novel by English subtitles Wotan Wilke Möhring Wolfgang Herrndorf Rating: Cinematography: M – violence and While his mother is in rehab and his father Rainer Klausmann offensive language In this sequel to the 2001 comedy Lammbock is on a ‘business trip’ with his assistant, the Editor: - Shit Happens, former pizza and drug Andrew Bird 14-year-old outsider Maik Klingenberg is delivery boy Kai has changed his line of spending the summer holidays alone by the business and is now running a delivery “Lommbock is a fast paced, pool at his parents' villa. But then Tschick service for Asian food called “Lommbock”. fresh and charming production. appears. Tschick, whose real name is Andrej For a couple of years now, his friend and A follow on from the earlier Tschichatschow, originally comes from former partner in crime, Stefan, has been Lammbock, this new version, deepest Russia, but now lives in a high-rise pursuing a successful career in Dubai, where will be appreciated by everyone in Berlin-Marzahn. He arrives at the villa drugs are obviously strictly off-limits. who sees it – not just the fans of with a stolen Lada.
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