Three – R18 in motion and with lots of courage directed some of the most FIFTH GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (Drei) important and most original German films. Werner Herzog lives in Los Angeles and has for the last 20 years concentrated on 20th – 24th November 2013 Director: Tom Tykwers, directing award-winning documentaries. Organised by the 119 min., 2010 German-Maltese Circle Awards: Bavarian Film Prize 2010 Aguirre, The Wrath of God – PG in collaboration with the Goethe Institute GOETHE-INSTITUT GOETHE-INSTITUT (Best Director, Best Actress Sophie (“Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes”) 1972, 93 min. - at 18.00hrs Rois), German Film Critics’ Award Wednesday, 20th November Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta 2011 (Best Actress, Best Actor), Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar “Hannah Arendt” 19.00 hrs German Film Award 2011 (Best de Carvajal, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God Director, Best Leading Actress, is Werner Herzog’s hallucinatory tale Thursday, 21st November Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Best Editing) of Spanish colonialists searching for El “Hannah Arendt” 19.00 hrs Hanna and Simon have been a couple for 20 years. They live in Dorado, the legendary city of gold, in “Oh Boy” 21.00 hrs Berlin, side by side in combative harmony. They are attractive, 16th-century Peru. When the travellers Friday, 22nd November Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta reach an impasse, a scouting party is modern, mature, childless, cultivated, down-to-earth. Affairs, “Forget me not” 19.00 hrs wanting children, moving in together, miscarriage, fleeing and assembled to search for any traces of (“Vergiss mein nicht”) returning: this anchorwoman and art technician have put a the mythical empire. As they attempt lot behind them, but they don’t have so much ahead of them to forge their way through the dense “Mahler on the couch” 21.00 hrs (“Mahler auf der Couch”) anymore. That is until both, without knowing about the other’s jungle, more and more of the party falls actions, fall in love with the same man, Adam. ill while their ruthless leader, Don Lope Saturday, 23rd November Venue: Messina Palace, Valletta de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), grows increasingly insane. Widely Werner Herzog Classic Film Night Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Sunday, 24th November at 21.00hrs considered to be Herzog’s finest film, Aguirre, which shares “Aguirre - The wrath of God” 18.00 hrs much in common with Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse (“Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes”) Now, highlights the director’s visionary approach to filmmaking. Like Coppola’s film, accounts of Aguirre’s shooting are laced “Nosferatu - Phantom of the night” 20.30 hrs Werner Herzog with legendary incidents, such as the time Herzog reportedly (“Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht”) Classic Film Night held a gun to Kinski’s head to get him to finish a scene. Sunday, 24th November Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Venue: Messina Palace, Triq San Kristofru, Valletta “Lessons of a Dream” 17.00 hrs (“Der ganz große Traum”) Saturday, 23rd November Entrance complimentary Nosferatu - Phantom of the Night – R16 (“Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht”) 1978, 103 min. - at 20.30 hrs “The Foster Boy” 19.00 hrs Werner Herzog was born in 1942 in (“Der Verdingbub”) Munich and studied history, theatre In this masterpiece, award-winning studies and literature. For his first director Werner Herzog and his “Three” (“Drei”) 21.00 hrs feature film “Lebensweisheiten” volatile star Klaus Kinski embarked (1967) he did not only win the on a milestone in international All films are in German with subtitles in English price as best debutant director cinema: a dual-language remake at the Berlinale, but was also of F.W. Murnau’s legendary 1922 Booking from St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta for all awarded with the German Film horror classic NOSFERATU. The film shows except for the Werner Herzog Classic Film Night. Tickets at € 3.00. Award. Since then Herzog has starred Kinski in the performance of been directing numerous feature a lifetime as the predatory vampire Entrance to the Werner Herzog Classic Film Night films and documentaries and has Dracula, with Isabelle Adjani as his at Messina Palace is complimentary. worked as an actor, producer and writer. In the seventies and beloved Lucy and Bruno Ganz as eighties he fine-tuned his credo of narrating highly unusual the doomed Jonathan Harker. Filmed stories, in which unusual and powerful characters act in on breathtaking locations throughout unusual circumstances and surroundings. This period was Europe and simultaneously shot Contact details: also characterized by his cooperation with infamous actor in both German and English-speaking versions that create German-Maltese Circle Klaus Kinsky, who appeared in Herzog’s most famous films fascinating differences in tone and texture, Werner Herzog’s Messina Palace, 141, Triq San Kristofru, “Nosferatu”, “Fitzcarraldo” and “Aguirre”. In 2013 Werner NOSFERATU has since become recognized worldwide as the Valletta VLT 1465, Malta Herzog was honoured for his outstanding contribution to definitive version of the Dracula legend as well as one of the Tel: 21246967 Fax: 21240552 German Cinema with the German Honorary Film Award. The most extraordinarily haunting horror films ever made. E-mail: [email protected] jury praised Herzog as a visionary artist who always kept Web: www. germanmaltesecircle.org Hannah Arendt – R12 Forget me not – R12 Lessons of a Dream – U (Vergiss mein nicht) (Der ganz große Traum) Director: Margarethe von Trotta, 110 min., 2012 Director: David Sieveking, Director: Sebastian Grobler, 88 min., 2012 113 min., 2010 Awards: Bavarian Film Prize 2012 (Best Actress: Barbara Sukowa), Awards: SRG SSR Critics’ Week Awards: Best Direction & Audience German Film Award 2013 (Best Film: Award Locarno 2012, Special Jury Award Yokohama 2013 Silver, Best Leading Actress) Prize Documenta Madrid 2013, The young teacher Konrad Koch is Millenium Award The film portrays Hannah Arendt hired to teach English at a strictly- during the four years (1960-1964) that In FORGET ME NOT, David Sieveking run German school for boys in 1874. she observes, writes, and endures the portrays the domestic care of his The reform-minded headmaster furious reception for her work about mother, who, like millions of others, is von Merfeld has hired Koch as the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. Watching suffering from Alzheimer’s. David’s parents were active in the one of the very first English teachers of all at a German Arendt as she attends the trial, staying by her side as she is student movement of the 1960s and led an “open relationship”, secondary school in order to let a fresh new wind into his both barraged by her critics and supported by a tight band of which is now being tested in a dramatic way through the musty institution. Koch sees how badly this is needed in his loyal friends, we experience the intensity of this powerful Jewish mother’s illness. The changes taking place within the mother very first class. Everything that the boys know about England woman who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. forces the family to deal with its own conflicts and even teaches is common prejudices handed down from one generation to them how to deal with these conflicts more tenderly, bringing the next. In order to stir up some enthusiasm for the foreign Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Opening Night: Wednesday, 20th November at 19.00 hours them all closer together. With humour and candour, David language, Oxford graduate Koch resorts to unusual means Second Show: Thursday, 21st November at 19.00hrs Sieveking’s family chronicle is characterized by unaffected and introduces his students to a curious sport that comes participation and loving affection, where it is the human being from Britain: football. Unfortunately, Koch’s unconventional at the centre of the story, not the illness. ways soon make him many enemies: influential parents, local dignitaries and, above all, his colleagues, who only believe in Oh Boy – R12 Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Friday, 22nd November at 19.00hrs Prussian drills and discipline. They all want to get rid of Koch Director: Jan Ole Gerster, at any price. But then his students take the initiative... 85 min., 2012 Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Awards: German Film Awards 2013 Mahler on the Couch - R16 Sunday, 24th November at 17.00hrs (Best Film: Gold, Best Screenplay, (Mahler auf der Couch) Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Directors: Percy & Felix Adlon, Best Supporting Actor, Best Score) The Foster Boy – R12 105 min., 2010 Niko is in his late 20s and recently (Der Verdingbub) Awards: German Film Award for Best dropped out of college. He lives for the Director: Markus Imboden, Camera 2011 moment, drifting sleeplessly through 107 min., 2010-2012 the streets of Berlin, marveling at Summer 1910: Plagued by jealousy, Until the middle of the twentieth the people around him. With a quiet curiosity, he observes composer Gustav Mahler seeks help century, countless boys and how they cope with everyday life while failing to notice how from Sigmund Freud. His crisis was girls were forced to suffer in he himself is becoming an outsider. But, one day, everything caused by a love letter he received, Switzerland: the authorities tore changes, and Niko is forced to confront the consequences of but which was meant for his wife illegitimate children, orphans and his inaction. His girlfriend ends their relationship, his father Alma. In the letter, architect Walter Gropius recounts in detail children of divorce from their social cuts off his allowance and a psychiatrist diagnoses him with an his affair with Alma, leaving Mahler on the brink of total despair. environment, sending them to farms ‘emotional imbalance’. Meanwhile a peculiar beauty from his What does this young bloke know of him and his beloved Alma, as labourers. What was intended as a measure to combat past confronts him with the emotional wounds he inflicted, his who were meant to be bound together eternally by music? child poverty often led to exploitation and abuse. 12-year-old new neighbour – accompanied by meatballs and Schnapps – The personal crisis results in a writer′s block, since Mahler Max and 15-year-old Berteli are “hired out” to the Bösiger pours his heart out and, throughout the city, there doesn’t seem can′t finish any composition. Now, Freud is his only hope, family, who are mountain farmers. Here they experience a life to be a single cup of ‘normal’ coffee available. and eventually, the session with the famous analyst leads to of woe. The new village teacher has no chance of preventing unexpected revelations. Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta the looming tragedy. “The Foster Boy” is a powerful movie Thursday, 21st November at 21.00hrs Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta and the most successful Swiss film of recent years. Friday, 22nd November at 21.00hrs Venue: St James Cavalier, Valletta Sunday, 24th November at 19.00hrs