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LübeckLübeck 4–4–7 7 Nov. 1999

Last year’s festival revisited: One of the highlights of the 1998 Film Days Film Days to visit Haugesund was the festive celebration of 40 years of the festival’s existence. The The entire Artistic Direction of the at the end of August in an effort Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Heide Simonis, seen here with Nordic Film Days as well as Press to find the latest Scandinavian festival director Andrea Kunsemüller, led the list of prominent guests. Officer Stephen Locke are films and make contacts with film During the celebration she conferred an honorary professorship on actress, attending the Norwegian Interna- people, journalists and friends of film director and Honorary President of the Nordic Film Days, Liv Ullmann. tional Film Festival in Haugesund the festival. Hope to see you there!

On the Arctic Trail Winners in the Filmforum The selection process for the 1999 hanged for murder in 1854. Their Linde Fröhlich and the Artistic daily survival bring about amazing Nordic Film Days is in full swing. skeletons had been used again and Direction are currently selecting transformations. (...) This positi- The Artistic Directors have already again in experiments by the films from northern Germany for ve development in surmounting viewed dozens of excellent films Anatomical Institute in Oslo. the Filmforum Schleswig-Hol- social problems is illustrated here and will be able to announce their Present-day Samis see the two men stein. Among the works already with great humour and an decisions in the coming weeks. as heroes, not as criminals, and chosen are two prize-winning infectious joy of living.” One little highlight is already want to bury their remains in their films that were subsidised by the A further selection is the 10- apparent: it comprises films homeland. Kulturelle Filmförderung Schles- minute film Uferlos (New Shores) by shedding light on the peoples of Uhri (The Sacrifice – A Film about a wig-Holstein. The documentary Marco Mittelstaedt, which was the Arctic cultural area. Two Forest), a beautiful documentary Bismuna – An Adventure Film, awarded the short film prize of the documentaries from Finland directed by Markku Lehmuskallio directed by Uli Kick, was awarded Panorama section of the provide rare insight into the lives and Anastasia Lapsui for a series the MediaNet Award in Gold, a Film Festival. Here a ten-year-old and difficulties of these peoples, produced by Jörn Donner, 25,000 DM prize donated by the boy tries to win the recognition who are struggling to survive the portrays the life of the Selkups, a Free State of Bavaria, during the of tough dock workers by means pressure to adapt to Western people who live as fishermen and 1999 Munich Filmfest. The film of a tattoo. civilisation. hunters in a West Siberian forest. follows the project of social In Antakaa Meille Luurankomme! The 60-minute film shows the worker and teacher Dieter Dubbert (Give Us Our Skeletons) Norwegian family of Yuri Milailovits Kalin, in Bismuna, an Indian village in writer/director Paul-Anders who unlike many of the other Nicaragua, where delinquent Simma documents a conflict 5000 Selkups remaining have youths and young drug addicts Newsletter between Sami families and the chosen not to live in the from Germany are sent to work. Norwegian authorities. The surrounding villages, but spend The jury that awarded the prize August 1999 families demand the return of the their lives as nomads in the forest said of the film: ”It is impressive mortal remains of two of their and along the banks of the Vatylka to experience how physical 1 ancestors from Lapland who were River. exertions and the necessities of Hans Christian Andersen on the Big Screen

From silent movies to feature- from 1907 made by the Danish whose death 125 years ago will be Exhibitions length cartoons, from short director Viggo Larsen after the observed next year, have been Two different exhibitions will children’s films to ambitious fairytale ”The Tinderbox”, will be adapted for the big screen some accompany the retrospective on adaptations that by no means shown, as well. ”The Tinderbox” 200 times around the world – as Hans Christian Andersen. reflect the innocent world of also forms the basis for two other is noted in the documentation by The International Youth Library in children: the stories of the Danish films in the retrospective, a trick Hauke Lange-Fuchs which is to be Munich has generously provided fairytale author Hans Christian film from 1946 and a 1959 version published on the occasion of this some 250 editions of various An- Andersen are the subject of some made in the East German DEFA retrospective. dersen fairytales from around the ten programmes of films in this studios. world and from different periods year’s retrospective. They include The programmes also include of time – Andersen’s books are such new works as Hans Christian adaptations of such fairytales as among the most frequently Andersen and the Long Shadow and ”The Emperor’s New Clothes”, translated in the world. Jack the Dullard from Denmark or ”The Emperor and the In addition, the Danish museum The Snail’s Wedding from Nightingale”, ”The Hardy Tin Andersens Hus in Odense is Germany, but also silent films like Soldier”, ”The Snow Queen”, ”The sending many beautiful Andersen Galoshes of Fortune (1919) by Gun- Ugly Duckling” and ”The Red posters, including some rare works nar Sommerfeldt from Denmark. Shoes”. Many more films could by Andy Warhol. Both exhibits The very oldest extant Andersen have been shown in this sidebar, can be seen in the Filmpalast adaptation, a 12-minute short because the fairytales of the writer, Stadthalle. This year the North German Rediscovering the Buddenbrooks broadcaster NDR is supporting the In anticipation of the 125th Madame Bovary (1937) and made Nordic Film Days Lübeck for the anniversary of ’s important contributions to film 10th year in a row, thanks not least birth, to be celebrated in the year history through his catalogue and of all to the personal commitment of 2000, the Nordic Film Days will collection of material on German Jobst Plog, the director of NDR, who show a rare discovery: the Stiftung silent films. has recently also been appointed Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin Since the exteriors were shot in president of the Franco-German has completely restored the origi- Lübeck, where the novel is set, the cultural channel Arte. Our picture nal version of Die Buddenbrooks, Deutsche Kinemathek decided to shows Torun Lian, winner of last ’s 1923 hold the premiere of the restored year’s 25,000 mark NDR Promotion adaptation of the Thomas Mann print in Lübeck. Prize for her film Only Clouds Move novel, adding missing frames and The Nordic Film Days will present the Stars, seen here together with titles. Up until now the film was this special event with piano Mareike Carrière of the NDR-Jury. only available in a 16-mm print, accompaniment by Werner Loll, a but has now been put on 35-mm musicologist who has been stock and tinted in accord with accompanying silent films with We’ve moved the original version. his own compositions, primarily Since August the festival office as This was the first film adaptation in northern Germany, since the well as the entire Office for Art and Veranstalter of Thomas Mann’s novel. Born in 1980s. The notes for the original Culture of the city of Lübeck can Organisation 1897, Lamprecht achieved con- composition by be found at Schildstrasse 12. Hansestadt Lübeck siderable fame with films like Emil have been lost, but the search for The telephone and fax numbers Bereich Kunst und Kultur and the Detectives (1931) and them goes on. have not been changed. The film Dr. Ada Kadelbach entry and material department as D 23539 Lübeck well as the Filmforum Schleswig- Sometimes Mr. Nice Guy Holstein are still at Mengstr. 35. Künstlerische Leitung Artistic Direction He is at the centre of attention Andrea Kunsemüller when he is most inconspicuous, A Palace for Film (Chairperson), lends unexpected greatness to the Linde Fröhlich, little man. When you think of the For the sixth year in a row, the Dr. Hauke Lange-Fuchs films he has been in, it is often the Filmpalast Stadthalle serves as the Schildstraße 12 taciturn, slightly backward, quirky festival house for the Nordic Film D 23552 Lübeck characters he portrays which Days. It is not only a series of Tel.: +49-451 / 122 41 09 remain most vividly and most screening rooms, but provides a Fax.: +49-451 / 71978 delightfully in your mind. very special venue and popular Joachim Król shapes the films he meeting place for festival guests Filmanmeldung plays in, and it is no wonder that through its combination of old Entry Forms leading German directors like Hel- and modern elements. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck mut Dietl, Tom Tykwer, Doris The Filmpalast is part of the Kieft Kommunales Kino Dörrie, Sönke Wortmann, Detlev & Kieft Filmtheater GmbH Linde Fröhlich, Janina Prossek Buck, Rolf Schübel, Nico Hofmann exhibitor group. The Kieft family Mengstraße 35 or Peter Lichtefeld, but also Polish opened its first movie theatre in D 23539 Lübeck director Krzysztof Zanussi, have Lübeck in 1948. In 1998 the NDR Jury member Joachim Król with Tel.: +49-451 / 122 57 42 chosen to work with him. Król is Australian film exhibitors Greater film partner Sophie Rois in Detlev +49-451 / 122 17 42 naturally funny, while at the same Union International and the Kieft Buck’s No More Mr. Nice Guy Fax: +49-451 / 122 57 45 time the characters he plays often family entered into a joint venture seem surrounded by a touch of On the occasion of Joachim Król’s together. The enterprise currently Akkreditierung participation in the NDR Jury the sadness. The natural authenticity runs more than 40 movie theatres, Accreditation Nordic Film Days will show the of his acting should not obscure including almost 20 multiplexes Nordische Filmtage Lübeck the fact that he is a trained stage above-mentioned work as well as under the name of CineStar. Wolf-Rüdiger Ohlhoff two other of his films which he actor who often goes to extremes Others are under construction or Schildstraße 12 himself has selected and which to capture the essence of a role. in the planning. D 23539 Lübeck To prepare for the part of Rudi reflect his special attachment to Kieft & Kieft stands for service and Tel.: +49-451 / 122 41 05 Scandinavia: Peter Lichtefeld’s Kipp in Detlev Buck’s No More Mr. technology, and at the same time Fax: +49-451 / 122 41 06 Nice Guy, for example, he moved prize-winning feature film Zugvö- each cinema aims to be an essen- into a home for the mentally gel and the film When the Light tial part of the cultural life of its Pressearbeit Comes by Belgian director Stijn challenged – a part that earned location. All of the Kieft theatres Press Officer Coninx. him his first German Film Award. offer not only the necessary top Stephen Locke, NFL Presse mainstream productions, but also Grünebergstraße 73 special sidebars. They act as a Friends of the NFL D 22763 Hamburg meeting place. 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