Caroline Link’s wonderful, woefully obscure Best Foreign Film winner is an entertaining story of the perils of wartime emigration. It hits hard right now, with our own immigration crackdown underway. A Jewish family smartly escapes Nazi Germany at the 11th hour, only to find themselves imprisoned in detention camps by the British — who ironically consider them dangerous enemy aliens. The show is a glorious growing-up tale for a German tot transplanted to Kenya, and becomes an edgy romantic story when the mother repurposes her amorous needs to help rescue her family.
Nowhere in Africa
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber / Zeitgeist
20019 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 141 min. / Nirgendwo in Afrika / Street Date February 27, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Herbert Knaup
Cinematography Gernot Roll
Production Designer Susann Bieling, Uwe Szielasko
Film Editor Patricia Rommel
Original Music Niki Reiser, Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Written by Caroline...
Nowhere in Africa
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber / Zeitgeist
20019 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 141 min. / Nirgendwo in Afrika / Street Date February 27, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Herbert Knaup
Cinematography Gernot Roll
Production Designer Susann Bieling, Uwe Szielasko
Film Editor Patricia Rommel
Original Music Niki Reiser, Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Written by Caroline...
- 2/17/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Cologne, Germany -- Veteran TV producer Thilo Kleine has been named co-managing director at VIP Medienfonds joining Tilo Seiffert to run the German private equity fund.
VIP has invested nearly $1 billion in over 50 feature films since its founding in 1989, including Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There."
But when German tax authorities took aim at the country's film funds, VIP, the largest private fund, became a poster child for corporate malfeasance. One of the fund's founders, Andreas Schmidt, was imprisoned for tax evasion and other crimes.
Since then, VIP has gone through several bosses. Seiffert took up the reigns last year, replacing Thierry Potok. Potok in turn took over in 2008 from Peter H. Riedel, who replaced Dirk Specht and held the job for less than a year.
VIP has invested nearly $1 billion in over 50 feature films since its founding in 1989, including Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There."
But when German tax authorities took aim at the country's film funds, VIP, the largest private fund, became a poster child for corporate malfeasance. One of the fund's founders, Andreas Schmidt, was imprisoned for tax evasion and other crimes.
Since then, VIP has gone through several bosses. Seiffert took up the reigns last year, replacing Thierry Potok. Potok in turn took over in 2008 from Peter H. Riedel, who replaced Dirk Specht and held the job for less than a year.
- 10/11/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Matthias Esche has been named co-head of leading German television production house Bavaria Film, the company announced Monday. Currently managing director of Bavaria production subsidiary Polyphone Film, where he has produced such German series as Samt und Seide for ZDF, Esche will take over at Bavaria by April 1. He joins Dieter Frank as co-head of the studio. Esche and Frank replace former Bavaria chief Thilo Kleine, who was forced to resign amid an illegal product placement scandal that has shaken the company.
- 12/5/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- It's amazing how much trouble you can get into with a few plugs for shag carpet and ballroom dancing. ARD, Germany's largest public broadcaster, and Bavaria Film, the country's leading television production company, are reeling following revelations that Bavaria and its production subsidiaries have for years been slipping illegal product placements and other verboten advertising onto shows they produce for ARD. The scandal, which broke last month, has already wreaked havoc in the executive ranks. Bavaria Film chief Thilo Kleine and Frank Doehmann, former managing director of Bavaria production subsidiary Colonia Media, two of the most powerful men in German TV, have been fired. In addition, prominent sports journalists Wilfried Mohren and Juergen Emigand, both former chief sports commentators for ARD regional affiliates, have been arrested on charges of conflict of interest connected with the alleged illegal on-air sponsoring of sporting events.
- 7/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Thilo Kleine has been fired as managing director of leading German television production group Bavaria Film amid a product placement scandal that has shaken Bavaria and its pubcaster parent ARD. Kleine is accused of having known about the illegal product placement deals that Bavaria production subsidiaries made with German companies but doing nothing to stop them. Product placement is illegal on German television unless specifically labeled as such. But an investigative report in German media journal EPD last month revealed that, for years, several Bavaria-produced shows have been slipping hidden advertising onto high-profile shows.
- 7/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Thilo Kleine has been suspended as head of Bavaria Film, Germany's largest television production company, following a scandal involving illegal product placement on Bavaria-produced shows. The board of Bavaria Film suspended Kleine on Friday, following new allegations that he was aware of the illegal activity but did nothing to stop it. Bavaria has admitted that some of its production subsidiaries have been engaging in illegal product placement on high profile shows.
- 7/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- The product placement scandal that has rocked German pubcaster ARD claimed its first victims Monday as ARD fired Stephan Bechtle, Michael Von Mossner and Werner Lueder, three of the top execs at ARD production subsidiary Bavaria Film. ARD said the three had "for several years" violated German law by slipping illegal product placements into top-rated ARD soap Marienhof (HR 6/7). ARD also reprimanded Bavaria film head Thilo Kleine for failing to realize what was going on in his own company. The blatant placement on the Bavaria-produced show had the Marienhof cast pitching everything from new home furnishings, travel tips and even Turkey's entry into the European Union, all paid for by advertisers.
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