Director Agnieszka Holland pulls off a difficult task — her true-life Holocaust tale neither trivializes the horror nor glamorizes individualized victims at the expense of the big picture. Marco Hofschneider is the inexperienced German teenager who by strange quirks of fate becomes a staunch Stalinist in a Communist school, then a Nazi war hero and candidate for Hitler Youth honors and adoption by a Nazi officer… if he can avoid being uncovered as a Jew in hiding. It sounds tasteless but it’s not — the true story of Solomon Perel reveals the ‘fluidity’ of ideology when survival is on the line. Our young hero must keep ‘becoming’ what he pretends to be. With André Wilms, René Hofschneider and Julie Delpy as a rabid Hitlerite.
Europa Europa
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 985
1990 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 112 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date July 9, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Marco Hofschneider, André Wilms, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy,...
Europa Europa
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 985
1990 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 112 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date July 9, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Marco Hofschneider, André Wilms, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy,...
- 4/25/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida scored a second top festival prize in one night, after success in London.
The international jury of the Warsaw Film Festival has awarded the City of Warsaw Grand Prix to Pawal Pawlikowski’s Ida, which won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival on the same night.
The black-and-white film set in the 1960s, which the international jury praised for “the superb combination of script, directing, cinematography, acting and music”, also received the prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Warsaw.
Speaking to ScreenDaily after the awards ceremony, producer Ewa Puszczynska of Lodz-based Opus Film said the film will be released on 90 screens in Poland this Friday (Oct 25) by distributor Solopan Spólka.
Fandango Portobello Sales is handling international distribution, and Music Box Films are planning the North American release for the second quarter of 2014. It debuted at Toronto last month.
Puszczynska was joined on stage to receive the Grand Prix by the non-professional...
The international jury of the Warsaw Film Festival has awarded the City of Warsaw Grand Prix to Pawal Pawlikowski’s Ida, which won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival on the same night.
The black-and-white film set in the 1960s, which the international jury praised for “the superb combination of script, directing, cinematography, acting and music”, also received the prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Warsaw.
Speaking to ScreenDaily after the awards ceremony, producer Ewa Puszczynska of Lodz-based Opus Film said the film will be released on 90 screens in Poland this Friday (Oct 25) by distributor Solopan Spólka.
Fandango Portobello Sales is handling international distribution, and Music Box Films are planning the North American release for the second quarter of 2014. It debuted at Toronto last month.
Puszczynska was joined on stage to receive the Grand Prix by the non-professional...
- 10/21/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Karlovy Vary’s industry days continue today with the Pitch & Feedback initiative, now in its second year. Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented projects in development which have international co-production potential.
The jury of experts featured Matthieu Darras from the Torino Film Lab, producer Mike Downey of the UK’s F&Me, Loic Magneron of Wide Management, Riina Sildos from the Baltic Event and Brigitta Manthey of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
The projects pitched are:
The Red Captain (Cerveny Kapitan) (Slovakia)
Dir. Michal Kollar, prods Kollar, Viktor Taus
A slow burning thriller adapted from the bestelling detective novel novel by Dominik Dan. The film is set in the early 1990s when a homicide detective investigates the former secret service and the religious elite. The first Slovak feature supported by Media single project support.
Little Crusader (Krizacek) (Czech Republic)
Dir. Vaclav Kadrnka, prods Kadrnka, Alice Tabery
The Eighty Letters filmmaker returns with this drama about a father and son’s relationship...
The jury of experts featured Matthieu Darras from the Torino Film Lab, producer Mike Downey of the UK’s F&Me, Loic Magneron of Wide Management, Riina Sildos from the Baltic Event and Brigitta Manthey of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
The projects pitched are:
The Red Captain (Cerveny Kapitan) (Slovakia)
Dir. Michal Kollar, prods Kollar, Viktor Taus
A slow burning thriller adapted from the bestelling detective novel novel by Dominik Dan. The film is set in the early 1990s when a homicide detective investigates the former secret service and the religious elite. The first Slovak feature supported by Media single project support.
Little Crusader (Krizacek) (Czech Republic)
Dir. Vaclav Kadrnka, prods Kadrnka, Alice Tabery
The Eighty Letters filmmaker returns with this drama about a father and son’s relationship...
- 7/2/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
VENICE, Italy -- The first Pierogi Western, Summer Love is such an observant sendup of the Spaghetti variety that it falls into the trap of parody in becoming almost too serious for its own good. Shot on location in southern Poland and featuring mostly Polish actors but with English dialogue, the film is written, directed and produced by Warsaw-born first-timer Piotr Uklanski.
Screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, the picture will appeal to fans of Westerns and buffs who like to see movie conventions skewered.
Following the bare-bones structure of the Spaghetti Westerns, the film has the Stranger (Karel Roden) who brings the Wanted Man (Val Kilmer) into town to collect his bounty only to lose his reward in a bizarre bet with the Sheriff (Boguslaw Linda). There's the Woman (Katarzyna Figura) causing trouble and the Big Man (Krzysztof Zaleski) full of spite, and sundry other stereotypes.
Director of photography Jacek Petrycki (who has worked with Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Kieslowski), editor Mike Horton ("The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers") and composers Karel Holas and India Czajkowska make everything look and sound authentic.
There is plenty of violence, and lots of close-ups and strange angles as Uklanski has fun with the formula, though it's not trying to be Blazing Saddles. Typical of the filmmaker's dry sense of humor is that Kilmer, as the big Hollywood guest star, is dead throughout the picture.
Screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, the picture will appeal to fans of Westerns and buffs who like to see movie conventions skewered.
Following the bare-bones structure of the Spaghetti Westerns, the film has the Stranger (Karel Roden) who brings the Wanted Man (Val Kilmer) into town to collect his bounty only to lose his reward in a bizarre bet with the Sheriff (Boguslaw Linda). There's the Woman (Katarzyna Figura) causing trouble and the Big Man (Krzysztof Zaleski) full of spite, and sundry other stereotypes.
Director of photography Jacek Petrycki (who has worked with Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Kieslowski), editor Mike Horton ("The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers") and composers Karel Holas and India Czajkowska make everything look and sound authentic.
There is plenty of violence, and lots of close-ups and strange angles as Uklanski has fun with the formula, though it's not trying to be Blazing Saddles. Typical of the filmmaker's dry sense of humor is that Kilmer, as the big Hollywood guest star, is dead throughout the picture.
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