Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, Bavaria Film continues to move forward as a modern film and television group while looking back on a legacy that has shaped Germany’s cinematic landscape.
Established in 1919 as Münchener Lichtspielkunst near Munich, Bavaria’s history spans silent film and talking pictures, the onset of television and the modern digital era. Among the countless films that have shot at Bavaria’s studios are such diverse works as Elia Kazan’s 1953 thriller “Man on a Tightrope,” Robert Wise’s beloved “The Sound of Music” and Oliver Stone’s eye-opening “Snowden.”
Today one of Germany’s main film and TV producers and a leading provider of studio services, Bavaria ranked fourth last year among the country’s top producers in terms of production revenue. Fremantle’s Ufa was at No. 1 with €240 million ($273 million), followed by Constantin Film, Studio Hamburg and Bavaria with $176 million.
Bavaria, which generated...
Established in 1919 as Münchener Lichtspielkunst near Munich, Bavaria’s history spans silent film and talking pictures, the onset of television and the modern digital era. Among the countless films that have shot at Bavaria’s studios are such diverse works as Elia Kazan’s 1953 thriller “Man on a Tightrope,” Robert Wise’s beloved “The Sound of Music” and Oliver Stone’s eye-opening “Snowden.”
Today one of Germany’s main film and TV producers and a leading provider of studio services, Bavaria ranked fourth last year among the country’s top producers in terms of production revenue. Fremantle’s Ufa was at No. 1 with €240 million ($273 million), followed by Constantin Film, Studio Hamburg and Bavaria with $176 million.
Bavaria, which generated...
- 1/31/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Imperium author Christian Kracht, Finsterworld director Frauke Finsterwalder with Anne-Katrin Titze
Into my conversations with Uschi Reich, producer of Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters at the New York Film Festival, The Sleepwalker's Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, director of the upcoming The Childhood Of A Leader, starring Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin, Sophie Curtis and Robert Pattinson (who stars with Dane DeHaan and Ben Kingsley in Anton Corbijn's Life), Christian Kracht's novel, Imperium, sailed in.
While reading his South Sea adventure from the age of empire, I envisioned it as a film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the third link to The Master and the Thomas Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice.
Christian Kracht's Imperium: A Fiction Of The South Seas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jan Ole Gerster, the director of A Coffee In Berlin (Oh Boy!) and its star Tom Schilling (from Philipp Kadelbach's Generation...
Into my conversations with Uschi Reich, producer of Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters at the New York Film Festival, The Sleepwalker's Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, director of the upcoming The Childhood Of A Leader, starring Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin, Sophie Curtis and Robert Pattinson (who stars with Dane DeHaan and Ben Kingsley in Anton Corbijn's Life), Christian Kracht's novel, Imperium, sailed in.
While reading his South Sea adventure from the age of empire, I envisioned it as a film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the third link to The Master and the Thomas Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice.
Christian Kracht's Imperium: A Fiction Of The South Seas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jan Ole Gerster, the director of A Coffee In Berlin (Oh Boy!) and its star Tom Schilling (from Philipp Kadelbach's Generation...
- 7/13/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Beloved Sisters producer Uschi Reich on Dominik Graf at the New York Film Festival: "It was very important for Dominik to work with the language." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters (Die Geliebten Schwestern) starring Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius and Hannah Herzsprung alongside Claudia Messner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Wittenborn, Maja Maranow and Andreas Pietschmann, sharply re-invents the costume drama with an historical fiction centered around the ménage-à-trois love story between writer Friedrich Schiller (Stetter) and the sisters Caroline (Herzsprung) and Charlotte (Confurius) von Lengefeld.
I met up with producer Uschi Reich during the New York Film Festival to discuss her role in bringing the story to the screen. We also discussed Dominik Graf's voice and music, his relationship to Christian Kracht's novel Imperium and Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld film, Caroline Link, the connection between Veit Heiduschka to Michael Haneke and Helge Sasse with Anton Corbijn's...
Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters (Die Geliebten Schwestern) starring Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius and Hannah Herzsprung alongside Claudia Messner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Wittenborn, Maja Maranow and Andreas Pietschmann, sharply re-invents the costume drama with an historical fiction centered around the ménage-à-trois love story between writer Friedrich Schiller (Stetter) and the sisters Caroline (Herzsprung) and Charlotte (Confurius) von Lengefeld.
I met up with producer Uschi Reich during the New York Film Festival to discuss her role in bringing the story to the screen. We also discussed Dominik Graf's voice and music, his relationship to Christian Kracht's novel Imperium and Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld film, Caroline Link, the connection between Veit Heiduschka to Michael Haneke and Helge Sasse with Anton Corbijn's...
- 10/4/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
German Films said today that its nine-person jury has selected Dominik Graf’s Beloved Sisters as Germany’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race. The film tells the little-known true story of a ménage-à-trois among Friedrich Schiller and the von Lengefeld sisters, a utopia on the eve of the French Revolution. Florian Stetter, Hannah Herzsprung and Henriette Confurius have the lead roles. “This designation is for me the greatest joy and the confirmation of my work,” producer Uschi Reich said. “What great luck for us all.” Beloved Sisters premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and hit German theaters July 31 via Senator Film Verleih. Nominations for the 87th Academy Awards will be announced January 15.
BAFTA said today that American filmmaker David Fincher will discuss his life and career during the group’s A Life in Pictures event next month. Fincher is a two-time Oscar...
BAFTA said today that American filmmaker David Fincher will discuss his life and career during the group’s A Life in Pictures event next month. Fincher is a two-time Oscar...
- 8/28/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Dominik Graf’s ménage-à-trois drama to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
Dominik Graf’s period drama Beloved Sisters is to represent Germany as the official submission for the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
The decision was made today (Aug 27) by an independent jury in Munich, which was appointed by German Films to preside over the selection process.
In a statement explaining its motivation, the nine-person jury chaired by Peter Herrmann said: “Beloved Sisters is a modernly told ménage-à-trois that takes us back to the 18th century with a certain lightness.
“Dominik Graf directed, with his own personal signature and great sensitivity, the story of a moving love affair. The film convinces with the direction of the actors, the images suffused with light, and its very clever and unconventional composition.”
Producer Uschi Reich: “This designation is for me the greatest joy and the confirmation of my work.”
The...
Dominik Graf’s period drama Beloved Sisters is to represent Germany as the official submission for the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
The decision was made today (Aug 27) by an independent jury in Munich, which was appointed by German Films to preside over the selection process.
In a statement explaining its motivation, the nine-person jury chaired by Peter Herrmann said: “Beloved Sisters is a modernly told ménage-à-trois that takes us back to the 18th century with a certain lightness.
“Dominik Graf directed, with his own personal signature and great sensitivity, the story of a moving love affair. The film convinces with the direction of the actors, the images suffused with light, and its very clever and unconventional composition.”
Producer Uschi Reich: “This designation is for me the greatest joy and the confirmation of my work.”
The...
- 8/27/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Beloved Sisters
Director: Dominik Graf
Writer: Dominik Graf
Producer: Uschi Reich
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Henriette Confurius, Florian Stetter, Hannah Herzsprung, Ronald Zehrfeld
A member of what’s known as the Berlin school of filmmakers (including Christian Petzold and Christoph Hochhausler), Graf has worked almost exclusively in television and he contributed to the 2011 triptych Beats Being Dead. His latest is an ambitious period piece and features a handful of bright faces in the German film industry, and, with a little luck, will be a breakout success for Graf.
Gist: 1788 in Rudolstadt, a small provincial town in Germany. The beautiful Caroline von Beulwitz is unhappily married, longing for love and life. Charlotte von Lengefeld, her shy sister, dreams of finding a husband. The two are a heart and soul, until He enters their lives: Friedrich Schiller, the man who wrote “The Robbers”, an overnight sensation, the espouser of proto-revolutionary republican ideals.
Director: Dominik Graf
Writer: Dominik Graf
Producer: Uschi Reich
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Henriette Confurius, Florian Stetter, Hannah Herzsprung, Ronald Zehrfeld
A member of what’s known as the Berlin school of filmmakers (including Christian Petzold and Christoph Hochhausler), Graf has worked almost exclusively in television and he contributed to the 2011 triptych Beats Being Dead. His latest is an ambitious period piece and features a handful of bright faces in the German film industry, and, with a little luck, will be a breakout success for Graf.
Gist: 1788 in Rudolstadt, a small provincial town in Germany. The beautiful Caroline von Beulwitz is unhappily married, longing for love and life. Charlotte von Lengefeld, her shy sister, dreams of finding a husband. The two are a heart and soul, until He enters their lives: Friedrich Schiller, the man who wrote “The Robbers”, an overnight sensation, the espouser of proto-revolutionary republican ideals.
- 2/19/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cologne, Germany -- Uschi Reich and her production shingle Bavaria Filmverleih have picked up rights to author Isabel Abedi's best-selling "Lola" books with an eye to turning them into a kids film franchise.
Described as a "German Hannah Montana," the novels follow nine-year-old Lola, who dreams of becoming a singer, a spy and a wedding planner while struggling to manage her everyday life.
Reich will adapt the first novel in the series, "Here Comes Lola," for Bavaria together with German mini-major Constantin Film, which will distribute the film locally.
Reich has proven to have a golden touch when it comes to children's book adaptations. She has produced a string of youth hits for the German market including the franchises "Bibi Blocksberg" and "The Wild Chicks."
Franziska Buch, who collaborated with Reich on "Bibi Blocksberg," will direct "Here Comes Lola" from a script by Vanessa Walder.
Described as a "German Hannah Montana," the novels follow nine-year-old Lola, who dreams of becoming a singer, a spy and a wedding planner while struggling to manage her everyday life.
Reich will adapt the first novel in the series, "Here Comes Lola," for Bavaria together with German mini-major Constantin Film, which will distribute the film locally.
Reich has proven to have a golden touch when it comes to children's book adaptations. She has produced a string of youth hits for the German market including the franchises "Bibi Blocksberg" and "The Wild Chicks."
Franziska Buch, who collaborated with Reich on "Bibi Blocksberg," will direct "Here Comes Lola" from a script by Vanessa Walder.
- 3/16/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Caroline Link, a foreign-language Oscar winner in 2003 with "Nowhere in Africa", is returning to Germany for her new film, "Im Winter ein Jahr" (A Year in Winter), an adaptation of the Scott Campbell novel "Aftermath".
The project, which will be produced by Constantin Film and Bavaria Filmproduktion, tells the story of a painter who develops a special bond with a young woman whose portrait he is commissioned to paint.
Link wrote the screenplay to "Im Winter", which was initially conceived as her English-language debut. Instead, the film will be shot in German this year and star German actors Josef Bierbichler, Karoline Herfurth, Corinna Harfouch and Hanns Zischler.
Constantin production head Martin Moszkowicz will produce together with Bavaria's Uschi Reich.
Constantin Film will release the drama in Germany.
The project, which will be produced by Constantin Film and Bavaria Filmproduktion, tells the story of a painter who develops a special bond with a young woman whose portrait he is commissioned to paint.
Link wrote the screenplay to "Im Winter", which was initially conceived as her English-language debut. Instead, the film will be shot in German this year and star German actors Josef Bierbichler, Karoline Herfurth, Corinna Harfouch and Hanns Zischler.
Constantin production head Martin Moszkowicz will produce together with Bavaria's Uschi Reich.
Constantin Film will release the drama in Germany.
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