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RELEASES Germany

A scent of Italy

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The spring releases have a Latin flavour. Two weeks after the release of Davide Ferrario‘s After Midnight [+see also:
film review
interview: Davide Ferrario
interview: Giorgio Pasotti
film profile
]
, distributed by Kairos (see focus), Concorde is launching Roberto Benigni’s The Tiger and the Snow [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
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While Italian audiences are flocking to The Caiman [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile
]
, a satirical portrait of their Prime Minister, which the film’s insolent director Nanni Moretti dared release just before the elections, spectators in Germany can discover Jan Henrik Stahlberg’s Bye Bye Berlusconi.

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This film, which was previewed at Berlin, maintains the director’s caustic style, and was written with Lucia Chiarla, deals with the kidnapping of Micky Laus — a prime minister with a Walt Disney-esque name who rules the media and a football team called Topolonia — by terrorists who want to bring him to trial. This satire stars Maurizio Antonini, an unbelievable look-a-like of the Forza Italia leader, and Consuelo Barilari as his wife.

Produced by Schiwago Film and distributed by Jetfilm, response to the film has so far surpassed its meagre budget (€90,000) (see news).

Of the week’s ten new films, three are German: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, an opera distributed by Salzgeber; LOve & MOtion, a documentary on the LOMO phenomenon (a Russian 32mm camera discovered by Viennese students), distributed by Kinostar; and Pigs Will Fly, the Irish comedy by Eoin Moore, on a group of characters who get together for a weekly sauna (Alamode).

Two other European films joined the programme yesterday: Profils paysans: le quotidien, the French documentary by Raymond Depardon (distributed by Freunde d. dt. Kinemathek) and Habana Blues [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, the French/Spanish/Cuban drama directed by Benito Zambrano and distributed by Arsenal.

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(Translated from French)

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