Oliver Hirschbiegel first gained international attention for his taut character study Downfall in which he examined the last ten days in Hitler’s life with some accusing him of trying to humanize one of the most detestable figures that ever lived. In …Read more
More than a decade after depicting Adolf Hitler’s last days in Dowfall, director Oliver Hirschbiegel, is covering the Third Reich from a different angle in 13 Minutes which concentrates on the years leading up to WWII and the failed attempt by Georg …Read more
In Christian Schwochow’s Cracks in the Shell from 2011 a young drama student, belittled by her drama teacher, goes on to win the leading role in a play and takes her method acting to dark, dangerous places. In Schwochow’s new film Paula, young artist …Read more
Full as it is with often complicated imagery and complex symbolism, it is perhaps a relatively simple image in Nicolette Krebitz’s film Wild that is most telling: a young woman named Ania (Lilith Strangenberg), having begun an obsession with wolves a …Read more
It is 1919, and a distraught young Frenchman visits the grave of a German soldier. That scenario could mean many things, but in Frantz, the family of the titular departed take it he is an old friend of their deceased. The soldier’s mother and fiancée …Read more
