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German Cinema 2009 – A Year in Review

January 6, 2010

There was no economic crisis in German cinema last year. 2009 was a year of prizewinners at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin festivals. In our look back we take stock of what was a very good year for German cinema.

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BIG SCENES – BIG CINEMA

06.03.2009 DW-TV Neu im kino John Rabe

THE INTERNATIONAL – Showdown at the Guggenheim in New York

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Christoph Waltz is charm and evil incarnate as a Nazi SS-officer

JOHN RABE – How the Swastika saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.

CRISIS-PROOF CINEMA

17.10.2009 kultur 21 Männerherzen

Crisis? What Crisis? German movie ticket sales jumped 13.6% in 2009 for an 800 million Euro box office. German films accounted for a third of tickets sold, with hits VICKY THE VIKING and MEN IN THE CITY leading the way.

GUILT AND SIN

13.02.2009 DW-TV KINO PLAKAT DER VORLESER

THE READER und THE WHITE RIBBON are two German films that were showered with awards at international festivals and made an impact on the international market. Both centre on the very German theme of guilt. In THE WHITE RIBBON, which just won the top prize at the European Film Awards, director Michael Haneke examines a strict protestant village in Germany, 1913, to see how totalitarian structures are built up on the everyday authority of church, work and family.


In THE READER, the subject is repressing guilt and an impossible love between a schoolboy (David Kross) and a former concentration camp guard (Kate Winslet).

HEROINES OF FAITH

17.10.2009 kultur 21 Die Päpstin

Two historic figures in the Catholic Church – one the church made a saint, the other it denies ever existed: Hildegard von Bingen and Johanna von Ingelheim. Both reborn on the big screen in VISION – THE LIFE OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN and POPE JOAN.