“Die Welt will Petticoats und Zuckerguß”… 1958 hat sich Deutschland gerade wieder vom Schrecken des Krieges gefangen. Was der aufstrebende Staatsanwalt Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) da über das “Schutzhaftlager” Auschwitz herausfindet, landet zunächst IM LABYRINTH DES […]
Brackiges Wasser und eine Hafenmauer – plötzlich eine Welle, und ein Mann steigt – wie aus der Unterwelt – eine Leiter hoch: Ist mit Isa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) das Böse in Hamburg angekommen? Oder sieht […]
“Death is a funny thing” says a female voice over a wonderful view of Berlin at the start of this charming comedy called POSTHUMOUS. Indeed death does funny things, above all when big money and art critics […]
Remember 30 ROCK? Reality is worse. “It’s just a fucking grind”, says one of the showrunners and man, does he mean it. SHOWRUNNERS is the title of Irish director Des Doyle‘s début documentary movie, and it is […]
Of course Rosamund Pyke and Ben Affleck are great in GONE GIRL, but how Gillian Flynn rewrote her own work really is an example on how to put a brilliant book into a script fit […]
“Is this a threat?” the soldier asks. “No”, says Eric: “A threat means something still is to happen.” In the world of THE ROVER the economy has already collapsed 10 years ago. People are literally down to eating […]
You have to be a heartless bastard to work at TV news – I know, I did. And this film had me in fits of laughter, because it depicted the craze of metier so very […]
(c) Elisabeth Schabus