euro|topics - European Film Award

Główny temat z dnia Poniedziałek, 4. Grudzień 2006

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European Film Award

The European Film Award has been presented in Warsaw last saturday. The winners are the German film - "Das Leben der Anderen" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, about the former East German secret service and Pedro Almodóvar's "Volver". Europe's cinema has exciting stories to tell. Especially when it comes to dealing with the past.

Die Welt - Niemcy

"The biggest challenge for European cinemas is that the public is interested in domestic films - see the growing domestic market share for Germany, Spain and France - but hardly at all for the films of their European neighbours," concludes Hans-Georg Rodek on the occasion of the European Film Awards. But "there is an infinite number of interesting European stories to tell. ...Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe appears to be in an inspirational phase. And for the past few years, material has been erupting from the memory of the continent, inspired by everything from literary detectives of the Middle Ages to TV mini-series on World War II. There is no end in sight, and there appears to be no geographic or chronological boundary ... Europe is a sum of experiences, based on cultures and histories. The result is a kind of transformation of suffering into knowledge." (04/12/2006)

Gazeta Wyborcza - Polska

Tadeusz Sobolewski comments on Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck winning the European Film Award for "Das Leben der Anderen": "Almost all the films nominated are set against a background of history, war and terror. But just as the great films of the 'Polish School' were not just reports of historical events, so today's European directors also present the people caught up in events... The course of history does not bypass our cinema. But hopefully the films do not follow the guidelines of an official 'politics of history.' I am not sure if the world is waiting for films about Polish defeats and victories. I am not sure they want to see how heroic we were, and how foreigners betrayed us. It is much more interesting to learn from someone who encountered war, communism or the Solidarnosc Revolution." (04/12/2006)

El País - Hiszpania

"The idyll between Europe and Pedro Almodovar goes on", writes Rocio Garcia reflecting on the success of his film 'Volver' that has won five prizes at the European Film Festival. "The love at first sight between Almodovar and Europe goes back a long way. The conquest of Europe has always represented the first lap of the journey Hollywood triumph for this film-maker. In Berlin, in 1999, his talent as director and screen-writer had been recognised with 'All About My Mother', which then went on to win Best Foreign Film Award. Three years later, history repeated itself in Rome with 'Talk to her' winning five European prizes. A few months later the same film was to see itself awarded an Oscar for best film script." (03/12/2006)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Niemcy

A film about the former East German secret service has won the European Film Award. And Michael Althen sees in 'Das Leben der anderen" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, another sign that German cinema is finally is becoming important again. "This continues the wondrous flood of prizes that hasn't stopped since the Oscar in 2003 for Caroline Link's 'Nowhere in Africa.' 'Head On' won a Golden Bear in 2004 and also a European Film Award, after 'Goodbye, Lenin!' paved the way. Three victories in four years suggests a similar dominance over the European Film Award that Gianni Amelio, Ken Loach or Pedro Almodóvar once enjoyed... It is no longer an accident. There almost seems to be a pattern here. Especially as, even away from the limelight of award ceremonies, German cinema is suddenly being taken seriously, where it was ignored for years." (04/12/2006)

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