The pre-selection was top-class: Seven very different German movies were up for discussion. In the Munich system, Sprenger was selected “now” as the German candidate for the foreign Oscar.
The enjoyment in Director Nora Fingscheidt and your Team was great: your movie “system, Sprenger,” not as a German candidate in the race for the Oscar in the category of “Best foreign Film”. The German Films”, the international representation of the German film industry, announced” today in Munich.
“We feel honoured and grateful that the ‘systems busters’, as a German contribution to the Oscar’s race,” said Fingscheidt in a first reaction to the press.
Strong Team: Director Nora Fingscheidt (in the middle) with your main Albrecht Schuch (left), Helena Zengel (front) and Lisa Hagmeister (R)models
The Film was just the world on an international festival tour and triggers apparently strong feelings. “The overwhelming reactions of the audience show that cinema can create a dialogue between cultures, if it’s going to Be around people and -,” said the Director.
At its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale had taken care of the extremely close-to-reality Film from Germany, not only for attention and controversy conversation with international film critics; Nora Fingscheidt received for her debut film the Silver bear Alfred Bauer prize.
Micah is in the treatment of Benni unusual ways
Starring Albrecht Schuch, as Otto Modersohn in the movie “Paula” was announced, plays the Social-Coach Micha trying to use extremely unconventional methods to get the nine-year-old girl Benni out of their spiral of violence and its explosive despair.
Benni-actress Zengel has played “all on the wall”
Everywhere the arch is flown Aisch wild child: care, family, youth group home, special school. Even Bianca, the mother, afraid of her unpredictable daughter. Kids like Benni called the German youth welfare office simply as “systems busters”. All fail due to their ferocity. Actress Helena Zengel have force with their strength and physical all basically in the Film to the wall is played, told Schuch in an Interview in the press book for the Film.
Infinite loneliness: Benni on the search for love and security
The Film was produced in co-production with grandma Inge film, ZDF/Kleines fernsehspiel, and with the financial support of the Federal government Commissioner for culture and media, Monika Grütters,. Was funded it by several German institutions, including the German film funding the Federal government and the media Board Berlin-Brandenburg.
Oscar Academy nominated in January
On the list of the seven German Oscar candidates, including: the Hape-Kerkeling-biography “The Boy must be. on the air” from Director Caroline Link, as well as “Lara” by Jan-Ole Gerster Link won the best foreign language film Oscar in 2013 with her Film “Nowhere in Africa”. In 2007, the Stasi Drama “the lives of Others” Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck was able to get the coveted foreign language film Oscar to Germany.
The Oscar Academy selects in January 2020, five of the foreign applicant-the films officially nominated for the Oscar in the foreign category. The award ceremony will take place at 9. February in Los Angeles.
hm/bb (dpa, German Films)