Andreas Kleinert's biopic about the life of writer Thomas Brasch won the most trophies at the German Film Awards in Berlin. War also played a role for the Lolas.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Award
Nine Golden Lolas for “Dear Thomas”
The film by director Andreas Kleinert emerged as the clear winner of the German Film Awards 2022: nominated in twelve categories, it won a total of nine awards: best feature film, best director, best screenplay, best male lead role and best female supporting role (Albrecht Schuch and Jella Haase, both pictured), camera, editing, production design and costume design.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
An East-West Story
The biopic, shot in black and white, tells of the life of the writer Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), who offends people in the GDR, rebels against his own father – and is finally even betrayed by him and ends up in prison. Because his messages were not heard in the GDR, he later left his homeland for the West – together with the woman he loved.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Award ceremony in times of war
When he accepted the Lola for best director, director Andreas Kleinert recalled the war in Ukraine: when he thinks of Thomas Brasch now, he must give an anarchist and anti-capitalist speech. Arming corporations that produce weapons will not bring peace, he warned. The war shaped the award ceremony in several places…
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Claudia Roth: “The war changes everything”
Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth reported on her trip to the Ukrainian Odessa. “The war changes everything, even an evening like this,” said Roth. Nevertheless, one should, indeed must, celebrate the film. Wladimir Klitschko, brother of Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko, paid tribute to the importance of documentaries via video. “My dear friends. I hope to see you again soon,” he said.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Awards
Three Lolas: “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George Bush”
Second best feature film, also best female lead (Meltem Kaptan, who has already won the Silver Bear for the role) and best male supporting role (Alexander Scheer): In Andreas Dresen's work, the Turkish housewife Rabiye Kurnaz is fighting with human rights lawyer Bernhard Docke for the release of her son Murat from the Guantanamo prison camp.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Two Lolas: “Great Freedom”
Bronze Lola for the third best feature film, as well as gold for the best make-up: Sebastian Meise's film drama tells the story of Hans Hoffmann, who Post-war Germany loves men. But homosexuality is forbidden – paragraph 175 always puts Hans in prison. There he meets Viktor, a convicted murderer. Dislike breeds respect – and more.
Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Best Documentary: “The Other Side of the River”
< p>The film tells the story of 19-year-old Hala, who escapes an arranged marriage by crossing the Euphrates. There she found a home with a Kurdish women's defense unit, which shortly afterwards liberated her hometown of Minbij from the Islamic State. For many women, however, the enemy is not only IS, but patriarchy – with marriage as the ultimate institution of oppression.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Best Children's Film: “The Path”
“The Path” by director Tobias Wiemann received the award for best children's film. Producer Daniel Ehrenberg cheers next to child actor Julius Weckauf. He plays twelve-year-old Rolf, who flees from the Nazis with his father, the critical journalist Ludwig Kirsch, in 1940 – via a path from southern France over the Pyrenees to Spain and finally to New York.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Award
Best film music: “Wonderful”
The Lola for the best film music (Annette Focks) went to the film by Karoline Herfurth (pictured as Sonja). In “Wonderful” Frauke struggles with old age, while her daughter Julie, as a successful model, struggles with the anorexia in the industry. For Frauke's daughter-in-law Sonja, her own body becomes an expression of a life crisis. A film about the pressure of social ideals.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Two Lolas: “The School of Magical Animals”
The crew of the “School of Magical Animals” was happy about the trophies for the best visual effects – and for the most popular film of the year. The film tells the story of Ida, at whose new school the children are given magical animals to accompany them. The fox Rabbat is placed at Ida's side. Not only can the magical animals speak, they also have their own unique character.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Award
Honorary award for Jürgen Jürges
Cameraman Jürgen Jürges received the Lola of Honor for “outstanding services to German film”. The 81-year-old is a “master of light” and has decisively shaped German film for more than five decades “through his unique feeling for moods and images”, according to the president duo of the German Film Academy Alexandra Maria Lara and Florian Gallenberger.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Award
Nine Golden Lolas for “Dear Thomas”
The film by director Andreas Kleinert emerged as the clear winner of the German Film Awards 2022: nominated in twelve categories, it won a total of nine awards: best feature film, best director, best screenplay, best male lead role and best female supporting role (Albrecht Schuch and Jella Haase, both in the picture), camera, editing, set design and costume design.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
An East-West story
The biopic, shot in black and white, tells of the life of the writer Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), who offends people in the GDR, rebels against his own father – and is finally even betrayed by him and ends up in prison. Because his messages were not heard in the GDR, he later left his homeland for the west – together with the woman he loves.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Award ceremony in times of war
When he accepted the Lola for best director, director Andreas Kleinert recalled the war in Ukraine: when he thinks of Thomas Brasch now, he must give an anarchist and anti-capitalist speech. Arming corporations that produce weapons will not bring peace, he warned. The war shaped the award ceremony in several places…
- Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Claudia Roth: “The war changes everything”
Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth reported on her trip to the Ukrainian Odessa. “The war changes everything, even an evening like this,” said Roth. Nevertheless, one should, indeed must, celebrate the film. Wladimir Klitschko, brother of Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko, paid tribute to the importance of documentaries via video. “My dear friends. I hope to see you again soon,” he said.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Three Lolas: “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George Bush”
Second best feature film, also best female lead (Meltem Kaptan, who has already won the Silver Bear for the role) and best male supporting role (Alexander Scheer): In Andreas Dresen's work, the Turkish housewife Rabiye Kurnaz fights with human rights lawyer Bernhard Docke for the release of her son Murat from the Guantanamo prison camp.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Two Lolas: “Great Freedom”
Bronze Lola for the third best feature film, as well as gold for best make-up: Sebastian Meise's film drama tells the story of Hans Hoffmann, who loves men in post-war Germany. But homosexuality is forbidden – paragraph 175 always puts Hans in prison. There he meets Viktor, a convicted murderer. Dislike breeds respect – and more.
- Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Best documentary: “The Other Side of the River”
The film tells the story of 19-year-old Hala, who escapes an arranged marriage by crossing the Euphrates . There she found a home with a Kurdish women's defense unit, which shortly afterwards liberated her hometown of Minbij from the Islamic State. For many women, however, the enemy is not just IS, but patriarchy – with marriage as the ultimate institution of oppression.
Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Best Children's Film: “The Path”
“The Path” by director Tobias Wiemann received the award for best children's film. Producer Daniel Ehrenberg cheers next to child actor Julius Weckauf. He plays twelve-year-old Rolf, who flees from the Nazis with his father, the critical journalist Ludwig Kirsch, in 1940 – via a path from southern France over the Pyrenees to Spain and finally to New York.
- Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Prize
Best film music: “Beautiful”
The Lola for the best film music (Annette Focks) went to the film by Karoline Herfurth (pictured as Sonja). In “Wonderful” Frauke struggles with old age, while her daughter Julie, as a successful model, struggles with the anorexia in the industry. For Frauke's daughter-in-law Sonja, her own body becomes an expression of a life crisis. A film about the pressure of social ideals.
- Lolas 2022: Die Winner of the German Film Prize
Two Lolas: “The School of Magical Animals”
The crew of the “School of Magical Animals” was happy about the trophies for the best visual effects – and for the most popular film of the year. The film tells the story of Ida, at whose new school the children are given magical animals to accompany them. The fox Rabbat is placed at Ida's side. The magical animals can not only talk, they also have their own character.
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Lolas 2022: The winners of the German Film Award
Honorary award for Jürgen Jürges
Cameraman Jürgen Jürges received the Lola of Honor for “outstanding services to German film”. The 81-year-old is a “master of light” and has decisively shaped German film for more than five decades “through his unique feeling for moods and images”, according to the president duo of the German Film Academy Alexandra Maria Lara and Florian Gallenberger.
The drama “Dear Thomas” was the big winner at the German Film Prize 2022: The film by director Andreas Kleinert received a total of nine Lolas at the award ceremony on Friday evening in Berlin, including a Lola in gold for the best feature film. The tragic comedy “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush” received the silver award. The drama “Great Freedom” was honored with the bronze Lola.
Nine Lolas for “Dear Thomas”
“Dear Thomas” about the writer and filmmaker Thomas Brasch holte, who died in 2001 including the prizes for best director, best screenplay and best camera.
Albrecht Schuch is happy about Lola as best actor in “Dear Thomas”
Thomas Brasch grew up in the GDR as the son of a high-ranking official, but later went to the West. He is played by Albrecht Schuch, who received an award for best male leading actor. For the 36-year-old, it is already his third Lola after “Systemsprenger” and “Berlin Alexanderplatz”. Jella Haase, who also plays in “Lieber Thomas”, received the Lola for the best female supporting role.
< h2>After the bear also the Lola for Meltem Kaptan
“Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush” by director Andreas Dresen secured a total of three Lolas. In addition to the Lola in silver in the category best feature film, leading actress Meltem Kaptan was honored for best female lead and Alexander Scheer for best male supporting role. Kaptan had already been honored with the Silver Bear for best female lead at this year's Berlinale.
Meltem Kaptan is delighted to have Lola for her starring role in “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”
Cameraman Jürgen Jürges received an honorary award for outstanding services to German film. The 81-year-old is a “master of light,” said the presidential duo of the German Film Academy, Alexandra Maria Lara and Florian Gallenberger.
“Master of light”: Jürgen Jürges
Jürges had decisively influenced German film for more than five decades “through his unsurpassed empathy for characters and stories and his unique feeling for moods and images”. Jürges worked with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder (“Angst Eat Soul”), Michael Haneke (“Funny Games”) and Uli Edel (“Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo”).
Happy about the honorary award: cameraman Jürgen Jürges
Best Children's Film was “The Path”. Annette Focks was happy about the Lola for the best film music for her work in the film “Wonderful”. The children's film “Die Schule der Magical Animals” by director Gregor Schnitzler. The film adaptation of the book series of the same name was seen by over 1.7 million viewers in German cinemas.
Best Documentary: Escape from an arranged marriage
The film “The Other Side of the River” by Frank Müller, Guevara Namer and Antonia Kilian won the “Best Documentary” category. The film tells the story of 19-year-old Hala, who escapes from an arranged marriage by crossed the Euphrates. There she found a home with a Kurdish women's defense unit, which shortly afterwards liberated her hometown of Minbij from the Islamic State.
Frank Müller, Guevara Namer and Antonia Kilian with their Lolas for the documentary “The Other Side of the River”
The German Film Prize, which has been awarded annually since 1951, is the most important award in the German film industry and, at around three million euros, also the most valuable German culture prize. The six nominated films in the Best Feature Film category alone each receive 250,000 euros, the winner another 250,000 euros. The best actors in all categories each receive 10,000 euros. The award winners are chosen by the more than 2100 members of the German Film Academy: German Film Award 2022: All awards can be found here!
Remembrance of the War
Around 1700 people were invited to the award ceremony in the Berlin Palais am Funkturm. During the evening, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine was recalled several times. “The war changes everything, even an evening like this,” said Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth. The film should still be celebrated. “We need the power of film” – not to distract, but “to counter the misery”.
< p>Culture Minister Claudia Roth: “We need the power of film – to counteract the misery”
wa/nf/rb (afp, dpa, Deutscher Filmpreis)