Florian Gallenberger Articles

Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39 countries. The winning student filmmaker will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award winners "for a week of industry-related activities and social [...]

Inspired by real-life events, the World War II drama John Rabe won the 2009 German Film Academy's Lola for best film. Directed by Florian Gallenberger, John Rabe tells the story of a German businessman (best actor winner Ulrich Tukur) credited with saving more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing (then Nanking) massacre of 1937-38. Additionally, John Rabe, which has been a box-office disappointment in Germany, [...]

German Film Academy Awards – Lola 2009 2009 German Film Academy Award nominations: March 13, 2009 2009 German Film Academy Award winners: Berlin, April 24, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   John Rabe, starring Ulrich Tukur.   Best film The Baader Meinhof Complex, director Uli Edel Chiko, director Ozgur Yildirim A Year Ago in Winter, director Caroline Link Jerichow, director Christian Petzold [...]