Lola Awards Articles

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 [...]

Photos: © Roman Babirad, Michael Tinnefeld / Deutsche Filmakademie Click on the photos to enlarge them. Fatih Akin, Nina Hoss, Elmar Wepper, Barbara Schoneberger Fatih Akin, Hanna Schygulla Senta Berger, Gunter Rohrbach Til Schweiger, Jasmin Tabatabai Annelore Eisner, Nico Hofmann Doris Dorrie Fatih Akin  

2008 German Film Academy Awards 2008 German Film Academy Award nominations: March 28, 2008 2008 German Film Academy Award winners: Palais am Funkturm in Berlin on April 25, 2008 (“*” denotes the winner in each category) Lola Ceremony Photos: © Roman Babirad, Michael Tinnefeld / Deutsche Filmakademie   The big winner of the 2008 Lola Awards was writer-director Fatih Akin’s cross-cultural drama Auf der anderen [...]