Berlin 2006: REQUIEM, GRBAVICA, THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING

Moritz Bleibtreu in The Elementary Particles (top); Sandra Hüller in Requiem (bottom)

More on the Berlin International Film Festival:
Four German films will be screened in the Official Competition.
They are: Oscar Roehler’s literary adaptation Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles; Hans-Christian Schmid’s exorcism drama Requiem; Matthias Glasner’s Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, the story of a convicted rapist who is freed after 12 years behind bars; and Valeska Grisebach’s Sehnsucht / Desire (right), a love story set in eastern Germany, and starring Andreas Müller and Ilka Welz.
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At European Films, Boyd van Hoeij gives his take on the films screened at Berlin 2006, including Jasmila žbanic’s post-Bosnian war drama Grbavica, the Icelandic gay soccer comedy Strákarnir Okkar / Eleven Men [...]

by Andre Soares | February 15, 2006   
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