Nina Hoss Articles

Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years. Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are [...]

Yu Nan in Tuya's Marriage "When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams. This film made my dreams come true," remarked Chinese director Wang Quan'an upon accepting the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his rural drama Tuya's Marriage, a portrait of the social and environmental costs of China's unbridled economic growth. In Tuya's Marriage, a woman (Yu Nan) living [...]

2007 Berlin Film Festival Awards 2007 Berlin Film Festival: February 8–18, 2007 Berlin 2007 Winners   International Competition Golden Bear for the Best Film: Tu ya de hun shi / Tuya's Marriage by Wang Quan'an Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix: El Otro / The Other by Ariel Rotter Silver Bear – Best Director: Joseph Cedar for Beaufort Silver Bear – Best Actor: Julio [...]

300 by Zack Snyder (top); Nina Hoss in Yella (middle); In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo (bottom) Berlin Film Festival 2007: Part I A few other titles that sound intriguing: Inspired by Frank Miller's drawings and directed by Zack Snyder, 300 depicts the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C.E. At that decisive battle, King Leonidas of Sparta and a mere 300 followers [...]