The German Film Magazine – 11.07.2010 | KINO
| KINO lies down next to Gustav MAHLER ON THE COUCH in the new film from director Percy Adlon. We scored the Ludwigshafen festival for the best summer film and, at the Munich film fest, meet up with three directors whose films pull no punches.MAHLER ON THE COUCH -- The new feature from Percy AdlonGustav Mahler knew Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology. Director Percy Adlon takes this fact as the starting point for his new film about the legendary composer. It's summer, 1910 and an aging Mahler asks Freud for advice: he is consumed by jealousy.His young wife Alma is having an affair with the architecture student Walter Gropius. The stage is set for a passionate, light-hearted romantic drama.Munich Film Fest: Rough Realism in New German CinemaAllienation at work and the longing for a meaningful life were the dominant themes in the new German films screening at the Munich Film Festival. In THE LAST EMPLOYEE, an unemployed lawyer takes a job where he has to fire everyone in the company.Three urbanites fight through their midlife crises in MORGEN DAS LEBEN. And in TRANSIT, a truck driver is slowly beaten down by his working conditions. KINO can't turn away from the new, rough reality of German cinema. SHORTCUTS FRANK GIERING is dead - KINO remembers a great actor. ICH, TOMEK - A German-Polish drama about a 15-year-old boy caught up in a murderous plot. ALTIPLANO - A lyrical tragedy about the fate of the Andes Indians. The Ludwigshafen Film Festival: The search for the ... |
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