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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel and writer/producer Bernd Eichinger have chosen the bunker as the setting of their film Downfall, loosely based on a book of the same title by Hitler-biographer Joachim Fest...
...nearly 25% of tickets sold, up from 17.5% the year before, according to spio, a trade group. And following the surprise international success in 2003 of the east German comedy Goodbye, Lenin!, German-language films have gained wider European and U.S. distribution as well. Downfall, a movie produced by Bernd Eichinger about Hitler's final days, has been nominated for the Foreign Language Film Oscar and looks set to become one of the most internationally successful German-language films ever. The Edukators, about the generation gap between the former rebels of 1968 and their children, competed in Cannes last year...
...broken," says Rolf Giesen, the curator of the Film Museum in Berlin, who is troubled by the film. "To show Hitler as a benevolent old man and not mention the Holocaust or the millions of people who became victims of the war - this is a real danger." Downfall producer Bernd Eichinger, who also wrote the screenplay, argues that a bigger danger was Germany's habit of seeing Hitler as a one-dimensional madman - because it lets other Germans off the hook. "He turned almost the whole population of the country into his followers," says Eichinger. "I believe that in every...
Another day, another unmasked East German spy. That ho-hum attitude greeted news that Bernd Runge, the head of U.S. magazine publisher Condé Nast's German business, worked for the hated Stasi secret police as a young East German journalist in the 1980s. Last week two German magazines, Focus and Der Spiegel, revealed that Runge, now 43, informed on fellow students and his own family, and spied on Western journalists. What's fascinating is that Germans barely raised an eyebrow, and Runge's American boss said his past has "no relevance." It's a far cry from the 1990s...
...scorers. At the Badger Showdown, Wisconsin bludgeoned the Dutchmen 8-1 on only 35 shots. The Badgers’ strength in their defensive zone was also apparent; they limited Union to only 16 shots on goal. Most of the ones that got through were stopped by Bernd Brückler, the Badgers junior goaltender. Brückler was the top-rated goaltender in the WCHA, allowing an average of 2.11 goals against and stopping .928 percent of the shots sent his way. He also backstopped a defense tied for first in goals allowed this season...