Word: rolf
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Viki Stevenson stands behind the counter, passing fashion judgment. She's wearing a gauzy black Viktor & Rolf blouse and skinny Diesel jeans as she sorts through a pile of clothes in the shop where she works in Brooklyn, N.Y. After rejecting a high-waisted, sequined pink skirt, she snaps up four G-Star narrow-cut cotton T shirts. "You gotta know your brands," she says, as she tosses the keepers into a metal...
...potential donation, Jacob finds himself back in his native land in an attempt to save his life’s work and the children he loves so dearly. But his original mission soon devolves into a much more complicated tale. While in Denmark, Jacob meets the benefactor Jorgen (Rolf Lassgård), a man who seems curiously uninterested in the orphanage’s cause yet still considers giving it his donation. After a quick meeting, Jorgen casually invites Jacob to his daughter Anna’s (Stine Fischer Christensen) wedding that weekend. After the wedding, secrets long kept come...
...Once Jacob lands in Denmark After the Wedding - a rich, intricate and very gripping movie from Susanne Bier - takes off. His benefactor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), is Jacob's opposite in every way. He's a large, bumptious man, open in his emotions - genial and generous in his family life - but devious and manipulative in his business dealings. He invites Jacob to attend the wedding of his adopted daughter, knowing full well that (a) he has married the great love of Jacob's life and (b) that the daughter is actually Jacob's child - a fact that becomes agonizingly clear...
...Even before the film opened in Berlin this week, it had sparked a huge debate in the German commentariat. Critics attacked it for making light of Germany's past. They questioned the idea of humanizing Hitler, even as a pathetic loser, and of treating the Holocaust in a comedy. Rolf Hochhuth, 75, the prominent German dramatist who , coincidentally, is now staging his own play about Hitler, condemned the movie for "tampering with history." Even the film's lead actor, the popular comedian Helge Schneider, admitted he now regrets doing the film. Adjustments in the editing suite focused the film...
...taking a slightly less tortured view of their past. Downfall, a serious treatment of Hitler's last days, appeared in cinemas in 2004. And this month, the stage play Heil Hitler! , "a grotesque, ironical and humorous attempt to come to terms with history," according to its playwright Rolf Hochhuth, opens in Berlin. Interestingly, the company hired to put up the Heil Hitler! publicity posters in Berlin refused at first; an executive said he found the play's title too "hard to stomach...