Movie Screening: Basta:Rotwein oder Totsein

Hello once again,

To lighten the semester mood, the German society will be having a movie screening...

Movie title: Basta- Rotwein oder Totsein
English title: C(r)ook
Duration: 108 minutes
Synopsis:
Blood, Guns and Pasta. A killer for the Russion mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion- cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.
Genre: Action, Humour

For the (German) trailer, visit: trailer, or the (German) website: movie website.

Date:       Monday, 12/9/2011
Time:       7.00-9.00 pm
Location: Central Library Theatrette 1 (Level 2) (See below)

German Movie Screening: Die Fremde

Die deutsche Sphäre will be screening the German film Die Fremde (When We Leave) [2009], a drama directed by Feo Aladag, next week. This film was also selected to be shown at the 14^th German Film Festival Singapore 2010. (Sypnosis is found below the poster.)

Date: 27 January 2011, Thursday
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Venue: NUS Central Library Theatrette 1

The movie will be screened with English subtitles so you won't have to worry about not understanding what is being said! This event is open to members of the NUS Students' German Language Society only, but members are welcome to bring their friends along as well. See you there!

"Stop dreaming!" says the mother to her twenty-five-year-old daughter Umay when she and her young son Cem appear at the door of her parents' Berlin apartment. Umay has run away from an unhappy marriage in Istanbul and has returned to Berlin because she wants to lead her own life again. She knows that she's expecting a lot from her parents and siblings but she hopes that their loving relationship will mean more to them than the pressure of social conventions.

But before long she realises that her family cannot simply ignore their deep-seated traditions and the situation could well break them. When the family decides to restore the family's reputation by returning Cem to his father, Umay once again begs for their help - but ends up breaking with them for good. Umay falls in love with Stipe and she and Cem begin a new life. Umay tries to mend the relationship with her family, but doesn't realise that it's too late for reconciliation.

Feo Aladag: "Many German citizens of Turkish descent are - understandably - at odds with their identity. In Germany they feel Turkish and unwanted, and in Turkey they feel like Germans. Even in this section of society adultery is an exception - the worst catastrophe. In my opinion, one of the reasons for the current return to traditional values, particularly within a younger generation, is social exclusion by the majority society. Die Fremde is not meant to be a representative portrait of a social group, nor is it a manual for life. Rather, the film seeks to bring to light one possibility, which, in this story, contains the real sense of hope."
(Sypnosis taken from here.)

German Movie Screening: Keinohrhasen

Die deutsche Sphäre is organizing a German movie screening on Thursday! We have selected the film Keinohrhasen (Rabbit Without Ears) [2007], a romantic comedy directed by Til Schweiger.

Date: 21 October 2010, Thursday
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: NUS Central Library Theatrette 1

The movie will start on time so don't be late! :) This event is free and only open to members of the NUS Students' German Language Society, but members are welcome to bring along their friends. Non-members can register for membership on that day too.

Synopses:

Der Boulevard ist sein Revier: Reporter Ludo (Til Schweiger) ist mit Paparazzo Moritz (Matthias Schweighöfer) ständig auf der Jagd nach Stars, Starlets und Boxenludern. Manchmal glaubt er sogar selbst an die Storys, die er verzapft – und eines Tages geht das ins Auge: Die Richterin brummt ihm 300 soziale Arbeitsstunden in einem Kinderhort auf.

Dort herrscht Anna (Nora Tschirner), die den Schwerenöter Ludo schon als Kind nicht ausstehen konnte – Ludo muss also barfuß durch die Hölle. Zwischen Klatschspalten und Klettergerüsten entdeckt er sich selbst – es ist der Knüller seines Lebens …
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Love finds a tabloid journalist in an unexpected place in this romantic comedy from Germany. Ludo (Til Schweiger) is a reporter who has enjoyed a successful career documenting the peccadilloes of the rich and famous with the help of his photographer sidekick Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer). But a run-in with boxer Wladimir Klitschko and his fiancée Yvonne Catterfeld at a party turns into a food fight and Ludo is charged with disturbing the peace. Ludo is ordered to perform three hundred hours of community service at a children's day care center, which is especially bad news since Ludo doesn't care for kids.

Ludo finds himself working side by side with the center's director, Anna Gotzlowski (Nora Tschirner), who had an unfortunate run in with Ludo when they were children and doesn't like him any more now than she did then. Anna goes out of her way to make things difficult for Ludo, but in time he begins to get the hang of his new assignment, starts bonding with his young charges, and even enjoys a brief fling with a sexy single mom (Brigitte Zeh). But as Ludo's soft side begins to surface, Anna finds herself increasingly attracted to him, and the antagonists discover they're falling in love.

Keinohrhasen was written and directed by leading man Til Schweiger, and was a major box office hit in Germany.
(written by Mark Deming, Rovi, taken from here)