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71st Berlinale: Festival’s Summer Special ends with homage to international solidarity
Mr Bachmann and His Class, directed by Maria Speth, is an impressive homage to international solidarity.
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
For three and a half hours, the film documents the way in which a dedicated teacher in a small industrial town in Hesse helps his pupils from many different countries feel at home and become citizens of the world.
An estimated 60,000 visitors attended the open-air screenings of the Berlinale’s Summer Special, which ended June 20. Some 8,500 visitors took part in the voting for the 2021 Berlinale Competition Audience Award.
2020 Berlin Film Festival goes virtual, gets personal
Angelika Jansen, Correspondent
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Maren Eggert won the top acting prize at the Berlin Film Festival for playing a scientist who falls in love with a robot (Dan Stevens).Christine FenzlShow MoreShow Less
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Natsuko (Fasako Urabe) and Nozomi (Aoba Kawai) are strangers who form a tenuous friendship after meeting by chance in “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.”Berlin Film FestivalShow MoreShow Less
COVID-19 reduced this year’s Berlin Film Festival, normally attended by hundreds of thousands of film fans, to a virtual event attended only by the jurors, industry members and the press.
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Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert attempt to find a spark in I m Your Man
Credit: Christine Fenzi
Dir: Maria Schrader. Starring: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch. 104 mins
Tom (Dan Stevens) is every woman’s dream man, as long as the dream in question is a strange and unsettling one in which the body of 1980s-vintage Richard Gere becomes possessed by the spirit of C-3PO. In that form, he’s one of the deeply unconventional romantic leads of I’m Your Man, a sensationally funny and gently science-fictional German rom-com which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this week.
03/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Nobody's perfect? They are in this film starring Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens, but according to the German director, that's part of the problem