60 Years of German Cinema in Hanoi

The Goethe Institute in Hanoi will organize a German Film Week in Hanoi from from now until November 7 to celebrate 60 years of German Cinema (1999-2009).

The Film Week will focus on the new millennium, the reunification of East and West Germany with all its problems, the new German filmmaking era, “Berliner Schule”, with its realism, and internationally successful German films.

Every two months, the Goethe Institute in Hanoi will feature a decade in cinema history, presenting films that define their times, films which were talked about, which shocked and impressed and which led the way for German cinema in both East and West Germany.

Seven films will screen during the week, including Policewoman, 2000, directed by Andreas Dresen on November 01, 7:30 p.m., Goodbye Lenin!, 2003, directed by Wolfgang Becker on November 02, 7:30 p.m., Head-On, 2004, directed by Fatih Akin on November 03, 7:30 p.m., Go for Zucker!, 2005, directed by Dani Levy on  November 4, 7:30 p.m., Longing, 2006, directed by Valeska Grisebach on November 5, 7:30 p.m., The Lives of Others, 2006, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on November 6, 7:30 p.m., Jerichow, 2008, directed by Christian Petzold on November 7, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are free and available at the Hanoi Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Hanoi from October 26. For more information, call 04 37342251/52/53 (ext. 9).

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60 Years of German Cinema continues in Hanoi

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is one of the seven films to be screened at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi in September

Seven German films from the 1990s will be screened in Hanoi from September 6 to 15 as part of a continuing program on 60 years of filmmaking in that country since World War II.

The program, 60 Years of German Cinema, began in January and has been showing films every two months representing each decade since the 1950’s.

The 1990’s saw the reunification of East and West Germany with all its attendant problems.

The seven films to be screened -- at the Goethe Institute, also the organizer of the event -- are “German, German,” “The Blackest Heart,” and “The Nasty Girl” (all 1990), “Ostkreuz” (1991), “After Five in the Forest Primeval” (1995), “Beyond Silence” (1996), and “Run Lola Run” (1998).

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is a cult film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus of Passau, Bavaria.

In 1990 it won New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1991 it was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards as Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1992 it won the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in English.

The free screenings will be at 7: 30 pm every day and passes are available at the institute, 56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

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60 Years of German Cinema continues in Hanoi

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is one of the seven films to be screened at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi in September

Seven German films from the 1990s will be screened in Hanoi from September 6 to 15 as part of a continuing program on 60 years of filmmaking in that country since World War II.

The program, 60 Years of German Cinema, began in January and has been showing films every two months representing each decade since the 1950’s.

The 1990’s saw the reunification of East and West Germany with all its attendant problems.

The seven films to be screened -- at the Goethe Institute, also the organizer of the event -- are “German, German,” “The Blackest Heart,” and “The Nasty Girl” (all 1990), “Ostkreuz” (1991), “After Five in the Forest Primeval” (1995), “Beyond Silence” (1996), and “Run Lola Run” (1998).

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is a cult film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus of Passau, Bavaria.

In 1990 it won New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1991 it was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards as Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1992 it won the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in English.

The free screenings will be at 7: 30 pm every day and passes are available at the institute, 56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

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