The New German Cinema festival will open in Kyiv in the cinema of the same name on October 10. Its program features a selection of the best German films that premiered or became hits in 2012. The event will open with Measuring the World, a 3D adventure film directed by Detlev Buck, which will take the viewer to the 18th century Germany. War drama Lore, directed by Cate Shortland, will tell about the last days of the World War II, when the main character, a girl named Lore, was abandoned with her four younger siblings after their SS member parents had been arrested by the Allies... The tragicomedy Oh Boy!, directed by Jan Ole Gerster, is a story of a 30-year-old lad who found himself on life’s roadside. The festival will close with Hannah Arendt, a German-Luxembourgian-French biographical drama film about German-Jewish civic activist, philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The plot is focused on real events that occurred from 1961-1964, when Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. Trying to understand the nature of the Nazis’ hatred for the Jews, Arendt carefully recorded and analyzed the trial materials and summarized them in her articles appearing in the United States. Here research led her to discover a story that had nothing to do with the pre-existing stereotypes! Arendt’s new approach caused an outrage and divided many people into supporters and opponents of this remarkable woman. The film stars Barbara Sukowa in the title role.
All films will be shown in German with Ukrainian subtitles. The festival is sponsored by the Goethe-Institut and Embassy of Germany in Ukraine as a joint project with Arthouse Traffic company.
