PEACEFUL TIMES
by Neele Leana Vollmar


Germany-35mm-Color-98mins-2009
In German with English subtitles
Rating: PG Mild themes
With: Katharina Schubert, Oliver Stokowski

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Germany in the 1960s: Peaceful times in the West can start at last, if only Irene Striesow could manage to shake off the past. She is homesick for East Germany, mistrustful of the cease fire, and most of all, distraught about her husband Dieter’s other women. She would rather die young and she doesn’t make any efforts to hide it from Dieter and her three children Ute, Wasa and Flori. As their living room begins to look more like a war zone, her children decide to take matters in their own hands. They want their mother to finally be happy, that Dieter can crack light-hearted jokes about East Germany again, and that, if possible, the third world war doesn’t happen after all …

 

I, DON GIOVANNI
by Carlos Saura

Italy, Spain-35mm-Color-120mins-2009
In Italian and German with English subtitles
Rating: TBC

Release date: End of February/Early March 2010

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Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte is leading a very cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna.
Supported by his friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the King’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival's ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist.
But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni