Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/10/2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Clinton Street Theater
Categories
This film begins with the premise of a silent reproach: The proponents of the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962 – for many marking the birth of New German Cinema – with their problem-laden work, have stood in the way of a freer, and perhaps more entertaining development of cinema at home. Dominik Graf focuses on some nearly-forgotten outsiders from those times, people like Roland Klick and Klaus Lemke. His views are often contradictory, but inspire a critical re-appraisal of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies.
Dominik Graf was born 6 September 1952, to actor Robert Graf. In 1972 Graf takes up undergraduate studies in German philology and musicology in Munich, switching to University for TV and Film Munich in 1974. His final year diploma film DER KOSTBARE GAST (1979) (The valued guest) is awarded a Bavarian Film Award. Graf works prolifically for TV, making episodes for early evening series and establishing himself as an expert for crime and action features. Some of his films make it onto the big screen. He is awarded a German Film Award as best director for his thriller THE CAT. Graf proceeds to work mainly for TV, where he switches between controversial genre presentations such as SPERLING UND DER BRENNENDE ARM (Sperling and the incendiary arm), melodrama like BITTERE UNSCHULD (Bitter Innocence) and poetical works such as DIE FREUNDE DER FREUNDE (Friends of friends). He also won wide acclaim for his series IM ANGESICHT DES VERBRECHENS (Encounters in crime), on the Russian Mafia in Berlin. It won a number of awards, among which the German Television Award for best series, the Grimme Award for the category fiction as well as the Bavarian TV Award 2011 for best direction. BELOVED SISTERS premiers in competition during the 2014 Berlin Film Festival Berlinale, it’s his first cinema feature in eight years. Since 2004, Graf has also been professor for film direction at the international filmschool of Cologne.
Cast: Klaus Lemke, Roland Klick, Werner Enke, Olaf Möller, Lisa Gotto, Stefan Lukschy, Gisela Hahn, Martin Müller, Frank Tönsmann, Artur Brauner, Wolfgang Büld, Mario Adorf u.a.
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