• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 06 / 24 / 2011

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2011.06.23 - 09:36:17 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.- The premiere of the film “Debajo de ti, la ciudad,” will inaugurate the German Cinema Festival to be held at the Cinematheque of Cuba in this capital from June 24th through the 30th.

Directed by Christoph Hochhausler, the German-French co-production focuses on cold relations between professionals of the banking sector in the city of Frankfurt, said on Wednesday Petra Röhler, an official of the German embassy to Cuba, during a press conference held at the Cuban Film Institute.

Röhler explained that the director of the film belongs to the so-called School of Berlin, a group characterized by sobriety, good camera work, slowness in narration and care over image.

Goethe, a biography of prominent writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe is another of the main attractions of the event, which will include seven feature films recently produced.

The Festival’s programmer, Tony Mazon, said that the director of the movie took artistic liberties at the time of reflecting the life of the author of The Misfortunes of Young Werther, but that nevertheless he captured the spirit of one of the paradigmatic figures of German literary romanticism.

The remaining movies, shown on the big screen as part of Havana’s International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, ratify the quality of one of Europe’s best cinematographies, according to Mazon.

Films like “Cerezas en flor- Hanami”, by Doris Dorrie, “En las nubes” and “Whisky con vodka,” by Andreas Dresen, tackle existential issues in the so-called third age, like loneliness, sentimental relations and sexuality.
(ACN)