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Christian Petzold’s ‘Barbara’ Leads Nominations For Germany’s Lola Awards

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday March 23, 2012 @ 11:27am PDTTags: Anonymous, Christian Petzold, Roland Emmerich

Barbara LolasThe German Film Academy has announced nominations for its Lola awards, the country’s equivalent to the Oscar. Christian Petzold’s Barbara, the story of an East German doctor transferred to the countryside in 1980, scored eight nods, while Roland Emmerich’s controversial Shakespeare film Anonymous and Andreas Dresen’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title Stopped On Track took seven each. All three are in the best picture category along with Tim Fehlbaum’s Emmerich-produced post-apocalyptic thriller Hell; Christian Zübert’s Three Quarter Moon, about a curmudgeonly taxi driver and a precocious little girl; and David Wnendt’s neo-Nazi picture Combat Girls. Petzold won the best director prize in Berlin last month for Barbara and is nominated in that category along with Dresen and Hans Weingartner for Hut In The Woods. Vying for best actress are READ MORE »

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Adopt Films Acquires Silver Bear Winner ‘Barbara’: Berlin

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday February 19, 2012 @ 12:36pm PSTTags: Adopt Films, Berlin, Christian Petzold

Adopt Films is continuing its spending spree at the Berlin International Film Festival, landing U.S. rights to Christian Petzold’s drama Barbara just before the film won the runner-up Silver Bear at the festival’s awards ceremony yesterday. The latest deal, announced … Read More »

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