“Toni Erdmann” could get an Oscar – rbb|24

Film of Berliner on the Shortlist – “Toni Erdmann” could be an Oscar get

16.12.16 | 11:05 PM

Maren Ade’s film “Toni Erdmann” a hard-hitting business consultant and free-turning Alt-68er father could on 26. February get an Oscar as the best foreign language Film, if he makes it to the final five nominees.

The Oscar chances for the German Film “Toni Erdmann” have increased significantly. The acclaimed father-and-daughter-story of the Berlin Director Maren Ade (40) managed to make it on Thursday on the Shortlist of nine candidates, such as the Oscar Academy announced in California’s Beverly Hills. 85 countries had applied for 2017, the Oscar in the category “non-English language Film”.

in addition to “Toni Erdmann” were, among others, the films “The Salesman” (Iran), “A man called Ove” (Sweden), “Just the end of the world” (Canada) and “Under the Sand – The promise of freedom” (Denmark) in the pre-selection. Contributions from Switzerland, Russia, Norway and Australia are in the race.

The Oscar ceremony is on 26. February

Surprisingly finds, “Elle” with Isabell Huppert – the French contribution of the next Berlinale-Jury-Chairman Pal Verhoeven – not on the Shortlist for the Oscar. The Film had fetched in December, the “Critics’ Choice” Award as the best foreign language Film. “Toni Erdmann” was left empty-handed.

The last German Film that was officially nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, was the 2010 “The white ribbon” by Michael Haneke. In 2007, the Stasi was able to Film “the lives of Others” by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck the trophy to Germany.

The tragicomedy “Toni Erdmann” was not only the Globe on Monday for a Golden as the best English-language Film has been nominated. The Globes from the foreign press Association on 8. January awarded in Los Angeles.

On the 24. January announces the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first five films in the final selection of the foreign-coming Oscars. The award ceremony is on 26. February on the stage.

Alt- ‘ 68 father and tough daughter

“Toni Erdmann” had cleared last Saturday at the European Film awards in Wroclaw, Poland (Breslau): Maren Ade’s Film won in five categories: best picture, best Director, best screenplay (Ade) and for the best actor (Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek).

The story of a complicated father-daughter relationship had been thrilled at the film festival in Cannes, already viewers and critics. The Golden palm was “Toni Erdmann” although denied at the end of the prize of the critics Association “Fipresci jumped out of the criticism”.

The actor Peter Simonischek plays in the Film, the Alt-68er, Winfried, comes to visit his daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller). This makes just as tough a business consultant career, your recent Job has brought you to Romania. With false teeth and wig Winfried slips into the role of Toni Erdmann and brings embers of his daughter with a bad Joke for white. The criticism is agreed, Maren Ade manage 162 minutes of Film to a humorous-debunking walk through the nuances of a father-daughter relationship.

“Toni Erdmann” and “All other”

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  In her latest feature film, the Director, Maren Ade, tells the story of the Old-68ers Winfried Conrad alias Toni Erdmann (Peter Simonischek), his daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller) – visited a successful business consultant in Bucharest …

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  … and for his quirky appearances in embarrassment. Even if Ines is trying to start to make a good face for the joke-soaked game of your father – so completely fails …
  

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  With his jokes and pranks Toni Erdmann brings, as he calls himself, the life of his business-oriented subsidiary, strong mess.

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  “Toni Erdmann” is the third Long-feature film of the Berlin-based Maren Ade. 1976 born in Karlsruhe, studied at the end of the 1990s, media studies and production at the HFF in Munich, before she turned to the Director.
  

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  “Toni Erdmann” was awarded to Maren Ade this year, the FIPRESCI prize in Cannes, the international film critics and film journalists will be awarded.
  

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  Six years after her first Long-feature film “The forest for the trees” came in 2009, her Film “All other” in the cinemas.
  

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  For her relationship drama with Lars Eidinger and Birgit Minichmayr, you turned on the island of Sardinia, …
  

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  … was Maren Ade at the Berlin International film festival, awarded in 2009 with the Silver bear, the Grand prize of the Jury. Also, for actress Birgit Minichmayr, there was a Silver bear in the category Best actress. | More photo galleries