Berlinale 2015 Malick, Dresen, Branagh, Greenaway competition – Spiegel Online

Berlin – The first news of the Berlinale 2015 had yet been little prospect of Cinematic: The “Berlinale Camera” for Alice Waters and Carlo Petrini, two slow-food activists who conceivable to do with cinema little, but in the diversification strategy of festival director Dieter Kosslick with their increasingly complex side rows and topics fit.

But now stand firm the first films for the competition of the 65th Berlin Film Festival – and they are truly impressive: Terrence Malick is his long-awaited romantic drama “Knight of Cups” with Oscar winners Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman to be represented. About the film are now only four known tags: “A man, temptation, celebrity and excess”, the spread on industry information services scarce.

In addition to Malick, who won the Golden Bear for “The Thin Red Line” in 1999 also will present Andreas Dresen, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Greenaway, Alexei German and Andrew Haigh their latest films in Berlin. Dresen will show his film adaptation of Clemens Meyer Wenderoman “As we dreamed” from a screenplay by Wolfgang Kohlhaase. By Peter Greenaway “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” will be to see a film about the actual travel of the Russian master director Sergei Eisenstein to Mexico to conduct negotiations on a film production.

The Briton Andrew Haigh in 2011 with his multi-award-winning romantic drama “Weekend” for a stir. After he last directed the HBO series “Looking”, he is at the Berlinale with the movie “45″ starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay there.

Jayru Bustamente is with the Guatemalan-French production ” Ixcanul “(English title:” Ixcanul Volcano “) his debut film show in the competition. Russian director Alexei German, son of the director of “The Seventh Trabant” is doing with “Pod electricheskimi oblakami” (“Under Electric Clouds”). Out of competition, the live-action adaptation of “Cinderella” by Kenneth Branagh with Lily James in the title role and Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter and Stellan Skarsgard runs in supporting roles.