Oscar nomination: Germany sends “In the labyrinth of silence” to OCAR … – Times Online

The film about the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial did according to the jury the best chance to win the Oscar. Sebastian Schipper’s hit movie “Victoria” went away empty-handed.

27th August 2015 14:54 clock

The production team of the drama “In the labyrinth of silence”: producer Sabine Lamby (bottom left), Producer Jakob Claussen and screenwriter Elisabeth Bartel, and German Films Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek (top left), German Films Chairman Peter Herrmann and jury spokeswoman Dagmar Hirtz | © Matthias Balk / dpa

The movie In the labyrinth of silence on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials intended for Germany get the Foreign Language Film Oscar. The jury praised in their decision that director Giulio Ricciarelli and his team “a thrilling and moving drama” had succeeded. “I think the film just incredibly important, because it was never done at all on this chapter in Germany a film,” said jury spokeswoman Dagmar Hirtz. “The fact that this movie is now sent on this journey … I am very moved,” said Director Ricciarelli.

An official nomination does not mean that. From the submissions of all countries the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selects the nominees five in Los Angeles. The Oscar ceremony will be held on 28 February.

The favorite, Sebastian Schipper hit movie Victoria , so went away empty-handed. One of the reasons is probably that in the film 49 percent speak English – from the Academy only 40 percent are in the category of Best non-English full-length feature film, but allowed. An exemption did not exist, Hirtz

said. “There are rules to which we had to talk.”

The supervisory board chairman of German Films, the consular offices of the German film, Peter Herrmann, said the committee was there to “select the movie among the submitted German films, which according to the expertise and the expertise of the jury has the best chance of winning the Oscar. ” In the past films had been selected again, dealing with the recent German history.

This year was not just Victoria empty-handed, but six more films: Elser – He could have changed the world by Oliver Hirschbiegel on the thwarted Hitler -Attentäter, Sanctuary by Marc Brummund, Til Schweiger’s Alzheimer’s film Honey in the head , Jack by Edward Berger, Schmidts cat Marc Schlegel and We are young. We are strong of Burhan Qurban.