At this Wednesday starts the Festival of Venice in its 72nd edition. It starts with the filmed in 3D drama “Everest” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Clarke. Competing compete 21 films for the Golden Lion. All info in the ticker.
- Film Festival in Venice from 2 to 12 September
- 21 films competing for the “Golden Lion”
- Two German co-productions in the race: “Francofonia” and “Remember”
- Opening with Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley in the mountaineering drama “Everest”
“Everest” director: shoot was for an actor torture
15.08 Clock: The shooting of the mountaineering drama “Everest” have for the actors have been quite an ordeal. “I let her suffer a lot of pain,” said director Baltasar Kormákur (49) before the premiere of the film in the evening at the Festival in Venice. “The more you experience in reality, the more real it becomes.” There have however been no injuries, he said.
Two German co-productions in the running for the Golden Lion
Wednesday, September 2 14.00 Clock: The mountaineering drama “Everest” with Jake Gyllenhaal opened the 72nd Venice Film Festival this Wednesday. The filmed in 3D work is based on a true story and tells the story of a group that is surprised during the ascent of the highest mountain in the world by a storm and must fight to survive. Other stars of the film Keira Knightley, Josh Brolin and Jason Clarke. Include
“Everest” of Icelandic Baltasar Kormákur is running at the festival out of competition. Competing 21 movies will be shown in the following days, competing for the Golden Lion. Eagerly awaited is, for example, “The Danish Girl” the Briton Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”). It plays Eddie Redmayne (Oscar for “The Theory of Everything”) one of the first transsexual who underwent in the 1930s, a sex reassignment surgery.
Additional contributions include Cary Fukunagas child soldiers Drama “Beasts of No Nation” and “Rabin, The Last Day “ in which Amos Gitai explores the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. For Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash” Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) are expected.
German Directors this year are not represented in the competition. Two films were, however, co-produced in Germany: Atom Egoyan Nazi avengers drama “Remember” with Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz and Jürgen Prochnow and Alexander Sokurov’s “Francofonia” on the Louvre in Paris during the Second World War. Out of competition still running “Spotlight” with Michael Keaton, “Black Mass” with Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch and “Go With Me” with Anthony Hopkins.
Background: The prices of the 72nd festival will be awarded on 12 September by an international jury. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest in the world and is one of the most important in the sector. The jury this year also born in Lower Saxony actress Diane Kruger (39, “Inglourious Basterds”) belong as well as the US-American woman Elizabeth Banks (41, “The Hunger Games”). 2015 attracts the 72nd Film Festival as part of the Biennale of Contemporary Art cineastes from 2 to 12 September at the lagoon city. Festival Director is the Italian film critic Alberto Barbera.
The “Exhibition of Film Art” was the first film festival in 1932 held at the hotel “Excelsior” terrace. Prices were at that time not yet awarded. In 1935 the festival became an annual event, but interrupted by the Second World War.
First Winners of Best Picture since 1949 Golden Lion was “Manon” by Henry Georges Clouzot. Additional winners included “Belle de jour” by Luis Buñuel (1967) and “The State of Things” by Wim Wenders (1982). 2014 was “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” by Roy Andersson successfully. .
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