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The German Film Magazine - 30.10.2010 | KINO

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KINO in October looks at the epic life of terrorist Carlos the Jackal in CARLOS, the Sturm and Drang period of Germany's greatest poet in GOETHE and Germany's contribution to the vampire movie in WE ARE THE NIGHT WE ARE THE NIGHT - German filmmakers get bit by the vampire bugAlmost 90 years after F.W. Murnau invented the vampire movie with his silent film classic Nosferatu, director Dennis Gansel brings the vampire movie back home to Germany. The Twilight films, featuring Brit heartthrob Robert Pattinson as the romantic vampire Edward, has charmed a whole new generation. For WE ARE THE NIGHT, Dennis Gansel sets his vampires loose in the Berlin club scene.KINO meets the director and his star and talks to Berlin professor of literature Stefan Teppler-Tasaki, author of the book The Vampire Film about the longing for eternal youth and the undying fascination of the vampire myth. CARLOS - An epic biopic on the cold war's number one terroristThe German-French co-production CARLOS is epic in every sense of the word. 5 ½ hours long, Olivier Assayas' biography of infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal was produced for TV but it is a true cinematic experience. CARLOS transports us back to the 1970s to chronicle the rise and fall of terrorist superstar Ilich Ramirez Sanchez alias Carlos.Alongside the brilliant Edgar Ramirez as Carlos are a strong German cast including Nora von Waldstätten as Carlos' wife Magdalena Kopp, Alexander Scheer as Carlos' ally in terror Johannes Weinrich and Christian Bach as Joachim Klein, one of the group who carried out the Carlos-led attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna. KINO reviews the film event of the year. SHORTCUTSDER GROSSE KATER - Political drama starring Bruno Ganz as a power-hungry but fragile Swiss President. · THE END IS MY BEGINNING - Another starring turn by Ganz. This time playing Terziano Terzani, Italian correspondent for Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, in the film adaptation of Terzani's memoirs. · ANIMALS UNITED - German's first 3-D animated features is based on Erich Kästner's classic children's book. GOETHE! - Or the sufferings of the young Johann:Germany's greatest poet as an ambitious young artistFilms like Amadeus or Shakespeare in Love showed how movies can combine high culture classics with mass market appeal. That's what director Philipp Stölzl and producer Christoph Müller are hoping for with their take on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest-ever poet. Alexander Fehling plays Goethe as a cheeky, ambitious law student and would-be writer.Moritz Bleibtreu is his rival Kestner, newcomer Miriam Stein plays his love interest Lotte Buff. The plot centers around the writing of The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe's novel of his unrequited love for Lotte, which made the young German poet a literary superstar overnight.