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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has greenlit a $110m Euros 90m venture capital fund for the German film industry and will reservethe necessary financing in his plann
stanley cup ed national budget for 2006. According to guidelines which have just been made public,the fund would be able to grant conditionally-repayable loans of up to 20% ofthe budget for a German film or German co-production so long as certainprerequisites are fulfilled.These include a German spend element,requiring that five times the amount of the loan must be spent in Germany.Producers will also have to furnish a legally binding distribution contractwith a commitment to distribute the picture on at least 30 prints seven printsfor
stanley cup documentaries .Individual loans will not exceed $1.8m and internationalco-productions should not be more than 50% of the German co-producer sfinancing share. The minimum amount paid out to feature films will be $120,000 $37,000 for documentaries .It is also aimed to create a revolving fund to supplement theinitial $110m round of financing which is limited to the next three years.According to State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss, aworking party of representa
stanley cup tives from the film industry and the Schroederadministration have developed a sustainable instrument which will bothstrengthen the competitiveness of the film producers and also ensure for morebusiness in the German studios. Weiss said she was convinced that, in the light ofthe large degree of agreement between the governing c Anrf Orion Pictures hires Kevin Wilson as distribution head
Dir: Margarethe von Trotta. Germany. 2012. 113minsGreat thinkers, and Hannah Arendt was one of the most influential but also controversial in the 20th century, rarely provide the best material for cinematic adaptation. Thinking, in itself, is not particularly photogenic, and their biographies, even if most eventful, once deprived of the full impetus of the thought process which made them famous tend to lose much of their interest.Arendt, who never has even one moment of doubt about anything, comes through almost as brilliant but also as rigid and arrogant as she is accused of being by her adversaries.This may explain why Margarethe von Trottas attempt to deal with Arendt on both levels, philosophical and personal, in one film, while neatly academic and obviously well researched, feels more like a learned, well-documented lecture . Its earnest, thoughtful and well-intentioned approach, though, in dealing with o
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stanley cup stiff and didactic for a normal film audience but never goes far enough for the philoso
stanley cup phically inclined.Arendt played far too respectfully by Barbara Sukova scandalised the entire Jewish establishment when she covered the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and came up with her famous banality of evil definition, which was considered by many of her virulent critics as an attempt to clear the man in charge of the Final Solution of his responsibility.Her answer to these accusations comes in the final e
