CURRENT GERMAN CINEMA Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! IF NOT US, WHO? (WER WENN NICHT WIR), 2011, October 29, 2011

Saturday, October 29 – 7:30 PM CURRENT GERMAN CINEMA
Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! IF NOT US, WHO? (WER WENN NICHT WIR), 2011, Senator Film, 124 min. Chronicling the decade-long, stormy relationship between radical-left poster girl Gudrun Ensslin (a terrific Lena Lauzemis) and writer Bernward Vesper (August Diehl), director Andres Veiel gets inside the mindset of a divided Berlin teeming with radical change. The increasingly left-wing Vesper struggles with mixed feelings for his father, one of Hitler's favorite writers during the Nazi regime, and Ensslin slowly but steadily transforms from a wide-eyed co-ed to a steely revolutionary. Winner of both the Alfred Bauer Award and Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas, and nominated for the Golden Bear, at the Berlin International Film Festival 2011. In German with English subtitles.
Los Angeles Premiere! STOPPED ON TRACK (HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE), Pandora Filmverleih, 2011, 95 min. Andreas Dresen (SUMMER IN BERLIN, CLOUD 9) directs this intelligent and startlingly raw drama portraying a German postal worker's small window of time between the diagnosis of a terminal brain tumor and death. After Frank (Milan Peschel) learns of his suddenly truncated future, he and wife Simone (Steffi Kuehnert) must wrestle with breaking the news to their children, and with Frank's increasingly erratic - even hostile - behavior. Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2011.In German with English subtitles. Discussion between films with director Andres Veiel (IF NOT US, WHO?).

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