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Risky freedoms

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Dag Johan Haugerud @ Berlinale 2025

With his Oslo trilogy "Love", "Dreams" and "Sex", Dag Johan Haugerud has created a cinematic, literary and sociological marvel that is as intelligent as it is moving

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"The Peasants" transforms the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont into an artistically exciting but fundamentally disappointing drama of a young 19th century peasant girl's self-empowerment

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Bookworms of the world , unite!

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco - A Library of the World: Davide Ferrario's documentary is a hymn to the universe of books

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Kafka three ways

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Franz Kafka (Sabin Tambrea)

Michael Kumpfmüller imagines Franz Kafka's last year of life with Dora Diamant in "The Glory of Life" - the film adaptation is disappointing, but the mini-series "Kafka" by Daniel Kehlmann and David Schalko is inspiring

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Bad girls, dark books

Studiocanal

Jenna Ortega

Jade Halley Bartlett's literary and erotic thriller "Miller's Girl" is a bizarre and always surprising young-adult melange in which the supposedly lame world of books meets furious Tik-Tok teens

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Pompeii lies on the Baltic Sea

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Thomas Schubert und Paula Beer in "Roter Himmel"

After the heavy symbolism and stylization of his last two films, Christian Petzold's roundelay about art and love is almost light and even humorous. The tragedy almost becomes a minor matter.

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Risky freedoms

The present as past

Bookworms of the world , unite!

Kafka three ways

Bad girls, dark books

Pompeii lies on the Baltic Sea