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Das 41. Filmfest München läuft auf Hochtouren. Was bietet Bayerns Hauptstadt abseits des Festivaltrubels? Wir haben Leute aus der Münchner Branche gebeten, uns Lieblingsplätze zu verraten. Hier antwortet Benjamin Benedict, Executive Producer & Managing Director W&b Television.

Benjamin Benedict, Geschäftsführer von W&b Television (Credit: Wiedemann & Berg / Stefan Stalio)

Welche Herzensplätze haben Sie in München, die Sie jedem Filmfest-Besucher ans Herz legen können?

Benjamin Benedikt: München ist voll von wunderbaren Orten, die gerade im Sommer einen enormen Reiz entfalten. Diese schöne & weltoffene Stadt zeigt damit ihre vielen wunderbaren Seiten. Für kreative Gespräche den Englischen Garten, das Isarufer, die Cafés und Biergärten – und fürs Filmeschauen die vielen schönen Kinos und für die Wege dazwischen Fahrradfahren (mit Helm!).

Was macht München zu Ihrer Filmstadt?

Benjamin Benedikt: Das Filmfest macht München natürlich für alle zur Filmstadt, aber auch die vielen wunderbaren Filmemacher:innen und Kolleg:innen aus der Stadt. München ist ein tolles kreatives Zentrum beginnend mit einer hervorragenden Filmhochschule,...

From 13-19 November, the 14th Segovia European Film Festival will enrapture its audience with the crème de la crème of the Continent’s audiovisual output. Between 13 and 19 November, Segovia is organising its European Film Festival – Muces, which, at its 14th edition, will boast the presence of France’s David and Stéphane Foenkinos as they introduce the movies Delicacy, Jalouse and The Mystery of Henri Pick, and talk about the interplay between film and literature. The gathering will also offer strands entitled Film and Architecture, Film and History, Film and Sport, Film and Cuisine, and two that mark certain dates in history: the centenary of Antonio Machado’s arrival in Segovia, and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes titles such as Barbara, directed by Christian Petzold, the TV productions Bornholmer Straße by Christian Schwochow and Train to Freedom by Sebastian Dehnhardt and Matthias Schmidt, and.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet will be the opening film at this year’s Filmfest München (June 27-July 5) after Jeunet previously kicked off the festival in Munich in 2001 with Amelie From Montmartre.

Special highlights at what will be Diana Iljine’s fourth outing as festival director include the first ever complete retrospective dedicated to the veteran Us director Walter Hill, a gala evening in honour of the Oscar-winning producer Arthur Cohn with a screening of The Children Of Huang Shi, and a tribute to the producer-director-cinematographer Willy Bogner.

The Walter Hill retrospective will range from his 1975 debut Hard Times, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn, through such classics as The Long Riders and The Warriors and two films made for Us television - the pilot Deadwood and the Western epic Broken Trail - to his 2012 film Bullet To The Head, with Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater.

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Munich will also be hosting a number...

Beta sells other territories on the film based on Noah Gordon’s trilogy of books.

The Physician’s producers Wolf Bauer and Nico Hofmann have indicated that they may take on the other two books of Noah Gordon’s trilogy, of which The Physician is the first part: Matters Of Choice and Shaman.

Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the world premiere of The Physician in Berlin on Monday evening, Bauer explained: “We have discussed this with Noah Gordon and would have access [to the properties].”

“But we won’t have this discussion before the film has reached 3m admissions in Germany and Spain,” said Bauer, who is currently reading Shaman for the seventh time.

Moreover, the producers would have freedom in casting since Shaman is set in the 19th century some 800 years after the events in The Physician.

Hofmann revealed that, as part of the film’s financing from broadcaster Ard Degeto, a longer...