Filmland Germany
Oscar winner, the biggest film festival and the sound of blockbusters: Germany has a lot of cinema superlatives to offer. Ten facts.
Biggest film festival
The Berlinale is the largest public festival in the world and had almost 500,000 visitors in 2017.
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Fack ju Göhte 3 with Elyas M'Barek was the most successful feature film of 2017 in Germany. The last part of the film trilogy attracted nearly six million viewers into cinemas.
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The most successful German film since 1965 is Der Schuh des Manitu (i.e. The Shoe of Manitu) (2001). Almost twelve million moviegoers laughed at the Western comedy by Michael Herbig.
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The most successful German film in the US is Das Boot (The Boat) (1982). The submarine drama by Wolfgang Petersen grossed nearly twelve million dollars.
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Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The feature film debut of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a critical reckoning with the GDR.
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Diane Kruger is the most successful German actress in Hollywood. She has now acted for the first time in a German film: Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade) by Fatih Akin was awarded a Golden Globe
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The Babelsberg Studio near Potsdam is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world and the largest film studio in Europe. Marlene Dietrich shot films here. Recent successful productions include The Bourne Ultimatum and Inglourious Basterds.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg is one of the 15 best film schools in the world. The Ludwigsburg Academy scores points with its own institute for animated film.
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The Frankfurt company Pixomondo is one of the leading international companies for visual effects. Pixomondo won an Oscar in 2012 for its collaboration on Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret.
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The Frankfurt-born composer Hans Zimmer is one of the world's most famous film composers. He has been nominated for an Oscar ten times.
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