Director Fatih Akin (45) goes with his Horror-Thriller “The Golden glove” into the race for the Golden Berlin bear. The Frenchman Francois Ozon, the Austrian Marie Kreutzer and the German Angela Schanelec send games your new films in the official competition of the Berlin film festival. The Berlinale (7 informed. to 17. February 2019) on Thursday.

akin’s “The Golden glove” is the film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Heinz Strunk on the Hamburg woman killer Fritz Honka. Fatih Akin had won in 2004, the Golden bear for his Film “Against the wall”. Jonas Dassler (“The silent classroom”) plays the role of Honka, of his victims in the 70s, among other things, in the St.-Pauli-pub “Golden glove” got to know, and the body parts in his attic flat in Hamburg-Altona kept.

“I was at home, but” is a family drama, with the Director Angela Schanelec (“The heavenly way”) is applying for the Golden bear. In front of the camera actors such as Maren Eggert, Franz Rogowski, and Lilith Stangenberg were for the Film. Marie Kreutzer (“What has ruined us just so”) is “The ground under the feet” in the competition, in which, among other things, Pia play Hierzegger and Mavie Hörbiger.

Breloers “break” out of competition

François Ozon (“8 women”) is a Drama “Grace à dieu” about pedophile priests in the bears competition. Also in the competition: “A Tale of Three Sisters” of the Turkish Director Emin Alper (“Everyone distrusts each”) and “Ghost Town Anthology” by the canadian Denis Coté (“Vic + Flo saw a bear”).

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