Christian Bale have to wait for the press conference to “Vice” is delayed. Director Adam McKay, a giant of a man, has, it is exchanged with the back, therefore, on the Podium quickly, the Seating. Office chairs with high Backs at the festival, so you will be dragged unceremoniously from the Renzo-Piano-building to the conference room to the Hyatt Hotel. Also in the Vip room of a now stands between the Lounge furniture.
The VIP room is the comfort zone for the film teams, from here you will be asked for the photo Call and press conference, here, festival photographer Gerhard Kassner also makes the photos for the book signing posters at the Berlinale Palast, it only takes two, three minutes. The press conference is premieres the first-ever encounter with the Public, Directors and actors are as happy times nervous. You shall have a good time here on the counter champagne. And Dieter Kosslick to cheer the guests.
free yourself to drink water and coffee, caffeine – the VIP room is also a kind of command center. The small delay swirls to the expiration of a mess, actually, Kosslick was about to cross into the house of the Berliner Festspiele, the Watergate documentary, which is important to him. The power of now chief curator Thomas Hailer; the “Vice”Team.
Christian Bale is on the way
call Juliette Binoche. The Jury President has a few questions to Kosslick. Just it became known that Zhang Yimous film in Competition, on the part of the Chinese is cancelled, bad news. The Berlinale must exercise diplomacy, art, freedom of actions can start only if you are at risk for the filmmakers. The Jury would like to a bear-candidate for the second Time, see? And Angela Merkel invites Binoche and her companions into the Chancellery – a short briefing. The China question, the AfD makes Trouble, in front of the Kino International party shall be nationals had been beaten up, the police will be contacted. The statements are contradictory. And the Protest of the cinema operators against the competition of the Netflix movie “Elisa y Marcela” is doing the round.
Dieter Kosslick takes it calmly. Crises are part of everyday life of the festival, the heads of and what the crisis is here? The streaming service put the Film in the country of Spain to the cinema, the Berlinale will be submitted in writing.
Info from the Team, Christian Bale is on the way. A couple of minutes. Kosslick calls his Turkish seamstress to put your Emin Alper’s Turkish competition entry “A Tale of Three Sisters” to the heart. “Runs tonight, I’ll have two cards for you.”
It’s nice to be celebrated
The audience is the Star? For the audience Kosslick is the reverse of the Star, after 18 years of the Festival. In front of the Hyatt is not only the “Thank you, Dieter,”garbage bin of the BSR to the outgoing Director of the honour. On the short walk to the red carpet, people ask him so often to Selfies and autographs that his assistant repeatedly plays the Bodyguard to the boss to try to rescue. It’s nice to be celebrated. But the most typical Kosslick-hand movement remains the outstretched finger pointing to the guests, the Stars. Whether it is Agnès Varda, Fatih Akin or Charlotte Rampling. In the case of the Ehrenbär Gala Kosslick guides constantly all eyes on the actress, and calls into the room: “You rampled me and you rampled the Berlinale”. The British have distilled from the name of the actress is a Verb: Ramplen means as much as seduce.
the BSR says “Thank you, Dieter!”. The garbage cans at the Potsdamer Platz.Photo: Thilo Rückeis
Up to 20 official appointments has Kosslick per day, from the morning location to nine on Interviews, the Dining Club and the Berlinale camera-rental payments to the late Special Gala. This year honors in their own right. Wherein Kosslick not to speak at the award ceremony of the bishops ‘ conference is also about the priests raping children. Loud and clear.
A machine with over a thousand employees
Who is just a couple of hours behind the Scenes, experiencing a contagious team spirit and the famous friendliness of the Berlinale also characterizes the inner circle. And you realize once more that high-precision instrument is a film festival, a machinery with over a thousand employees. Kosslick’s successor, the artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek, a functioning (and ökozertifizierten). From the carpet of course velvet eye contact between the master of ceremonies in the front of the limousine and the Team at the Palace entrance with the extra sponsors care about the flat-free projection of 400 movies to tricky financial situation. The cancelled Chinese Film also means a significant loss of revenue in Ticket sales.
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the political unrest: in addition to China’s increased film release, the Turkey is there. Competition-Director Emin Alper was recently convicted to one and a half years in prison, with five years of probation. Even then, Kosslick asked this afternoon, in the VIP room in front of Alpers press conference. And the three great protagonists of the “A Tale of Three Sisters” is he at your feet, to confess not without that he forgot in the Dining Club in the first Moment, in which Film you.
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