Kino - The German Film Magazine - reporting from the Warsaw International...(More)

Kino - The German Film Magazine - reporting from the Warsaw International Film Festival. This year, German productions are well represented. One of them is the acclaimed film "And Along Come Tourists" by Robert Thalheim - about a German performing alternative service in Auschwitz. German films and filmmakers at the - Warsaw International Film Festival Germany and Poland share a long and difficult history. The deep scars left by the Second World War are not yet fully healed. But this year's Warsaw festival invited 24 German productions to take part. KINO attended the Polish premiere of «Schröder's Wonderful World», a bizarre tale of an attempt to build a utopian paradise in the border region between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. We followed Michael Schorr through Warsaw. And we meet up with documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp. He's in Warsaw presenting his film «Sons», which plumbs the depths of German-Polish history through the example of a generation raised in the wreckage of the Second World War. Polish package tour -- - Robert Thalheim and his film about Auschwitz «And Along Come Tourists» debuted to critical praise in Cannes and has just been released in German cinemas. It is the story of a young German who travels to Auschwitz to do community service at a Holocaust memorial centre. «And Along Come Tourists» was invited to compete in Warsaw in the «New Films, New Directors» section of the festival. KINO watches the film and host Monika Jones speaks with the Polish audience after the premier.SHORTCUTS * «Lissi und der wilde Kaiser» -- After successfully spoofing Westerns and science fiction in his first two films, director Michael «Bully» Herbig has turned on German Heimat films for his latest parody. The rural melodramas of the 1950s are put through the wringer in Herbig's new animated feature, which tells the very un-historic tale of Empress Sissi and her Emperor Franz. * «Bis zum Ellenbogen» -- As Germany was celebrating the 2006 World Cup, three actor friends Justus von Dohnányi, Jan Josef Liefers and Stefan Kurt were criss-crossing the country producing their first feature film. * «Pornorama» -- Director Marc Rothemund follows his Oscar-nomiated historic drama «Sophie Scholl -- The Final Days» with a bit of comic relief. «Pornorama» is a look at the sexual education films of the 1960s and stars Benno Fürmann, Tom Schilling and Karoline Herfurth.Poland's Young Film Scene Poland in October 2007, shortly before a federal election, is a land in upheaval -- both political and economic. It is also a land with a grand film tradition. At the Warsaw Film Festival, KINO took a look at the new generation of Polish filmmakers. We met with Irma-Kinga Stelmach, who studied in Germany and has just released her first film -- «Prussian Gangster». KINO also visited the set of «How Should One Live?» in Krakow where award-winning cameraman Pawel Dyllus is shooting his directorial debut.(Less)