Jean-Luc Godard, who was born in Paris 90 years ago today, on 3 December 1930, is probably the most innovative, productive and controversial director (or rather auteur) of the “Nouvelle Vague”, and he has changed the language of film like hardly anyone else. Congratulations! Godard’s career began in the 1950s as a film critic, among…
After the gripping feature film “Kahlschlag” by Rostock director Max Gleschinksi has been available via the German film label Artkeim² on Blu-Ray and DVD since 23 October, the film is now also available for download on all VoD portals. “Kahlschlag” is both disturbing and surprisingly black-humorous genre cinema with depth, which a critic has very aptly…
On December 10, 2020, the film “Live” by director Lisa Charlotte Friederich will start in cinemas nationwide on the Artkeim² film label, distributed by UCM.ONE. The film takes place in a near, dystopian future, in which all public life – including concerts – has been relocated to virtual space due to the risk of terrorist…
On 16 October, the actress Tanja von Oertzen died in Heidelberg at the age of 70. She was born in 1950 in Moscow. After graduating from a boarding school in southern Germany, she decided to become a stage actress. In Stuttgart she first studied ballet with John Cranko, then she went to the HMDK to…
Today, on 23 September 2020, Romy Schneider would have been 82 years old. The actress was already a film star at the age of 15. Alongside her mother Magda and film partner Karlheinz Böhm, she became world famous in 1955 in the role of “Sissi”. However, the film or rather the film trilogy about the…
Bernhard Conrad won the “Best Actor” award yesterday evening at the German Actors’ Awards ceremony organized by the Bundesverband Schauspiel (BFFS) and the agency La Maison VSF for his double role in Max Gleschinski’s film “Kahlschlag” ( English title “A Clear Felling”), which is distributed by UCM.ONE. We congratulate him warmly! Alina Seban was also awarded…
Today UCM.ONE is releasing the American indie film “The Fare” by D.C. Hamilton via the film label Artkeim² to the cinemas in Germany. The leading actress Brinna Kelly also wrote the script and convinces at the side of her co-star Gino Anthony Pesi as a mysterious passenger on a night cab ride through a lonely…
“Live” is this year’s opening film at the “Heimat Europa Film Festspiele” in Simmern in the Hunsrück region (Germany), newly founded by Urs Spörri. At its premiere in Saarbrücken in January 2020, the film “Live” by Lisa Charlotte Friederich was still unreal science fiction. Today it is set in reality. Because the film is set…
After a long “Corona break” in theatrical distribution, UCM.ONE is bringing the film “The Fare” by D.H. Hamilton to cinemas nationwide on August 27, 2020 via the film label Artkeim². The film, a kind of intimate play in a taxi, combines mystery in the style of “Twilight Zone” with a gripping love story in a unique…
After “House by the River” (German title: “Das Todeshaus am Fluss”) from 1950 by Fritz Lang was already released in autumn 2019 in a limited mediabook edition, this film classic, a late work by master director Fritz Lang, is now being released on DVD as part of the Édition Film Noir of the film label…
