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2008-03-10



2007-10-15
New festival landscape 2008


2007-10-15
Watch the Festival TV


2007-10-04
Winners of The Golden Swans 2007


2007-09-29
Gala Award Show 2007


2007-09-28
Kim Fupz Aakeson to receive an Honorary Award
When Copenhagen International Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for the Gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 29 September, the Danish screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson will be presented with an Honorary Award.

2007-09-24
Sweepingly beautiful costumes and Israeli Night
Read about today´s events - Talkie with Manon Rasmussen and Israeli night

2007-09-23
Meet the director of Heartbeat Detector
come to the Turkish Night, see Ingmar Bergman´s masterpiece Shame and get behind the camera with Spielberg

2007-09-22
The Black Pimpernel - one of the real world´s heroes
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly invites you to the preview screening of The Black Pimpernel on Sunday, 23 September.

2007-09-21
Festive gala opening ceremony in Imperial


2007-09-18
Makram Khoury replaces Gillies MacKinnon in the jury


2007-09-17
Spielberg on Spielberg - behind the camera
Copenhagen International Film Festival will be the first festival to screen the brand-new documentary Spielberg on Spielberg, where the audience will have a unique possibility to step behind the camera with the director.

2007-09-13
The festival´s guests
The stars are waiting in the wings for the kick-off on 20 September, when Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for 10 days of tribute to European films and the capital’s cinemas fill up with world-famous and upcoming film directors and actors.

2007-09-13
New Danish Screen
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly welcomes you to the premieres of a string of exciting films from New Danish Screen.

2007-09-06
Tribute to Bergman and Renoir
Copenhagen International Film Festival will look back at two of Europe’s great filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir.

2007-09-04
This year’s nominations for the Alice Award
Eight films by female directors are this year competing for Copenhagen International Film Festival’s women’s award – the Alice Award.

2007-08-31
Jury 2007


2007-08-30
Patrice Leconte to attend Copenhagen IFF
Patrice Leconte will attend the French Day at Copenhagen International Film Festival.

2007-08-28
Kenneth Branagh to attend Copenhagen IFF
The Oscar-nominated director and actor Kenneth Branagh will attend this year’s film festival.

2007-08-27
This year’s competition films
When Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for this year’s film event on 20 September, the audience can experience 147 fantastic films. 11 of them will get special attention, namely the films in competition, which compete for the six categories of the festival’s Golden Swan award.

2007-08-23
Israeli film in the competition
Israeli film will play an important role at Copenhagen International Film Festival. This year, the festival’s competition series will feature the Israeli film The Band’s Visit, and the festival has decided to dedicate a whole series to Israeli film.

2007-08-20
This year´s festival is kicked off with The Diving Bell and concluded with Sleuth
Julian Schnabel’s Cannes-award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly will open this year’s Copenhagen International Film Festival, and the 10 days of European film will be rounded off with Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth.

2007-08-17
Come to the program launch
Copenhagen International Film Festival will launch this year’s program with both a biographical drama and a zombie thriller on Sunday, 2 September.

2007-08-13
New head of BUSTER
Füsun Eriksen has been appointed as the new head of BUSTER and will take up office on 1 September 2007

Ulzhan

Ulzhan
The film legends Volker Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière have made a number of award-winning films together, among others The Tin Drum, which won both an Oscar and the Golden Palm. Ulzhan is closer to Schlöndorff’s Homo Faber and shows a Frenchman’s attempt to exorcise his own demons at the end of the world. The tight-lipped Charles is a driven man with his sights squarely set on a goal that only he himself knows, and he now throws himself resolutely into an adventure. When his car breaks down in Kazakhstan, he simply continues on foot. On the way, he bumps into a bunch of colourful characters - among others a shopkeeper who sells words, and a beautiful young local girl, Ulzhan. In this existentialist road movie he proceeds through a mysterious landscape, where old nomad customs in an environment of radioactive zones and abandoned prison camps. The gripping and magnificent images make the film a memorable and evocative journey.



Jean-Claude Carrière (1931- )

Belle du jour, The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cyrano de Bergerac – powerful and popular moments in film history that span a whole generation, but who knows the man who has written the screenplays? Jean-Claude Carrière has written the screenplays for more than 130 films, and especially his literary adaptations have earned him recognition. He was born in France in 1931 and began writing for Pierre Etaix. Together with Etaix, he won an Oscar in 1963 for best live action short film, and the year after, Carrière worked for the first time together with Luis Buñuel, on Diary of a Chamber Maid. This was the start of a fruitful and life-long collaboration, which, among other awards, earned Carrière two Oscar nominations for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). But he also found time to work together with many other of the greatest directors of his time, such as Milos Forman, Volker Schlöndorff, Louis Malle, Andrzej Wajda, Jean-Luc Godard, Nagisa Oshima and the Danish director Henning Carlsen, on Oviri in 1986. More recently, Carrière has among other things written the screenplay for Goya’s Ghosts, directed by Milos Forman.



Jean-Claude Carrière will hold a master class about his work on Wednesday, 26 September, and the same evening – in conjunction with the screening of Volker Schlöndorff’s latest film Ulzhan – Copenhagen International Film Festival will present him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Order tickets here:
26/9 Metropol - 21.30
27/9 Park Bio - 21.30
Ikke i dansk biografdistribution


Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Cinematography:
Tom Fährmann
Cast:
Philippe Torreton, David Bennent, Ayanat Ksenbai, Vladimir Aryskin, Marek Brodski
Production:
Fly Times Pictures, Volksfilm, Kazakhfilm National Company
Worldsales:
Rezo Films
Country:
Frankrig/Tyskland/Kazakhstan
Language:
Fransk/Kasakhisk
Subtitles:
Engelsk
Year:
2007
Duration:
105
Section: Tributes

FILM TITLES
a-c | d-f | g-i | j-k | l-o | p-s | t-å
schedule changes

Tributes

The Human Beast
La bête humaine
27/9 Cinemateket - 21.15

Shame
Skammen
24/9 Cinemateket - 21.15

Ulzhan
Ulzhan
26/9 Metropol - 21.30
27/9 Park Bio - 21.30

 
 
 
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