Sebastian Meise’s Oscar-shortlisted prison drama is a tender story of love and survival set against the backdrop of Germany's criminalization of homosexuality. The last of the Nazi concentration camps ...
“Great Freedom,” which won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a poignant, potent drama — and a love story, actually — featuring an all-male cast ...
In a new series, Variety catches up with the directors of the films shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar to discuss their road to the awards, what they’ve learned so far, and what’s ...
Watching director Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom” is a process of watching the main character, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), get brutalized and dehumanized. The narrative takes place almost ...
Exclusive: The "Undine" and "Transit" star plays a prisoner up against Germany's Paragraph 175 in Austria's must-see International Oscar entry. In most post-World War II stories, the liberation of the ...
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Instead of “Great Freedom,” a title of ultimately devastating irony, Sebastian Meise’s remarkable drama, playing in theaters and Austria’s entry for the Oscars, might have been called “No Crime and ...
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In this moving period drama, a German gay man repeatedly declares his independence in a country that criminalizes his desire and his identity. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...