Gripsholm

Germany, Switzerland, Austria

2000

100 Min

Color

2.30:1

German, Swedish

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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EXEC Barbara Christian, Manfred Fritsch

PROD Daniel Blum, Ingrid Haunold, Martin Schmassmann, Thomas Wilkening

SCR Stefan Kolditz, Kurt Tucholsky

CAST Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabai, Marcus Thomas, Rudolf Wessely, Horst Krause, Leif Liljeroth, Inger Nilsson, Anette Felber, Sara Föttinger, Katharina Blaschke, Gerlinde Klug, Giora Seeliger, Lena Reichmuth

MUSIC David Klein, Olivier Truan

Berlinale (New German Films)

Synopsis

Based on the Kurt Tucholsky’s novel Schloss Gripsholm and on his real life story, this beautifully produced feature film plunges the audience into the pleasure-craving, decadent world of Berlin cabaret at the beginning of the 1930s. Kurt Tucholsky, who was an important Jewish German intellectual, give us Kurt, a German-Jewish publisher, ironic author and, thanks to his risqué chanson lyrics, a celebrated star of the cabaret. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, in the summer of 1932, Kurt travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends, the seductive vaudeville singer Billie and the passionate fly-boy Karlchen. Nothing will ever be the same again. –IMDb

Director

Xavier Koller

Xavier Koller (born 1944, Schwyz, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His film Journey of Hope won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.

After graduating from High School, Koller first went through a four-year apprenticeship as a precision toolmaker and then, after three years of training at the Academy of Drama in Zurich, Switzerland, graduated as an actor/director.

The next several years he spent acting and directing at German and Swiss theatres. He did a number of TV-plays as an actor, directed commercials, acted in movies, and then started to write and direct feature films. —Wikipedia