Film award: Great evening for the NDR co-production "Dear Thomas"

As of: 06/24/2022 11:23 p.m

The film “Dear Thomas” was awarded nine Lolas at the German Film Awards gala in Berlin. It was an evening of flaming speeches, passion and beaming winners from the north.

by Anna Wollner

With twelve nominations, the NDR co-production “Lieber Thomas” by Andreas Kleinert was the clear favorite in the race for the German Film Prize, which was awarded on Friday evening in Berlin – for the first time under the direction of the new Film Academy Presidents Alexandra Maria Lara and Florian Gallenberger and with the new Minister of State for Culture, Claudia Roth. From the point of view of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, there was reason to be happy: two cinema co-productions were the winners.

Albrecht Schuch and Jella Haase receive Lolas in Berlin

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Albrecht Schuch takes his Lola for a walk as Best Actor.
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The NDR co-production “Lieber Thomas” by Andreas Kleinert was awarded nine Lolas at the gala in Berlin, including best film, best director, best screenplay and the two actors Albrecht Schuch as best actor and Jella Haase as best supporting actress.

“My nerves are gone. It was very exhausting, you have such an approach path and now you can’t feel anything anymore. Everything was so gone.” This is how Jella Haase sums up this march through the black-and-white film about the GDR poet Thomas Brasch.

AUDIO: Jella Haase and Albrecht Schuch play a resistance couple (53 min)
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An outstanding Albrecht Schuch plays the leading role. “I’m doing very well, I’m very overwhelmed, I can’t put it any other way,” said the actor. “I would have liked to hug Thomas Brasch, I do it internally and I’m totally happy.”

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The movies “Dear Thomas” and “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush” are the big winners of the Lolas. Both films are co-produced by NDR. more

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Three Lolas for Dresen’s “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”

She has three prizes NDR cinema co-production “Rabyje Kurnaz against George W. Bush”: on the one hand the Lola in silver, on the other hand Meltem Kaptan won Best Actress and Alexander Scheer Best Supporting Actor. As the Bremen lawyer Docke, he plays with restraint and with an amazing resemblance to the original.

For director Dresen, the silver Lola for “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush” was above all a sign: “I’m just happy that such a political film has received an award here. There is also a message behind it, not to be defeated, even in difficult times, and that he took second place in such an ensemble of really good films here, I’m really happy about it.”

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Andreas Dresen’s political film is one thing above all: deeply human. The NDR co-production received three Lolas. more

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With “The Path” by Greifswald director Tobias Wiemann about a boy fleeing World War II, a political children’s film was also honored that, despite its actual historicity, is red hot, as producer Daniel Ehrenberg noted: “Unfortunately, the film is even more topical than it was The point at which Rüdiger Bertram, the author, came up with this was during the refugee crisis in 2015. That’s when he had the idea – and as I just read during Refugee Day this week, there have never been so many refugees as current.”

It was a political award ceremony under the impression of Corona and the war in Ukraine. With flaming speeches, a lot of passion and beaming winners from the north.

video embedded "> Meltem Kaptan © imago images/APress

VIDEO: Celebrated all-rounder: The actress Meltem Kaptan (4 min)

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Further information

Black and white photograph of a man and woman walking down a street with suitcases and a child in their arms. © Zeitsprung Pictures / Wild Bunch Germany Photo: Peter Hartwig

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“Dear Thomas” is about one of the greatest literary talents of the GDR and reunified Germany. picture gallery

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Director Andreas Dresen received the national Peace Prize of German Film for the NDR cinema co-production on Tuesday. more

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Actress Meltem Kaptan and director Andreas Dresen keep their thumbs up at the red carpet for the Berlinale awards ceremony on the red carpet in the Berlinale Palast. © Jens Kalaene/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++ Photo: Jens Kalaene