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into the spotlight 185

COSMINA STRATAN leads in the most popular crime series on German Television, TATORTdirected by Markus Imboden. The episode, called KLINGELINGELING airs on December 26th on German national TV channel ARD on prime time, at 20:15.

TATORT (KLINGELINGELING) directed by Markus Imboden.

TATORT, Interview with Cosmina Stratan for TV channel ARD.

CRISTINA FLUTUR another Romanian actress, who received the Best Actress Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival together with COSMINA STRATAN for their performance in the film of Cristian Mungiu, BEYOND THE HILLSfinished shooting for the drama HAWAI/also known as URUGUAY directed by Jesús del Cerro, and for the swedish short film WHEN I DIE THE WORLD ENDS, directed by Jennifer Rainsford.
Cristina now stars in the Turkish-German drama GRAIN, directed by Semih Kaplanoglu, alongside the two talents represented by DAS IMPERIUM, Jean Marc Barr and Ermin Bravo.. We keep our fingers crossed, as the producers of this film applied for Berlinale 2017 competition.

WHEN I DIE THE WORLD ENDS, directed by Jennifer Rainsford (production set pictures)

IAZUA LARIOS, leads the cast of the new prime time series WINNETOU; a new interpretation of the 60ies and the 70ies classic film by the same name, directed by Philipp Stölzl, which premieres on RTL Television on Christmas day and continues on December 27th and 29th, at 20:15.

WINNETOU, directed by Philipp Stölzl (a trailer)

 

CARLOS LEAL & SILVIA BUSUIOC starred in the largest-scale Swiss TV production GOTTHARD, directed by Urs Eger.  After airing on the major public Swiss channels: SRF, RSI and RTS, the TV series garnered 993,000 viewers in its premiere. After the TV series aired in Germany on TV channel ZDF, it was the most popular program in primetime; the second part of the film attracted a total of 4.51 million viewer, info..

GOTTHARD directed by Urs Eger (a trailer and below the Interview with Silvia Busuioc)

 

ROBERT MAASER finished shooting for the horror-thriller cinema movie THE DARE, directed by Giles Alderson, more info.. and for the comedy RONNY & KLAID, directed by Erkan Acar.

THE DARE, directed by Giles Alderson (production set pictures)

RONNY & KLAID, directed by Erkan Acar (production set pictures)

DANIEL STEINER, since 2012, plays the role of Lorenz Rettig in the German crime TV series, SOKO LEIPZIGThe episode called DER KANAL, directed by Oren Schmuckler, will air on December 23rd on ZDF in prime time, at 21:15.

SOKO LEIPZIG, directed by Oren Schmuckler (production set picture and a trailer)

 

 

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into the spotlight 184

EUROPEAN FILM AWARD 2016  –  and the award goes to…  
THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI, directed by Juho Kuosmanen won the European Discovery Award 2016 at the EUROPEAN FILM AWARD 2016 where OONA AIROLA stars as a female lead in the absolutely great Finnish movie.
Take look to the trailer of this great movie below…

THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFEOF OLLI MAKI, directed by Juho Kuosmanen. (a trailer)

 

ADAM IDL ROHWEDER  stars for the first time in a German cinema movie – the psychological thriller A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL, directed by Linus de Paoli, where he played next to Amanda Plummer. The first trailer you can find below.         Another project, Adam is shooting for, is a Danish action-drama  GAELDEN, directed by Stefan Olsen, info..

A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL, directed by Linus de Paoli. (a trailer)

MARTINA SCHÖNE – RADUNKSI  stars in DER LANGE SOMMER DER THEORIEa cinema movie directed by Irene von Alberti. Martina just finished her shooting as a lead character in the cinema movie SO WAS VON DA, directed by Jakob Lass.

DER LANGE SOMMER DER THEORIE, directed by Irene von Alberti (production set pictures)

SO WAS VON DA, directed by Jakob Lass (production picture)

 

NEWS from our represented Romanian talents..

COSMINA STRATAN & our new client ALEX POTOCEAN star in a Romanian short film, called ANATHEMA directed by Andreea Cristina Bortun, info..
Also COSMINA stars in another short movie, called PROLOGEN, directed by Stefan Constantinescu & Carl-Eric Rinsch´s (47 RONIN & THE GIFT) self developed new project WHITE HORSE.

ANATHEMA directed by Andreea Cristina Bortun. (production set pictures)

PROLOGEN/PROLOGUES directed by Florin Serban. (production set picture)

 

COSMINA STRATAN & our new client VALERIU ANDRIUTA star in a romanian feature film DOG directed by multi awarded Romanian director Florin Serban.

(production set pictures and a trailer below)

 

Welcome to LILLY KIRSTEN who is now represented by D.I.T.A

Lilly is an actress who sometimes works as a model & recently shot in the US short movie called iCUPID, directed by Zaina Salameh. Lilly shot a few movies & a lot music videos like WE COME ALIVE directed by Ghosts Of Our Former Selves or MISS YOUdirected by James Hersey, as well she did a bunch of commercials for feature films director Florian Cossen.

Lilly is native German and speaks English fluently.

WE COME ALIVE directed by Steve Glashier (music video)

MISS YOU directed by Schall&Schnabel (music video)

ALCON directed by Florian Cossen (TVC)

ERNEST&YOUNG, directed by Simon Cracknell

into the spotlight 183

into the spotlight 183

IAZUA LARIOS,  our great Mexican client, stars in a new interpretation of the 60ies and the 70ies classic WINNETOU, directed by Philipp Stölzl. The triology will have its premiere in Munich, Germany on 12th, December and will air on German private TV channel RTL on Christmas time December, 24th-26th, at prime time. more info..

WINNETOU, directed by Philipp Stölzl (below a trailer and production picture)

 

EUROPEAN FILM AWARD 2016 ceremony on Dec 10th, 2016 in Wroclaw, info.. LIVE translation,will be streamed here from 20:15 CET on HBO 2, ARTE and other channels, the exact time and channel for your country please find under the link, info..

VALERIU ANDRIUTA stars in BACALAUREAT/GRADUATION directed by Cristian Mungiu, the director was nominated as the best European director and the best European screenwriter.
OONA AIROLA plays one of the lead roles in THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFEOF OLLI MAKI, directed by Juho Kuosmanen. This film received a nomination for European Discovery.

MICHALINA OLZANSKA stars in I OLGA HEPNAROVA , directed by Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda, the film was selected for European Film Awards 2016.
She won the award for best actress at the 23nd Minsk International Film Festival LISTAPAD for her performance in this great Slovak-Polish co-production.

AISTE DIRZIUTE, Lithuanians shooting star at the Berlinale 2016, is honoured to be chosen to give an award to one of the winners of this years European Film Award ceremony.  Recently she finished her shooting as lead in the Latvian historical drama NAMEJA GREDZENS/THE RING OF KINGS, directed by Aigars Grauba.

 

VALERIU ANDRIUTA in BACALAUREAT/GRADUATION directed by Cristian Mungiu (a trailer)

OONA AIROLA in THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFEOF OLLI MAKI, directed by Juho Kuosmanen. (a trailer)

MICHALINA OLZANSKA in OLGA HEPNAROVA, directed by Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda (a trailer) 

AISTE DIRZIUTE in NAMEJA GREDZENS/NAMEJ`S RING, directed by Aigars Grauba (an interview with Aiste)

 

CARLOS LEAL & SILVIA BUSUIOC played lead roles in the largest-scale Swiss TV production GOTTHARD directed by Urs Eger, which had its world premier on the big screen at Locarno Film Festival 2016 and will air now on all three major public Swiss channels SRF, RSI and RTS on primetime. On December,11th at 20:05 on SRF at 20:40 on RSI  and on December, 12th at 20:05 on SRF and at 21:10 on RSI and at 20:45 and at 22:20 on RTS.  The TV series will have its premiere in Germany on December,19th/20th on ZDF channel and in Austria on ORF channel on December, 19th/20th info.. 

 

GOTTHARD directed by Urs Eger (a trailer, an Interview with Carlos Leal and production set picture with Silvia)

 

JUDITH WILLIQUET,  our talent from Belgium, stars in a fabulous music video for a band Oodezenne, called CABRIOLET. Also Judith stars in the European campaign for the discounter brand LIDL.

Oodezenne – CABRIOLET (Official Music Video)

LIDL,  the European campaign for the discounter brand LIDL.

 

LU HUANG leads in the Chinese drama A YELLOW BIRD, directed by K Rajagopal. The film was released today at Singapore International Film Festival, info..
Besides this, she just finished shooting for the Chinese crime movie  BLOOD 13, directed by Candy Li, and for a drama A HORSE WITH HOPE, directed by Hai-bin Bai. Right away Lu continues shooting for the sci-fi crime-drama  CITIES OF LAST THINGS , directed by Wi Ding Ho, where she plays a lead role.

A YELLOW BIRD, directed by K Rajagopal (a trailer and below a picture from Singapore International Film Festival)

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into the spotlight #182

KRISTINA KLEBE a German, US based actress stars in the psychological drama thriller HER DARK PAST directed by  Kevin Shulman. The film was released on 27th, November on Lifetime Channel.
Kristina finished her shooting`s for two US cinema movies POLICE STATE directed by Kevin Arbouet and at SARA`S CELL, directed by  Kevin Shulman.

HER DARK PAST directed by  Kevin Shulman (below a trailer and production set picture)

FIXEUR/FIXERRomanian feature film directed by Adrian Sitaru, will be screened at International Film Festival Marrakech. MEDHI NEBBOU has played one of the lead roles in this great movie.

FIXEUR/FIXER, directed by Adrian Sitaru (a trailer)

MEHDI MESKAR leads the italian comedy NON C’È PIÙ RELIGIONE directed by Luca Miniero. The film will be shown on 7th, December at the Italian cinemas. 
Mehdi also stars in a poetic-lyrical  short movie LOST IN HOPE directed by Aline Hochscheid.

NON C’È PIÙ RELIGIONE directed by Luca Miniero (a trailer)

LOST IN HOPE directed by Aline Hochscheid (a trailer)

OONA AIROLA now represented by das Imperium.. 

Oona is a Finnish actress and singer. She has a Master of Arts degree in acting from the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. She has starred in the theatre and in movies. In 2016 she stars in a long feature film, the winner of the Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival  THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI, directed by Juho Kuosmanen and in a Finnish TV police series ROBA, created by Timo Varpio. In 2015 Oona stars in a long feature film SORCERESS, directed by Naama Kates, which will be published in 2017. Oona Airola composes, writes the lyrics and sings in Lada Nuevo and Ykspihlajan Kino Orkesteri.  Together with Ykspihlajan Kino-Orkesteri Airola has composed also music to Juho Kuosmanen’s films: ROMU MATTILA JA KAUNIS NAINEN (silent film)(2012) and THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI (2016).

Oona is native finish, fluent in Swedish and English, speaks basic Russian.

THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI, directed by Juho Kuosmanen (a trailer)

SORCERESS, directed by Naama Kates (a trailer)

Oona Airola – KAIKU (Official Music Video)

FRANC BRUNEU leads in a french black and white movie CLITOPRAXIS directed by Emmanuel Laborie. Besides this film he has also played a role in a short film SERVAL AND CHAUMIER; MASTERS OF SHADOWS directed by Bastien Daret and Arthur Goisset, which was shown during the Independant Film Festival Rome(25.11-01.12) info..  and in a movie called LE GRAND BAIN/HOME SWIM HOME, directed by Valérie Leroy, info.. 

CLITOPRAXIS directed by Emmanuel Laborie (a trailer and production set picture)

SERVAL AND CHAUMIER; MASTERS OF SHADOWS directed by Bastien Daret and Arthur Goisset (production set picture)

LE GRAND BAIN/HOME SWIM HOME, directed by Valérie Leroy (a poster)

into the spotlight #181

into the spotlight #181

FALK HENTSCHEL stars as lead for German TV movie adaptation of JACK THE RIPPER directed by Sebastian Niemann, the film will be on air German TV channel SAT1 on primetime (8:15pm), November 29th.
Falk also stars for TV series LEGENDS OF TOMORROWthe new episode RIVER OF TIME airs on The CW on November 28th, 8/7c (2am. CET) and will be on air in Germany on November 30th at TV channel Pro 7.
Falk also did recently finish his shooting for the short romance THE BIG SWIM, directed by Kat Green.

JACK THE RIPPER, directed by Sebastian Niemann (a trailer)

JACK THE RIPPER, directed by Sebastian Niemann (an interview with the actors)

LEGENDS OF TOMORROW episode RIVER OF TIME (below a trailer and production set picture)

THE BIG SWIM, directed by Kat Green (production set picture)

TORSTEN VOGES stars for the crime-thriller adventure TYTANOWA BIELA/WHITE TITANIUN directed by Piotr Smigasiewicz, info.. The film will be released in Poland on November 25th.
Torsten stars for the comedy SCRAMBLED directed by Frank Reina and is shooting for the NBC TV show GRIMM, for an episode called WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE.

TYTANOWA BIELA/WHITE TITANIUN directed by Piotr Smigasiewicz (production set pictures)

SCRAMBLED directed by Frank Reina (a trailer)

CARLOS LEAL  stars as male lead for the US feature film WILLIE AND ME, a feature film opposite Eva Hassmann, who also wrote and directed this movie.
Carlos stars as lead for the feature film GORMAN directed by Roman Wyden and besides these projects, he also stars (next to Piper Perabo) for an episode for ABC networks TV series NOTORIOUS created by Josh Berman and Allie Hagan. This episode airs on December 8th at 9/8c (3am CET) info..

WILLIE AND ME, directed by Eva Hassmann (production set picture)

GORMAN directed by Roman Wyden (production set picture)

NOTORIOUS, ABC TV series, created by Josh Berman and Allie Hagan (a trailer) 

MEHDI NEBBOU stars for OKKUPERT/OCCUPIEDNorway’s most successful (and expensive) TV series, shown on Netflix directed by Jens Lien. Romanian feature film FIXEUR/THE FIXER, directed by Adrian Sitaru will be shown in the competition of Marrakech International Film Festival, (Mehdi played one of the lead roles in it!) info..

JOANNA KULIG stars in a Polish action-crime cinema movie PITBULL:NOWEPORZADKI/PITBULL:NEW ORDERS directed by Patryk Vega, which got more than 850.000 entrees after 4 days of release. You will remember Joanna from this year´s Sundance competition selected French cinema movie AGNUS DEI/THE INNOCENTS directed by Anne Fontaine.

PITBULL:NOWE PORZADKI/PITBULL:NEW ORDERS directed by Patryk Vega (a trailer)

AGNUS DEI/THE INNOCENTS directed by Anne Fontaine (production set picture)