‘Apocalypse ’45’ Film Review: World War II Documentary Is an Elegy to Those Who Were Lost

There are no heroes in Final Account, no one to empathize with. What makes it uniquely worth watching is its cast of octogenarians and nonagenarians who were eyewitnesses and in some cases active participants in the horrors of the concentration camps.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: The exciting trio of Daisy Ridley (Star Wars), Kristin Scott Thomas (Darkest Hour) and Nina Hoss (Phoenix) have been set to star in Jane Anderson’s (The Wife) adaptation of Jessica Shattuck’s 2017 New York Times bestseller Women In The Castle, about three widows of conspirators involved in an assassination attempt on Hitler.The story of the three German women, set during and after World War II, explores how each deals with the fallout of her

Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabb has urged Moscow to "tell the truth" about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, saying it is "absolutely unacceptable" the Russian opposition leader was poisoned by the same nerve agent deployed in Salisbury.  Rabb said on Wednesday that Russia has "a clear case to answer" after the German government said the Kremlin critic was targeted with Novichok in an attempted murder. Britain has long accused Russian operatives of using the Soviet-era poison against Sergei

When the Japanese Imperial Army laid siege to an innocuous warehouse in 1937’s Battle of Shanghai, the skirmish ultimately became a flashpoint that galvanized a nation. China lost that battle but won the war, and the resistance of the Eight Hundred Heroes earned the legendary status it retains to this day.

Janet W. Lee In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Amy Hill packed her bags in Hollywood and returned home to her family in Hawaii, thinking she would quarantine there.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentRussian World War II drama “Saving Leningrad” has sold to several major territories, including the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea and China.The film was sold to Capelight for Germany and the U.S., Signature Entertainment for the U.K., Kinovista in France, New Select in Japan, iQIYI in China, Super Vision Trading in Taiwan, W&W Investments Holding in Poland, Eagle Pictures in Italy, Studio Show Entertainment in Sweden, and

A young activist joins Antifa in And Tomorrow The Entire World, the new film from German director Julia von Heinz. In the first international trailer for the film (see below), we meet Louisa (Mala Emde), a rich girl who falls in with a collective of Antifa activists.

Olivia Colman, Tom Hiddleston and Paul Rudd will narrate natural world documentaries for Apple TV+.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Tokyo International Film Festival will shine a spotlight on the work of internationally-acclaimed Japanese director Koji Fukada during its 33rd edition. The festival will be held in front of live audiences Oct.

Bora Dagtekin, Germany's most consistent hitmaker, has extended his exclusive deal with local mini-major Constantin Film through to 2025. Under the deal, announced Wednesday, Dagtekin will deliver three more features for Constantin, all of which will be produced by his long-term production partner Lena Schömann.

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticFour days feels like an eternity in “The Eight Hundred,” mainland Chinese writer-director Guan Hu’s monumental, if sometimes unwieldy epic interpretation of the courageous defense of a warehouse by the Chinese Nationalist Army in October 1937. For those with little knowledge of the Sino-Japanese War, the bombardment of facts, action and characters in the 147-minute film can be too much to take in at one go.

The Tokyo International Film Festival, which plans to forge ahead with a physical edition in late October, will showcase the work of rising Japanese arthouse director Koji Fukada. Fukada will be this year's director in focus of the festival's Japan Now section, which will include a gala selection of his films, ranging from his debut feature, Human Comedy in Tokyo(2008), to his much anticipated latest work, The Real Thing (2020).

Acclaimed film director William Friedkin will be honored with a lifetime retrospective at this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival. The 84-year-old director of such genre classics as The Exorcist, The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A., will not be able to attend the German independent festival but will participate in a live Q&A that Oldenburg will stream worldwide.

Blut und Ehre. It’s German for “Blood and Honor.” Not only that, but the phrase was also utilized as a reprehensible rallying cry for Nazi Germany during World War II and the years before.

Christopher Vourlias Visar Morina’s “Exile,” a tense psychodrama about a Kosovan pharmacologist in Germany who becomes increasingly paranoid over a series of menacing events, won the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, earning the Kosovo-born German director the Heart of Sarajevo.The award ceremony took place online Thursday night, with Morina winning top honors from a jury led by Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) and comprised of Carlo Chatrian, artistic

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentFilmination, an online marketplace for Japanese content, is expanding and relaunching. The object is to smooth and speed up the often-cumbersome process of dealing with Japanese rights holders.Pitched as the first of its kind in Japan, the revamped site allows rights holders to present their wares and rights buyers to select films and TV series.

Blut und Ehre. It’s German for “Blood and Honor.” Not only that, but the phrase was also utilized as a reprehensible rallying cry for Nazi Germany during World War II and the years before.