GERMANY - The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival opened today
February 9, 2012, with the world premiere of Benoît Jacquot’s film
Les adieux à la Reine.
The director will be attending the gala with actors Diane Kruger, Léa
Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois and Noémie Lvovsky.
Minister of State and Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs
Bernd Neumann and Berlin’s Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit opened the
Festival together with Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick and Jury
President Mike Leigh. The event is being broadcast live on television by
ZDF/3sat and available for viewing world-wide on Livestream. Music for the gala will be provided by the duo Boy; Anke
Engelke will host the evening.
All members of the International Jury- Anton Corbijn, Asghar Farhadi,
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike Leigh, François Ozon,
Boualem Sansal and Barbara Sukowa will be present.
Other celebrities expected to attend the event include:
Mario
Adorf, Feo Aladag, Alexander Askoldov, Michael Ballhaus, Marie Bäumer,
Meret Becker, Wolfgang Becker, Iris Berben, Senta Berger, Christian
Berkel, Alexander Beyer, Sebastian Blomberg, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg,
Jürgen Böttcher, Matthias Brandt, Fred Breinersdorfer, Maximilian
Brückner, Thomas Brussig, Christopher Buchholz, Inga Busch, Christel
Buschmann, Mareike Carrière, Didi Danquart, Pepe Danquart, August Diehl,
Doris Dörrie, Angelica Domröse, Andreas Dresen, Hannelore Elsner, Max
Färberböck, Alexander Fehling, Heino Ferch, Veronica Ferres, Inka
Friedrich, Benno Fürmann, Bruno Ganz, Martina Gedeck, Matthias Glasner,
Fritzi Haberlandt, Hendrik Handloegten, Monika Hansen, Corinna Harfouch,
Reinhard Hauff, Leander Haussmann, Benjamin Heisenberg, André M.
Hennicke, Hannah Herzsprung, Klaus Hoffmann, Rebecca Horn, Nina Hoss,
Henry Hübchen, Sandra Hüller, Hermine Huntgeburth, Hannes Jaenicke,
Julia Jentsch, Romuald Karmakar, Peter Keglevic, Sibel Kekilli, Burghart
Klaußner, Herbert Knaup, Volker Koepp, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Nicolette
Krebitz, Thomas Kretschmann, David Kross, Maren Kroymann, Günter
Lamprecht, Bernd Lange, Dani Levy, Anna Loos-Liefers, Susanne Lothar,
Florian Lukas, Matthias Luthardt, Angelina Maccarone, Markus Majowski,
Heike Makatsch, Misel Maticevic, Jeanine Meerapfel, Sunnyi Melles,
Michael Mendl, Claudia Michelsen, Birgit Minichmayr, Helke Misselwitz,
Ursela Monn, Wanja Mues, Anna Maria Mühe, Ulrich Noethen, Jana Pallaske,
Christiane Paul, Milan Peschel, Franziska Petri, Christian Petzold,
Jürgen Prochnow, Oskar Roehler, Armin Rohde, Yasemin Samdereli, Helke
Sander, Otto Sander, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Katrin Sass, Angela
Schanelec, Clemens Schick, Niklaus Schilling, Tom Schilling, Sebastian
Schipper, Mark Schlichter, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans-Christian Schmid,
Maria Schrader, Rolf Schübel, Robert Stadlober, Jan Henrik Stahlberg,
Ula Stöckl, Lena Stolze, Jasmin Tabatabai, Mina Tander, Anatole Taubman,
Anna Thalbach, Hilmar Thate, Jördis Triebel, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Tom
Tykwer, Christian Ulmen, Idil Üner, Andres Veiel, Joseph Vilsmaier,
Jürgen Vogel, Rüdiger Vogler, Justus von Dohnányi, Vera von Lehndorff,
Rosa von Praunheim, Margarethe von Trotta, Nora von Waldstätten, Mark
Waschke, Hans Weingartner, Kai Wiesinger, Johanna Wokalek, Natalia
Wörner and Hanns Zischler.
A number of prominent German politicians have also announced they
will be coming. They include Minister President of Brandenburg Matthias
Platzeck; Federal Minister for Health Daniel Bahr; and a number of
Bundestag members, including Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Vice-President of
the Bundestag), Monika Grütters (Chair of the Bundestag’s Committee on
Cultural and Media Affairs), Claudia Roth (Party Leader of Bündnis
90/Die Grünen), Petra Merkel (Chair of the Bundestag’s Budget
Committee), and many more.
The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival will close on February
19, 2012. The Award Ceremony will be held on February 18, 2012.
More information and LIVESTREAM of the festival events HERE
