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Messy Christmas
''Messy Christmas'' () is a 2007 German comedy film directed by Vanessa Jopp.https://www.programmkino.de/content/links.php?link=586 Cast and characters * Martina Gedeck as Sara Meinhold * Heino Ferch as Jan Meinhold * Roeland Wiesnekker as Andi * Jasmin Tabatabai as Rita * as Gunnar * as Eva * as Erich * Meret Becker as Pauline * as Thomas * Ursula Doll as Anne * Alexandra Neldel as Isabell See also * List of Christmas films * ''In Bed with Santa ''In Bed with Santa'' () is a Swedish black comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 November 1999, directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made in 2007 under the title ''Messy Christmas''. A French remake was made in 20 ...'' (1999) * '' Divin Enfant'' (2014) References External links * 2000s Christmas comedy films German Christmas comedy films Remakes of Swedish films 2007 comedy films 2007 films 2000s German films {{Christmas-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Jopp
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Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck (; born 14 September 1961) is a German actress. She achieved international recognition due to her roles in films such as '' Mostly Martha'' (2001), ''The Lives of Others'' (2006), and ''The Baader Meinhof Complex'' (2008). She has won several awards, including two Deutscher Filmpreis, in 1997 for Supporting Actress in '' Life is All You Get'', and in 2002 for Actress in '' Mostly Martha''. Biography Gedeck was born 14 September 1961 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany, and grew up in Bavaria, the oldest of three girls. In 1971, her family moved to West Berlin, where the 11-year-old Martina debuted as an actress in children's television shows. There seems to be some uncertainty regarding her year of birth 1961. After leaving school in 1981, she enrolled at the Free University of Berlin, majoring in German Literature and History. From 1982 to 1986, Martina attended acting classes at the Berlin University of the Arts. During that time, she made her stage debut at the The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heino Ferch
Heino Ferch (born 18 August 1963) is a German film, theatre and television actor. His notable film roles include Albert Speer in '' Downfall'' (2004) and Harry Melchior in ''The Tunnel'' (2001). Biography The son of a merchant sea captain, Heino Ferch was on stage at the age of 15, while still attending grammar school. As a member of the stage ballet company in the musical Can-Can, he performed the tumbling acrobatics at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven in his home town. During this time, he also traveled through Europe as a federal member of the National League of Gymnastics. Ferch studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria. He graduated in 1987. In addition to his main subject, drama, he also took courses in tap dancing, ballet, and singing. Between 1987 and 2006, Ferch lived in Berlin, a city whose division after World War II and reunification in 1989 is repeatedly reflected in his work as a movie actor (''The Tunnel'', ''Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hof International Film Festival
The Hof International Filmfestival is a German film festival that takes place in Hof, Bavaria, every year in October. Apart from numerous foreign productions, the main focus traditionally is on German films. During six festival days, about 130 films (80 feature and documentary films as well as 50 short films) are shown in 8 theaters of 2 cinema centers, adding up to a total of 200 individual film presentations. With the exception of the retrospective, all films are German or world premieres. History Initiators of the festival were Heinz Badewitz and Uwe Brandner, who were also members of the Hof "New Jazz Group", together with the artist Werner Weinelt, who later on relocated his art gallery to the pub "Galeriehaus" in Hof. Badewitz, festival director until his death in 2016, and Brandner, had moved to Munich in 1963 where they made short films together. However, they had problems to find a cinema for their film presentations in Munich. Without further ado, Badewitz, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Wiesnekker
Roeland Wiesnekker (pron. 'Roo-Land') (b. 25 November 1967 near Zürich) is a Dutch / Swiss actor in movies and theater plays. Life Wiesnekker grew up in a music-loving family and tried out various instruments. Despite that, he wanted to become an actor, because he adored Charlie Chaplin. At the age of 15 Wiesnekker started a cook apprenticeship, but did not agree with the “hierarchic structures”. At the age of 16 he planned to become a sports teacher, but soon took up work in a hospital instead. As the job as a male nurse did not satisfy him either, he began working in a ' (“street-kitchen” - a soup kitchen for the homeless and drug-addicted), a job that moulded his character. Later he decided to become an actor. From 1986 to 1989, he frequented the ' (a drama school) in Zürich. Even before he received the diploma, he was engaged by the theatre Schauspielhaus Bochum, Germany. In 1990 he was nominated for the award ' (German talented young actor of the year). Wiesnekker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Tabatabai
Jasmin Tabatabai ( ; born 8 June 1967 in Tehran, Iran, is a German actress and singer. Biography Jasmin Tabatabai's mother is German, and her father is Iranian. She was born and raised in Tehran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at which point she migrated with her mother to Germany. After her completion of school, she studied drama in the arts college in Stuttgart. Career She was discovered for the screen 1992 as main character in the Swiss feature film '':de:Kinder der Landstrasse (Film), Children of the Open Road, ''what brought her the award as best actress at the Amiens Film Festival in France. During her early work as actress in Berlin, she co-founded the band ''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'' as singer and songwriter. The 1997 German film Bandits (1997 film), ''Bandits'' exposed Jasmin Tabatabai to a larger audience. In addition to her acting role in the film, she also wrote and performed many of the songs for the Soundtrack album, soundtrack. The record for the film s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meret Becker
Meret Becker (; born 15 January 1969) is a German actress and singer. Life and career Meret Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She was raised in Berlin by her mother with her stepfather Otto Sander along with her brother Ben Becker. She is the granddaughter of comedian Claire Schlichting and the niece of the acrobat and comedian Jonny Buchardt. In 1996, she married Alexander Hacke, a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten, who contributed songs to Becker's albums, including ''Noctambule''. They separated in 2000 and divorced two years later. Becker was a guest musician on Einstürzende Neubauten's album '' Ende Neu'', singing ''Stella Maris'' in a duet with Blixa Bargeld. She played the character Ernal Eggstein in the 1997 German film '' Comedian Harmonists'', as well as Katya, a prostitute, in '' Painted Angels''. A year later, in 1998, she gave several performances along with Nina Hagen. The short but sold-out tour w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Neldel
Alexandra Monika Neldel (born 11 February 1976) is a German actress from Berlin. Career Neldel worked as a dental assistant before she was discovered by the boss of a Berlin casting agency during a polo competition. He helped her audition for daily soap opera '' Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'' and Neldel, barely experienced in acting, immediately landed the role of Katja Wettstein. After leaving ''GZSZ'' in 1999 Neldel starred in several German motion pictures and TV films, including ''Lammbock'', ''Samba in Mettmann'' and Emmy-winning '' Berlin, Berlin''. In 2005 Neldel made her breakthrough as Lisa Plenske, the leading role in the Sat.1 telenovela '' Verliebt in Berlin''. She decided to leave the series after the final episode of season one. Filmography Cinema * 1999: '' Bang Boom Bang'' * 2000: ' * 2000: ' * 2001: ''Lammbock'' * 2003: ''Der letzte Lude'' * 2003: ' * 2004: ''Samba in Mettmann'' * 2004: ' * 2005: '' Barefoot'' * 2006: '' Goldene Zeiten'' * 2007: '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Christmas Films
Many Christmas stories have been Christmas film, adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television. Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Many television networks, film studios, and production companies, such as cable television channels Hallmark Channel, Hallmark and Lifetime (TV network), Lifetime, produce and release new Christmas-themed films every year during or around December, all with different variations of similar plots and themes. Additionally, films revolving around the Nativity of Jesus, Nativity story of Christmas are regularly produced such as ''The Nativity Story'' (2006) and ''The Star (2017 film), The Star'' (2017). One film that has become the flashpoint for "Is this a Christmas movie or not?" debates is ''Die Hard'' (1988), with some viewing the film as a Christmas movie intertwined with an action genre setting or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Bed With Santa
''In Bed with Santa'' () is a Swedish black comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 November 1999, directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made in 2007 under the title ''Messy Christmas''. A French remake was made in 2014 under the title ''Divin Enfant'' A Finnish remake was made in 2019 under the title ''Täydellinen joulu''. Plot Sara invites her ex-husbands and their new families to celebrate Christmas with her and her husband Janne. Sara has always wanted to have a baby with Janne, and at the dinner table she reveals the news: she's pregnant. The only problem is that Janne had a vasectomy two years ago, without Sara knowing it. The secret starts to spread among the guests, and in no time everyone knows but Sara. The party heads for a complete disaster. Who's the real father? Cast *Katarina Ewerlöf as Sara *Peter Haber as Jan *Jessica Zandén as Rita *Leif Andrée as Åke *Nina Gunke as Eva *Dan Ekborg as Gunnar *Lena B. Eriksson as Anne *Anders Ekb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divin Enfant
''Divin Enfant'' (''Merry Christmess!'') is a 2014 French comedy film directed by Olivier Doran and starring Émilie Dequenne, Sami Bouajila and Géraldine Pailhas. Cast * Sami Bouajila as Jean * Géraldine Pailhas as Pauline * Linh Dan Pham as Marie * Émilie Dequenne as Sarah * Guillaume de Tonquédec as Éric * India Hair as Sophie * Natacha Lindinger as Elisabeth * Pascal Demolon as Xavier * Marco Prince as Thomas See also * List of Christmas films * ''In Bed with Santa'' (1999) * ''Messy Christmas ''Messy Christmas'' () is a 2007 German comedy film directed by Vanessa Jopp.https://www.programmkino.de/content/links.php?link=586 Cast and characters * Martina Gedeck as Sara Meinhold * Heino Ferch as Jan Meinhold * Roeland Wiesnekker as A ...'' (2007) References External links * 2014 films 2010s Christmas comedy films Belgian comedy films French Christmas comedy films 2010s French-language films Remakes of Swedish films Luxembourgian comedy films 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Christmas Comedy Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
