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My Friend From Faro
''My Friend from Faro'' (german: Mein Freund aus Faro) is 2008 German drama film. It marks the directorial debut of Nana Neul and stars Anjorka Strechel and Lucie Hollmann. The film premiered on 16 January 2008 at the Max Ophüls Festival, and was awarded the Fritz Raff Screenplay Award. Plot Mel, an androgynous teenage tomboy in a dead end job, is obsessed with everything Portuguese. When she meets Jenny, Mel quickly decides that the only way to build a relationship with her is by assuming the alter ego of a Portuguese boy. Cast * Anjorka Strechel - Mel Wandel * Lucie Hollmann - Jenny Schmidt * Manuel Cortez - Nuno * Florian Panzner - Knut Wandel * Tilo Prückner - Willi Wandel * Isolda Dychauk - Bianca References Further reading * External links * * ''My Friend from Faro'' (''Mein Freund aus Faro'') at BBFC The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Neul
Nana, Nanna, Na Na or NANA may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nana (given name), including a list of people and characters with the given name * Nana (surname), including a list of people and characters with the surname * Nana (chief) (died 1896), Mimbreño Apache chief * Nana (deejay) (born 1983), Malaysian ''Akademi Fantasia'' contestant * Nana (entertainer) (born 1991), a member of popular South Korean girl group ''After School'' * Nana (rapper) (born 1968), German rapper and DJ * Nana Astar Deviluke, a character in the manga series ''To Love Ru'' * Nana, a member of the South Korean girl group Woo!ah! * Nana, female UK garage singer, most notably on the song " Body Groove" by Architechs * Lulu and Nana (born 2018), pseudonyms for twin Chinese girls, who are allegedly the first humans produced from embryos that were genome-edited * Nana, name used for the Ngaanyatjarra people of Western Australia Arts and entertainment Films * ''Nana'' (1926 film), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isolda Dychauk
Isolda Dychauk (born 4 February 1993) is a German actress of Russian descent. Career Isolda Dychauk was born in 1993 in Surgut (West Siberia) and moved to Berlin in 2002 with her mother. In addition to her native language Russian, she learned to speak German accent-free. In 2003, she was admitted to the Berlin-based acting school ''Next Generation''. Her camera debut was in 2004 with the short film ''Gimme your shoes'', directed by Anika Wangard, which was shown in October 2009 at the Vienna International Film Festival. In 2007, she appeared in the family drama ''Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester'', where she acted next to Marianne Sägebrecht. In 2007, she acquired the role of Paula in the TV movie ''Nichts ist Vergessen''. In the following years, she appeared in several television series, including '' Polizeiruf 110'', '' Tatort'', and ''The Old Fox''. In 2008, she landed her first film role as Bianca in Nana Neuls youth drama ''Mein Freund aus Faro''. In 2010, she played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German LGBT-related Films
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s German-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin 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 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 compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Romantic Drama Films
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (other) * Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 LGBT-related Films
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Films
The year 2008 involved many major film events. '' The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while ''Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to '' The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's ''WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of '' Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting '' The Incredible Hul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumiere (database)
The European Audiovisual Observatory (french: italic=no, Observatoire européen de l’audiovisuel, german: italic=no, Europäische Audiovisuelle Informationsstelle) is a public service organisation, part of the Council of Europe set up in 1992. The observatory collects and analyses data about the audiovisual industry in Europe, such as cinema, television, radio, video, Video On Demand and Catch-up TV. The observatory's headquarters are located in the Villa Schutzenberger in Strasbourg. Lumiere (database) Lumiere (stylized as LUMIERE) is an online database of ticket sales for films released in 27 European territories, created in cooperation with national information sources and the MEDIA Programme of the European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been .... R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Board Of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify all video works released on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray (including 3D and 4K UHD formats), and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the Video Recordings Act 1984. The BBFC was also the designated regulator for the UK age-verification scheme which was abandoned before being implemented. History and overview The BBFC was established in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censors by members of the film industry, who preferred to manage their own censorship than to have national or loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilo Prückner
Tilo Prückner (26 October 1940 – 2 July 2020 T-Online, 6 July 2020.) was a German television and film actor. His career spanned five decades and more than 100 films. Early life Tilo Prückner was born in Augsburg, the son of the paediatrician Alfred Prückner and his wife Dorothea née Krause in Augsburg. The Prückner family has a long reaching family tradition in Hof. He first went to the St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg and changed then to the school Melanchthon-Gymnasium in |
