Kati Outinen

biography:
Anna Katriina Outinen (born August 17, 1961) is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films.

Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "turkkalaisuus" school of acting methodology. Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film Täältä tullaan elämä by Tapio Suominen.

In 1984, she appeared in Aikalainen.

Besides a strong domestic reputation gained through a widely varied list of roles in theater and television drama, film director Aki Kaurismäki's films have brought Outinen international attention and even adulation, particularly in Germany and France.

At the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Outinen won the award for Best Actress for the Kaurismäki film The Man Without a Past.

Suojelijat

character: Äiti

original_name: Suojelijat

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Blue Eyes

overview: High adrenaline Swedish political thriller from the creative talent behind Humans – An extreme right-wing party is heading towards its best election result when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace. Racism, immigration and nationalism are explored in this series praised by New York Times.

character: Irmeli

original_name: Blå Ögon

original_language: sv

Isolated

overview: An idyllic island in the Finnish Archipelago is suddenly cut off from outside world, as a mysterious force takes over. Without food, electricity or safety, the islanders are faced with their deepest fears. What will you do to survive?

character: Meri

original_name: Utö

The Bank

overview: Based on a true story in the turbulent Estonian 90s. Personal dramas will unfold using the historic events as a backdrop, with the characters constantly re-evaluating the currency rates and their personal values.

character: Marja Lindroos

original_name: Pank

original_language: et

Justimus esittää: Henki Vex

overview: HenkiVex Ky finds itself in a tough spot when seven demons from hell get away.

character: Aili

original_name: Justimus esittää: Henki Vex

English

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Deutsch

biography: Kati Outinen ist eine finnische Schauspielerin.

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Kati Outinen

biography:
Anna Katriina ”Kati” Outinen (s. 17. elokuuta 1961 Helsinki) on suomalainen näyttelijä, käsikirjoittaja ja ohjaaja. Hän toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun näyttelijätyön professorina 1. elokuuta 2002 – 31. heinäkuuta 2013.

Outisen ensimmäinen elokuvarooli oli Tapio Suomisen vuonna 1979 ohjaamassa nuorisoelokuvassa Täältä tullaan, elämä! (ensi-ilta 1980). Hän on näytellyt useita päärooleja Aki Kaurismäen elokuvissa. Outisen ja Kaurismäen ensimmäinen yhteinen elokuva oli Varjoja paratiisissa (1986) ja yhteistyö on jatkunut pitkään. Elokuva Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002) oli menestys. Elokuva ja Outisen roolisuoritus palkittiin muun muassa Cannesin elokuvajuhlilla. Elokuva oli myös Oscar-ehdokkaana, mikä oli suomalaiselle elokuvateollisuudelle suuri saavutus. Viimeksi Outinen ja Kaurismäki ovat tehneet yhteistyötä elokuvassa Toivon tuolla puolen (2017).

Outinen on näytellyt myös useissa televisiosarjoissa, kuten Erakkorapu, Joulukalenteri, Ilmalaiva Finlandia, Pako punaisten päämajasta, Hurja joukko ja Tahdon asia. Lisäksi hän on osallistunut Salatut elämät -sarjan käsikirjoitustyöhön. Teatterinäyttämöllä hän on esiintynyt sekä suomen- että ruotsinkielisissä tuotannoissa. Outinen on toiminut myös ääninäyttelijänä animaatiosarjassa Babar.

Outinen on saanut Filmiaura ry:n parhaasta naispääosasta myöntämän Jussi-patsaan kolmesti, elokuvista Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (1990), Kauas pilvet karkaavat (1996) ja Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002).

Stadin Slangi ry nimitti Outisen vuoden 2007 Stadin Friiduksi. Vuonna 2015 hän sai Helsingin kaupungin kulttuuripalkinnon. Hän kirjoitti, ohjasi ja näytteli monologina vuonna 2016 muistisairautta käsittelevän näytelmän Niin kauas kuin omat siivet kantaa, jota hän esittää ympäri Suomea ja siitä tehtyä teatteriversiota Teatteri Jurkassa loppuvuodesta 2016.

Outinen on myös antanut äänensä suomalaiselle Ritva Tuomivaara -nimiselle hahmolle videopelissä Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Outinen on näytellyt Jim Carreyn esittämän hahmon esimiestä rikoselokuvassa Dark Crimes, jonka ensi-ilta Yhdysvalloissa oli toukokuussa 2018. Elokuva esitettiin nimellä True Crimes Varsovan elokuvajuhlilla lokakuussa 2016.

Kesällä 2018 Outinen valittiin Kajaanin runoviikon taiteelliseksi johtajaksi Taisto Reimaluodon kauden päätyttyä.

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한국어/조선말

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english_name: Korean

日本語

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Latviešu

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english_name: Latvian

title: Shadows in Paradise

overview: Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.

character: Ilona

original_title: Varjoja paratiisissa

title: Popular Music

overview: Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

character: Päivi, Niila's Mother

original_title: Populärmusik från Vittula

title: Lights in the Dusk

overview: Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

character: Supermarket Cashier

original_title: Laitakaupungin valot

title: Family Stories Untold

overview: Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women’s stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins with Iida, 9, who after her parents’ nasty divorce helps Mummy find a new man on Tinder, and ends with Lisbeth, who has been forced into a retirement home by her children. It’s a story about a life in which we don’t have the courage to voice our opinions, desires and expectations.

original_title: Vaietut perhetarinat

title: The Home of Dark Butterflies

overview: Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.

character: Tyyne

original_title: Tummien perhosten koti

title: The Man Without a Past

overview: Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.

character: Irma

original_title: Mies vailla menneisyyttä

title: Cheating Is Good for You

overview: A wife who has cheated on her husband for 40 years reflects on her behaviour and the benefits she has reaped.

original_title: Pettäminen tekee hyvää vaan

title: The Match Factory Girl

overview: Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

character: Iris Rukka

original_title: Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö

title: Drifting Clouds

overview: The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.

original_title: Kauas pilvet karkaavat

title: Hamlet Goes Business

overview: When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?

character: Ofelia

original_title: Hamlet liikemaailmassa

title: The Hullabaloos!

overview: The birthday of twin boys, Mökö and Luru, takes the family Kiljunen to Helsinki, where their dog gets accidentally switched with the president's dog. Mökö and Luru rush to save their dog, while mother and father Kiljunen take over the city from land, sea and air.

character: Rikostutkija Schultz

original_title: Kiljuset!

title: All the best from Saara

overview: Saara falls in love with their employer's wife.

character: Saara

original_title: Voi hyvin, toivoo Saara!

title: Prinsessa joka nukkui 100 vuotta

overview: Poetic short film

character: Girl

original_title: Prinsessa joka nukkui 100 vuotta

title: Hermit Crab

overview: A human-sized story about an old-fashioned man.

original_title: Erakkorapu

title: Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes

overview: Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.

character: Migrén Senior

original_title: Räkä ja Roiskis

title: Eros and Psyche

overview: This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing.

character: Tarjoilija

original_title: Eros ja Psykhe

title: Sauna

overview: It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.

character: Old Woman

original_title: Sauna

title: Le Havre

overview: In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.

character: Arletty

original_title: Le Havre

original_language: fr

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

overview: Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

character: Tatjana

original_title: Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana

title: Where Is Where?

overview: Where is Where? is an experimental film that quarters the screen in order to have four different scenes play simultaneously. It's a meditation on the Algerian war that culminates in a brutal killing.

character: Poet

original_title: Missä on missä?

title: The Annunciation

overview: This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played by Aki Kaurismäki’s signature actress Kati Outinen), in the process discovering the parallel worlds of humans and animals, and the proximity of the ordinary to the miraculous.

character: Director

original_title: Marian Ilmestys

title: Aikalainen

overview: A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

original_title: Aikalainen

title: Dirty Hands

overview: A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc.  Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

character: Jessica Barine

original_title: Likaiset kädet

title: August Fools

overview: An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.

character: Elsa Aho

title: Täältä tullaan, elämä!

overview: In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

overview: Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

title: Päivää, herra Kivi

overview: Eccentric small town librarian Helinä struggles between everyday life and her love for the theatre, directing amateurs for a play by the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi. She still carries the torch for her teenage sweetheart Leo, now a married chimney sweeper but still an aspiring playwright, despite his wife's opinions. Helinä thinks Leo is Aleksis Kivi, and so does Leo himself. Discouraged by the society, they end up in a mental institution but finally manage to stage an outdoor premiere of the play.

title: Clownwise

overview: Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years. Max is battling colon cancer, Viktor's wife is losing a battle to Alzheimer's, and Oskar, who's never been the best dad, is trying to rescue his daughter from an abusive relationship. The good old days are gone indeed. Despite their situations, each one still tries to maintain a sense of humor. They look fondly on the days when they were slapstick superstars. However, when it comes to the issues that led to their career demise, they just can't seem to let their anger go. As they hesitantly agree to a reunion, they begin to find that the only way back to the top is through forgiveness.

title: Playa del Futuro

overview: Den Traum vom Lebensabend im sonnigen Spanien haben sich inzwischen immer mehr Deutsche erfüllt. Die iberische Halbinsel wird bei Aussteigern immer beliebter. Eher zufällig kommt in Peter Lichtefelds „Playa Del Futuro“, seinem erst zweiten Projekt in Spielfilmlänge, der Protagonist mit diesem Lebensziel in Berührung, denn eigentlich ist er nur auf der Suche nach einem besseren Job und seiner großen Liebe.

title: Kaikki pelissä

overview: A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.

title: Kyllä isä osaa

overview: The years have passed and the children have flown from the nest to the world... except they haven't. On the contrary. Jonna and Junnu have been lured back home, with the addition of Jonna's child, by a house that will soon be empty. The parents, who are of retirement age, are about to move to Spain - as soon as the father can tell his employer that he is quitting his job as a taxi driver. But the father's plans are changed when his boss buys his taxi company a new vehicle, a luxury Mercedes with all the bells and whistles. His pension, Spain, wife and common sense all vanish as he is left with one obsessive goal: to get behind the wheel of his coveted Mercedes one single time. Eventually his dream comes true, but at a cost. The father discovers he has put the whole family in such dire straits that the only way out is to steal the dead man's briefcase.

title: Train Birds

overview: Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.

title: Spy Games

overview: CIA Agent Harry Howe and SVR Agent Natasha Scriabina team up to save the world, their lives and secret love in post Cold War Helsinki.

title: Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

overview: A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.

title: Dark Crimes

overview: Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.

title: Freakin' Beautiful World

overview: The Helsinki-based teenagers Ippe, Papu and Mia have become entangled in drug circles. Their problems get even worse when violent dealer Kalle starts blackmailing the indebted Ippe.

title: Juha

overview: A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

title: Avida

overview: The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.

title: The House of Branching Love

overview: The story recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.

title: The Other Side of Hope

overview: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who  has recently arrived in Finland.

title: The Hole in the Ground

overview: Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

title: A Man and a Woman

overview: Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.

title: Everything Outside

overview: When circumstances conspire to leave Louise, an established Quebec painter, and Ahmed, an aspiring Lebanese-Canadian actor, sharing a remote lake house, the tension rarely abates. Understandably, Louise resents her solitude being trespassed on, particularly by someone whose backstory is hardly airtight.

title: Naked Harbour

overview: In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way out of debt.

title: Play Rape

overview: A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene.

title: Backwood Philosopher

overview: Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

title: Force of Habit

overview: Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?

title: Aki Kaurismäki

overview: Aki Kaurismäki, the celebrated Finnish filmmaker behind The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2002) and landmark works including Ariel, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and Drifting Clouds, is the focus of AKI KAURISMÄKI, the latest release in the Cinema, of Our Time series. The younger half of Finland’s most prolific and irreverent filmmaking partnership, Kaurismäki, alongside his brother Mika Kaurismäki, was instrumental in shaping what became known as the New Finnish Cinema. Since 1981, he has directed twenty-two films, many of which are featured through excerpts in this documentary.

title: Guarded Secrets

overview: Irma arrives at her 18th birthday in a reform school.

title: The Wrestler

overview: An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

title: A Respectable Tragedy

overview: In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.

title: Defiant

overview: After losing her father, Vilma can't find her place in the life of her foster family. As a result of her struggles, Vilma ends up in a juvenile home, where she refuses to be subdued by the arbitrary and abusive staff who run it.

title: The Elf

overview: Siblings Lumi and Talvi are separated as children. In search of her sister, Lumi ends up in Elfland, where elves prepare Christmas presents for all the children of the world. The elves are initially suspicious of the human child who appears out of nowhere, but Pyry, an elf boy, welcomes Lumi with interest. Pyry is eager for new adventures and his friendship with Lumi looks like a chance for an exciting journey.

title: Raptures

overview: Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.

title: Nude, Descending...

overview: A renowned art forger is trying to finish his version of a Lichtenstein painting but he can’t find any peace. He is visited by his mother a once famous actress of the Nouvelle Vague, her former husband a destroyed auteur, a greedy art dealer, and his ex lover a down and out junkie.

title: Concerning Violence

overview: Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

title: Dogs Have No Hell

overview: A typically idiosyncratic mini-mystery about a middle-aged man who gets out of prison, sells his shares in a company and announces that he’s heading off to Siberia to get married. Central scene, in which he convinces a woman to come with him, takes place in a Finnish rockabilly club. The Hitchcockian pacing, as the man endeavours to make his train, supplies nice momentum, and wrap-up provides a satisfying revelation as to what’s actually afoot.

title: Juna

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: Shadows in Paradise

title: Popular Music

title: Lights in the Dusk

title: Family Stories Untold

title: The Home of Dark Butterflies

title: The Man Without a Past

title: Cheating Is Good for You

title: The Match Factory Girl

title: Drifting Clouds

title: Hamlet Goes Business

title: The Hullabaloos!

title: All the best from Saara

title: Prinsessa joka nukkui 100 vuotta

title: Hermit Crab

title: Eros and Psyche

title: Sauna

title: Le Havre

title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

title: Where Is Where?

title: The Annunciation

title: Aikalainen

title: Dirty Hands

title: August Fools

title: Täältä tullaan, elämä!

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: Päivää, herra Kivi

title: Clownwise

title: Playa del Futuro

title: Kaikki pelissä

title: Kyllä isä osaa

title: Train Birds

title: Spy Games

title: Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

title: Dark Crimes

title: Freakin' Beautiful World

title: Juha

title: Avida

title: The House of Branching Love

title: The Other Side of Hope

title: The Hole in the Ground

title: A Man and a Woman

title: Everything Outside

title: Naked Harbour

title: Play Rape

title: Backwood Philosopher

title: Force of Habit

title: Aki Kaurismäki

title: Guarded Secrets

title: The Wrestler

title: A Respectable Tragedy

title: Defiant

title: The Elf

title: Raptures

title: Nude, Descending...

title: Concerning Violence

title: Dogs Have No Hell

title: Juna


Michael Haneke

biography: Michael Haneke (born March 23, 1942) is a German-Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work. Besides working as filmmaker he also teaches directing at the Filmacademy Vienna. At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, his film The White Ribbon won the Palme d'Or for best film, and at the 67th Golden Globe Awards the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has made films in French, German and English.

Through the Night with...

overview:
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany.

The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit.

Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.

character: Self

original_name: Durch die Nacht mit …

original_language: de

German Film Award

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Romy Award

original_name: Romy

Bavarian Film Awards

original_name: Bayerischer Filmpreis

Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?

character: Himself

original_name: Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?

Kulturplatz

original_name: Kulturplatz

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

original_name: Gero von Boehm begegnet...

Kulturzeit

character: self

original_name: Kulturzeit

origin_country: DE AT CH

Bergman's Video

overview: In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (Released in 2013, edited and abridged, as Trespassing Bergman.)

character: Self - Filmmaker

original_name: Bergmans video

Lemmings

job: Writer

overview: This two-part drama examines the fate of the generation of Austrians which came of age after World War II. The first part, "Arcadia," depicts the generational gap between 1950s teenagers and their parents, while the second part, "Injuries," shows this same group of characters twenty years later as they have grown up to become dysfunctional and suicidal adults. Regarded as the most significant of Michael Haneke’s early works, "Lemmings" contains incipient treatments of many of the themes he would later elaborate on in his theatrical features.

department: Writing

original_name: Lemminge

job: Director

department: Directing

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

Lemmings

job: Creator

department: Creator

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Michael Haneke

biography: Michael Haneke (* 23. März 1942 in München) ist ein österreichischer Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor. Seine Spielfilme (Die Klavierspielerin, Caché, Das weiße Band, Liebe) wurden vielfach preisgekrönt, unter anderem mit dem Oscar, zwei Goldenen Palmen der Filmfestspiele von Cannes, zwei Golden Globes und mehreren Europäischen Filmpreisen.

Français

biography:
Michael Haneke  est un réalisateur et scénariste autrichien né le 23 mars 1942 à Munich.

Après avoir travaillé pour le théâtre et à la télévision, Michael Haneke se fait connaître comme cinéaste au cours des années 1990. Ses mises en scène explorent une généalogie du mal ordinaire dans nos sociétés, que ce soit par la culture télévisuelle (Benny's Video), le racisme et l'histoire refoulée (Caché), l'incommunicabilité (Code inconnu), la pression socio-familiale et la névrose sexuelle (La Pianiste), les diktats de la société de consommation (Le Septième Continent), les dogmes religieux (Le Ruban blanc), ou encore la vieillesse et la dégradation tant psychologique que physique (Amour). Une partie de la critique le classe dans la «cinéphilosophie».

Haneke ouvre une expérience de spectateur traumatique dans la dureté des scènes exposées ou la manifestation d'une brutalité insoutenable, généralement hors-champ. Ses films ont souvent divisé la presse et le public.

Onze de ses longs métrages ont été sélectionnés au Festival de Cannes, d'abord à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs, puis à partir de Funny Games, en compétition. À Cannes, Haneke a gagné de nombreuses récompenses: le Grand Prix, le Prix de la mise en scène, et la Palme d'or à deux reprises, pour Le Ruban blanc en 2009 puis pour Amour en 2012. Il fait partie des huit réalisateurs à être doublement palmés avec Francis Ford Coppola, Shōhei Imamura, Emir Kusturica, Bille August, les frères Dardenne et Ken Loach.

Par ailleurs, Amour lui vaut plusieurs prix, en 2012 et 2013, qu'aucun cinéaste n'avait obtenus pour un même film: la palme cannoise, le Golden Globe, le BAFTA et l'Oscar du meilleur film étranger ainsi que l'European Award et le César du meilleur film. ...

Source: Article "Michael Haneke" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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普通话

迈克尔·哈内克

biography: 迈克尔·哈内克，奥地利电影导演，生于德国慕尼黑。迈克尔·哈内克的作品可分为奥地利时期跟法国时期，以社会议题而闻名于世。他的法国时期有两部作品获得大奖：2001年的《钢琴教师》为他拿下2001年戛纳国际电影节的评审团大奖（以及双料最佳男、女演员），2005年的《隐藏摄影机》再夺下2005年戛纳国际电影节的最佳导演，并在2005年的欧洲电影奖拿下最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳男演员（Daniel Auteuil）、最佳剪接等等奖项。2009年以《白丝带》在第62届戛纳国际电影节上获得金棕榈奖。2012年他以《爱》再度斩获第65届戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，也是三年内第二度获得该奖，成为史上第7位获得两次金棕榈奖的导演。

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Português

biography: Michael Haneke (nascido em 23 de março de 1942) é um cineasta e escritor alemão-austríaco mais conhecido por seu estilo sombrio e perturbador. Seus filmes muitas vezes documentam problemas e fracassos na sociedade moderna. Haneke trabalhou na televisão, teatro e cinema. Ele também é conhecido por levantar questões sociais em seu trabalho. Além de trabalhar como cineasta, ele também ensina direção na Filmacademy Vienna. No Festival de Cinema de Cannes de 2009, seu filme A Fita Branca ganhou a Palma de Ouro de melhor filme, e no 67º Golden Globe Awards o filme ganhou o Golden Globe Award de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro. Ele fez filmes em francês, alemão e inglês.

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Español

biography: Anna, su marido George y su hijo de diez años se van a descansar a su residencia de vacaciones situada al lado de un lago. Nada más llegar, aparecen dos jóvenes aparentemente muy educados que dicen ser amigos de los vecinos y que les piden unos huevos. Remake norteamericano de la película homónima de Haneke, de 1997.

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english_name: Spanish

Deutsch

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普通话

米高·漢尼卡

biography: 邁克爾·哈內克，奧地利電影導演，生於德國慕尼黑。邁克爾·哈內克的作品可分為奧地利時期跟法國時期，以社會議題而聞名於世。他的法國時期有兩部作品獲得大獎：2001 年的《鋼琴教師》為他拿下 2001 年戛納國際電影節的評審團大獎（以及雙料最佳男、女演員），2005 年的《隱藏攝影機》再奪下 2005 年戛納國際電影節的最佳導演，並在 2005 年的歐洲電影獎拿下最佳影片、最佳導演、最佳男演員（Daniel Auteuil）、最佳剪接等等獎項。2009 年以《白色緞帶》在第 62 屆戛納國際電影節上獲得金棕櫚獎。2012 年他以《愛在太空》再度斬獲第 65 屆戛納電影節金棕櫚獎，也是三年內第二度獲得該獎，成為史上第 7 位獲得兩次金棕櫚獎的導演。

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Український

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english_name: Ukrainian

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english_name: Armenian

العربية

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english_name: Arabic

Azərbaycan

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english_name: Azerbaijani

беларуская мова

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english_name: Belarusian

български език

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english_name: Bulgarian

普通话

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ქართული

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english_name: Georgian

ελληνικά

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日本語

ミヒャエル・ハネケ

biography: 俳優で映画監督の父と女優の母のもとドイツ・ミュンヘンに生まれ、オーストリア・ウィーン近郊で育つ。ウィーン大学卒業後、映画評論家や舞台演出家を経て、67年からTV局で脚本家として働く。70年からフリーランスでTVドラマを監督、89年「セブンス・コンチネント」（日本劇場未公開）で長編映画監督デビューを果たす。「ファニーゲーム」（97）をはじめ多くの作品がカンヌ国際映画祭に出品され、「ピアニスト」（01）で審査員特別グランプリ、「隠された記憶」（05）で監督賞、「白いリボン」（09）と「愛、アムール」（12）で最高賞パルムドールを受賞している。「愛、アムール」は第85回アカデミー賞で外国語映画賞を受賞、作品賞と監督賞にもノミネートされた。08年には「ファニーゲーム」を「ファニーゲームU.S.A.」としてアメリカでセルフリメイクした。

also_known_as:
미카엘 하네케
迈克尔·哈内克
마이클 하네케
邁克爾·哈內克

title: Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

overview:
This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously.
 The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as well as shots of landscapes that served as a source of inspiration and locations that have produced important Austrian films since the end of the 19th century.

title: The Legend of the Ugly King

overview: Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.

title: Trintignant by Trintignant

overview: A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.

title: Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis

title: Code Haneke

overview: Features interviews with two-time Palme d'Or winner Michael Haneke and his key collaborators, alongside excerpts from his films.

title: 24 Realities per Second

overview: A portrait of a dedicated filmmaker who is a charming yet elusive figure in thrall to cinema and the constant perfection of his craft.

title: Michael H. – Profession: Director

overview: Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figure in modern cinema whose rigorous focus on the craft of filmmaking has produced works of profound artistry. This career-spanning documentary gives unprecedented access and covers the body of Haneke’s work, offering insight into his creative process through on-set footage and interviews with the man himself and collaborators including Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche.

title: Making of Happy End

title: 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

overview: A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

title: My Life - Michael Haneke

overview: His new film "The White Ribbon" received the Palme d'or at Cannes this year. Felix and Gero von Boehm have accompanied the German and French film director for several months and were able for the first time watch him exclusively in work and in private. An interesting insight into one of the worlds most notable modern directors.

title: French Cinema Mon Amour

overview: French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.

title: Charm's Incidents

overview: Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.

title: Inthierryview

title: Filming Haneke

overview: A making-of documentary featuring interviews with director Michael Haneke, actor Juliette Binoche, and producer Marin Karmitz, as well as on-set footage of cast and crew of "Code Unknown".

title: Trespassing Bergman

overview: In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

title: Face 'Caché'

overview: A documentary on the shooting of Michael Haneke's movie 'Hidden' (Caché). Including interviews with Michael Haneke, Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil.

title: Making of Amour

title: Così fan tutte

overview: Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a “disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretation”.

title: Code Unknown

overview: A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

title: Michael Haneke Interview

overview: An interview with Michael Haneke on his Glaciation Trilogy. Included as a bonus in the DVD containing the films.

title: Die Jahrhundertfrau - Elisabeth Heller

title: Caché

overview: George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

title: Caché

title: The Piano Teacher

overview: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

title: The Piano Teacher

title: Benny's Video

overview: A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.

title: Benny's Video

title: Funny Games

overview: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

title: Funny Games

title: Code Unknown

title: Code Unknown

title: Funny Games

overview: When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

title: Funny Games

title: Time of the Wolf

overview: A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.

title: Time of the Wolf

title: The Seventh Continent

overview: Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.

title: The Seventh Continent

title: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

overview: 71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.

original_title: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls

title: The Castle

overview: When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.

title: The Castle

title: The White Ribbon

overview: An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

original_title: Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte

title: The White Ribbon

title: The White Ribbon

title: Lumière & Company

overview: 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

title: Amour

overview: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

title: The Rebellion

overview: The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death he recognizes that he was always too decent and too obedient.

title: Variation

overview: The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.

original_title: Variation - oder Daß es Utopien gibt, weiß ich selber!

title: Three Paths to the Lake

overview: Elisabeth, a fifty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.

title: Fraulein

overview: A German woman and a former French prisoner of war live in 1950s Germany. Instead of playing a role in rebuilding her country, the heroine remains preoccupied with her personal affairs.

title: Who Was Edgar Allan?

overview: A nihilistic art student meets the mysterious Edgar Allan at a coffee shop in Venice. The fascination for the older man soon turns into paranoia.

title: Who Was Edgar Allan?

title: The Moor's Head

overview: Georg, who is happy with his job as a scientist, with his loving wife and with his three children, hears one day that an accident has happened in a chemical plant nearby. All of a sudden, he finds himself face to face with one of the victims. The man, whose face has been eaten away by the sour gas that escaped from the plant, is staring at him in despair. Does Georg really see the man or is this a mere hallucination? Is he becoming insane or is he more alert to the dangers of the world than the common man?

title: Happy End

overview: A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

title: Happy End

title: Three Paths to the Lake

title: After Liverpool

overview: An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.

title: After Liverpool

title: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

title: Dirt

overview: Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness,  is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing his sense of reality.

title: Obituary for a Murderer

overview: Autumn 1990, a young Austrian goes to a party held by some of his friends and provokes a hideous bloodbath. As a reflection of daily reality and its crass representation of the horror of this extreme crime, Michael Haneke has composed an experimental collage of material gathered from one day of ORF (Austrian TV) broadcasting, using each part in proportion to the time allocated to it in the programme schedule.

title: Obituary for a Murderer

title: The Rebellion

title: Variation

title: Fraulein

title: Goodnight Mommy

overview: In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return.  When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

title: Così fan tutte

title: Trash

title: Protect You + Me

overview: A reminder of a long-forgotten event, combined with a challenging situation, provokes a man to extreme action.

title: Amour

title: Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

title: The Legend of the Ugly King

title: Trintignant by Trintignant

title: Code Haneke

title: 24 Realities per Second

title: Michael H. – Profession: Director

title: Making of Happy End

title: My Life - Michael Haneke

title: French Cinema Mon Amour

title: Charm's Incidents

title: Inthierryview

title: Filming Haneke

title: Trespassing Bergman

title: Face 'Caché'

title: Making of Amour

title: Così fan tutte

title: Code Unknown

title: Michael Haneke Interview

title: Die Jahrhundertfrau - Elisabeth Heller

title: Caché

title: Caché

title: The Piano Teacher

title: The Piano Teacher

title: Benny's Video

title: Benny's Video

title: Funny Games

title: Funny Games

title: Code Unknown

title: Code Unknown

title: Funny Games

title: Funny Games

title: Time of the Wolf

title: Time of the Wolf

title: The Seventh Continent

title: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

title: The Seventh Continent

title: The Castle

title: The Castle

title: The White Ribbon

title: The White Ribbon

title: The White Ribbon

title: Lumière & Company

title: Amour

title: The Rebellion

title: Variation

title: Three Paths to the Lake

title: Fraulein

title: Who Was Edgar Allan?

title: Who Was Edgar Allan?

title: The Moor's Head

title: Happy End

title: Happy End

title: Three Paths to the Lake

title: After Liverpool

title: After Liverpool

title: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

title: Obituary for a Murderer

title: Fraulein

title: Obituary for a Murderer

title: Variation

title: Dirt

title: The Rebellion

title: Goodnight Mommy

title: Così fan tutte

title: Trash

title: Protect You + Me

title: Amour


Roland Emmerich

biography: Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer who is known for his work on disaster and action flicks. He made a name for himself with The Noah's Ark Principle (1981) and co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his sister.  Besides his work in the entertainment industry, he is a collector of art and an active campaigner for the LGBT community, global warming awareness and equal rights.

Die Harald Schmidt Show

overview: The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.

original_name: Die Harald Schmidt Show

Circus Halligalli

overview: A late night talk show, hosted by Joko and Klaas.

original_name: Circus Halligalli

Wetten, dass..?

overview: A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.

original_name: Wetten, dass..?

La Californie !

overview: From the 1950s to the present day, from Los Angeles to San Francisco via Berkeley University or Silicon Valley, this three-part documentary series unfolds the recent history of California, which is revolutionizing the world by its way of life and its incredible capacity for innovation.

character: Self - Director

original_name: La Californie !

Leute heute

original_name: Leute heute

Goldene Kamera

original_name: Goldene Kamera

Bambi

overview: The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

original_name: Bambi

The Real History of Science Fiction

overview: The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact on cinema, television and literature, with the help of filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists. Each episode will explore one of the enduring themes of science fiction: time travel; the exploration of space; robots and artificial intelligence; and aliens.

original_name: The Real History of Science Fiction

original_language: en

Morgenmagazin

original_name: Morgenmagazin

Those About to Die

job: Executive Producer

overview: Within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, follow an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.

department: Production

original_name: Those About to Die

twitter_id: rolandemmerich

instagram_id: rolandemmerich

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

한국어/조선말

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Français

biography: Roland Emmerich est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur allemand connu pour son travail sur les films catastrophes et d'action. Il s'est fait connaître avec The Noah's Ark Principle (1981) et a cofondé Centropolis Entertainment en 1985 avec sa sœur. En plus de son travail dans l'industrie du divertissement, il est un collectionneur d'art et un militant actif pour la communauté LGBT, la sensibilisation au réchauffement climatique et l'égalité des droits.

Deutsch

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iso_3166_1: DE

普通话

罗兰·艾默里奇

biography: 罗兰·艾默里奇 （Roland Emmerich） 是一位德国电影导演、编剧和制片人，以其灾难和动作片而闻名。他凭借《诺亚方舟原则》（1981 年）一举成名，并于 1985 年与妹妹共同创立了 Centropolis Entertainment。除了在娱乐业工作外，他还是一位艺术收藏家，也是 LGBT 社区、全球变暖意识和平等权利的积极活动家。

العربية

رولان إيميريش

biography: مخرِج سينمائي وكاتب سيناريو ألماني

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

普通话

羅蘭·艾默里奇

biography: 羅蘭·艾默里奇 （Roland Emmerich） 是一位德國電影導演、編劇和製片人，以其災難和動作片而聞名。他憑藉《諾亞方舟原則》（1981 年）一舉成名，並於 1985 年與妹妹共同創立了 Centropolis Entertainment。除了在娛樂業工作外，他還是一位藝術收藏家，也是 LGBT 社區、全球變暖意識和平等權利的積極活動家。

日本語

iso_3166_1: JP

also_known_as:
롤랜드 에머리히
Roland Emmerich
رولان إيميريش

title: Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung

overview: Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

original_title: Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung

title: 2012 Startling New Secrets

overview: Massive earthquakes. Giant tidal waves. Super volcanoes exploding. Raging firestorms. These are just a few visions of a global apocalypse that some say will happen on December 21, 2012. That's when the eerily accurate Mayan calendar will come to a sudden end. That ancient calendar is causing a modern day panic. People around the world fear that our planet faces a catastrophe never seen before in human history.

original_title: 2012 Startling New Secrets

title: The Shakespeare Enigma

overview: High-budget re-enactments and shooting on original locations sketch an image of the golden age of Elizabethan theater. And scholars from various fields weigh in on the nagging question of whether or not Shakespeare authored the plays for which he receives the credit.

original_title: Das Shakespeare Rätsel

title: The Men of Midway

overview: Meet the dazzling line-up of male stars who bring Midway to life. Nick Jonas, Ed Skrein, Aaron Eckhart, Patrick Wilson, Darren Criss, Dennis Quaid, Woody Harrelson and their collaborators reveal the preparation and hard work required to play the sailors who put their lives on the line to win the War of the Pacific

original_title: The Men of Midway

title: Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission

overview: Discover the man behind the movie, director Roland Emmerich, whose unflagging energy and relentless pursuit of perfection inspired the entire creative team behind Midway.

original_title: Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission

title: Verlieben vielleicht

overview: The film tells the story of a young guy who stops off in Munich in search of happiness, a steady relationship and fulfilling dreams. First he picks up two old acquaintances to go on a drinking spree through pubs and bars. The good old days of carefree life in the past are to be brought back to life for one more night. The handicap: the guy is broke. His friends generously step in. Already slightly drunk, our "hero" meets a relative whom he wants to hit up for money, but is knocked out by him in the pub's toilet. The broken lip was worth it in the end. He is a thousand marks richer. Enough to continue his drinking spree, but also enough to use the money to seek his fortune in the land of opportunity. His friends' reservations about the spontaneous venture are swept aside without further thought. Why worry? Happiness lies in the street, maybe I'll make the big bucks and (or) fall in love. At the end of the movie, we see him where we expected him to be: Munich-Riem Airport.

character: Robert

original_title: Verlieben vielleicht

title: Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth

overview: Gives insight into the creators mindset and how they culled from real life events to create some of the biggest sci-fi films of all time.

original_title: Science-fiction et paranoïa: La culture de la peur aux Etats-Unis

title: Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'

overview: Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage

original_title: Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'

title: Stargate: History Made

overview: Divided into three segments,  "Deciphering the Gate: Concepts and Casting" (7:50), "Opening the Gate: The Making of Stargate" (10:11) and "Passing Through the Gate: The Legacy" (4:29), the shows look at the film's origins and development, cast and performances, locations and effects, visual and set design, the use of the Egyptian language, and the movie's success/legacy.

original_title: Stargate: History Made

title: Der Bernd

original_title: Der Bernd

title: The 120 Days of Bottrop

overview: An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

title: Godzilla, King of the Monsters

overview: Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun Fukuda, the wide of the late Ishiro Honda and Alex Cox. This documentary incorporates footage from rare shows like "Ultra Q" and films like "King Kong Escapes".

title: 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

overview: This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmerich.)

original_title: 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

title: The Patriot: The Art of War

overview: A 10 minute featurette that details thoughts from the cast and crew about the reality of the battles shown in the film and also, how these scenes were filmed. It makes for moderately interesting viewing, especially hearing about some of the details, such as the massive amount of extras and equipment needed.

title: Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

overview: A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which are a spoof news report of the events of the film. The middle bit is a discussion of the film by cast and crew, and at the end various scientists and politicians discuss what would happen if real aliens arrive on Earth.

title: Independence Day: Creating Reality

overview: A look into the making of the state of the art special effects for the film Independence Day (1996). This crew spent a long time creating these 400 plus effects shots, and ended up winning an Academy Award for their work. Very interesting to see how hard these people worked in order to make the battles etc. seem so realistic.

title: The Making of 'Independence Day'

overview: We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-off name of Area 51). He pretends to creep around and give us "secret" information about the film. There is also interviews with the cast and crew, and some other behind the scenes stuff that is only there to impress you, and to make you want to go see the film.

title: Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of 'Universal Soldier'

overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of "Universal Soldier" (1992). Produced for the "Universal Soldier" DVD.

original_title: Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of 'Universal Soldier'

title: The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

overview: A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

original_title: The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

title: Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies

overview: Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of the most thrilling scenes the disaster genre has ever produced. From 1970s classics such as Airport and The Towering Inferno to James Cameron's Oscar-winning epic Titanic, no celluloid disaster flick is omitted. Interviews with directors and actors (including Will Smith) and newsreels of real historical disasters are also included.

original_title: Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies

title: The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'

overview: The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of Star Wars is a Video Documentary included in the 2004 DVD of the Star Wars Original Trilogy. It explained the impact of "Star Wars" on various directors and actors.

original_title: The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'

title: Roland Emmerich - Weltenzerstörer, Weltenerbauer

overview: Roland Emmerich himself and many of his companions provide insights into his life. With films such as Independence Day, 2012, and The Day After Tomorrow, he probably became the most successful director of disaster movies. But there were also failures.

original_title: Roland Emmerich - Weltenzerstörer, Weltenerbauer

title: Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich

overview: A documentary about Roland Emmerich, the most commercially successful German director in Hollywood, released on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It offers rare insights into his professional career and private life, covering his rise as a blockbuster filmmaker, his personal relationships, family background, and life in the US and Europe. The film also looks back at his early work, including his 1984 directorial debut The Noah’s Ark Principle, and reflects on themes such as dreams, identity, politics, and the rules of the film industry.

original_title: Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich

title: Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien

title: Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of "Universal Soldier"

overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of the film "Universal Soldier" (1992). Produced for the "Universal Soldier" DVD.

original_title: Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of "Universal Soldier"

title: The Day After Tomorrow

overview: After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: The Thirteenth Floor

overview: In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

title: Independence Day

overview: Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

title: Independence Day

title: Trade

overview: A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

title: Godzilla

overview: French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

title: Godzilla

title: Godzilla

title: The High Crusade

overview: A Monty Pythonesque tale of a band of Crusaders who find themselves in possession of an alien ship and the alien to pilot it. Armed with the means to conquer the Holy Land, the naive Crusaders set off on a grand crusade, only to find themselves not in Jerusalem, but at the mercy of an entire alien world.

title: Moon 44

overview: Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.

title: Moon 44

title: The Patriot

overview: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

title: Stargate

overview: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

title: Stargate

title: The Noah's Ark Principle

overview: The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.

title: Making Contact

overview: A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is good for Joey as his newly gained powers accidentally awake an evil supernatural force that is contained inside the body of an old ventriloquist's dummy that Joey found in an abandoned house. The supernatural Dummy shows similar powers to Joey's, and soon he puts the lives of everyone near Joey in danger as the evil Dummy has dark plans for Joey's special powers.

title: Making Contact

title: 10,000 BC

overview: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

title: 10,000 BC

title: 10,000 BC

title: Universal Soldier

overview: An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.

title: Eight Legged Freaks

overview: The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.

title: 2012

overview: Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.

title: 2012

title: 2012

title: Anonymous

overview: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

title: The Magic Flute

overview: A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute".

original_title: The Magic Flute - Das Vermächtnis der Zauberflöte

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

overview: We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

title: Ghost Chase

overview: In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an alien and persuades the two filmmakers to track down an old house that will resolve a family scandal.

title: Ghost Chase

title: Ghost Chase

title: Last Will. & Testament

overview: It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an impressive cast on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author and discovers a forgotten nobleman whose story could rewrite history.

title: White House Down

overview: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

title: The Colony

overview: In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.

title: Stonewall

overview: Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Stonewall

title: The Patriot

title: Maya Lord

overview: The story of 16th century Spaniard, Gonzalo Guerrero, who was held captive by a Mayan tribe and eventually converts to their ways and beliefs and fights for them against the Spanish.

title: Moonfall

overview: A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

title: Moon 44

title: Maya Lord

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Moonfall

title: Moonfall

title: Franzmann

overview: Germany, 1937. Paul v. Kammer has lived with his grandfather in Germany for ten years. He has just finished school and faces a difficult decision: his mother, who is French, urges him to leave Germany and start university in France; his grandfather, on the other hand, demands that he enter into the family business, which would also mean conscription for Paul. Only one day left to make his decision. Paul meets his friend Max. A decisive day. Two friends and a girl in the summer of 1937.

title: Hell

overview: In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

title: Franzmann

title: Smash - Gefahr aus der Unendlichkeit

overview: 1984: Scientists and a group of cultists discover intelligent beings in space. The initial effects of their alien biological order are terrible. The doctors are at a loss. But despite increased security measures, life still goes on. "Beings from another star? - That's ridiculous!" The show must go on. Two attractive young girls rehearse a dance for a commercial, but the recording equipment goes on strike. Filming is finished. Full of optimism for their future, the girls travel to a theater director's hotel. However: "Mr. Goldwine has been missing for three days. Only his luggage is still here." Tina, who painfully remembers her last love, is brought to her senses by the cool, blonde Doris. Now it's time to take a deep breath. Strangely, the flowers in the window box have withered. Fluorescent stones glitter instead and are picked up hypnotized. The UFOS break through the earth's atmosphere. People are carried off by rays of aggression.

title: Anonymous

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: Midway

overview: The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

title: The Colony

title: Midway

title: Godzilla

title: Independence Day

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: Shirley Adams

overview: Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. Shirley has no money, no job and no husband - he left. The shooter is one of Donovan's childhood friends. Her reaction to the betrayal is so overwhelming that she chooses not to tell Donovan in fear of further damaging his already unstable emotional state. Determined to make a change in their lives, Shirley actively decides to embrace their new circumstances, hoping that Donovan will follow her example.

title: The Noah's Ark Principle

title: Godzilla: The Series - Monster War

overview: These three episodes from the animated series featuring the beloved lizard of lore explore the Monster Wars, a bitter fight for supremacy among Godzilla and foes such as the amped-up Cyber Godzilla, the water dinosaur Cryptocledius and a Giant Bat.

title: Max und Sandy

overview: This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. The actors are amateurs who find themselves in a similar situation in their private lives.

place_of_birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

title: 2012 Startling New Secrets

title: The Shakespeare Enigma

title: The Men of Midway

title: Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission

title: Verlieben vielleicht

title: Stargate: History Made

title: Der Bernd

title: The 120 Days of Bottrop

title: Godzilla, King of the Monsters

title: The Patriot: The Art of War

title: Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

title: Independence Day: Creating Reality

title: The Making of 'Independence Day'

title: Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: The Thirteenth Floor

title: Independence Day

title: Independence Day

title: Trade

title: Godzilla

title: Godzilla

title: Godzilla

title: The High Crusade

title: Moon 44

title: Moon 44

title: The Patriot

title: Stargate

title: Stargate

title: The Noah's Ark Principle

title: Making Contact

title: Making Contact

title: 10,000 BC

title: 10,000 BC

title: 10,000 BC

title: Universal Soldier

title: Eight Legged Freaks

title: 2012

title: 2012

title: 2012

title: Anonymous

title: The Magic Flute

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Ghost Chase

title: Ghost Chase

title: Ghost Chase

title: Last Will. & Testament

title: White House Down

title: The Colony

title: Stonewall

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Stonewall

title: The Patriot

title: Maya Lord

title: Moonfall

title: Moon 44

title: Maya Lord

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: Moonfall

title: Moonfall

title: Franzmann

title: Hell

title: Franzmann

title: Smash - Gefahr aus der Unendlichkeit

title: Anonymous

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: Midway

title: The Colony

title: Midway

title: Godzilla

title: Independence Day

title: Independence Day: Resurgence

title: The Day After Tomorrow

title: Shirley Adams

title: The Noah's Ark Principle

title: Godzilla: The Series - Monster War

title: Max und Sandy


Mike Reiss

biography:
Michael "Mike" Reiss (born September 15, 1959) is an American television comedy writer. He served as a runner, writer, and producer on the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic. He created and wrote the online cartoon Queer Duck and also worked on screenplays that include: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who!, The Simpsons Movie, and My Life in Ruins!.

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The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

overview: The story of legendary comedian Garry Shandling, featuring interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video footage.

original_name: The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

Teen Angel

overview: When Marty DePolo dies after eating a six-month-old hamburger, he is chosen to be his best friend's guardian angel.

original_name: Teen Angel

Sledge Hammer!

overview: Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.

original_name: Sledge Hammer!

Charles in Charge

overview: Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.

original_name: Charles in Charge

The Critic

overview: Jay Sherman is a TV movie critic who is forced to review the most pathetic films which he always rates as "It stinks." In addition to the film parodies, the show also deals with his personal life: working for a tyrannical media mogul boss, his lovelife and his family.

original_name: The Critic

job: Producer

Not Necessarily the News

overview: Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.

original_name: Not Necessarily the News

The Simpsons

overview: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

original_name: The Simpsons

The PJs

overview: Thurgood Stubbs lives with his wife, Muriel, in the Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs housing project, where he is the superintendent. This animated comedy follows the adventures of the Subbs and their friends, while taking a satirical view of the ups and downs of life in a big-city housing project.

original_name: The PJs

The Simpsons

job: Supervising Producer

job: Co-Producer

ALF

overview: A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

original_name: ALF

Command Z

job: Thanks

overview: A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.

department: Crew

original_name: Command Z

Hard Drinkin' Lincoln

overview: An animated series produced by Mike Reiss for Icebox.TV, this show centers around an alcoholic Abraham Lincoln.

original_name: Hard Drinkin' Lincoln

It's Garry Shandling's Show

overview: Garry Shandling stars as himself, a neurotic, sardonic stand-up comedian who just happens to be aware he is a sitcom character. Garry spends just as much time interacting with the studio audience as he does the regular cast members, performing monologues and show-closing summations of the episode's events. However, everyone knows they're on TV, not just Garry; and the audience (itself a character) is often involved in the storyline.

original_name: It's Garry Shandling's Show

Queer Duck

overview:
Queer Duck is an animated series produced by Mondo that originally appeared on Icebox.com and later moved to the American cable television channel Showtime in 2002, where it aired as a follow-up feature of the American version of Queer as Folk. Although far from being the first gay cartoon character, Queer Duck was the first animated TV series to have homosexuality as its predominant theme. Like several later television cartoons, Queer Duck was animated in Macromedia Flash.

The show was created, written and executive produced by Mike Reiss, executive producer of network cartoons The Simpsons and The Critic. The animation was directed and designed by Xeth Feinberg. The theme song for the cartoon was performed by the drag-queen celebrity, RuPaul.

Despite the suggestive content, there is no graphic language or any sexual content, but the latter is heavily implied throughout the series and the movie.

original_name: Queer Duck

Français

iso_3166_1: FR

普通话

iso_3166_1: CN

title: The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!

overview: The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! is a documentary special that examined the "cultural phenomenon" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

title: The Simpsons Movie

overview: After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

title: Surviving Sid

overview: Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time.

title: My Life in Ruins

overview: A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.

title: Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

overview: This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.

title: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

overview: When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

overview: One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa's shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.

title: Queer Duck: The Movie

overview: Queer Duck and his partner of 18 months (a lifetime in gay years), Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator, hit a relationship crisis when the fey fowl is wooed by a brassy Broadway broad. Queer Duck wonders if he'd be happier being straight, while Gator the waiter spills his problems to a compassionate Conan O'Brien.

title: Queer Duck: The Movie

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

overview: Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

overview: The residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.

title: Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

overview: You may think you know the history of continental drift, but forget all that. In pursuit of his most sought after possession, Scrat manges to singled-handedly alter the course of Earth’s history.

title: Airplane II: The Sequel

overview: A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

title: Rio

overview: Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.

title: The Simpsons Movie

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: Rio

title: Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition

overview: Homer and Marge's fun couples' date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs up a trilogy of fantasies of a different Homer.

title: The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders

overview: When a ruthless debt collector comes to Springfield, Homer and Ned's lives are sucked into the artfully violent world of prestige TV.

title: Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe

overview: Scrat struggles once again to protect his nut.

title: Robots

overview: Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

title: Ice Age: Continental Drift

overview: Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.

title: The Lorax

overview: A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

title: Despicable Me 2

overview: Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

title: Ice Age

overview: Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

title: The Simpsons Movie

title: Surviving Sid

title: My Life in Ruins

title: Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

title: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: Queer Duck: The Movie

title: Queer Duck: The Movie

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

title: Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

title: Airplane II: The Sequel

title: Rio

title: The Simpsons Movie

title: How Murray Saved Christmas

title: Rio

title: Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition

title: The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders

title: Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe

title: Robots

title: Ice Age: Continental Drift

title: The Lorax

title: Despicable Me 2

title: Ice Age