Twenty-five years after his cult TV series, Kir Royal, director Helmut Dietl has now come released a sort of ?sequel? for the big screen. Zettl focuses on the high-flying career of a ruthless media man in Berlin. As satire, however, the frigid figures in Zettl fail to warm up to viewers. ...
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"Humankind will prevail because, in spite of the accidents of history,
the novel tells us that art restores the life in us that was
disregarded by the haste of history." Carlos Fuentes'
opening speech at the Fifth International Literature Festival Berlin pays tribute to Don Quixote and literature as a whole.
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