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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"Quite possibly, as time goes by, we tend to perceive the
'prison of nations', as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was called in those
days, as something like a prototype, albeit an imperfect one, for a
united Europe." Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk wanders through the landscapes of World War One in Eastern Europe.
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