What’s that you say? You can hear a mournful klaxon howling in the distance? And now it’s turning into a sonar ping? That might be because someone has decided that Wolfgang Petersen’s legendary U-boat drama Das Boot is ripe for a remake. German studio Bavaria Film, which backed the original, has been raiding its archives and announced the plans for a new version of the tense film, talking to Blickpunkt about the idea, with Variety picking up the details.The original, for those who have never Read more [...]

Munich has been a film-industry center for about a century. Camera company Arri launched there in 1917, and Bavaria Film Studios was established in 1919, although its founder, Peter Ostermayr, had been making movies in the city for several years before. Alfred Hitchcock shot his first released feature there in 1925, and was followed by such leading filmmakers as Billy Wilder, John Huston and Stanley Kubrick.This Read more [...]

It looks like Hollywood isn't the only place where movies get remade. Germany's Bavaria Studios is planning a remake of Wolfgang Peterson's acclaimed 1981 anti-war movie DAS BOOT. The film has been released in several editions, most notably a three hour Director's Cut and a five hour television mini-series version. The film was nominated for Academy Awards and regularly ranks as one of the best German movies of all time. DAS BOOT starred Jrgen Prochnow, Herbert Grnemeyer and Klaus Wennemann and Read more [...]

The taut, compelling 1981 film Das Boot follows the crew of a German submarine during the Second World War, and will be remade by Bavaria Studios, the original producers. The original film was based on Lothar-Günther Buchheim's novel of the same name, based on the author's experiences on a German U-boat during the Second World War. Das Boot - The Boat - was one of the most expensive German films ever made and went on to be a major success Read more [...]

LONDON — German studio Bavaria Film is planning to remake Wolfgang Petersen’s 1982 classic “Das Boot,” according to German trade magazine Blickpunkt. The World War II German U-boat drama, which starred Juergen Prochnow, Herbert Groenemeyer and Klaus Wennemann, was nominated for six Academy Awards. It was later aired on television as a six-part miniseries. Christian Franckenstein, Bavaria’s co-CEO, Read more [...]

US President Barack Obama, UK PM David Cameron and other world leaders attending the G7 summit in Bavaria recently benefited from enhanced security, courtesy Cambridge communications world-leader Sepura. Sepura’s TETRA radios played a major part in securing the 41st G7 Summit, held in Schloss Elmau, Krün. Other world leaders attending were Canadian PM Stephen Harper, French president François Hollande, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM, Matteo Renzi, Japan’s Shinzo Abe plus Donald Read more [...]

Nikolaus Michelsen, GEKA GEKA, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of brushes, applicators and complete packaging systems for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, is the new owner of OEKA, an internationally active manufacturer of plastic and metal components. The merger will strengthen the global market position of the two regional companies from Franconia. “Our aim is to create a globally operating German champion specialized in the development and production of applicators Read more [...]

Call it Das re-Boot. Bavaria Studios, the German production company behind Wolfgang Petersen's anti-war film Das Boot are planning a remake of the 1981 Oscar-nominated classic. Bavaria boss Christian Franckenstein told German trade magazine Blickpunkt Film that Das Boot is one of several properties from its rights library the company is looking to relaunch.  Based on the novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, who was a war reporter stationed on an U-Boat during WWII, Das Boot is one of the most Read more [...]

Login / Register OR No Account? Register here. The Culture Files After a self-imposed exile in Florida, the painter and sculptor returns to L.A., where his meteoric rise began June 24, 2015 Ann Herold Art Add a comment The paintings and sculptures of Enrique Martínez Celaya have a brooding, wintry quality, as if the artist had toiled in Bavaria and not the temperate climes of Los Angeles. Solitary figures cry, leafless birch branches bristle, a canary sings from atop Read more [...]

Lufthansa now offers an exclusive Porsche experience by taking a Porsche 911 or Panamera for a spin through Munich, the sub-Alpine landscape or Lower Bavaria. “This is suitably complemented by the exclusive offer from Porsche, which turns the waiting period before take-off into a luxurious experience”, says Thomas Klühr, the Lufthansa Passage Executive Board member for Finances Munich Hub. Of course this is not for every Lufthansa passenger; the offer is for the wealthy Read more [...]