Gripsholm

a film by Xavier Koller

Based on the Kurt Tucholsky's novel Schloss Gripsholm and on his real life story, this beautifully produced feature film plunges the audience into the pleasure-craving, decadent world of Berlin cabaret at the beginning of the 1930s. Kurt Tucholsky, who was an important Jewish German intellectual, give us Kurt, a German-Jewish publisher, ironic author and, thanks to his risqué chanson lyrics, a celebrated star of the cabaret. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, in the summer of 1932, Kurt travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends, the seductive vaudeville singer Billie and the passionate fly-boy Karlchen. Nothing will ever be the same again.

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2000 | Switzerland, Germany, Austria | 100min. | Feature Film
Dialogue: German
Subtitles: English, Français

Festivals and Awards

29th Haifa International Film Festival, San Diego International Film Festival, Jewish Film Festival, Festival of Jewish Cinema, Boston Jewish Film Festival, International Flanders Film Festival, Festival do Rio, 54. Festival internazionale del film Locarno, Jerusalem Film Festival, Festival of Festivals IFF St. Petersburg, Festival des österreichischen Film, Solothurner Filmtage (Winner), Palm Springs International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival & Swiss Film Award, Best Fiction Film 2001 (Nomination) 

Cast
Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabai, Marcus Thomas, Rudolf Wessely, Horst Krause Horst Krause, Leif Liljeroth, Inger Nilsson