2009 German Film Award Best Documentary “NOBODY’S PERFECT” to be released in US this winter.

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 14, 2009 under Documentary, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article

Winner of 2009 Lola (German Film Award for Best Documentary), and a contender for 2009 Academy Award selection for Best Documentary, “Nobody’s Perfect” will have its US theatrical release by Lorber Films in December 2009 / January 2010.

Filmmaker Niko von Glasow, whose short arms identify him as a grown-up “child of Thalidomide”, documents in this film his search for eleven other people affected by Thalidomide, to join him in posing naked for a book of photographs. With humour and a surprising lightness of touch, “Nobody’s Perfect” is a portrait of twelve extraordinary characters, from childhood to today. These are people who have gotten used to furtive glances from passers-by, but now they have to stand completely unprotected in front of a camera, and look at their own bodies in a new light.

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‘P.O.V.: Inheritance’ on PBS

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 18, 2008 under Documentary, Television | Comments are off for this article

The two principal characters of James Moll’s documentary “Inheritance,” which airs as part of “P.O.V.” on PBS tonight, occupy opposite sides of the historical dark story.

One of the women, Helen Jonas, survived the horrors of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland, while the other, Monika Hertwig, is the daughter of the man who inflicted many of them, Amon Goeth, who was hanged for war crimes in 1946.

Plaszow is the camp depicted in “Schindler’s List”; Goeth was the brutal, murderous commander portrayed by Ralph Fiennes.

Read the review by Mary McNamara, Television Critic, LA Times