The drama “Das Lehrerzimmer” by Ilker Catak about a conflict in a school has been awarded the Golden Lola at the German Film Awards. The Film Academy announced the decision yesterday evening in Berlin.
Actress Leonie Benesch plays a teacher who wants to solve a series of thefts at her school with secret camera recordings. The Viennese Felix Kammerer (“Nothing new in the west”) received a Lola as best leading actor.
The favorite anti-war drama “Nothing New in the West” won the most awards with nine awards, including the Lola in silver. The Netflix production by director Edward Berger about the First World War is based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970).
The film had already won four Oscars in the US in March. In Berlin he was honored yesterday evening for music, camera work and sound design. The two actor awards also went to the film. In addition to Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch was also honored with a Lola for best supporting actor.
The award for the documentary went to “Elfriede Jelinek – Letting the language off the leash”. Green Party Secretary of State for Culture Andrea Mayer congratulated the Austrian winners today: “The fact that Austrian filmmaking once again plays an important role in the German Film Prize is further impressive proof of the ‘Austrian film miracle’,” she wrote.
