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GOETHE-KINO EVERY LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH From Wednesday, 28 January, we will have a new monthly slot for popular contemporary German cinema, outstanding TV productions, and film classics on every last Wednesday of the month. This is will be in addition to our other screenings. GOETHE-KINO: ÜBER-ICH UND DU / SUPEREGOS MON 28 JAN 2015, 7PM When small-time crook Nick Gutlich needs a hide-out, a stroke of luck lands him the job of chaperoning Curt Ledig, a renowned elderly psychologist left alone in a remote villa by his holidaying family. Soon Gutlich is secretly selling Ledig’s antiquarian books while Ledig is covertly analysing Gutlich’s head. The changing dynamics of this ‘mutually beneficial’ arrangement make for an unpredictable and charmingly erratic comedy. Director Benjamin Heisenberg (Sleeper / The Robber) created two truly eccentric protagonists, played with gleeful mischief by Georg Friedrich (Faust / Stereo) and André Wilms (Le Havre). / Austria / Germany / Switzerland 2014, colour, 94 mins. Director: Benjamin Heisenberg. Presented in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom. Followed by a drinks reception. http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13832373v.htm GOETHE-KINO: DIE VERMESSUNG DER WELT / MEASURING THE WORLD WED 25 FEB 2015, 7PM Adapted from Daniel Kehlmann’s international bestseller, the film tells the story of two men who set out to explore the world; one by travelling to South America, the other by conducting desk research. The explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß meet in old age. Germany 2011/12, colour, 119 mins. Director: Detlev Buck. http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13841643v.htm GOETHE-KINO: ZEIT DER KANNIBALEN / AGE OF CANNIBALS WED 25 MAR 7PM From the safety of luxury hotels in the mega-cities of the world’s emerging economies, they shift capital, companies and jobs. They are three business consultants and the protagonists of Johannes Naber’s sharply scripted and brilliantly acted satire about the neo-colonialist outgrowths of global capitalism. Germany 2013, colour, 93mins. Director: Johannes Naber. http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13841654v.htm