Palladio Film is an international

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 production company

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 based in Cologne

Cologne

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 and London

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, specializing in theatrical feature films and documentaries.

Palladio Film was founded in 1990 by Niko von Glasow

Niko von Glasow

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. In 2005 Frank Henschke joined the company as a producer. The collaboration between these two allowed the company to expand in the Europe

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an market. At the end of 2005 Palladio Films Ltd. was founded in London, focusing on the development of English-language

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 projects.

Palladio Film has taken its name from the famous Italian architect Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

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 who according to Niko von Glasow was responsible of the "renaissance

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 of the renaissance". Palladio Film concentrates on artistic and historical feature films, often focused on the individual

Individual

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, as well as unusual documentaries such as Mr December: Nobody Is Perfect (release November 2007), which is about personal tales of thalidomide

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 .

Productions

Wedding Guests (1991)
written and directed by Niko von Glasow
40 min. 35 mm. Feature film. Shot in Poland

Poland

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Festival Premiers Plans – Grand Prix Lino Ventura
Berlin Film Festival – German Film Critics´Award
Dresden Film Award – Film Festival Dresden,
Film Award for Young Filmmakers, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen.

A car drives through a landscape in Poland

Poland

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. The scenery gradually changes: a town, high-rise flats and farmhouses. The car stops in a village street. A female photographer from Western Europe

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 gets out and avidly takes pictures of her surroundings. By chance, her eye is caught by the arrival of a wedding party. This marks the point of departure for several stories which unfold during the course of the wedding.

Marie's Song (1994)
written and directed by Niko von Glasow
starring Sylvie Testud, Bastian Trost, Veronica Quilligan and Jean-François Perrier
90 min. 35 mm. Feature film. Shot in Germany
Nominated for the German Film Award as Best Film
German Film Award – Best Camera Direction and Best Film Music
IFF Kiev – Best Film, Best Décor and Best Costume

An isolated estate in 1813, the confusion of war

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, marauding rebels and a sparsely inhabited manor house. 16-year-old Marie experiences her first love, and her governess becomes involved with a visiting stranger. As more outsiders arrive, the fragile peace of the estate is destroyed by orgies

Orgy

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 and excess.

Wintersleepers

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 (1997)
written by Anne-Francoise Pyszora and Tom Tykwer
directed by Tom Tykwer
starring Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler
produced by X-Filme Creative Pool and Palladio Film
124 min. 35 mm. Feature film. Shot in Germany
German Silver Film Award

Rebecca, a young translator, lives in the Alps

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 with her boyfriend Marco, a skiing instructor, but their lives are turned upside-down by a car accident.

Elke Heidenreich

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 (2004)
written and directed by Claudia Müller
45 min. documentary.

The subject, Elke Heidenreich, is a bestselling German

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 author

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Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
written by Kiki von Glasow
directed by Niko von Glasow
starring Ivan Stebunov, Jan Decleir, Bela B. Felsenheimer
96 min. 35 mm. Feature film. Shot in Russia

Russia

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Premiere: Montréal Film Festival

Film festival

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 2004

Cologne

Cologne

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, at the end of the Second World War. Rubble-strewn wastelands, a hail of bombs, a burning inferno. Everyone is scared, many have died, and inhumanity

Inhumanity

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 reigns supreme. A boy betrays his brother … because he loves him.

External links

• Palladio Film
• The Edelweiss Pirates at the Internet Movie Database
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