Kino Lorber Acquires The Great Museum
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Posted April 24, 2014 04:30 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber announced today the acquisition of all North American rights to Johannes Holzhausen's The Great Museum (Das große Museum), a critically acclaimed, observational documentary focused on Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world.
The film had its international premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival, where it won the coveted critic's prize known as the Caligari award, in the Forum section of the festival. Its US premiere is set for the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival, where the film will play on Saturday, April 26 and Thursday, May 1. Other significant festivals will follow before Kino Lorber's national theatrical release in the fall, with The Great Museum making its way to all digital platforms, the educational market and packaged media in early 2015.
The Great Museum also focuses on a number of charismatic protagonists who work at (and maintain) the renowned art palace famed for its Breughels and many other iconic works of art.
As the camera follows the ominous empty rooms and large storage areas hosting some of the world's most valuable artifacts and art works, "Holzhausen assembles his portrait with exquisite pacing and wry humor, perceptively laying out the subtle politics at work as the museum faces the 21st-century necessities of branding and marketing to compete for audiences and funding." (Jesse Dubus, SFFS).
"To be invited to share the inner life of such a monumental, world-renowned institution makes viewing The Great Museum a truly thrilling and utterly absorbing experience," wrote Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber. "This film demands to be savored on the big screen and I'm confident that American audiences will even want second helpings of Vienna's greatest art institution, as much as they might of its delectable pastries!"
The deal was negotiated between Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber and Wide House's Anais Clanet.
The film had its international premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival, where it won the coveted critic's prize known as the Caligari award, in the Forum section of the festival. Its US premiere is set for the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival, where the film will play on Saturday, April 26 and Thursday, May 1. Other significant festivals will follow before Kino Lorber's national theatrical release in the fall, with The Great Museum making its way to all digital platforms, the educational market and packaged media in early 2015.
As the camera follows the ominous empty rooms and large storage areas hosting some of the world's most valuable artifacts and art works, "Holzhausen assembles his portrait with exquisite pacing and wry humor, perceptively laying out the subtle politics at work as the museum faces the 21st-century necessities of branding and marketing to compete for audiences and funding." (Jesse Dubus, SFFS).
"To be invited to share the inner life of such a monumental, world-renowned institution makes viewing The Great Museum a truly thrilling and utterly absorbing experience," wrote Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber. "This film demands to be savored on the big screen and I'm confident that American audiences will even want second helpings of Vienna's greatest art institution, as much as they might of its delectable pastries!"
The deal was negotiated between Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber and Wide House's Anais Clanet.