“…… The rich Chinese vernacular, the excellent colors and pictures, an amazing performance by the great lead singer, a simple, strong but beautiful Chinese woman, a great realization of romanticism and realism intertwined to the point that it is inseparable! This is a movie that must not be missed!"

- Rheinische Zeitung

“…… China's Li, who gave an amazing performance at the opening ceremony of the World Cup, once again surprised and amazed me! This time, he relied on a movie. He is the director, and he is also the star. It's an unforgettable movie-going experience, so if you haven't seen it yet, hurry up!"

- The Herald

“…… Red, green, yellow, the director uses an incomparably strong use of color that is comparable to Van Gogh's masterpieces, showing us his excellent color aesthetics! This is a great masterpiece! He will be recorded in the history of Chinese cinema and will also be recorded in the history of the Berlin Film Festival!"

- "Review Morning Post"

“…… Amazing use of color, excellent lens aesthetics, a story that takes place in the eastern countryside of the thirties and forties of the last century to resist aggression, a group of great people, an outstanding film! China Li's acting ability is as good as his directing ability! Miss Qin Jingjing's performance is equally amazing!"

- Deutsche Sangambung

"It's a movie that's so perfect that I can't say anything about it!

- Art Observation

“…… I was amazed by Lee's directing ability! The masterpiece he brought to the table was the best film I have seen since the opening of this Berlin Film Festival! ”

- The Observer

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Berlin, Germany.

The time is in the afternoon.

In front of Li Qian, there was a thick stack of various newspapers.

The vast majority of them were German-language newspapers, and Li Qian basically couldn't read anything.

It happened that because "Red Sorghum" was gaining momentum in Berlin for a while, the Chinese Embassy in Germany actually took the initiative to send someone to contact and ask if there was anything that needed help.

Then, a girl who looked to be about twenty-four or five years old appeared in the hotel where the crew of "Red Sorghum" was staying an hour later, along with a cultural counselor of the embassy, and then there was such a scene: the girl picked up a newspaper and translated it directly while reading it.

In fact, there is no need for such a specific translation, just look at the attitude of the embassy in Germany to know how popular "Red Sorghum" is in Berlin and Germany.

In addition, considering that Li Qian has contributed to the World Cup and added glory to China's image on a global scale, and it is said that he is also a person who has been specially praised internally by the high-level, so he brought the film to the Berlin Film Festival, and the work has also won unanimous praise from the local film critics, so of course, the embassy in Germany is happy to add icing on the cake.

The cultural counselor came over to congratulate them and chatted briefly with each other, and the other party left the translator behind, which was regarded as a secondment, and promised that Li Qian could help Li Qian in the future if they encountered any problems in Berlin, and then they left and left.

However, when he left, Li Qian picked up the German newspapers one by one, but he was more or less unable to come back to his senses - the direction and speed of development of things were really a little unexpected to him.

"Red Sorghum" is a good movie, that's for sure! My version is a good movie, of course it's for sure! But the question is, is it so popular?

So far, during the two-and-a-half-day screening period, except for the first two, the rest of the screenings are full, and the audience waiting to buy tickets has lined up in front of the cinema - but even if they are in line, they are not willing to leave!

Again, this is a Chinese movie!

And it's also a Chinese vernacular style movie!

It has full Chinese dialogue, Chinese narration, and only a German translation at the bottom of the screen - seriously, in Li Qian's opinion, he thinks that for the vast majority of ordinary German audiences, such a movie should feel similar to watching it as Chinese Chinese in another time and space to watch a movie with subtitles about Turkish rural stories.

But I don't know if the audience who pays attention to the film festival has a particularly strong demand for this kind of art film, or it can be understood that they are the most passionate audience for art films in the whole of Europe and even the world.

Then, Li Qian felt in a trance that things seemed to be starting to exceed his expectations!

Originally, there was no hope for it, but at this time, he couldn't control it in his heart, and there was a small flame that suddenly rushed up!

Maybe...... Is it really possible to win a prize?

…………

In the afternoon of German time, John Days returned to the hotel from outside, and as soon as he entered the door, he excitedly said to Li Qian: "This afternoon, a total of four German film distribution companies contacted me, and they all expressed their optimism about this movie, and all of them made offers to me, wanting to buy out the distribution rights of "Red Sorghum" in Germany, and some also hope to win the distribution rights of the Czech Republic at the same time. ”

Speaking of this, he said proudly: "The one with the highest price gave an offer of two million dollars!"

No wonder he is proud, for a Chinese film, the treatment that can be obtained in the European film distribution market may be worse than that of a small-budget independent film in the United States, and the price of two million dollars to buy out the distribution of Germany and the Czech Republic is really not low.

Fu Xuelong, who had learned about the market in advance, was really a little excited, and hurriedly asked, "You agreed?"

John Days smiled slightly, a little arrogant and reserved, well, the iron-clad American profiteer, "I refused!"

Li Qian pursed his lips, and Fu Xuelong was stunned.

But then, John Days lost his reserve and arrogance, turned his head and smiled at Li Qian: "Moreover, although the quotations are different, the four of them have made exactly the same request!"

"What?"

"They demanded that our film stop screening and ticket sales immediately after completing the minimum number of screenings stipulated by the film festival!"

"So, you ......"

"I refused!"

Fu Xuelong rolled his eyes, and Li Qian laughed.

Now when selling tickets and screenings at film festivals, you must give some money to the theaters and film festival officials, but the proportion is very low, and the tickets sold are German marks, and the venue is full, so don't look at only one screening hall, but if you have to calculate carefully, each screening can bring a net income of two or three thousand Chinese dollars! With the current schedule of five screenings a day, it is more than 10,000 yuan a day!

Of course, in film festivals, money is a trivial matter, and more importantly, the more people who watch it, it will be more conducive to the spread of the film's reputation in Germany and Europe!

The better the reputation, the more attention the film festival official will definitely pay attention to, which is inevitable!

There are many people watching it, and everyone is praising this movie through various channels and platforms, so even the judges of the film festival have to consider the pressure brought by public opinion.

But on the other hand, the distributors have determined that this is a good movie, a film that can already make money, and for the sake of profit, they actually don't really want the reputation of the film to continue to ferment!

Even, if it were a little extreme, maybe they didn't want "Red Sorghum" to win the award!

Strange to say, right?

But in fact, there is an account in this!

There are many film screenings, good reputation and continuous diffusion, the film festival official attaches importance to and appreciates, and finally gives an award, maybe even a grand prize, so of course, the film that wins the award will be much easier to do in distribution, under normal circumstances, the distributor will buy out the film distribution rights and then screen it, and the box office will be considerable.

But the question is, what is the price of a frustrated film that has lost the film festival? and what is the price of winning an award, especially if it wins the Golden Bear, Silver Bear, etc.?

Especially like the film "Red Sorghum", now that the word of mouth has been hit, if they can buy it out now, even if they don't win awards in the follow-up, they can completely play the gimmick of "This is a regrettable film festival, because even a masterpiece like "Red Sorghum" has not won an award", or move Li Qian out, etc., there are various means to publicize, the box office may not be really much less, but the money for buying out will be a lot less!

The income and expenditure of both sides have been calculated, and it is likely that "Red Sorghum" did not win the award, but they earned more!

Only this time, they met not a rookie director with no experience in international distribution, but a Li Qian, who doesn't take the sales revenue of distribution rights in Europe very seriously, and John Deiss, who knows the rules of international distribution well.

Therefore, John Dyce, who has been authorized, can refuse directly without hesitation or ask for instructions, and reject all the offers received!

…………

Also in the afternoon, John Days sat down and chatted for a long time, and just after leaving, Liao Liao suddenly called - she suddenly received an official invitation from the Berlin Film Festival in the United States, and the other party hoped that she could attend the closing ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival and be responsible for awarding awards to some of the winners of this year's film festival!

This incident came very suddenly.

In fact, whether it is the Berlin Film Festival or the other two major film festivals in Europe, many places and many rules seem to be set randomly, but after so many sessions, there are actually rules to follow.

As far as the award presenters are concerned, the three major European film festivals have been under great pressure in recent years, and the overall influence of European films in the world has continued to decline, which is the biggest problem they face.

In order to save the film festival and maintain a certain degree of discourse on film art, the three major film festivals have become more and more open in the past decade, especially in the last three or five years, and have paid more and more attention to publicity, building momentum, pulling stars to help, standing on the platform, etc., which they did not pay much attention to before.

The most typical thing is that although they have repeatedly advocated that they are sticking to the position of film art and have never concealed their contempt for Hollywood commercial blockbusters, in recent years, the three major European film festivals have begun to actively attract big directors, big stars and big productions in the United States.

Even if you don't participate in the awards, come and do a round to do a promotion, the film festival officials are very welcome!

As long as there are enough coffee seats, as long as you are willing to come, the festival will be heavily promoted!

Joshua Chris came to promote and canvass for the independent film platform invested by his film company this year, but in fact, he came and shook a shot, stayed for two days after his public appearance, and then flashed, but, if nothing else, he will still be invited to the closing ceremony!

Whether he is purely watching the ceremony or being responsible for awarding awards, he is an existence that can attract attention and increase ratings!

But he is a movie star, and it is only natural for him to come to the Berlin Film Festival!

Liao Liao is a singer, and he had almost the slightest connection with the Berlin Film Festival before! And it should have been communicated in advance before the opening of the film festival, but now the other party suddenly sent such an invitation-

So, Liao Liao smiled and asked, "Probably you're going to win the prize? They want to create a gimmick to publicize?"

Not to mention, after receiving a call from Liao Liao, Li Qian also thought so!

Do you do it?

Do!

So two days later, Liao Liao flew over from Los Angeles with his American assistant and bodyguard.

…………

March 4, 3 p.m. local time in Germany.

The closing ceremony of the Berlinale was officially held.

It seems that the film festival officials did not deliberately conceal it, before the closing ceremony began, Liao Liao received a notice from the film festival that she would be in charge of awarding the Silver Bear Award for this film festival together with Joshua Chris.

The most important awards of the Berlinale are undoubtedly the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear.

The Golden Bear Award is awarded to the best feature film, documentary, science and education film, art film, etc., which is equivalent to the best film, and the Silver Bear Award is awarded to the best director, best actor and actress, as well as screenwriters, music, cinematography, art, youth works or feature films with special achievements, etc.

The Golden Bear Award naturally has only one winner per session, but the Silver Bear Award is uncertain.

Sometimes it goes to Best Actor, sometimes it goes to Best Actor and Best Actress, and sometimes, it goes to Best Actress, then to Best Cinematography, and sometimes, the actor and actress don't win the award, but the judges' favorite screenwriter wins the Silver Bear.

Anything is possible!

Let Liao Liao and Joshua Chris present the Silver Bear Award together, in terms of coffee position and treatment, it is enough, but the choice of the Silver Bear Award for the judges is too broad!

Take the movie "Red Sorghum" as an example, the three people from the current crew are all within the scope of possible awards - Li Qian's director, screenwriter, and actor, Qin Jingjing's heroine, Fu Xuelong's photography, whoever wins the award has to be the Silver Bear Award!

Therefore, I knew in advance that Liao Liao was going to present the Silver Bear Award, but people had nowhere to guess!

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Weakly shouted: Do you want to recommend a ticket?