Chapter 105: A Film Festival with Open-Air Screenings

The next day, Walter drank ginger tea, and after getting better, everyone gathered and went to the Potsdam area, southwest of the Brandenburg Gate, where the West Berlin International Film Festival was held, and this vacant land, which had been unoccupied since the division of Germany, would now be the place where the West Berlin Film Festival would screen the films exhibited.

The Brandenburg Gate, originally a gate of the Berlin Wall, got its name from the Brandenburg Gate. In 1788, Frederick William II, King Frederick William II of Prussia, ordered the rebuilding of the Brandenburg Gate to commemorate Prussia's victory in the Seven Years' War, which took three years to complete in 1791.

Until after the Second World War, the Brandenburg Gate was within the Berlin Wall and was controlled by the German Democratic Republic of East Germany, and on August 13, 1961, the GDR government of East Germany built a wall around West Berlin, blocked the Bredenburg Gate, and built the "Berlin Wall" at the boundary between East and West Berlin.

The Blettenburg Gate, located at the junction of East and West Berlin, became part of the Berlin Wall, forming the current situation where the Berlin Wall arcs behind the Bredenburg Gate and extends to the left and right, separating the whole of Berlin in half.

Since then, the Bredenburg Gate, once a symbol of German unity, has become a military exclusion zone, which is not only a symbol of German unity, but also a symbol of Germany's division of East Germany and West Germany. Therefore, the citizens of Berlin in West Germany can only see the Bredenburg Gate, which is of great significance to Germany, from a few meters away.

When Walter and others arrived in Potsdam, it was already crowded with moviegoers who had received the news, and most of the moviegoers from West Berlin and the whole of West Germany came to see the films, except for the film crews who participated in the department and a few fans from other countries.

"Hell, show an open-air movie? Is this an international A-class film festival rated by the International Film Producers Association? Won't you choose a few good movie theaters?" Zou Wenhuai, who was originally excited and hurriedly followed everyone to the scene, was shocked when he saw the West Berlin International Film Festival of his dreams, and kept complaining.

"I'm sorry, Raymond, as you can see, this is the West Berlin International Film Festival, which has been rated as an international A-category film festival by the International Association of Film Producers. "When I was still looking at the Berlin Wall in the distance, hoping to peek into the Brandenburg Gate,

Walter was quarreled by Zou Wenhuai, so he could only spread his hands and said with a helpless look.

"How can this be? This kind of screening is not even as good as Southeast Asia, how can it be ......?"

"Forget it, don't complain, Raymond, if you want to know why, you can ask yourself more about the film festival, now, we're going to see the release of "Enter the Dragon", I don't have the time to discuss this with you. ”

"Hmm...... All right. Zou Wenhuai nodded, he also knew the importance in the end, although the West Berlin International Film Festival made him stunned, but he also knew what was important, but there were still some questions he still had to ask, only to hear him then ask: "Walter, can "Enter the Dragon" really win the award?"

In his tone, Zou Wenhuai trembled a little, this is the real reason why he came uninvited with Zhao Yazhi on his dead face, that is, to witness Golden Harvest's films win awards at the three major European film festivals. For this reason, Zou Wenhuai has already contacted media friends in Hong Kong, as long as it is confirmed, he is spending a lot of money to buy the media, and he will also make this matter known to the entire Xiangjiang. Therefore, after winning the award, whether it is for the box office of "Enter the Dragon" in Hong Kong, or to fight against the Shaw Brothers, this is what he dreamed of.

Last year, the Shaw Brothers put "The First Punch in the World" for the first time For Zou Wenhuai, who ran away from Shaw Brothers and was determined to start his own company to pull down the Shaw Brothers, if the Shaw Brothers did not appear in Cannes when the Shaw Brothers were famous, Golden Harvest would not have an earth-shattering event, for Golden Harvest, who had just relied on Bruce Lee and had made a lot of improvements, it was obviously difficult to shake the mountain of the Shaw Brothers, so he came to Berlin with a cheeky face, Zou Wenhuai was very concerned about "Enter the Dragon" , is there really any hope of winning the prize at the West Berlin International Film Festival?

"I don't know, let's wait and see!" Walter said casually, then looked back at the people who came, and said with a smile: "Let's see if there can be a miracle on our last train?" Although I don't know who spread the news that he wants to publicize the award of "Enter the Dragon", but in order to avoid swagger and be shaken off the shady screen, let's wait until the dust settles down.

As for the Brandenburg Gate, it is really a little far away, I can't see it clearly, and after the reunification of the two Germanys, let's visit it again, go now, Walter doesn't want to be arrested and criticized by the other party as a degenerate tyrant in the capitalist society, this is still good, if it is used as an American spy, it will be sad. It's a pity that the scenery and beauties of Eastern Europe, it is said that the German Democratic Republic of East Germany, but it is very encouraging, compared to the United States, I really hope to be able to see it in my lifetime, once again forget the Berlin Wall, which is covered with barbed wire and seems to be guarded by countless armed soldiers, Walter thought secretly.

The group then slowly looked for an open-air screening site for "Enter the Dragon" in the slightly barren Potsdam area, which was crowded and not very formal, so it was difficult to find.

Moreover, Potsdam, a no-man's land in East and West Germany, was obviously carefully cleaned after the opening of the West Berlin International Film Festival, but because of the special geographical relationship, no buildings and facilities have been built, so it looks very empty. Even the several open-air movie screening points that come and go, because the screening points are close to each other, can only find some billboards for isolation, I really don't know what kind of visual enjoyment can be achieved by watching movies like this.

Think about how terrible it feels to be when you're watching a movie and suddenly the sound of another movie pops up in your ears. After all, if the place where the two movies are shown is too close, and it is not a theater for later generations, and there is no good soundproof space, it will be a disaster.

However, even then, there is no good way for the organizers to change it, and everything can only be changed when the two Germans are reunited and Berlin starts to rebuild. Otherwise, the West Berlin International Film Festival can only be criticized by filmmakers from all over the world who come to participate in the exhibition.

Even if you simply play a movie, you can't find a good place to show it, and this kind of reception work is of course extremely poor......

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