History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers' eyes

Andreas Wiseman International EditorGerman major Leonine says it has “rearranged its long-term group financing” with €190M ($222M) in loans and revolving credit lines.The new backing will cover growth and film production financing but will exclude publicly listed Odeon Film, for which Leonine has raised separate funds.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentProduction is set to start next week on pan-European TV series “Survivors,” the latest project commissioned by the partnership known as The Alliance between leading European public broadcasters to counter the growing power of Netflix and other streamers.The plan is for cameras to start rolling in Genoa on Oct. 21 on the series revolving around a sailboat that gets destroyed in a fierce storm and disappears.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian sales company Vision Distribution has scored sales on soccer icon doc “My Name Is Francesco Totti” by Roman director Alex Infascelli (“S Is for Stanley”) to Sky for the U.K.

Henry Winkler is sharing his family’s story about how they smuggled heirlooms out of Germany during the Holocaust. In ET’s exclusive clip, created for the Holocaust Museum LA’s “45 Minutes of Inspiration” virtual gala, the former “Happy Days” star recalls memories of his relatives covering their valuables in chocolate as they escaped Nazis.

Henry Winkler is sharing his family's story about how they smuggled heirlooms out of Germany during the Holocaust.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following its premiere in the Horizons strand at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Shahram Mokri’s Careless Crime has sold into Germany, Austria and Switzerland in a deal with Trigon-film.

Also on this day:  Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech.

A Gay Couple City Weekend Dresden – Back to Karl’s roots: It always feels like a journey back in time when we are visiting Karl’s family in Eastern Germany, in Dresden to be precise. Not only because of the baroque beauty of Dresden’s architecture monuments like the Zwinger, the Castle of Dresden, or the uncountable art treasures in the museums of the Eastern German City.

Ed Meza @edmezavarGaumont Germany is bowing its first major production this month with the premiere of the historical action series “Barbarians” on Netflix.The six-part miniseries promises to take viewers to the blood-drenched Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in which Germanic warriors halted the northward advance of the Roman Empire in A.D.

Mark David British-born Canadian-American television, film and stage actor Kim Cattrall, best known for her portrayal of sex-positive bombshell Samantha Jones on the HBO series “Sex and the City” (1998-2004), which earned her five Emmy nominations, has her modest and charming (if hardly inexpensive) waterfront hideaway in a woodsy and relaxed area of the tony resort town of East Hampton, N.Y., up for grabs with a $3.25 million price tag.

Manori Ravindran International EditorArthouse streaming service Mubi has snapped up rights to Toronto International Film Festival title “Shiva Baby” for the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, Turkey and Latin America.Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman, “Shiva Baby” follows a young bisexual Jewish woman at a shiva — a mourning tradition in the Jewish community — at which she must confront her over-achieving ex-girlfriend as well as her sugar daddy, his girlfriend and

Gay couple hotel review of the Design Hotel Aloft in Munich, Germany. During our German summer adventure to Munich, we stayed at the LGBTQ+ friendly design hotel by Marriott close to Munich central station.