117 - Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dieter Koslick is is one of the film world’s most gregarious, hilarious and controversial Film Festival Directors. He’s put his stamp on the legendary Berlin Film Festival for 18 years and kicked up a lot of dust in the process. The Kitchen Sisters Present a portrait of Dieter, who celebrated his last Festival in 2019, and the Berlinale's dramatic history.

The Berlin International Film Festival, features some 400 films across 14 theaters across 10 days. The Festival unfolds across the first weeks of February and Berlin’s piercing cold is legend. For 18 years Dieter Kosslick, in his black Fedora and red wool scarf on the red carpet at theaters around the city, has been welcoming filmmakers and filmgoers from around the globe to film screenings film screenings that provoke, pay homage, compete, ignite.

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1:31.0	The festival unfolds across the first weeks of February and Berlin's piercing cold is legend.
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