Before the Fall premieres

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BEFORE THE FALL (Napola)
A film by Dennis Gansel

Opens in New York and Chicago on Oct. 7
Opens in Los Angeles on Nov. 18

Filmmaker Dennis Gansel is available for phone/email interviews

Press Screening in NYC:
Wednesday, September 28 at 11 am at the QUAD
13 W. 34 St, Manhattan

Los Angeles press screening will be announced closer to LA release

PHOTOS at:
http://www.picturethisent.com/pressroom/beforethefall/index.html

Picture This! Entertainment is proud to present the US theatrical release 
of Dennnis Gansel?s award winning film BEFORE THE FALL (Napola).  Winner of 
the Audience Award at the Hamptons Film Festival, as well as Winner of the 
Best Actor award at Karlovy Vary and Best Director at the Bavaria Film 
Festival, BEFORE THE FALL will open in NYC on October 7 at the Quad Cinema 
in Manhattan.  This film will open in Los Angeles at the Laemmle theaters 
on November 18.  Other cities will follow.

Berlin 1942.  Friedrich (Max Riemelt), is a sixteen-year old amateur boxer 
from a working class family who dreams of doing something with his 
life.  His big chance comes when he?s discovered at a boxing match by a 
young man who teaches at an elite Nazi National Political School, or 
Napola.  The young man helps Friedrich to enter the institution, and there 
becomes Friedrich?s mentor, guiding him through the rigors of the strictly 
run school.  Among Friedrich?s new friends is Albrecht (Tom Schilling), the 
son of a high-ranking official.  A fragile young man who prefers to train 
his mind rather than his body, Albrecht is critical of the Nazi ideology 
being crammed into the students? minds. Friedrich starts to see that there 
is no room here for anyone unwilling to follow the party line.  After the 
students are forced to take part in a nighttime massacre of unarmed Russian 
youths in the nearby woods, Albrecht writes an essay condemning the 
Germans? barbarity.  Friedrich knows that his best friend is on a collision 
course with the authorities, but is powerless to change his mind. When 
Albrecht?s father forces his son to take back his words, Albrecht refuses ? 
and accepts the consequences.  Devastated, Friedrich vows to avenge his 
friend?s fate, even if it means losing everything he?s fought for and 
abandoning his dream of a better life.

Director Dennis Gansel has transformed his award-winning screenplay, 
co-authored with Maggie Peren, into the gripping, nuanced portrait of a 
friendship between two young men caught in the barbaric mechanisms of Nazi 
system.

In German with English subtitles.  110 min.  35 mm   Not Rated

To RSVP to the press screening, to request a screener for a review, or to 
set up an interview with filmmaker Dennis Gansel, please contact Sasha 
Berman at Shotwell Media at 310-450-5571 or by email at 
SashaBerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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