The new film from Helmut Dietl

Twenty-five years after his cult TV series, Kir Royal, director Helmut Dietl has now come released a sort of ?sequel? for the big screen. Zettl focuses on the high-flying career of a ruthless media man in Berlin. As satire, however, the frigid figures in Zettl fail to warm up to viewers. ... more more

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Building for the bad

Monday 22 January, 2007

Be it in St. Petersburg, Beijing or Dubai, the stars of international architecture are only too happy to work for tyrants and autocrats. Although some German contractors active in China seem to feel a sense of unease, the profitability and the quick emancipation right after the planning phase are powerful magnets. Yet precisely these might make the terrain a museum of structural damage. By Alexander Hosch
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