At a time when Ukrainians are being killed and dying for their freedom, Austrian writer/director Sebastian Meise's exquisite film Great Freedom couldn't have arrived in Bay Area theaters at a more ...

Watching director Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom” is a process of watching the main character, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), get brutalized and dehumanized. The narrative takes place almost ...

Running time/Rating: 1:56, Unrated for coarse language, nudity, sex, drug use, smoking, mature thematic elements and brief violence. In German and some English with subtitles. “Great Freedom” takes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In most post-World War II stories, the liberation of the concentration camps is the beginning of the end of a nightmare. “Great ...

Sebastian Meise’s Oscar-shortlisted prison drama is a tender story of love and survival set against the backdrop of Germany's criminalization of homosexuality. The last of the Nazi concentration camps ...

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“Great Freedom,” which won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a poignant, potent drama — and a love story, actually — featuring an all-male cast ...

Almost a decade has passed since Austria won an Oscar with Michael Haneke’s Amour, but Sebastian Meise’s well-received third feature Great Freedom is gaining global acclaim after bagging the Un ...

Franz Rogowski gives another strong performance, this time playing a gay man repeatedly incarcerated under Paragraph 175 in Sebastian Meise's soulful, stirring Cannes prizewinner. “Great Freedom” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching director Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom” is a process of watching the main character, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), ...