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Star gathering for Edith Beer

Start of shooting of a movie about an extraordinary life in Brandenburg

Alexandra Maria Lara, Eva Green, Thomas Kretschmann – German and international actors starring in a film about the exciting life of Edith Hahn Beer, a jewish woman from Vienna who survived the Nazi-dictatorship under a false name in Brandenburg an der Havel.

The title of the English original will be “The Nazi Officer’s Wife”: “Die Frau des Nazioffiziers”. It tells the story of a woman whose fate is, in a critical phase, conntected with Brandenburg.

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Alice Patten, daughter of Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University and former governor of Hong Kong, is about to appear in a Bollywood blockbuster.

The 26-year-old had to learn Hindi lines and appears in two dance sequences in Rang de Basanti (Paint it Yellow), starring Aamir Khan.

“It was an amazing experience,” she said yesterday of her five months shooting in Delhi, Amritsar and Jaipur.

“I play a documentary film-maker in London who is left a diary by her grandfather who had served in the Indian police force before independence.”

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