BERLIN — Penelope Cruz, Hugh Jackman, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Gere and Robert Pattinson are among the high-wattage stars due on the red carpet at February’s Berlin film festival, organisers said Tuesday as they unveiled the line-up. The 67th Berlinale is the first major cinema showcase in Europe each year and presents nearly 400 productions from around the world. The 11-day event will kick off in the German capital February 9 with the world premiere of the French biopic "Django" about Gypsy-jazz great Django Reinhardt and his family’s persecution in Nazi-occupied Paris. French production "The Midwife" by Martin Provost stars Deneuve as the mysterious former mistress of the title character’s father. And Pattinson is due in Berlin for a screening of James Gray’s "The Lost City of Z" an adaptation of a bestseller by David Grann of the New Yorker.

Source: Viet Nam News February 01, 2017 03:32 UTC