Cine Club

Thursday 8 November 2012 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

The Ghost Writer

Directed by Roman Polanski (France/Germany/UK, 2010)

With: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams
Original version english; french subtitles; 128 minutes

An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.


Thursday 15 November 2012 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

The Edge of Heaven
(Auf der anderen Seite)

Directed by Fatih Akin (Germany/Turkey, 2007) 

With: : Nurgul Yesilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz
Original version german/turkish; english subtitles; 116 minutes

Nejat seems disapproving about  his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

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