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Filmfest Hamburg Scraps Plan to Give Award to Ulrich Seidl

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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor German film festival Filmfest Hamburg has scrapped its plan to give the Douglas Sirk Prize to the Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, following allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation against him and his film “Sparta.” However, the festival has decided to continue with its plan to show “Sparta,” a statement released Tuesday by festival director Albert Wiederspiel and program director Kathrin Kohlstedde explained.

The statement read: “The accusations against the production around the working conditions during the making of the film came up after our [festival program] was already in print. “We included the film in the program because of its outstanding quality.

It is a very sensitive film about a particularly difficult and taboo subject. The accusations against Ulrich Seidl are directed against the conditions during the shooting and explicitly not against his film. “We have therefore decided to leave the film in the program.” The statement added: “Regarding the Douglas Sirk Prize, we have decided not to award the prize as the current allegations against the production would overshadow an award ceremony.” On Friday, the Toronto Film Festival decided to withdraw the film from its program due to the allegations, which were published on Sept.

2 in German news magazine Der Spiegel. The investigation alleged that Seidl did not communicate the film’s theme of pedophilia to its young actors, who were between the ages of 9 and 16 and not from professional backgrounds.

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