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Music Box Films has acquired the North American distribution rights for Petra Volpe's “Late Shift,” which was revealed today ...
German actress Leonie Benesch (September 5, The Teachers’ Lounge) feels that we’ve been inundated with medical dramas on ...
Switzerland has tapped Petra Volpe’s Late Shift ( Heldin) as its official submission for the 98th Academy Awards in the best ...
The German actor Leonie Benesch has an issue with erratic pacing in films. "I find it awful when a character talks and then ...
Music Box Films acquires US rights to Petra Volpe’s Late Shift, Switzerland’s official Oscar submission, starring Leonie ...
Benesch has close friends from London and Berlin in town, and they’re sharing a house in Hollywood for a few days. Moving here to L.A. permanently is not on her mind, though of course, one day ...
One can imagine screening this wrenching Swiss film in a double bill with Laura Carreira’s recent On Falling. Two studies of a woman at work. Two protagonists at the end of their tether. Two ...
Leonie Benesch grew up in Germany without a TV and first saw footage — some of it re-created — from the Munich Summer Olympic attacks in 1972 while filming 'September 5.' ...
And she’s not a journalist. Marianne Gebhardt, played by Leonie Benesch, is a translator in the ABC Sports office during the attack by the Palestinian militant organization Black September.
Leonie Benesch in Night Shift: 'I was especially interested in the way nurses switch codes – how they speak distantly, yet warmly, to patients' Tara Brady Mon Jul 28 2025 - 05:03 ...
Leonie Benesch grew up in Germany without a TV and first saw footage — some of it re-created — from the Munich Summer Olympic attacks in 1972 while filming 'September 5.' ...
The actress Leonie Benesch as Floria, a night nurse working in an understaffed hospital in the film “Late Shift.” To prepare for the role, Benesch said she shadowed nurses in a hospital for a ...