The Lost Landscapes of England Anthony Amies’ paintings assert a classical conception of painting. From the mid 1970s, the British artis pursued a radical counter-concept to the art of his time with a stylistically peculiar landscape painting. They are calm and enigmatic pictures that do without any scandal. In large-scale drawings and oil paintings, he plays with the “blot� technique: Amies abstracts the landscapes to convey an idea rather than a realistic image. The reduction to land and sea is a reflection on England and the loss of its individual landscapes to the monotony of industrial and urban proliferation and sprawling housing estates. In this idiosyncrasy - the assertion of the genre of landscape painting and in the painterly quality of the works as a contribution to the assertion of painting in art - lies the importance of this English painter.

Jens Neubert directs this filmed version of Carl Maria von Weber's romantic opera 'Der Freischütz', (The Marksman). The story follows Max (Michael König) and Kasper (Michael Volle), two hunters who, as well as fighting alongside each other in the Napoleonic Wars, are vying for the love of the beautiful Agathe (Juliane Banse).