GERMANY: Halle Berry and Tom Hanks hit the red carpet for the European premiere of 'Cloud Atlas'

Record ID: 220932

  • Title: GERMANY: Halle Berry and Tom Hanks hit the red carpet for the European premiere of 'Cloud Atlas'
  • Date: 5th November 2012
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (NOVEMBER 5, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR 'POTSDAMER PLATZ', VENUE OF PREMIERE FILM POSTER 'CLOUD ATLAS' HALLE BERRY ON SCREEN WHICH DISSOLVES INTO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS ACTRESS XUN ZHOU ARRIVING DIRECTOR LANA WACHOWSKI ARRIVING DIRECTOR ANDY WACHOWSKI ARRIVING DIRECTOR TOM TYKWER SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS ACTOR BEN WHISHAW ARRIVING TYKWER SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS ACTOR TOM
  • Embargoed: 20th November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVADKG0QM9KS9GBBYN93CZP1BO2X
  • Story Text: An all-star lineup of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, James D'Arcy and others filled the red carpet for the European premiere of "Cloud Atlas" in Berlin on Monday (November 5). Talking about the upcoming US election, Berry told Reuters: "I expect we are gonna have a president at the end of the election. That's for sure. Hopefully the one I want."
    Co-directed by Tom Tykwer of "Run Lola Run" fame, and the sibling team behind "The Matrix Trilogy," Andy and Lana Wachowski, "Cloud Atlas" is made up of six narratives spanning from the 1840s to the present day to a post-apocalyptic future.
    The century-hopping film tells several interwoven stories of love, hope and rebellion across many eras. "Cloud Atlas" explores how actions have consequences in the past, present and future. Hanks and Berry play multiple roles in the film's complex story lines and ambitious plot structure. Hanks is a shady doctor in the 1840s, a nuclear scientist in the 1970s and then a simple valley-dweller in the distant future.
    While the philosophical book by Britain's David Mitchell tells six separate but linked stories in chronological order, moving from the past to future and then back again, the film adaptation (with a reported budget topping 100 million US Dollars) inter-cuts the stories to drive home the link between the threads.
    "Cloud Atlas" hits German theatres on November 15.
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