A Year Ago in Winter is a 2008 film directed by Caroline Link.
Caroline Link , is a German film director and screenwriter. Caroline Link is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied at the Munich Academy of Film and Television , and then worked as an assistant director and script writer. Link's early work includes the short film... Bunte Blumen, from 1988. She was a co-director on the documentary film Das Glück zum Anfassen . For Bavaria Film, she wrote two screenplays to the detective series Der Fahnder . Link's first feature film, Jenseits der Stille was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film, and attracted attention for its portrayal of a family with deaf parents. Her second feature film was Annaluise and Anton , based on a novel by Erich Kästner. Her third feature film, Nirgendwo in Afrika , adapted from the book by Stefanie Zweig and shot on location in Kenya, received the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002.more
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany,... it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has 4.4 million residents from over 190 nations. Located in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes. First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia , the German Empire , the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world. After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin—the capital of East Germany—and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall .more