"Fahrenheit 9/11" Set To Heat up Germany | Deutsche Welle

"Fahrenheit 9/11" Set To Heat up Germany | Deutsche Welle : "Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' opens in Berlin on Wednesday. German film and movie theater executives expect it to break Moore's own record for the most-shown documentary ever in the country.

'Germans likes the way he presents politics and his sense of humor, and people see his as the 'other voice of America,' a counterweight to US President George W. Bush, 'said Andreas Fallscheer, managing director of Falcom Media Group, the company that is distributing the film in Germany. Falcom has distributed 220 prints for Wednesday's opening, the greatest number ever in Germany for a documentary film.

In the past two years, Germans disenchanted with Bush and the current state of transatlantic relations have thronged to Moore's (photo) controversial body of work.

His first Bush diatribe, "Stupid White Men", sold nearly 1.1 million copies in German – comprising an astonishing one-third of the book’s total global sales. And more than a million Germans turned out to see his Oscar-winning indictment against US gun laws, "Bowling for Columbine". During his most recent book tour, Germans gave him rock star treatment as he gave readings in standing room only concert halls."


Daryl Lindsey
Deutsche Welle