THE WEDDING PARTY
[Die Bluthochzeit]

Flemish filmmaker Dominique Drruddere, nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar in 2000 for his music biz satire EVERYBODY FAMOUS!, returns with this blackly comic thriller. A wedding set at a beautiful country inn on the German-Belgian border turns bloody when the overbearing father of the groom, Armin Rohde, starts a feud with chef Uwe Ochsenknect. Rohde tries to stiff the inn for the bill, but the crafty chef locks the door on the bride and her mother-in-law, now held as collateral. What started as a happy day turns into a farcical battle involving shotguns, hand grenades and twist-laden mayhem.

DIR/SCR Dominique Deruddere; PROD Marc Conrad, Hilde De Laere, Norbert Preuss and Erwin Provoost. Belguim/Germany, 2005, color, 110 min. In German with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Director and screenwriter Dominique Deruddere was born in 1957 and studied film in Brussels. He made his feature film debut in 1987 with CRAZY LOVE, based on the short stories of Charles Bukowski. In 1989, Deruddere directed Faye Dunaway, Joe Mantegna and Ornella Muti in the film WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI. The film won the Cavens Award for Best Belgian Film and Deruddere won the Joseph Plateau Award for Best Director. For his film EVERYBODY FAMOUS (2000), Deruddere was nominated for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.

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