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New in cinemas: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’

Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide.

Published: 6 March 2013 09:35 CET
New in cinemas: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
Photo: DPA

Opening this week in Germany is Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful. James Franco plays a small-time magician, Oscar Diggs, who is swept away from the dusty plains of Kansas to the magical Land of Oz. He is eager to finally achieve fame and fortune in the faraway land, until he meets three witches (played by Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams) who halt his efforts to become the great wizard everyone has been expecting. Oscar becomes entangled in the problems facing Oz, and begins a journey to help Oz by determining who is good and who is evil.

Surreal landscapes and astounding visual effects by art director and two-time Oscar winner, Robert Stromberg create a new and imaginative interpretation of the legendary Oz that serve as a magical backdrop to this epic adventure.

Movies in eastern Germany

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Movies in central and western Germany

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Movies in northern Germany

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Movies in southern Germany

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MUNICH

Four injured as WWII bomb explodes near Munich train station

Four people were injured, one of them seriously, when a World War II bomb exploded at a building site near Munich's main train station on Wednesday, emergency services said.

Published: 1 December 2021 16:41 CET
Smoke rises after the WWII bomb exploded on a building site in Munich.
Smoke rises after the WWII bomb exploded on a building site in Munich. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Privat

Construction workers had been drilling into the ground when the bomb exploded, a spokesman for the fire department said in a statement.

The blast was heard several kilometres away and scattered debris hundreds of metres, according to local media reports.

Images showed a plume of smoke rising directly next to the train tracks.

Bavaria interior minister Joachim Herrmann told Bild that the whole area was being searched.

Deutsche Bahn suspended its services on the affected lines in the afternoon.

Although trains started up again from 3pm, the rail operator said there would still be delays and cancellations to long-distance and local travel in the Munich area until evening. 

According to the fire service, the explosion happened near a bridge that must be passed by all trains travelling to or from the station.

The exact cause of the explosion is unclear, police said. So far, there are no indications of a criminal act.

WWII bombs are common in Germany

Some 75 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded ordnance, often uncovered during construction work.

READ ALSO: What you need to know about WWII bomb disposals in Germany

However, most bombs are defused by experts before they explode.

Last year, seven World War II bombs were found on the future location of Tesla’s first European factory, just outside Berlin.

Sizeable bombs were also defused in Cologne and Dortmund last year.

In 2017, the discovery of a 1.4-tonne bomb in Frankfurt prompted the evacuation of 65,000 people — the largest such operation since the end of the war in Europe in 1945.

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