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New in German cinemas: ‘Elysium’

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

Published: 14 August 2013 13:51 CEST
New in German cinemas: ‘Elysium’
Photo: DPA

In the year 2154, there are two classes of people: the wealthy, who live on a luxurious manmade space station called Elysium, and everybody else, who lives on a crowded, dirty, ravaged Earth. In Elysium, the latest sci-fi action film from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, Matt Damon stars as Max Da Costa, an ex-con on a mission to access the life-saving Med-Pods on the far-off space station. But Jessica Delacourt, a high-ranking government official played by Jodie Foster, will do everything to stop him and the other illegal immigrants trying to reach the vaunted gates of the privileged.

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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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