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Tom Schilling in 'Fabian —Going to the Dogs' He plays a young man coming of age in pre-Hitler Berlin in Dominik Graf's movie, which premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and was picked up for release in North America. When he was offered the lead role in Fabian —Going to the Dogs, a coming-of-age tell set in Berlin in the early 1930s, Tom Schilling wasn't really interested in doing another period drama. The German star, who played a post-war, avant-garde artist in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated Never Look Away (2018), the seminal East Be...

THERE will be thousands of tributes for that British institution Dame Barbara Windsor, who died last week from Alzheimer’s at a London care home. She was 83. Most will concentrate on her many starring roles in the Carry On series of films or as publican Peggy Mitchell in TV soap EastEnders.  Some will deal with her close relationships with criminals and others will patronise much of her work. Although she was known for her Conservative sympathies, her talent won admiration from across the political spectrum, and I think we should look back on the long career of a working-class actor who, l...