From the third day after the opening of the Berlin Film Festival, most of the actors and actresses in the crew were free to do whatever they wanted. However, the producers began to work hard on marketing, in order to sell more of the screening rights for Dog Warrior in various overseas regions. Every single one of them was real money, and it was related to whether the movie would make a profit or lose money.
Yesterday's premiere at the Berlinale Palast received a good response. Middlemen and distributors who were interested in the movie came one after another, and they contacted the producers to discuss cooperation matters. However, these things had nothing to do with Zhang Zian. With his position in the crew, he only knew a little about it.
Many parties were still waiting to see if Dog Warrior could win an award at the Berlin Film Festival. If it could win an award, it would greatly improve the publicity and box office sales.
It was said that when the judges selected the movie for the main competition, they had already given the movie a score in their hearts. Unless there were special circumstances, it would not change. In other words, whether Dog Warrior could win an award or not had already been decided. It would only be officially announced on the last day of the film festival.
Zhang Zian and Famous were originally scheduled to do some publicity activities, as well as stand at the film trading market. However, because of the discord between them and the team leader, Nie Yuan, the two of them were put on the back burner by Nie Yuan, and all publicity activities were canceled.
However, there was an advantage to this. Zhang Zian finally had a few days of free time. He could take the elfins around Germany and relax, and he did not have to worry about being recalled by the crew.
Moreover, the so-called "put on the back burner" only meant that there were no official publicity activities for the crew. Privately, there were many media outlets that contacted Zhang Zian through various channels, asking to interview Famous …
Yesterday, when Famous did not appear on the red carpet at the Berlinale Palast, the happiest person was Lin Feng. Finally, there was no one and no dog to steal the limelight from him. He had a good time on the red carpet.
After waking up in the morning, Zhang Zian first contacted Pi like he did two days ago, and asked it how he was doing in the shop. Pi's answer was still that everything was normal, and it told him not to worry and to enjoy himself in Germany.
Lu Yi Yun was under a lot of pressure. In the past two days, there had been more media outlets than customers in the shop, and she could not count on Wang Qian and Li Kun, the two idiots who could not keep their mouths shut. She could only force herself to temporarily block the media outlets.
After confirming that there were no problems in the shop, Zhang Zian was relieved.
After asking around, he found out that the address provided on Reina's business card was a small German city by the sea in the north. It was not too far from Berlin, and one could either take the train or rent a car to get there.
Train travel in Germany was quite famous, and the scenery along the way was picturesque. If one was not in a hurry, it was a good choice to visit Germany. However, considering the inconvenience of the elves taking the train, he decided to rent a car in the end. It would be more free to come and go.
He left the hotel with Famous and the invisible elfins. The rented car was parked at the entrance of the hotel. The elfins were sitting in the same way as the last time they set off the fireworks. Fina and Snowy Lionet occupied the front passenger seat, Old Time Tea and Xinghai occupied the back seat, Famous occupied the trunk alone, and Richard was struggling everywhere.
Before leaving, there was one more thing he could do.
Zhang Zian drove around Berlin, then parked the car in front of an official souvenir shop designated by the Berlin Film Festival. He planned to send some limited edition postcards of the film festival to his friends in China. They would only be sold during the film festival. They would have a Berlin postmark on them, which was both retro and memorable. If they were slow, some of the best-selling postcards might be sold out.
The atmosphere of the film festival was still heating up, and there was a queue in front of almost every cinema to buy tickets.
The temperature in Binhai City was gradually warming up, but there were still a large number of locals and tourists wearing down jackets on the streets of Germany.
Zhang Zian asked the other elfins to stay in the car for the time being while he led Famous into the souvenir shop.
As soon as he entered the door, he was greeted by a large Berlin Bear doll. It had a brown, furry body and a triangular red scarf tied around its neck. It stared at the customers who entered the door with its two small, round black eyes. Its eyes were full of innocence, as if it was saying, "Why are you only here now? Hurry up and take me away! "
The large doll was very cute, but it was too big, making it inconvenient to mail and carry around. Zhang Zian could only choose the small doll. Fortunately, its demeanor and actions were no different from the large doll, so it should be able to win the hearts of young girls.
The souvenir shop was full of dazzling items. There were all kinds of official souvenirs in the glass display cabinets, such as T-shirts, sweaters, scarves, hats, and other clothing. There were also shopping bags and backpacks with the Berlin Bear printed on them, as well as wine glasses, mugs, pens, key chains, notepads, and so on. All of them were mainly red in color. It just so happened that people's impression of China was also bright red. Coupled with the festive atmosphere after the Spring Festival, this year's film festival seemed to be tailor-made for China.
There were many customers coming and going in the souvenir shop, speaking a variety of languages. Occasionally, Chinese could be heard.
The workmanship of these small souvenirs was very exquisite and very practical. After buying them, they were quite suitable to be placed in the room or used.
Zhang Zian had originally planned to buy souvenirs before returning to China, but under the influence of the lively atmosphere in the shop, he had unknowingly carried a big bag in each hand. He was going to use them as gifts for customers who bought pets when they went back. They should be very popular.
In particular, he was going to visit Reina's father this time to ask him about some marine pets. He didn't know what the etiquette in Germany was like, but it was too embarrassing to visit him empty-handed. So he bought some souvenirs for him, not knowing if he would like them or not.
There were many types of official postcards for the film festival, and most of them had a bear on the cover. Some were brown, some were red, and some were green under the light. They were all taken from the posters of this year's film festival, especially the postcard with a white bear soaking in an open-air hot spring. It seemed to be very popular. When Zhang Zian noticed that there were only a few left, he quickly grabbed the remaining few in his hand, picked a few of other styles, and went to the cashier to pay.
The cashier provided a pen, and Zhang Zian wrote different blessings on the back of the postcard. Then, under the guidance of the cashier, he filled in the address.
As he wrote, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Famous lingering in front of one of the display cabinets. He walked over and asked, "Famous, is there anything you like?"
Famous was looking at a collar, which was also an official souvenir of the Berlin Film Festival. The black leather collar had several red Berlin bears printed on it in equal spacing. The black and red combination made it look very cool.
"Do you like this?" he asked.
Famous nodded without blinking. "It's very memorable. I want to collect souvenirs from the film festival, so I might as well start with the Berlin Film Festival. "
Zhang Zian understood what it meant. It was very confident in itself. In the future, it would definitely play more roles and appear on the stages of different film festivals.
The bigger one's heart, the bigger the stage.
"Okay, let's start with Berlin." He smiled. He was also very confident in Famous.
He added the collar to the shopping list and paid for it.
Back in the rental car, he threw all the things he bought into the trunk, turned the steering wheel, and left Berlin to head north.
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