Beautiful bitch
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Beautiful bitch |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Theo Krieger |
| script | Martin Theo Krieger |
| production |
Michael Eckelt for Riva Filmproduktion GmbH |
| music | Andreas Schilling |
| camera | Andreas Höfer |
| cut | Brigitta Tauchner |
| occupation | |
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Beautiful Bitch is a German film by Martin Theo Krieger , which was produced by Riva Filmproduktion GmbH in cooperation with WDR and NDR . The premiere took place in 2007 in Montréal at the Festival des Films du Monde , the German premiere at the 2007 Hof Film Festival . It was released in theaters on August 14, 2008. The film was shown at around 30 international film festivals and received numerous awards. Martin Theo Krieger directed and wrote the script.
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15-year-old Bica (Bitch) lives on the streets of Bucharest with her little brother Pavel . One day she is approached by Cristu, a former police officer, who promises her the solution to all her problems if she comes to Germany with him for a while. Cristu appears to her like a helping angel. Three months later, Bica lives with other Romanian children in a shabby apartment in Düsseldorf . Trained to be pickpockets, Cristu forces them to steal from passers-by in the city every day. Any contact with outsiders is prohibited.
But Bica gets to know Milka, a spoiled, bitchy German girl whose parents have separated. The initial enmity gradually turns into friendship. Bica finds herself in a world that is completely alien to her, but that increasingly attracts and fascinates her: playing streetball , hanging out with friends, arguing, having fun - and first confusions of love. A completely normal teenage existence, but for Bica a new, breathtaking feeling: the idea of freedom and happiness.
Of course, Cristu is not allowed to find out about Bica's excursions into freedom. But their double life as illegal petty criminals and normal young people is exposed. Cristu uses brutal violence to break Bica's connection to her new friends. The situation becomes independent and escalates.
Reviews
"An excellently played, exciting and sensitively narrated dramatic feature film, which without transfiguration processes the situation of 'stolen children', which is characterized by crime and violence, and connects it credibly with the search of young people for orientation and values, for support and friendship."
“A lot of good will is at work at Krieger. Fortunately, his attempt was not a thriller overloaded with violence, but neither was it an authentic observation. Andreas Höfer's camera opens up real spaces of action in which, unfortunately, despite the exciting moments and outbursts of desperation, the fiction looks like an imitation. "
“[...] In his third feature film, Martin Theo Krieger works with the tension between the very different horizons of experience of an affluent bitch and a poor girl. In view of the complex density of crisis situations and subplots, that seems a bit over-constructed - but as the actress in Bica, the novice actor Katharina Derr balances the tough everyday life of a clawed child credibly and touchingly between very contradicting feelings. "
“Krieger decides to let the Romanian children speak High German without an accent. This opens up the possibility of looking away from the external strangeness and towards the complicated inner life of friendship between the young people [...] The excellent cast of the two main roles - Katharina Derr as shy, frightened Bica, Sina Tkotsch as argumentative, but also disoriented Milka - gives the film the necessary density here. "
"This exposition is narrated dynamically and credibly, but soon the film mutates into a clichéd social fairy tale that loses its truthfulness from scene to scene."
“Carefully and without voyeurism, he sketches the apparently broken world of the Klaukinder and the lightness of the German youth. However - and this is what makes this film so strong - it doesn't play one against the other, but takes both worlds seriously. 'Beautiful Bitch' is a strong film, told with empathy and played grandly. Above all by Katharina Derr, who was in front of the camera for the first time and confidently plays the role of the 'bitch'. "
Awards
- Award for the best screenplay, Volkswagen Screenplay Award, Filmfest Emden 2006
- Best Foreign Film Award, Santa Barbara International Filmfest 2008, USA
- Öngören Prize for Democracy and Human Rights, Film Festival Turkey / Germany, Nuremberg 2008
- Special mention for the performance of Katharina Derr, Europa Cinema Viareggio and Rome 2008, Italy
- Best Youth Film, Marburg Children's and Youth Film Festival Final Cut 2008
- Grand Prix du Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne, Festival International de Cinéma Saint-Quentin 2008, France
- Castello D'Oro, Festival International Castellinaria Bellinzona 2008, Switzerland
- Film of the month August 2008, jury of the Protestant film work
- Prix de Jury, Festival de Films Européens Mamers en Mars 2009, France
- Prix des Jury Jeunes, Festival de Films Européens Mamers en Mars 2009, France
- Preselection of the German Film Award 2009, Best Director category
Web links
- Beautiful Bitch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beautiful Bitch at filmportal.de (with photo gallery and trailer)
- color film rental
- VisionKino: information and material
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Beautiful Bitch . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 449 K).
- ↑ Beautiful Bitch. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Film of the month: August 2008 - Beautiful Bitch at filmdesmonats.de