This beautiful shitty life!

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Movie
Original title This beautiful shitty life!
Country of production Germany
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2014
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Doris Dörrie
script Doris Dörrie
production Helge Albers
camera Daniel Schönauer
cut Frank Mueller
occupation
  • Raquel Juárez López
  • Las Pioneras de Mexico
  • Magdalena 'Malena' Berrones
  • Guadalupe Aguilar Parra
  • Guadalupe Hernández Monroy
  • Maria Jesús Lara Medina
  • María del Carmen
  • Estrallas de Jalisco (band)

This beautiful shitty life! (Working title El Mariachi Femenil ) is a German documentary film by director Doris Dörrie from 2014 about the life of the few female mariachi in Mexico . The film premiered at SXSW in 2014 . In Germany, the film premiered on July 3, 2014 at the Munich Film Festival.

action

Mariachi is a typical Mexican music genre and an essential part of Mexican culture. But mariachi is much more than music, it embodies a certain lifestyle that is very patriarchal. It is not easy for women to assert themselves in this area. Nevertheless, there is a small number of women who courageously dare to take to the streets with their voices or their instruments to make music, and thus also point out the situation in their homeland, which is marked by corruption, drug wars and crime. The film follows the artists of the band Estrellas de Jalisco , accompanies them at home and during their appearances on the streets of Mexico City and on special occasions, such as birthday parties or on the Día de los Muertos , the most important Mexican holiday.

production

The film was produced by Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH Berlin in coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and Senator Film in cooperation with Arte Deutschland TV GmbH Baden-Baden. It was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media - Film Funding - , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern), the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF) and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) in Potsdam.

The film was shot in Mexico City from 2012 to 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MBB-funded films at the Munich Film Festival , Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg from June 25, 2014, online, accessed on September 10, 2014