Princess (film)

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Movie
Original title princess
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Birgit Grosskopf
script Birgit Grosskopf,
Daniela Hilchenbach
production Till Derenbach ,
Liane Retzlaff ,
Anke Scheib-Krause , WDR
editorial staff : Andrea Hanke
music Alain Goniva ,
Hendrik Lühdorff
camera Kolja Raschke
cut Lawrence Tooley
occupation

Princess is a film by Birgit Grosskopf from 2006. Directed by Birgit Grosskopf, the main roles are played by Irina Potapenko , Henriette Müller , Desirée Jaeger and Aminaschichterich . The film premiered on January 24, 2006 at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in Saarbrücken .

action

The Russian-German Katharina is a member of a women's gang. Together with her friends Yvonne and Jenny, sometime between Christmas and New Year, she moves through the concrete wasteland of a high-rise estate. They beat up a young girl in the S-Bahn for no reason, steal from the lesbian doctor Marlene, extort protection money from a young woman and ambush her rival Özlem to confront her. Since Yvonne is due to start a prison sentence the next day, the young women want to celebrate together again. They go to a house party, get drunk, and go to a flirt club with Jenny's little sister. When Yvonne does not start her sentence the next day, the situation escalates. She falls out with Katharina, is thrown out of the house by her mother and walks desperately through the streets. In an underpass, she meets Özlem and her friends who want to take revenge for the attack. She tortures Yvonne and stabs her in the leg with a knife until she pulls a gun and shoots one of the attackers. Then she flees, is found by Katharina, who calls Marlene for help. However, this alerted the police, whereupon Yvonne was arrested.

production

Locations

Princess was shot in the Cologne district of Cologne-Chorweiler and Cologne-Bickendorf Westend.

Production and rental companies

The film was produced by Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH, Label 131 and in coproduction with WDR. Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH is the rental company.

budget

Funded by the Filmstiftung NRW, there is no information about the budget.

Awards

  • First Steps Award 2006 (best full-length feature film)
  • Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg 2006 (German Independence Award) - Best German Film
  • Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2006 (Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister)
  • Attention Berlin! Film Festival 2006 (Honorable Mention)
  • Festival Internacional de Cinema FESTROIA Setúbal / Portugal 2007 ("First Work's Award")
  • FilmKunstFest Schwerin 2006
  • Cologne Conference 2006: Spectrum Young Film
  • Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006
  • Festival des Films du Monde - Montréal 2006: "Focus on World Cinema"
  • Lagow Film Festival 2006
  • Festival of German Films Paris 2006
  • Int. Valladolid Film Festival 2006
  • FILMZ - Festival of German Cinema Mainz 2006
  • Int. Film Festival Frankfurt / Main 2006
  • Festival of German Films in Lyon 2006
  • Cairo International Film Festival 2006
  • German-Polish Film Weeks 2006, Zielona Góra
  • Trieste Film Festival 2007
  • Film weekend Würzburg 2007
  • Hong Kong Film Festival 2007, Series: German Cinema Returns
  • Birds Eye View Film Festival 2007, London
  • ProFrau FrauenFilmTage Vienna 2007
  • Hong Kong International Film Festival 2007
  • Festroia Festival Internacional de Cinema 2007: * First Work's Award
  • Int. Womens' Film Festival Rehovat Israel 2007

criticism

The jury's justification for awarding the “First Steps Awards 2006” in the “Full-length feature films” category stated: “PRINCESS is one of those films that won't let you go for days. A gang of girls who deal with gray with casual and indescribable brutality Days between the years in the prefabricated building ghetto. Both this place - an somewhere in nowhere that can be called Dortmund, Hamburg or Marzahn - and the time - an acoustic state of war of early New Year's Eve. The young actresses are masterfully told Ghetto film that does without burning garbage cans, with protagonists who always look good and wear freshly washed white jackets, who work as a doctor's assistant or in a hotel - these are not the neglected creatures that no longer concern us. We saw a very political film which is told with an almost “magical realism.” PRINCESS is close to the present and raptured at the same time - an ice age. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Princess . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 750 K).
  2. ↑ Details of the locations on imdb.de
  3. ↑ Princess - First Steps Award 2006

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