Princess bath
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Princess bath |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bettina Blümner |
| script | Bettina Blümner (concept) |
| production |
Peter Schwartzkopff , Katja Siegel |
| camera |
Mathias Schöningh , Bettina Blümner |
| cut | Inge Schneider |
| occupation | |
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Prinzessinnenbad is a German documentary from 2007 . Director Bettina Blümner accompanies the three teenage girls Klara, Mina and Tanutscha with the camera through the Berlin district of Kreuzberg .
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Klara, Mina and Tanutscha, all of whom grew up with their mothers in Berlin-Kreuzberg , are best friends. They have known each other since childhood and share common interests: parties, boys and the outdoor pool . You can often meet them in Kreuzberg's “ Prinzenbad ”, which gives the film its name. Nevertheless, in a time of personal upheaval, they have to go their own way more and more. Klara is doing her training in a school refusal project and has to do community hours. Mina wants to be with her boyfriend George, who is making travel plans as she is preparing for the exam. And the half-Iranian Tanutscha demands more freedom from her mother in order to be able to participate in the revealing life of her friends.
Reviews
“Everything about this documentation is immediate. There is no artificial intervention. Not even questions that the students have to answer. Any distance is removed, and even though these girls have only introduced themselves for a few minutes, you can't shake the feeling that you know them. The cigarette has never been so clearly a means of holding on, of seeking a hold. You hear examples from kindergarten and immediately another part fits into the overall portrait of the inseparable friends. You get to know their values, find the sadness in their eyes, kindness and what has hardened them. Sometimes they mutate into queens, queens of the curb and the road. Then they turn the heads of men or other pubescent people and live with an ease that will be gone by tomorrow morning. The girls reap the greatest astonishment with their reason and honesty. Between all the announcements about pussies and stories, Turks and freaks, there is a flash of maturity and foresight. But only on one condition. In this documentary, the openness of the viewer decides whether it is good or bad. Anyone who can deal with this everyday life because they accept it will consider Bettina Blümner's work a masterpiece. Because she did everything right, not a single mistake. You just have to swallow it alone. "
“The documentary striving for intimacy maintains the balance between observation and intervention and yet also creates areas for identification. Sometimes mounted in clip art, it is also a declaration of love to the multicultural Berlin district of Kreuzberg. "
“The director always takes a back seat and never gives in to the impulse to get too close to the girls, avoiding discrediting or exposing them. Despite the seriousness with which Klara, Mina and Tanutscha also report very personal things, there is still a certain playful lightness to be felt in everything, from which it becomes clear that there is still a lot in flux and development with these impressive personalities. "
Awards
- At the Berlinale 2007 the film received the DIALOGUE en Perspective award for the directorial work by Bettina Blümner.
- At the 2008 German Film Awards ceremony , Prinzessinnenbad received the award for the best documentary film .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Prinzessinnenbad . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Claudia Nitsche: "Das Kurz Glück im Kiez" ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , teleschau / monstersandcritics.de, May 25, 2007
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ^ Rochus Wolff: Filmkritik , on critic.de, February 8, 2007
- ↑ Press release Berlinale 2007
See also
Web links
- Princesses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Prinzessinnenbad at Filmportal.de
- The protagonists four years after shooting began , FAZ , December 3, 2008
- "Krass in Kreuzberg" , Der Tagesspiegel , June 16, 2009