Wanda, my miracle
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| Original title | Wanda, my miracle |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 111 minutes |
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| Director | Bettina Oberli |
| script | Bettina Oberli, Cooky Ziesche |
| production |
Lukas Hobi , Reto Schärli |
| music | Grandbrothers |
| camera | Judith Kaufmann |
| cut | Kaya Inan |
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Wanda, mein Wunder (international English-language title My Wonderful Wanda ) is a Swiss film drama by Bettina Oberli , which was made available to participants of the Tribeca Film Festival for the first time online from April 15, 2020. The film is scheduled to open the 16th Zurich Film Festival in September 2020 .
action
Wanda from Poland takes care of the elderly head of the family Josef on the Wegmeister-Gloor family's estate on Lake Zurich . After his stroke, she is there around the clock for the bedridden 70-year-old, also helps his wife Elsa, and her youngest son Gregi has an eye on Wanda. The work is poorly paid, but the single mother Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. She comes a few times a year, works a few months, and returns to her village to look after her two teenage sons.
So Wanda gets an intimate insight into the family life of the Wegmeister-Gloors. Conversely, Wanda brings a breath of fresh air into the family. Wanda offers the Patriarch Joseph all kinds of services, including one of which he becomes pregnant. Things get even more complicated when Wanda's parents and sons come to visit Switzerland and cause even more chaos. Two families, two lifestyles and two completely different worlds collide.
production
The director was Bettina Oberli , who also wrote the script together with Cooky Ziesche . The film music was provided by the German-Swiss music duo Grandbrothers .
Agnieszka Grochowska took on the title role of the Polish nurse Wanda. André Jung plays the family patriarch Josef. Cezary Pazura and Agata Rzeszewska took over the roles of Wanda's parents, Bruno Rajski and Iwo Rajski that of their two sons Tomasz and Jakub.
The shooting took place in Zurich from the end of February to the beginning of May 2019 . Judith Kaufmann , who has been nominated twice for the German Film Prize , acted as camerawoman .
The film should celebrate its world premiere in mid-April 2020 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival . One month before the start of the festival, it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic and postponed to a previously unknown date. Nevertheless, the film was made available online from April 15-26, 2020, the festival's original time slot. In mid-September 2020 it will be presented at the Leipzig Film Art Fair. The film is scheduled to open the 16th Zurich Film Festival on September 24, 2020 .
reception
Reviews
Ola Salwa from the online film magazine Cineuropa writes that Bettina Oberli did a wonderful job with her international cast, and highlights Marthe Keller and Agnieszka Grochowska in particular , who both exuded an inner fragility that made Elsa and Wanda as protagonists more likeable and contributed to to end the duel between East and West.
Awards
- Nomination in international competition
- Special Jury Mention at the Nora Ephron Award
Web links
- Wanda, my miracle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wanda, my miracle - information about the film from Cineuropa
- Wanda, my miracle at crew united
- My Wonderful Wanda in the program of the Tribeca Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ola Salwa: Review: My Wonderful Wanda. In: cineuropa.org, April 29, 2020.
- ↑ http://www.unseenfilms.net/2020/04/my-wonderful-wanda-2020-tribeca-2020.html
- ↑ My Wonderful Wanda. In: cineuropa.org. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
- ↑ A movie is being shot: Hollywood visits Lake Zurich. In: srf.ch, May 3, 2019.
- ^ Rebecca Rubin: Hugh Jackman, Pete Davidson Movies to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival. In: Variety, March 3, 2020.
- ↑ Marc Malkin: Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Due to Coronavirus. In: Variety, March 12, 2020.
- ^ Hilary Lewis and Trilby Beresford: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Online Programming as Films Are Judged Remotely. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 3, 2020.
- ^ Vassilis Economou: The 19th Tribeca Film Festival is postponed. In: cineuropa.org, April 14, 2020.
- ^ The films of the 20th Film Art Fair 2020. In: filmkunstmesse.de. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (PDF; 426 KB)
- ↑ Bettina Oberli opens the ZFF 2020 with “Wanda, my miracle”. In: Aargauer Zeitung, August 20, 2020.
- ↑ Amanda N'Duka: Tribeca Film Festival: Netflix's 'The Half of It', 'The Hater', 'Socks On Fire' Among Award Winners For Postponed 2020 Edition. In: deadline.com, April 29, 2020.
- ↑ The Winners Are In. In: tribecafilm.com, April 29, 2020. (Video)