Wild Westerwald

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Movie
Original title Wild Westerwald
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1995
length 66 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bernd Lohr
script Bernd Lohr
production ZDF, Austrian film
music Jörg Leitenberger
camera Carl F. Koschnick
cut Inge Schneider
occupation

Wilder Westerwald is a German feature film by Bernd Löhr with Ellen ten Damme and Claudia Michelsen in the leading roles.

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Lisa grew up in a sleepy village in the Westerwald . When she was six years old, she wanted to be Adorable Jeannie ; when she turned thirteen she stood in front of the mirror for hours and sang like Suzi Quatro . At nineteen her hair was bright red and her eyelids jet black - and she was almost bored to death. Now she is almost thirty and is still waiting for the big surprise in her life. She separates from her boyfriend when she learns she is expecting a child and returns to her small village for the first time in years. There she meets Verena, a young hairdresser from Bulgaria , who has traveled to Germany in the hope of a dazzling life beyond cheap perms and dreary shop windows to marry a man whom she was referred to via video advertisement.

Reviews

"Two actresses who are still unbroken in their joy of playing, a wonderful cameraman and a director who with laconic creative power not only asserts stories, but packs them into emotional images - in the idea of ​​home as a pretty glass ball and imaginary place: timeless, somewhere." (epd Church and Broadcasting No. 55 of July 15, 1995, p. 32)

"Wilder Westerwald is a homeland film about the homeless that also suggests a bitter lesbian romance." (the daily newspaper, July 8, 1995)

"Home - that was home, mother and father, the village, nature, childhood and a strange feeling. Home, as shown by Bernd Löhr, 32, a graduate of the Berlin Film and Television Academy, that is maternal reproach, narrowness, Man boasting, gossiping women, cow dung and a bit of luck at the brook when you've had a good drink. In the "new Heimatfilm" only strangers are not strangers, and so Lisa (Claudia Michelsen), the lost daughter and pregnant rock singer, and Verena close (Ellen ten Damme), the bought Eastern bride from Bulgaria, friendship. Löhr tells a sad story heavy with blue. When the stars sparkle, kitsch threatens, but his view of home remains incorruptible. " (Der Spiegel, No. 27 of July 9, 1995, p. 204)

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