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Prinzessin

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Original title

Prinzessin

Year

2006

Running time

82 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Birgit Grosskopf

Screenwriter

Birgit Grosskopf, Daniela Hilchenbach

Cast

Cinematography

Kolja Raschke

Producer

Colonia Media, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Genre

Drama | Friendship

Synopsis

The 'princesses' of the title are a gang of four young women, living in the public housing slums of a dismal West German suburb: Katharina, recently relocated from Russia; Yvonne, who's about to go to prison for almost beating another girl to death; perverse, sexually aggressive Jenny; and Mandy, a creepily precocious 11-year-old. It's the dead space between Christmas and New Year's Eve, and the girls are trying to make the most of Yvonne's last day of freedom: the following morning, she must report to jail. But Yvonne, unpredictable to the last, has other plans... Depicting its dead-end setting with discomfiting fidelity, lit by flashes of sudden, surreal invention (like the sound of fireworks, constantly exploding from the tenement balconies), this is a powerful, harrowing drama about friendship, loyalty and betrayal.

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Prinzessin

2006

Birgit Grosskopf