MADONNEN
MADONNAS


SYNOPSIS
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own six children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother for her grandchildren as she never did that for Rita.

DIRECTORMaria Speth
YEAR2007
STATUScompleted
FESTIVALS AWARDSBerlinale-Forum
Best Actress Award Mar del Plata
Hessischer Filmpreis 07

 
CASTSandra Hüller
Susanne Lothar
Luisa Sappelt
Coleman Swinton
Olivier Gourmet

 
CO PRODUCTION WITHPandora Film in co-production with ZDF/Kleines Fernsehspiel
Les Films du Fleuve (Liège)
Cineworx Filmproduktion (Basel)
SUPPORTED BYFilmstiftung NRW
Hessen Invest
Hessische Filmförderung
BKM
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
FFA
WORLD SALESThe Match Factory
GERMAN DISTRIBUTORPeripher Film

 
LENGTH140 min.
FORMATcolour
S-16mm blow-up to 35mm
1:1.85
SHOOTING LOCATIONFrankfurt (Germany)
Belgium
ORIGINAL LANGUAGEGerman

 
PRODUCERSChristoph Friedel (producer)
Claudia Steffen (delegate producer)
Pascal Trächslin (co-producer)
Olivier Bronckart (co-producer)
WRITERSMaria Speth
CASTINGNina Haun, Jacqueline Rietz
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYReinhold Vorschneider
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTDorissa Berninger
EDITINGDietmar Kraus
MUSIC
SOUNDLaurent Barbey
Ruedi Guyer
ART DIRECTIONTim Pannen
Igor Gabriel
Marion Foradori
Beatrice Schulz
COSTUMESBirgitt Kilian
MAKE UP HAIRLiljana Müller
Monika Münnich

 
SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLEno
DVD VIDEO AVAILABLEyes (Filmgalerie 451)
LINKSwww.peripherfilm.de, www.filmgalerie451.de