DIE POLIZISTIN
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Germany
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 95 min.
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THE POLICEWOMAN / LA POLICI�RE
Anne, fresh out of the police academy, is assigned to Rostock a port city in eastern Germany. Here she gets posted to a rundown, deprived, inner city area, a neighbourhood of drab high-rise apartment buildings, monstrous shopping malls and grey streets. Single, 27, no beauty but not unattractive, Anne has no ties; it's a new town and she's hoping to make a fresh start. But it doesn't take her long to learn that the life of a police officer is daily struggle with bureaucracy, not to mention criminals of all varieties and degrees of seriousness. Still new and without the callousness of the veteran cops, Anne finds herself affected by her encounters with people struggling to survive and she doesn't find it easy to keep the emotional distance that her profession might require. Then, one day, she meets Benny, a 10-year-old boy who has been caught shoplifting in a supermarket... THE POLICEWOMAN is a portrait of police work that eschews car chases and sensational murders in favour of grit and realism, the true heart of inner city law enforcement.
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Script: Laila Stieler. D'apr�s le roman/Based on the novel: Meine Nachtgestalten. De/By: Annegret Held.
Phot.: Michael Hammon.
Ed.: Monika Schindler.
Cast: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Axel Prahl, Jevgenij Sitochin, Paul Grubba, Katrin Sass, Horst Krause.
Prod.: Christian Granderath, Norbert Sauer, Westdeutsche Universum-Film GmbH f�r WDR, Dianastrasse 21, 14482 Potsdam (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-33) 17 06 03 70, fax: (49-33) 17 06 03 76, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Bavaria Media GmbH, Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-89) 64 99 36 66, fax: (49-89) 64 99 22 40, e-mail: [email protected].
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Andreas Dresen
Born in Gera, Germany in 1963, Andreas Dresen worked as a sound engineer for the Schwerin Theatre in 1984-85 and apprenticed at the DEFA Studio in 1985-86. He studied directing at the Konrad Wolf College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1986 to 1991 and he studied under G�nter Reisch at the Berlin Art Academy. He began his professional career as a screenwriter and director in 1992. Among his directing credits are: Der kleine Clown (1985), Schritte des Anderen (1987), Di Narren sterben nicht aus (1991), Krauses Kneipe (1993), Das andere Leben des herrn Kreins (1994), and Mein unbekannter Ehemann (1994). THE POLICEWOMAN is his second feature. NIGHT MOVES, his first, is showing at this year's festival in the Cinema of Tomorrow section. |
