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Glück
- Runtime:
- 90 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2021
- Country:
- Germany
- Director:
- Cast:
- Katharina Behrens
Adam Hoya
Nele Kayenberg
Jean-Luc Bubert
Petra Kauner
Bence Máté
Sarah Junghauß
Mandy Schicker - Production Company:
- Flare Film GmbH
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
Alternating between waiting in the break room, having sex and lining up for the next john: Maria, a self-confident Italian in her mid-twenties, is new to the Berlin brothel where Sascha has been working for a long time. With her tattoos, her piercings and her penchant for writing poetry in a notebook during breaks, she is quite different from the others. The two women are immediately attracted to each other. Maria keeps her cash in a locker in the Berlin State Library. She regularly assures her father on the phone that she is doing well and earning a lot of money. For Sascha, the regional train connects her not only with her old life in provincial Brandenburg but also with her 11-year-old son who lives with his father. When she takes Maria to a village festival and introduces her as her new girlfriend, Sascha brings with her the assertive, non-conformist ways of the city. For the first time she is trying to be true to who she really is.
Filmed with precision and a lightness of touch, Henrika Kull’s second feature tells a love story set in a place where the female body is a commodity and depicts two charismatic sex workers who manage to charm the viewer just as much as everyone around them.
BIOGRAFIE Henrika Kull
Born in southern Germany in 1984, she studied sociology in Cologne. After writing her diploma thesis on the sociology of film, she took up a degree in film production at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) in 2012. In 2014, she began studying directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf under tutors including Barbara Albert, for whom she was also an assistant. Her feature-length graduation film Jibril premiered in the 2018 Panorama and won several awards including the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award for Best Film. She was a member of the jury for the Heiner Carow Prize during the 2019 Berlinale.
FILMOGRAFIE Henrika Kull (selection)
2021 Glück
2018 Jibril
2017 Rosinen; Kurzfilm
2016 Absently Present; Kurz-Dokumentarfilm
2014 Intimate Distance; Kurzfilm
2014 Rite of Spring; short film