Sinopsis
In Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel creepy neighbourhood, Monika and Joseph meet when she unintentionally gets caught up in a raid near the train station. Their lives can hardly be more different. Monika is in her mid-forties and belongs to the city's cultural scene as a curator. Josef, a Congolese, is a diamond dealer looking for people to invest in a mine in Congo, who keeps himself afloat with various import/export ventures. Their offbeat encounter leads to a passionate love affair that triggers the racist prejudices around them.
Lisa Bierwirth is a German filmmaker born in 1983. She spent one year abroad in New York City, where she worked at various Off-Broadway theatres while attending high school. Back in Germany, she studied Directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin from 2006 to 2016. There she made several short and medium-length films and worked in production, editing, casting and as an assistant director. From 2013 to 2016 she was artistic assistant and dramaturgical advisor to Valeska Grisebach. Prince is her debut feature film.
Director: Lisa Bierwirth (Germany)
Genre: Fiction
Country of production: Germany
Year of production: 2021
Running time: 125’
Language: German with Spanish subtitles
Cast: Ursula Strauss, Passi Balende, Alex Brendemühl, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Hanns Zischler
Production: Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade.
Screenwriter: Hannes Held, Lisa Bierwirth, Maren Ade
Director of photography: Jenny Lou Ziegel
Production companies: Komplizen Film, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel (coproduction)
International sales: Port-au-Prince Pictures GmbH
Festival/Awards Nominated for the German Screenplay Award by the Commissioner for Culture and Media of the Federal Government.
