The Nasty Girl ( Das Schreckliche Mädchen )

The Nasty Girl (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Das Schreckliche Mädchen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:

Directed By:
Michael Verhoeven

Written By:
Michael Verhoeven

Actors:
Lena Stolze ..... Sonja
Hans-Reinhard Müller ..... Juckenack
Monika Baumgartner ..... Sonja's mother
Elisabeth Bertram ..... Sonja's grandma
Michael Gahr ..... Paul Rosenberger
Robert Giggenbach ..... Martin
Fred Stillkrauth ..... Sonja's uncle
Barbara Gallauner ..... Miss Juckenack
Udo Thomer ..... Archivist Schulz
Ludwig Wühr ..... Owner of the Swingboat
Christof Wackernagel ..... Zoepfel
Richard Suessmeier ..... The Mayor
Sandra White ..... Iris
Rudolf Klaffenböck ..... The judge
Karin Thaler ..... Nina

Synopsis:

Lena Stolze stars as Sonja, a young Bavarian woman whose submission to an essay contest explores her hometown's affiliation with the Third Reich; as she learns more and more of the truth, she is increasingly victimized by her fellow townspeople, who do not want the scars from their past ripped open anew.

A German high school student, Sonja (Lena Stolze as a fictionalized version of Anna Rosmus) wins an essay contest and goes on a trip to Paris. Martin Wegmus begins teaching physics at Sonja's school and one of Sonja's classmates falls in love with him. Almost by luck, Mr. Wegmus and Sonja kiss. The teacher promises to return for her. The next year, she enters the contest again. She chooses 'My Town During the Third Reich' from the possible topics. Her research leads her to discover that her picture-perfect town had been intimately involved in the Third Reich and that nearly all of the city's prominent families were members of the Nazi party long before it came to power. As she digs further, local authorities stonewall her efforts. Sonja persists and learns that there had been eight concentration camps in the area and that all the Jews were forced out of the town and had their property confiscated. Sonja marries Martin, and the townsfolk think Sonja has dropped the issue of Nazi involvement. Sonja bears Martin two daughters and studies history at the University. She resumes her research into the town's Nazi past, and wins court cases granting her access to archives. She still has to employ trickery to get the information she wants, however. In response, her town's hostility grows from verbal abuse, to death threats to physical assaults as they attempt to silence her with increasing desperation, but nothing deters her. Meanwhile, her husband feels emasculated as he's forced to take care of the children. The family survives a bomb from the angry townsfolk, but Sonja keeps up her research. At the end, the townspeople change their tune, even putting a bust of Sonja at the town hall. Sonja sees through this as a means to silence her and rejects the honor.

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 June, 2009.

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