Sophiiiie! ( Preussisch Blau )

Sophiiiie! (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Preussisch Blau
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Michael Hofmann

Written By:
Michael Hofmann

Actors:
Katharina Schüttler ..... Sophie
Alexander Beyer ..... Manuel (aka Manu)
Boris Aljinovic ..... Mann mit Kind
Martin Brambach ..... Toupee man
Traugott Buhre ..... Old Man
Ercan Durmaz ..... Aziz (cabdriver)
Holger Mahlich ..... 50-jähriger Taxifahrer
Wilfried Müller ..... Wirt
Tomek Nowicki ..... Polnischer Cowboy
Axel Olsson ..... 60-jähriger Taxifahrer
Josef Ostendorf ..... Truckman
Harald Polzin ..... 40-jähriger Taxifahrer
Guido A. Schick ..... Arzt
Thomas Schüler ..... Marco
Katharina Schütz ..... Rezeptionistin
Robert Stadlober ..... Toby (nancy boy)
Claus Tannhoff ..... Penner
Gerd Wameling ..... Gigi

Synopsis:

Director Michael Hofmann follows his 1998 feature-film debut The Beach at Trouville with an intense character study of one young woman's descent into self-destruction in Sophiiiie! Sophie (Katharina Schuttler) is in the arms of her boyfriend Manu (Alexander Beyer) for an unidentified crisis in her life. As the consoling takes a turn toward intimacy, Sophie tears herself away from Manu, takes his motorcycle, and races maniacally toward downtown Hamburg. Henceforth, Sophie spends an evening narrowly escaping various dangerous situations, ranging from sexually provoking a group of macho barflies that nearly ends in her rape to whoring herself to a man she randomly meets on the street. After one particularly long ride in a cab, she reveals her current situation to the cab's driver, Aziz (Ercan Durmaz): She is 11 weeks pregnant from a rapist and hasn't yet decided what to do with the baby. After meeting with Manu one last time, she has one last pivotal sexual encounter with a stranger that sends her into her deepest emotional spiral of the night. Sophiiiie! premiered as a competing film at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Sophie is pregnant, but doesn't know who the child's father is. In the night before her abortion date, she steals her boyfriend's motorcycle and races through the town with suicidal intention. After surviving that, to her surprise, she steps on the gas even more: straight as an arrow and with the impact of a falling rock, desperately seeking to find out just what it is she wants. She finally makes her decision, but the brakes fail...

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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