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Gangster Girls (DVD) (*)

$31.99

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

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
79 min + 1 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Teaser(s)

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Tina Leisch

Written By:
Ursula Wolschlager
Tina Leisch

Actors:
Chantal ..... Herself
Amélie ..... Herself
Cindy ..... Herself
Djejdo ..... Himself
Dominik ..... Himself
Fabienne ..... Herself
Jason ..... Himself
Big Joe ..... Himself
Joker ..... Himself
Justin ..... Himself
Miranda ..... Herself
Renée ..... Herself
Roberta ..... Herself
Sammy ..... Herself
Sophia ..... Herself

Synopsis:

A documentary. Are they playing some kind of a role game? They are the female inmates of the Schwarzau penitentiary, they wear heavy blue and green make-up and they have thus hidden their faces in order to be able to play the heroes and heroines of an antique tragedy together with the young men from the juvenile delinquents' jail in Gerasdorf. The heavy make-up makes it easier for them to narrate their unadorned life stories and tell of the deeds which got them into jail, of credit card fraudery, breaking and entering, theft, hold-ups with toy pistols, but also of brutal families, false friends and, last not least, of that ruthless machine of greed and poison, drug addiction. Thus they bear witness to what it means to try and find your luck in life when all the signs along the way scream "Failure!" The little stories narrated in this film are great tragedies,of the kind which one is hard put to find in any other of today's Austrian films.

They are caught in between heroin trips and toy pistol muggings, between mad shopping sprees and depths of misery. They learn English and jail slang. They crave for substitute happiness smuggled into their cells and the next leave. At the only women's prison in Austria, Schwarzau, drug mules, robbers, and frauds share their cells and their yearnings for love, tobacco, and shower gel. They dream of their children who are far away or one of the inmates from Gerasdorf, the prison for male juveniles, brought to the women's prison once a week for a co-ed theater workshop. What put them behind bars and what is prison doing to them? The young women's improvised answers on stage are often entirely different than those that they give in intensive interview tableaus. This gives rise to a complex picture, drawn by the prisoners themselves, of the social space of the prison.

They are caught in between heroin trips and toy pistol muggings, between mad shopping sprees and depths of misery. They learn English and jail slang. Alongside a theater production in the womens jail Schwarzau, prisoners impro-vise scenes from their lives.When did they take the turn that led them here? How does imprisonment affect them?

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 24 November, 2012.