Eine flexible Frau
The Drifter
Greta: 40, an architect, mother of a 12-year-old son, separated from her husband, recently unemployed. She starts working in a call center but is soon dismissed once again. She does everything in her power to keep hanging on in there, starts drinking and drifts through the city, torn between the pressure to confirm and the spirit of contradiction.
"A Woman Under the Influence", in Berlin at the beginning of the 21st century. The so-called New Berlin, moving from the wastelands to the town houses. Flexible, globalized capitalism. Postfeminism. And the respective vocabulary that goes with it: fragments of theory, empty phrases, buzz words, quotes. A woman with a vision of urban space, of herself, of her profession, of her life with her child.
But those aren′t the actual circumstances. Greta at parties, at the call center, at sessions with a job application coach, with her son, with her ex-colleagues, at the job center, at bars, walking through the city. Fierce, hysterical, stubborn, almost in a trance, fractious, uninhibited, effusive, desperately unhappy. Situations, encounters, performances. More of a trip than a narrative. Snap-shots of a woman′s fragile contemporary life (at work). A flexible woman, an All-Around Reduced Personality.
Birgit Kohler
Source: 60. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Greta
- Polnische Ökonomin Loretta
- Tänzer Sven
- Callcenterchefin Ann
- Tänzer Torsten
- Tänzer Fabio
- Architektin Marlene
- Architektin Francesca
- Studienkollege Max
- Sekretärin Fee
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Lighting design
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Sound design
Sound
Audio mixing
Choreographer
Casting
Music
Cast
- Greta
- Polnische Ökonomin Loretta
- Tänzer Sven
- Callcenterchefin Ann
- Tänzer Torsten
- Tänzer Fabio
- Architektin Marlene
- Architektin Francesca
- Studienkollege Max
- Sekretärin Fee
- Sachbearbeiterin Kracht
- Callcenteragent Annuschka
- Schulungscallcenteragent
- Frau Zeller, Lehrerin
- Kluge, Stadtführer
- Der Coach
- Townhousebesitzerin
- Saskia, Consultant
- Sue, Designerin
- Lili, Designerin
- Dolmetscherin
- Lucas, der Sohn
- Tim, sein Fussballfreund
- Paul, der Vater von Lukas
- Sean, der englische Banker
- Mann in der Bar
- Eine Hölderlinkennerin
- Maria, eine alte Freundin
- Ein Mann in der Bar
Production company
Producer
Unit production manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- 06.07.2009 - 21.08.2009: Berlin
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.06.2010, 123339, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 18.02.2010, Berlin, IFF - Internationales Forum des Jungen Films;
Kinostart (DE): 06.01.2011
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Eine flexible Frau
- Weiterer Titel (DE) The Drifter
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.06.2010, 123339, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 18.02.2010, Berlin, IFF - Internationales Forum des Jungen Films;
Kinostart (DE): 06.01.2011