Come to the film screening “Victoria” within the framework of the Spring Cinema program by the Goethe Institut in Hanoi and HCMC.One city. One girl. One night. One take.
Genre: Crime film/drama
Country: Germany
Year: 2015
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Script: Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Schulz
Actor: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André M. Hennicke, Anna Lena Klenke, Eike Schulz
Length: 140 minutes
Age rating: from 16 years
Adwards: International Film Festival Berlin 2015: Silver award in the category Excellence Artist Performance: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for camera work;
German Film Award 2015: Golden award for the best full-length featured film and best direction amongst others
Festival: International Film Festival Berlin 2015
Toronto International Film Festival 2015
Canberra International Film Festival 2015
New Zealand International Film Festival 2015
The young Spanish girl Victoria is new to the German capital and likes to dance the night away. After a night in the club she gets to know Sonne and his three friends. First, it appears that the party simply goes on with a little flirt. But soon it turns out that the coming night is going to be a lot more dramatic, because Sonne and his friend need to clear debts… Victoria becomes an accomplice in a bank robbery… A thrilling escape through a Berlin night that changes everything.
The extremely short, 12-page script consisted only of scene descriptions that were improvised by the actors on camera. The adrenaline-fuelled and emotionally charged film was also shot in just one camera setting, without any cuts, thus allowing the viewers to follow the story in real time.
Sebastian Schipper, born in Hannover in 1968, studied drama at the Otto Falckenberg school in Munich. Afterwards he was member of the ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele for two years. As an actor he played in films like The English Patient and Run Lola Run amongst others. His debut in direction Absolute Giganten (1999) was awarded by the German Film Award and his films A Friend of Mine (2004) and Sometime in August (2008) have been presented at the Berlinale.
Language: German with English and Vietnamese subtitles
“Victoria” will be screened on Wed 12 Apr 2017, 7 pm at Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi and Salon Van hoa Ca Phe Thu Bay, 1st floor, 19B Pham Ngoc Thach, Dist 3, HCMC.
