Heavy Girls

The feature debut of Axel Ranisch, then a film student. With a production budget of 517 Euros and a wealth of ideas and imagination, the film initiated the German Mumblecore wave. Sven (Heiko Pinkowski) lives with his mother Edeltraut (Ruth Bickelhaupt), who is suffering from dementia. He shares his entire life, the apartment, even the bed with her. During the day he works at a bank. While he is at work, Daniel (Peter Trabner) comes to the apartment to look after Edeltraut. He takes her to hairdresser’s, goes for walks, shopping, and tidies up the apartment. But one day while Daniel is cleaning the windows, Edeltraut locks him out on the balcony and takes off. The two men go out looking for her.

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • Doing Gender
  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
  • Location: Berlin
  • Made in Germany
  • missingFILMs
  • Screen: Germany
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Storyline: Queer Love
  • Young Talent
  • achtung berlin – new berlin film award
  • Aging
  • mumblecore
  • quirky
  • the edge

Actors

  • Ruth Bickelhaupt
  • Heiko Pinkowski
  • Peter Trabner
  • Paul Pinkowski

Director

  • Axel Ranisch

Drama, Queer


1h 15min


12 FSK

DE

Germany
2012
With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.

With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.


The feature debut of Axel Ranisch, then a film student. With a production budget of 517 Euros and a wealth of ideas and imagination, the film initiated the German Mumblecore wave.


Sven (Heiko Pinkowski) lives with his mother Edeltraut (Ruth Bickelhaupt), who is suffering from dementia. He shares his entire life, the apartment, even the bed with her. During the day he works at a bank. While he is at work, Daniel (Peter Trabner) comes to the apartment to look after Edeltraut. He takes her to hairdresser’s, goes for walks, shopping, and tidies up the apartment. But one day while Daniel is cleaning the windows, Edeltraut locks him out on the balcony and takes off. The two men go out looking for her.

Award
Deutscher Filmpreis

Festivals

Cast & Crew