Madonnas

Between disco, lovers, escaping from the police and ready-made pizza, the headstrong young Rita, mother of five children, still seems to be looking for her own place in life. Rita (Sandra Hüller), a social hardship case, sets off to Belgium with her youngest child in her arms - the other children are with a foster mother - to look for their own father. "Social reality is full of mothers who don't fulfill their role as expected of them. That was my starting point. With the aim of describing not a social prototype, but a concrete and singular person." (Director's statement Maria Speth)

Keywords

  • Berliner Schule
  • Filmgalerie 451
  • conflict
  • dysfunctional family
  • family
  • parenthood
  • single parent
  • social drama
  • women

Actors

  • Sandra Hüller
  • Susanne Lothar
  • Gerti Drassl
  • Olivier Gourmet

Director

  • Maria Speth

Drama


2h


12 FSK

DE


EN

Switzerland
Belgium
Germany
2007
"MADONNAS paints the astonishingly differentiated picture of a young woman who neglects her children." (taz)

"MADONNAS paints the astonishingly differentiated picture of a young woman who neglects her children." (taz)


Between disco, lovers, escaping from the police and ready-made pizza, the headstrong young Rita, mother of five children, still seems to be looking for her own place in life.


Rita (Sandra Hüller), a social hardship case, sets off to Belgium with her youngest child in her arms - the other children are with a foster mother - to look for their own father.


"Social reality is full of mothers who don't fulfill their role as expected of them. That was my starting point. With the aim of describing not a social prototype, but a concrete and singular person." (Director's statement Maria Speth)

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Cast & Crew