Bandits
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Jutta Hoffmann, Katja Riemann, Nicolette Krebitz, Jasmin Tabatabai
Bandits by Katja von Garnier
DEU 1997, Retrospective
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Nicolette Krebitz, Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai
Bandits by Katja von Garnier
DEU 1997, Retrospective
© Olga Film
Four female cons form a rock band in prison as part of a rehabilitation programme. They use the chance of a performance at a policeman’s ball to escape. A music producer who has their demo tape notices the media coverage of the quartet and scents a business opportunity. And indeed, with his help the “Bandits” become overnight stars. They manage to elude capture at a concert by taking a tourist hostage. With their captive in the car, and detectives hot on their heels, they head for Hamburg’s port, where a ship is waiting to sail them to America … Borrowing from genre cinema (women’s prison films, road movies) and using the aesthetics of music videos, Katja von Garnier brings to the screen musical girl power in the era of Riot Girls and post-feminism. Modelled on American girl gang films about renegade sisterhood, and with each protagonist an individual, Bandits stylises four different role models for female assertiveness, from sexy to militant – with the hunky man in the back seat serving as a passing sex object.
With
- Katja Riemann
- Jasmin Tabatabai
- Nicolette Krebitz
- Jutta Hoffmann
- Hannes Jaenicke
- Werner Schreyer
- Peter Sattmann
- Andrea Sawatzki
Crew
Director | Katja von Garnier |
Screenplay | Uwe Wilhelm, Katja von Garnier based on a story by Ben Taylor, Katja von Garnier |
Cinematography | Torsten Breuer |
Editing | Hans Funck |
Music | Peter Weihe, Udo Arndt, Volker Griepenstroh |
Sound | Michael Hinreiner |
Production Design | Susann Bieling |
Costumes | Claudia Bobsin |
Producers | Harald Kügler, Molly von Fürstenberg, Elvira Senft |
Additional information
DCP: Olga Film, München
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Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Katja von Garnier, Nicolette Krebitz, Jutta Hoffmann, Andrea Sawatzki
The team of the film from 1997 at the Zoo Palast.
Bandits · Retrospective · Feb 15, 2019
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Rainer Rother, Katja von Garnier
The section head and the director on the stage of the Zoo Palast.
Bandits · Retrospective · Feb 15, 2019