Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Helena Zengel
Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Helena Zengel
Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Lisa Hagmeister, Helena Zengel
Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Helena Zengel
Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Helena Zengel
Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch
Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Competition 2019
DEU 2019
by: Nora Fingscheidt
Nora Fingscheidt
Feb 8, 2019Albrecht Schuch, Helena Zengel, Nora Fingscheidt
The director with her actors on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Dieter Kosslick, Helena Zengel, Nora Fingscheidt, Lisa Hagmeister
The Festival Director bringing the young actress to her seat at the premiere in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Maryam Zaree
The actress, who has a film as a director in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino in 2019, arriving at the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Film team, Dieter Kosslick
At the premiere.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch
The actors at the Press Conference.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Helena Zengel
The actress at the Press Conference.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Lisa Hagmeister
The actress at the Press Conference.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Nora Fingscheidt
Impressions from the Press Conference.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Nora Fingscheidt, Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch
The director with her actors at the Press Conference.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Lisa Hagmeister
The actress in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Helena Zengel
Original and poster: the actress in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 8, 2019Nora Fingscheidt
The director in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Nora Fingscheidt
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher – OnScene
Framed
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher – OnScene
Feb 16, 2019Albrecht Schuch, Helena Zengel, Nora Fingscheidt
The actors and the director after the Award Ceremony.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher – Closing Gala – Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize
Feb 16, 2019Nora Fingscheidt
The director on the stage of the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher – Closing Gala – Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize
Feb 14, 2019Screening
At the special event at JVA Plötzensee penal institution.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 14, 2019Film team
The film team during Q&A after the screening.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 14, 2019Nora Fingscheidt
The director at the JVA Plötzensee penal institution.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 14, 2019JVA Plötzensee
The JVA Plötzensee penal institution where the film was shown as a special event.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 14, 2019Albrecht Schuch, Nora Fingscheidt
The actor and the director at the special screening in the JVA Plötzensee penal institution.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Systemsprenger | System Crasher
Feb 16, 2019Albrecht Schuch, Helena Zengel, Nora Fingscheidt
Picture in the middle: the leading actor and the leading actress with the director of the film that has been awarded with the Readers' Prize of the newspaper "Berliner Morgenpost".
Competition – Systemsprenger | System Crasher – Prizes of the Independent Juries
Nora Fingscheidt
Albrecht Schuch
Helena Zengel
Lisa Hagmeister
Peter Hartwig (Producer), Lisa Hagmeister (Actress), Yunus Roy Imer (Cinematography), Nora Fingscheidt (Director, Screenwriter), Helena Zengel (Actress), Albrecht Schuch (Actor), Jonas Weydemann (Producer)
Moderation: Jenni Zylka
Press Conference at full lengthWithin the frame of the 2019 Berlinale Goes Kiez programme System Crasher by Nora Fingscheidt had a special film presentation for the Berlinale audience and prison inmates inside the penal institution (JVA) in Plötzensee
Bernadette, or Benni as she prefers to be known, is a delicate-looking girl with unbridled energy. She is a ‘system crasher’. This term is used to describe children who break every single rule; children who refuse to accept any kind of structure and who gradually fall through the cracks in Germany’s child and welfare services. No matter where this nine-year-old is taken in, she is booted out again after a short time. And that is exactly what she is after, because all she wants is to be able to live with her mother again: a woman who is totally unable to cope with her daughter’s incalculable behaviour.
Made from her own multi-award-winning script, Nora Fingscheidt has created an intense drama about one child’s overwhelming need for love and security and the potential for violence that this engenders. At the same time, the film depicts the tireless attempts of educators and psychologists who use respect, trust and confidence to create a way forward for children who threaten to destroy others and themselves as a result of their unpredictable outbursts.
by
Nora Fingscheidt
Germany 2019
German
118’ · Colour
World premiere
Helena Zengel (Benni)Albrecht Schuch (Michael Heller)Gabriela Maria Schmeide (Mrs. Bafané)Lisa Hagmeister (Bianca Klaaß)Melanie Straub (Dr. Schönemann)Victoria Trauttmansdorff (Silvia)Maryam Zaree (Elli Heller)Tedros Teclebrhan (Robert)
Born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1983, she spent her schooldays in Germany and Argentina. Since 2003, she has been involved in the development of the film school collective, filmArche, in Berlin, at the same time completing training as an acting coach. Between 2008 and 2017 she studied fiction directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. She was nominated for the German Short Film Award for her second-year film Synkope and participated in Berlinale Talents in 2012. She completed her degree with the documentary Ohne diese Welt which won awards including the Max Ophüls Prize in 2017.
Filmography2010 Synkope; short film 2011 Zwischen den Zeilen; short film 2013 Brüderlein; medium-length film 2014 Boulevard’s End; short documentary 2016 Die Lizenz; short film 2017 Ohne diese Welt; documentary 2019 Systemsprenger (System Crasher)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020
Kineo Filmproduktion
Weydemann Bros.www.weydemannbros.com/
Beta Cinema