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Lotte

Nurse Lotte (“I’m nurse Lotte. If you need something, call someone else“) meets her daughter whom she left behind 15 years ago when she moved to Berlin.

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Lotte sits on the train with her scruffy sneakers. She dangles on the pole, plays with her hair, and looks pissed to while away her time. You can tell straight away that the nurse can be a handful. “Shut your trap” she shouts at a guy as she stitches him up. Lotte knows Marcel and doesn’t want to talk to him. But she should. 15 years ago Marcel deserted her and their daughter Greta in the province in order to move to Berlin. There has been no contact ever since. Lotte doesn’t care. She likes to drink, do cocaine, go with the flow. A hedonist. No need for responsibility. But then Lotte and Greta see each other at the hospital. The daughter wants to understand her mother and moves to the bike shop where Lotte currently lives.
Lotte, Lotte, it’s always about Lotte. Karin Hanczewski is at the epicenter in Julius Schultheiß’s wild debut and embodies the captivating heroine with a lot of verve. Hanczewski, who was also in Tom Sommerlatte’s IM SOMMER WOHNT ER UNTEN and is also a TATORT commissar, carries the drama in the passages where not much happens. Short scenes that depict the unusual mother daughter duo are followed by snap-shots. When Lotte tempts her daughter to smoke and drink the tumultuous narrative exudes a lot of esprit, as if Lana Cooper from LOVE STEAKS had a child. The film was independently financed but it doesn’t belong to the German mumblecore subgenre. Julius Schultheiß had a screenplay, and things were only improvised when it was necessary. Successfully so: LOTTE played in Perspektive Deutsches Kino in the Berlinale and won the prize for best feature film at achtung berlin.

Christian Horn

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Deutschland 2016, 78 min
Language: German
Genre: Drama, Familiy History
Director: Julius Schultheiß
Author: Julius Schultheiß
Distributor: daredo media
Cast: Marc Ben Puch, Karin Hanczewski, Zita Aretz, Paul Matzke, Christine Knispel
FSK: 16
Release: 27.10.2016

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Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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