Official Selection - Competition 2011 / Lollipop Monster / Germany 2011
Ari is a Lolita-like blonde, Oona is a taciturn wraith in black. Nevertheless, they share the same problems, living in families that refuse to face reality. And it is just such hypocrisy that drives the girls to seek freedom. Their friendship, however unlikely, is their source of salvation until one of them betrays the other....
Ari and Oona. Two 15-year-old girls, two dysfunctional families. Absolute opposites and yet somehow similar. No one listens, no one hears. Ari feels she is misunderstood and compensates for this by having sex with unknown men; Oona expresses the pain over her beloved father’s suicide through self-mutilation and morbid drawings. Opposites attract. Ari is a blonde who paints herself up like a canary, Oona loves things as black as night. Their unlikely friendship helps them survive the hypocrisy of their families. Ari finally gains some kind of self-respect, and Oona learns to give vent to her pain. Then something happens that threatens their friendship at its very roots.... The scope of the debuting director’s creative interests is evident both in the mix of cinematic devices that enrich the narration (animated passages, amateur film recordings, music videos), as well as in the artistic stylization, which directly references her grounding in comics.
96 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Ziska Riemann
/ Screenplay Ziska Riemann, Luci van Org
/ Dir. of Photography Hannes Hubach
/ Music Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
/ Editor Dirk Grau
/ Producer Wolfgang Cimera, Bettina Wente, Andi Wecker
/ Production Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG
/ Cast Jella Haase, Sarah Horváth, Nicolette Krebitz, Thomas Wodianka
/ Contact Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Aktis Film International GmbH
www: www.lollipop-monster.de
Ziska Riemann (b. 1973, Munich) published her first graphic novel with Gerhard Seyfried in 1991. After putting out five more co-authored novels, she went solo in 1997 with Rascal & Lucille. In 1999 she created the internet comics magazine Dr. Inka & Colores, a forum for young comics artists. Besides her work on graphic novels, Riemann writes short stories and film scripts. In 1999/2000 she won a scholarship to the screenwriters’ workshop in Munich, and a year later she received the Tankred Dorst award for her script Blame It on the Dogs (Die Hunde sind schuld), which was realized in 2000 by ARD TV station. In 2004, she founded MerMer records, releasing her solo album Wo hier bitte geht’s nach Shambhala? as well as the work of other artists. She directed several short films between 2003 and 2010. Lollipop Monster is her feature debut.
Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG
Im Mediapark 6a, D-50670, Köln
Germany
Phone: +49 221 948 880
Fax: +49 221 948 882
E-mail: [email protected]
Aktis Film International GmbH
, 04275, Leipzig
Germany
Phone: +49 341 3500 2610
Fax: +49 341 3500 2619
E-mail: [email protected]
Kim Liebeck
Andi Wecker
Producer
Ziska Riemann
Film Director, Film Director
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