Archive of films Prince / Le Prince
Germany
2021, 125 min
Section:
Crystal Globe Competition
Year: 2021
Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies between them. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile tale about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.
Synopsis
Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Their lives intersect while they are hiding in the rear room of a bar during a police raid, when the first of many sparks flies between them. Monika and Joseph. She works as a curator at a gallery, he is a businessman originally from Congo. Their worlds could not be more different. Monika’s friends are intellectuals, while Joseph lives among a vibrant community of often illegal African immigrants. Can their relationship last? Their friends don’t think so, and it seems that even the lovers themselves are sometimes fumbling in the dark. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile tale about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.
Anna Kořínek
About the director
Lisa Bierwirth (1983, Hessisch Lichtenau, Germany). Selected filmography: Fracht (2009, TV film, short), Sweetness (2011, TV film, short), Teufel (2013, short), Portopalo (2015, short doc.), Le Prince (2021).
Contacts
Komplizen Film GmbH
Hagelberger Str. 57, 10965, Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 307 889 3340
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.komplizenfilm.net
About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Crystal Globe Competition |
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Director: | Lisa Bierwirth |
Screenplay: | Hannes Held, Lisa Bierwirth |
Dir. of Photography: | Jenny Lou Ziegel |
Editor: | Bettina Böhler |
Art Director: | Marie-Luise Balzer |
Producer: | Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade |
Production: | Komplizen Film GmbH |
Cast: | Ursula Strauss, Passi Balende |
Contact: | Komplizen Film GmbH |
Guests

Lisa Bierwirth
Film Director

Ursula Strauss
Actress

Passi Balende
Actor

Jonas Dornbach
Producer

Janine Jackowski
Producer

Cora Frischling
Producer

Valeska Grisebach
Co-producer

Hannes Held
Screenwriter

Jenny Lou Ziegel
Director of Photography

Margit Dörner
Other

Jan Krüger
Distributor, Producer