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Festivals and Awards:
Vienna Film Festival 2010
Crew:
Screenplay: Maria Speth
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producer: Maria Speth
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producer: Maria Speth
A documentary about the lives of young Berliners whose decision to leave their families’ home at a very young age eventually leads them to a life in the street, turning them into homeless people, whether temporarily or not. Sunny, Toni, Krümel (“Crumb”), JJ, Stöpsel (“Plug”), Soja and Za are physically and psychologically debilitated, although they present themselves as young people endowed with immense strength and talent, qualities that stand out as they are interviewed in a kind of “white cube”, a spotless, sterile setting that contrasts with their street lives. Far from romanticising them, however, the environment’s aesthetics may rather remove us into a neutral setting where one can see beyond prejudice.
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Original Title:
9 Leben -
Country:
Germany -
Year:
2010 - 105' Subtitles: EN, PT
Festivals and Awards:
Vienna Film Festival 2010
Crew:
Screenplay: Maria Speth
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producer: Maria Speth
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producer: Maria Speth
Director
Maria Speth

Born in Germany in 1967, Maria Speth is a director, screenwriter and producer. She began her career as an assistant editor and director in film and television, making her first short film, Barfuss, in 1999. Her feature film debut was with the film In den Tag Hinein, in 2001, awarded at the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2007, Madonas debuted at the Berlin Film Festival, where she would return with Daughters in 2014. Speth is associated with the group known as the “Berlin School”, composed of several German filmmakers who emerged in the 1990s, giving new impetus to cinema German. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021) is her latest work.