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Festivals and Awards:
Berlin Film Festival 2007 – Forum Section
Crew:
Screenplay: Maria Speth
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producers: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producers: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen
The portrait of Rita, a mother of six, who believes that her own mother has always rejected her. As an adult, she decides to pressure her mother to be present in her grandchildren's lives, as a way to make up for the past, while dealing with other dramas: a trip to Belgium to meet the father she never met and the subsequent deportation to Germany, where she serves a long prison sentence. A portrait of the social expectations associated with maternity, Madonnen proposes a reflection on the heavy consequences and moral reproches suffered by women who are unable, or unwilling, to live up to such expectations.
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Cast:
Sandra Hüller, Luisa Sappelt, Susanne Lothar -
Original Title:
Madonnen -
Country:
Belgium, Switzerland -
Year:
2007 - 125' Subtitles: PT
Festivals and Awards:
Berlin Film Festival 2007 – Forum Section
Crew:
Screenplay: Maria Speth
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producers: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen
Cinematography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Producers: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen
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.