Valerie (2006)

Director:

Birgit Möller

Writers:

Milena Baisch, Ilja Haller,

Stars:

Agata Buzek, Devid Striesow, Birol Ünel

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Agata Buzek	...	Valerie Adamczyk
Devid Striesow	...	André Bergmann
Birol Ünel	...	Jaro
Anne Sarah Hartung	...	Isa
Ricarda Meßner	...	Wanja (as Ricarda Messner)
Yevgeni Sitokhin	...	Wiktor (as Jevgenij Sitochin)
Guntbert Warns	...	Isenberg
Sabine Vitua	...	Ellen
Miriam Sachs	...	Charlotte
Pheline Roggan	...	Vicky
Franz Dinda	...	Mike
Bettina Kurth	...	Andrés Ex
Romina Meier	...	Lena
Stephan Schneider	...	Freund von Andrés Ex
Henriette Gonnermann	...	Mutter Isenberg

Storyline

---

Plot Keywords:

broke | hotel bar | polish | security | excuse | 

---

Genres:

Drama

---

Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

26 April 2007 (Germany)

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

Credofilm, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Some are born to endless night

Like all inspired artists, writer-director Birgit Möller makes us see something we think we know in a new way. Her first full-length feature is a case study of homelessness in a present-day metropolis (yawn!), but seen through the eyes of an out-of-work fashion model (oh?). She had it all and she had it all and then she had some more, as Martin Amis famously put it in "Night Train". But as a twenty-something, Valerie is yesterday's news in an industry obsessed with youth. A teenage brigade of up-and-coming new faces takes over, and Valerie fast-forwards from riches to rags, finding herself out of work and out of money more or less over night. Her fancy Jag with the yellow lights and French plates is held hostage by the underground parking lot of the luxury hotel she was once a regular at. Birgit Möller's direction is musingly paced and positively minimalistic. Fine performances by Agata Buzek, one of Europe's most graceful on-screen smokers, as Valerie and Devid Striesow as her knight in not-so-shining armor. Too bad Birol Ünel's part, a photographer you can't help liking despite his exploitative behavior, is so small.