Combat Girls (2011)
"Kriegerin" (original title)

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a ... See full summary »

Director:

David Wnendt

Writer:

David Wnendt

Stars:

Alina Levshin, Jella Haase, Sayed Ahmad

15 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alina Levshin	...	Marisa
Jella Haase	...	Svenja
Sayed Ahmad	...	Rasul (as Sayed Ahmad Wasil Mrowat)
Gerdy Zint	...	Sandro
Lukas Steltner	...	Markus
Sven Splettstößer	...	Uwe Trinkhaus
Anne Laszus	...	Melanie
Elias Raudith	...	Benny
Winnie Böwe	...	Andrea
Rosa Enskat	...	Bea
Uwe Preuss	...	Oliver
Najebullah Ahmadi	...	Jamil (as Najebullah 'Najeb' Ahmadi)
Klaus Manchen	...	Großvater Franz
Falko Göthe	...	Buster
Maik Hennecke	...	Mike

Storyline

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. When 14-year-old Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role model to her: she fits the purest idea of a combat girl fighting for the group's ideology. But Marisa's convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee. Confronted to him, she will learn that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way. Will Marisa ever be able to get out of this group?

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Plot Keywords:

girl | hate | neo nazi | combat | refugee | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Germany]

Country:

Germany

Language:

German English Dari

Release Date:

19 January 2012 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Combat Girls

Filming Locations:

Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

MAFILM Martens Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Das Kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF), Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf'

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

The license plate of Sandro's car reads ABI-AH 88. German authorities would not issue such a plate for obvious reasons.

User Reviews

A powerful and impressively realistic piece of art

Kriegerin/Combat Girls is the last film of a kind that has become one of Germany's finest exports. I am thinking of films like "Das Experiment" and "Die Welle" which, directly or indirectly, investigate what lies behind a dictatorship like Nazism and the dangers of falling into one again, which sometimes may seem far away. With this film, this time we are taken very close to the reality of a small (supposedly East) German town where far-right extremists rule the place and intimidate migrants. The point of view is entirely coincident with the main character, Marisa (award-winner Ukrainian-born Alina Levshin), who plays the passionate girlfriend of one of the gang's most violent and dangerous subjects. Her acting is amazing and, as already stated by another reviewer, it brings the film to a totally different level giving it the effectiveness of a documentary. The film is essentially about a girl who seems to know very well what she wants (to the extent that her whole body is covered in tattoos which are also political statements), while in fact some events will force her to reconsider not only her set of values, but also a relationship with a man whose deep love quickly turns into the deepest hate. On the background, there is a side story about Marisa's dying Nazi grandfather. She doesn't want to accept that he had been violent to her own wife before she was born, and that relates directly to the violence she in turn has chosen to surround herself with. A 15 years old seeking to be accepted into the gang is also dragged into this spiral of hate and violence - a consequence of her dominating father - until she understand what that really means. The third girl of the gang is always in the background, she's very passive and hardly talks and shows a melancholy which turns out to be a result of life's injustice. This is in my opinion the best German film since Gegen die Wand/Head On. Both educational and a piece of -literally- screaming art. A must see!