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Fraulein

Original title: Das Fräulein
  • 20062006
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 21m
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6.7/10
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Fraulein (2006)
Ruza left Serbia over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruza's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two women.
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Ruza left Belgrade for Switzerland as a young woman full of hope for a new, better life. 25 years later she appears to have achieved everything: She owns a canteen in Zurich, which she manag... Read allRuza left Belgrade for Switzerland as a young woman full of hope for a new, better life. 25 years later she appears to have achieved everything: She owns a canteen in Zurich, which she manages with a firm grip and financial success. Ruza values her meticulously-structured daily r... Read allRuza left Belgrade for Switzerland as a young woman full of hope for a new, better life. 25 years later she appears to have achieved everything: She owns a canteen in Zurich, which she manages with a firm grip and financial success. Ruza values her meticulously-structured daily routine, both in her professional and private life. Ruzas's orderly world shifts when 22-ye... Read all
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POPULARITY
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    • Director
      • Andrea Staka
    • Writers
      • Andrea Staka
      • Eva Vitija(contributor)
      • Ann Tobin(contributor)
    • Stars
      • Mirjana Karanovic
      • Marija Skaricic
      • Ljubica Jovic
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Andrea Staka
    • Writers
      • Andrea Staka
      • Eva Vitija(contributor)
      • Ann Tobin(contributor)
    • Stars
      • Mirjana Karanovic
      • Marija Skaricic
      • Ljubica Jovic
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 9User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
    • Awards
      • 9 wins & 2 nominations

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    Mirjana Karanovic and Marija Skaricic in Fraulein (2006)
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    Mirjana Karanovic
    Mirjana Karanovic
    • Ruza
    Marija Skaricic
    Marija Skaricic
    • Ana
    Ljubica Jovic
    • Mila
    Andrea Zogg
    • Franz
    Pablo Aguilar
    • Fredi
    Zdenko Jelcic
    • Ante
    David Imhoof
    • Stefan
    Sebastian Krähenbühl
    Sebastian Krähenbühl
    • Mann in Bar
    Oliver Zgorelec
    • Geiger
    Annette Wunsch
    • Ärztin
    Kenneth Huber
    • Arzt
    Anikó Donáth
    • Apothekerin
    Hans Suter
    • Mann mit Möven
    Stefan Suske
    • Autofahrer
    Vera Bommer
    • Sheila
    Robin Rehmann
    • Momo
    Tiziana Jelmini
    • Künstlerin
    Thomas Matter
    • Lieferant
    • Director
      • Andrea Staka
    • Writers
      • Andrea Staka
      • Eva Vitija(contributor)
      • Ann Tobin(contributor)
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    • Trivia
      Mirjana Karanovic, Marija Skaricic, and Ljubica Jovic don't speak German or Swiss-German. Although the script had all the German texts translated, they had to learn their lines by heart and act without having a true feeling for the language.
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      Gypsy Kolo (Ma Maren Ma)
      Written by Ran du Bandurovici

      Performed by Jony Iliev & Band featuring Martin Lubenov

      (C) Asphalt Tango Records GmbH, Berlin

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    5/10
    Das Fräulein, or: What is a Swiss movie?
    This many times awarded Swiss movie was produced by "Dschoint Ventr", an innovative Swiss film organization that is eager to distribute Swiss movies world wide. Fact is that Swiss movies are almost unknown in the US. In Switzerland, even many filmmakers are convinced that the topics are mostly too Swiss-specific and that great Swiss actors do not exist. So far for the present. For the past, Switzerland's greatest filmmaker, Kurt Früh (1915-79) is nowadays highly criticized for the alleged lack of disclosing the miserable social situation in the 50ies and 60ies and for having strongly used Italian Neo-Realist movies in order to make his own films. I assure you: both is not true. But nevertheless, not a single one of many hundreds of Swiss movies made between the silent time and den 70ies are available on international DVDs.

    Social topics have a long tradition in Swiss film. I just remember Kurt Früh's "Bäckerei Zürrer" where the conflicts between the early Italian immigrants and the indigenous population in Zürich are focused, or later especially in the movies of Kurt Gloor (1942-1998), f.ex. "Die Plötzliche Einsamkeit Des Konrad Steiner". Not to forget the movies of Alain Tanner, although his movies are all in French and thus form a minority in the rest of Switzerland. Also the present movie deals with immigrants, has a strong social vein, but unlike Früh's and Gloor's movie, you hardly hear Swiss German spoken. The three main actresses - famous artists imported from Ex-Yugoslawia as if there would not be enough talented Yugoslawian women familiar with the jobs shown in the movie - speak broken High German. From the rest of the cast only the two men - Andrea Zogg and the Spaniard Pablo Aguilar - are to be mentioned: Zogg is to see about four or five times for possibly 10 minutes, Aguilar for totally perhaps 2 minutes, and the rest of the crew for fragments of seconds. So, an interaction between the Yugoslawian immigrants and the Swiss population is out of the question and the movie is showing nothing else than how the three women get along, partly speaking Serbian/Croatian and partly broken German. In this movie, there is no trace of the wit, the humor, the tears-causing miseries and the whole empathy of Kurt Früh's movies, but nothing either of the socialist problems brought up in Kurt Gloor's films. This movie was produced in Switzerland, that is all. It could play anywhere in Europe, there is nothing Swiss-specific in this movie, except perhaps the five seconds when your hear Zurich's "Radio 24".

    Let me tell you one thing: As long as Kurt Früh's and Kurt Gloor's movies are not subtitled, engraved in international DVDs and available around the world, such mediocre and questionable films like "Das Fräulein" have no right to go around the world.
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    • Release date
      • January 25, 2007 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Switzerland
      • Germany
      • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Languages
      • German
      • Swiss German
      • Bosnian
    • Also known as
      • Fräulein
    • Filming locations
      • Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland
    • Production companies
      • Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG
      • Quinte Film
      • Schweizer Fernsehen (SF)
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,715
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,449
      • Sep 21, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,715
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      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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