Archive Cinema City 2009.
Genre: Drama
Synopsis:
Ruza (Mirjana Karanovic) left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana (Marija Skaricic) arrives on the scene and upsets Ruza's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women.
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Nominations:
Best Film, 2007 Swiss Film Prize
Awards:
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention, Don Quixote Award - Special Mention, Golden Leopard, Youth Jury Award, 2006 Locarno International Film Festival
Best Actress (Marija Skaricic), Best Film, 2006 Sarajevo Film Festival
Best Screenplay, 2007 Swiss Film Prize
FIPRESCI Prize, 2006 Valladolid International Film Festival
Trivia:
- Mirjana Karanovic, Marija Skaricic and Ljubica Jovic don't speak German and/or Swiss-German. Although the script had all the German texts translated, they had to learn their lines by heart and had to act without having a true feeling for the language.
- With the different departments being from Switzerland, Ex-Yugoslavia and Germany, the official set-language was English, although during shooting all the teams native languages were spoken and many things had to be translated more than once for everyone to understand.
