Kriegerin
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| Directed by | David Wnendt |
| Produced by | Eva-Marie Martens |
| Written by | David Wnendt |
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Alina Levshin Jella Haase |
| Music by | Johannes Repka |
| Cinematography | Jonas Schmager |
| Edited by | Andreas Wodraschke |
| Distributed by | Ascot Elite EastWest Distribution |
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103 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Combat Girls (original title is Kriegerin, the German term for a female warrior) is a 2011 German drama film written and directed by David Wnendt. It had its international premiere at the 2011 São Paulo International Film Festival where Alina Levshin was awarded as best actress. It won the best screenplay and best female lead categories and came third in the best film category at the German Film Awards (Deutscher Filmpreis) in 2012.
The film begins showing Marisa (Alina Levshin) dying on a cold shore somewhere in Germany. She and her friend Svenja (Jella Haase), who is with her, remember how it came to this. The film follows the journey of the two girls as they move into and out of a neonazi group.
As a little girl Marisa is taught by her grandfather (Klaus Manchen) how to carry a heavy sandsack. Only when she meets his expectations he gives his "combat girl" a loving hug. She has no clue her beloved grandfather used to harass and even beat Marisa's mother for being pregnant.
The twenty-year-old Marisa still lives in the same town and cherishes her grandpa. She visits him regularly in hospital where he lies ill, soon dying. Yet at the weekends she meets with her gang of violent nazis xenophobic lower class kids. She and her boyfriend Sandro (Gerdy Zint) who violently attacks ethnic looking passengers on a tram and moreover attack a conductor. After that police raids her house while she is watering her Grandpa's flowers. Both she and Sandro are arrested and Sandro consequently has to go to prison.
Meanwhile it is made clear that Svenja's stepfather is incredibly strict on her, which she rebels against. She meets a 19-year-old boy who works for her family in their garden and they start hanging out. He turns out to be friends with Marisa and a neonazi like her. Svenja is very intrigued by the violent, partying, in-the-moment life-style these young nazis live and slowly becomes more involved.
However Sandro is eventually about to be released. Marisa's mother (Rosa Enskat) cannot stand the thought of Sandro moving in with her daughter while Marisa even wants to have a child with him. Mother and daughter have a dispute over that matter in the local grocery shop. Marisa is the till girl of that shop. After her fight with her mother two young immigrants (Sayed Ahmad Wasil Mrowat as Rasul and Najebullah "Najeb" Ahmadi as Jamil) become the target of her bad mood. She refuses them as customers.
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