Das Fraulein

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Das Fraulein

Released Sep 19, 2008

1h 17m

Drama

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A Bosnian woman shakes up the lives of two cafeteria workers in Zurich.

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

The film dwells on different ways of coming to terms with a traumatic past, and it's clearly a subject dear to the heart of director Andrea Staka, who grew up in Switzerland but is of Bosnian and Croatian heritage.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 24, 2008

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Presents immigrant lives with significantly more empathy than detail.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 19, 2008

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Aaron Hillis

Village Voice

Stylized with a recurring misty focus, the film's economically captured detail shots (gestures, expressions, caught moments) convey genuine sensitivity without the expected weepiness.

Sep 17, 2008

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Martin Tsai

New York Sun

It is a minor work, but a beautiful sight to behold nonetheless.

Apr 22, 2023

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

Refreshingly and sympathetically about women deciding to live in Switzerland as émigré, exile, immigrant, or refugee from Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists.

Rated: 7/10

Nov 1, 2008

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Murky drama about three displaced immigrant women with deep emotional scars ...

Rated: C+

Oct 23, 2008

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A young woman has come to Switzerland from Bosnia, and gets a job at a cafeteria run by a joyless martinet woman from that region, and another woman from that region is a coworker. Friends and relatives of the latter two women are also in the mix, while the young woman dances in clubs and has various lovers. She seems happy compared to the two glum older women-but she has seen the then-recent war in her country and has her own dark secrets which are revealed. The young woman tries and succeeds in bringing happiness to the cafeteria owner, but much of the movie is confusing, and was probably not meant for a non-European audience who probably would understand the protagonists' situation better. The movie just didn't cut it for me.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Synopsis

A Bosnian woman shakes up the lives of two cafeteria workers in Zurich.

Director: Andrea Staka
Producer: Mirjam Quinte, Susann Rüdlinger, Samir
Screenwriter: Barbara Albert, Marie Kreutzer, Andrea Staka
Distributor: Film Movement
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.4K
Runtime: 1h 17m
Sound Mix: Dolby

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