Story
A young woman boxes for her life: a haunting social drama with the legendary Hamburg pub Ritze as the backdrop for a new beginning. Ali (Alina Serban) has the heart of a lioness. With an iron will, the ex-boxer and single parent keeps herself and her children above water with a cleaning job. Ali hasn‘t been in Hamburg very long. She was kicked out of her Romanian Roma village by her father when she get pregnant out of wedlock, and is still traumatized by the rejection. When one day she takes all the pain and frustration out on a punching-bag, Tanne (Tobias Moretti), the owner of the Ritze, spots her talent and takes her under his wing. But returning to the ring comes at a high price for Ali.
Director
HÜSEYIN TABAK (*1981) studied direction and screenplay writing at the Film Academy in Vienna. His first two films Your Beauty is Worth Nothing and The Horse on the Balcony were big festival hits. His documentary The Legend of the Ugly King also won several awards.Trailer
Info
Gipsy Queen
Fiction Feature
German, Romanian
Große Freiheit//FF2019
Germany, Austria
2019
117 min
OV with German subtitles
Hüseyin Tabak
Hüseyin Tabak
Alina Șerban, Tobias Moretti, Irina Kurbanova, Sarah Ulda Carcamo Vallejos, Aslan Yılmaz Tabak, Catrin Striebeck, Aleksandar Jovanovic u.a.
Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
Lukas Gnaiger
Christoph Loidl
Judit Varga
Julia Oberndorfinger, Attila Plangger
ARRI Media
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