Brainsbell
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Haven Kaycee
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
jjr4
There are movies worth seeing and movies which need to be seen. This is both. It's a brilliant piece of acting by the whole cast, with a stellar performance from Alina levshin, and an understated but efficient directing from David Wnendt. But it is also a frighteningly cold and accurate view of neo nazism. The routine violence and hate carried by these young individuals echoes of all the fanaticism that surrounds us today. It is a very disturbing depiction of how society is step by step going to waste, turning back to tribal models.Despite the fact that the movie gets watched without any slowing down or loss of interest, even if it can make one feel a little voyeuristic at times, this is no easy viewing, don't expect to come out of the theater with anything resembling a smile on your face. But at lest you'll be sure to have food for thought and both a new director/writer and actress whose careers you'll want to keep following.
kosmasp
The topic of right wing extremists in Germany is a very hot one. The movie tries to stay as real as possible with its depiction of the characters it portrays and the world they are living in. It's not an easy watch and it especially isn't easy to play. Main actress does a fabulous job here.The morality is clear and that is why the movie does not emphasize on certain things. You'll either like this approach or you'll think it's takes the matter too lightly. Whatever the case don't expect your usual mainstream approach. The movie will not resolve everything or not in a satisfying kind of way. The acting alone is worth watching it of course.
i_am_bryony
I found Kriegerin as i was browsing the internet, gathering information on Neo Nazis in Europe and it caught my eye because it looked like it might be a realistic story about real people and not some semi glamorisation of Nazis (like the hateful AHX). I wasn't disappointed as Kriegerin is one of the very few films that has tackled the subject with honesty and without making them seem like funny or intelligent characters. Everybody but the main characters, only 3 of them, are in the background and the leader of the Nazi group, Marisas boyfriend, is a hateful ugly person with nothing to say for himself. Marisa is a violent unhinged girl who always seems to go a little too far.Marisa, very much a product of her upbringing, finds her humanity in the shape of a young immigrant boy who asks her for help and she gets caught between her beliefs and her innate compassion. Her betrayal of her friends is complete (and violent) but not without consequence. She also adopts a 15 year old runaway who thinks its all a bit of a laugh and a game, but too late she discovers that , ridiculous as they seem, her new friends are ruthless.This not a film with a huge budget or great production values, but Alina Levshin portrays more with her silences than a thousand lines of dialogue ever could. it is gritty and downbeat and is a truer depiction of that lifestyle than I have seen anywhere else.
denial-638-119600
I'm certain this is going to be Germany's nominee for the Oscars.The auteur, David Wnendt, seems to have collected a lot of true stories and pieced them together into a fast-paced, very violent, often harrowing and quite unpredictable plot.Most of you don't know the East German neo-nazi scene. You'll ask yourself if this is really how these people live and talk. Believe me, it is. This movie is so close to reality it often feels like a documentary. I expected to sit in the cinema nitpicking, counting mistakes. I found just one. (A license plate with an "88" in it. The German license plate office doesn't allow that.) All the actors are unknowns and few of them get to shine. All the adults in this story are wooden and almost all the teenagers are idiots. Their main job is to convey total ignorance about the extent of their ignorance. They do that well. Jella Haase is very good.But Alina Levshin is the one who's superstar material. This is her movie, and it will be remembered as her breakthrough. Two of the movie's most memorable scenes are long uncut closeups of her face, not speaking, and they're some of the best acting I've seen, ever.Do see it. Just don't expect to sleep easily the night after.
