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Article: Das Fraulein.(Movie review)
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- June 22, 2007
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Das Fraulein Directed by Andrea Staka, Switzerland/Slovenia, U.S., 2006. Distributed in the U.S. as Fraulein by Film Movement, www.filmmovement.com.
Winner of the Jury Prize for best film at the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Das Fraulein (2006) is a work that finds director Andrea Staka returning to her preferred themes in offering audiences a female perspective on geopolitical displacement. These issues directly pertain to Staka's own life experiences and reflect her own personal condition of having both a Swiss and Yugoslavian heritage. The narrative concern with displacement that helped define ...