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Behind Locked Doors (1991 film)

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'Behind Locked Doors' is a feature film by Swiss/German director Anka Schmid from 1991. The ensemble-film shows the everyday life of 17 inhabitants of an apartment building in Berlin Kreuzberg.

Plot



At first glance the seventeen inhabitants of the old apartment building in Berlin Kreuzberg do not seem to have much in common other than their address. But nonetheless, when the old photographer Mr. Kempinski who invites his neighbors to his 80th birthday party, they are all strangely familiar. There is 60 year old Hannelore who dreams about distant countries and who currently shares her apartment with her lovesick niece, there is student Bona from the Ivory Coast who teaches French in the kitchen while his gay roommate enjoys life and love; the two adolescent sisters with their mother who has fallen in love recently, the middle aged married janitors and then there is the young couple whose daughter prefers sitting in the stairwell than going to school.'Behind Locked Doors" summary on [http://www.swissfilms.ch/en/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/2146533943 Swissfilms]

Festivals and awards



With 'Behind Locked Doors' Anka Schmid won the Swiss 'Nachwuchspreis' for up and coming film makers, the Film Award of Zurich as well as the 2nd award of the Film Festival Schwerin.

Further festivals

*Chicago International Film Festival,Short mention of 'Behind Locked Doors' in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-27th-chicago-international-film-festival/Content?oid=878442 'Chicago Reader'], 1991-10-17. Retrieved 2016-06-24 Film Festival Saarbrcken/Max-Ophls Award, Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, Bergamo Film Meeting,[http://www.bergamofilmmeeting.it/Films/view/2803 Bergamo Film Meeting] program Warsaw International Film Festival, Crteil International Women's Film Festival

References




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