VICTORIA / VICTORIA

VICTORIA

Main program (competition) > Feature films

Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon. She meets four mates outside a club who introduce themselves as Sonne, Boxer, Blinker and Fuß. They quickly get chatting. Sonne and Victoria take a fancy to each other and slip away from the group at the first opportunity. But their tender flirting is rudely interrupted by the others because, for these pals, the night is far from over. To settle an old debt they have to pull off a dodgy deal. And because one of them is too drunk, they decide that Victoria, of all people, should take over the role of driver. What began as a game suddenly becomes deadly serious.

Born in Hanover, Germany in 1968, Sebastian Schipper studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and subsequently spent two years in the Munich Kammerspiele ensemble. He has appeared as an actor in films by Sönke Wortmann, Tom Tykwer, Romuald Karmakar and Anthony Minghella. His directing debut, Gigantic, for which, as in all his other directing work, he also wrote the screenplay, won the German Film Prize. This film, as well as his next two, A Friend Of Mine and Sometime In August – his interpretation of Goethe’s ‘Elective Affinities’ – all screened at the Berlinale.