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Places In Cities (Plaetze in Staedten)

Mimmi is nineteen years old and is approaching her final school exams. During a school trip to France she spends a night with a man she has met there. On her return to Germany, she discovers that she is pregnant. She returns to Paris.

Angela Schanelec was born in 1962. She studied Acting at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main from 1982-1984, and worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Berlin\'s Schaubuehne and the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 1984-1991. She studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin from 1990-1995, graduating with My Sister\'s Good Fortune, winner of the German Critics\' Prize 1996. Her other films include: Schoene gelbe Farbe (1991), Weit entfernt (1991), Prag, Maerz 92 (1992), Ich bin den Sommer ueber in Berlin geblieben (1993), Places in Cities (Plaetze in Staedten, 1998) presented in Cannes\' Un Certain Regard in 1998, Passing Summer (Mein langsames Leben, 2001) presented at the Berlinale\'s Forum in 2001, Marseille (2004), Nachmittag (2007), and Orly (2010), which screened at the 2010 Berlinale Forum.

Category Feature
Director Angela Schanelec
Screenplay Angela Schanelec
Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider
Editors Bettina Boehler, Angela Schanelec
Cast Tobias Langhoff, Katharina Eckerfeld, Marie-Lou Sellem, Sophie Aigner, Friederike Kammer, Jérôme Robart, Martin Jackowski, Mischa Sideris
Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Production Company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF/Mainz
Length 117 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German/French
Subtitled Version French/English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Cannes 98: Un Certain Regard

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