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Olga's Summer (Olgas Sommer)

Olga is 16 and ready. For life, love, adventure – anything else than her boring family in a tedious town that lies just off a highway. Olga's got a dream: Tangiers. And she's got principles, even if they're not of the traditional sort. "Only wild men are for loving" is one of them, "Take everything you can get" is another. So when she finds an unconscious man in a wrecked car one day, it all just clicks. He, burned-out comic-book author Daniel, is the man who's come to take her away from Smallsville. So what that he says he killed his wife in a fit of rage? So what that he drove off the road to commit suicide? Perky, persistent Olga gets her way – and off they go on a journey that will lead them to the sea, as well as to moments of bliss and happiness, and to the realization that a dream's worst enemy is reality. While Daniel accepts this, Olga sets out for Tangiers, a mythical place that exists only in her dreams…

Director Nina Grosse (Fire Rider) has crafted a sensitive road movie that bares the raw emotions and longings of a young girl (Clémence Poésy) determined to grow up, and of a world-weary man (Bruno Todeschini) seduced by the freshness of youth and innocence.

Nina Grosse began studying German, Philosophy and Theater Studies in Munich before transferring to the Academy of Television & Film (HFF/M) in 1981. In 1987 her graduation film Der glaeserne Himmel was nominated for a German Film Award the same year. Her collaboration in 1990 with Helmut Berger on Nie im Leben resulted in the Max-Ophuels Award in 1991 and another German Film Award nomination. Her other films include: Metropolitan (1980), Der Traum der Schwestern Pechstein (1984), Tote leben nicht allein (1989), Thea und Nat (1991), Der schwarze Engel (1994), Kinder der Nacht (1995), Der kalte Tod (1996), Fire Rider (Feuerreiter, 1997) and Olga's Summer (Olgas Sommer, 2003).
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2003
Director Nina Grosse
Screenplay Nina Grosse, Harald Goeckeritz
Director of Photography Benedict Neuenfels
Editor Jens Klueber
Production Design Stefan Schoenberg
Producers Peter Herrmann, Bettina Scheuren
Production Company MTM West/Cologne, in co-production with Mact Productions/Paris, MTM Medien & Television/Munich
Principal Cast Clémence Poésy, Bruno Todeschini, Katja Flint, Sunnyi Melles, Sebastian Blomberg, Wotan Wilke Moehring, Hanns Zischler
Casting An Dorthe Braker, Nathanièle Esther, Gérard Moulévrier
Length 105 min, 2,888 m
Format 35 mm, color, cs
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festival Screenings Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2004 (opening film), Moscow 2004 (In Competition), Denver 2004
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, Filmstiftung NRW, CNC

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