Behind Locked Doors (1991 film)

Behind Locked Doors (German: Hinter verschlossenen Türen) 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.

Behind Locked Doors
GermanHinter verschlossenen Türen
Directed byAnka Schmid
Written byAnka Schmid
Produced byMartin Schmassmann
Starring
  • Hans Madin
  • Walter Pfeil
  • Maria Fitzi
  • Susanne Fitzner
  • Jockel Tschiersch
  • Aline Krayewski
  • Alfred Hartung
  • Sonja Deutsch
  • Volkart Buff
CinematographyCiro Cappellari
Edited by
  • Inge Schneider
  • Anka Schmid
Music by
  • Klaus Wagner
  • Stefan Schiske
Production
companies
Release dates
  • 23 January 1991 (1991-01-23) (Switzerland)
  • 10 October 1991 (1991-10-10) (Germany)
Running time
80min
Countries
LanguageSwiss German

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.[1]

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.[2]

Further festivals
  • Chicago International Film Festival,[3] Film Festival Saarbrücken/Max-Ophüls Award, Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, Bergamo Film Meeting,[4] Warsaw International Film Festival, Créteil International Women's Film Festival

References
  1. Behind Locked Doors" summary on Swissfilms
  2. "Film Festival Schwerin". Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  3. Short mention of Behind Locked Doors in the Chicago Reader, 1991-10-17. Retrieved 2016-06-24
  4. Bergamo Film Meeting program


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