I found Kriegerin as i was browsing the internet, gathering information on Neo Nazis in Europe and it caught my eye because it looked like it might be a realistic story about real people and not some semi glamorisation of Nazis (like the hateful AHX). I wasn't disappointed as Kriegerin is one of the very few films that has tackled the subject with honesty and without making them seem like funny or intelligent characters. Everybody but the main characters, only 3 of them, are in the background and the leader of the Nazi group, Marisas boyfriend, is a hateful ugly person with nothing to say for himself. Marisa is a violent unhinged girl who always seems to go a little too far.
Marisa, very much a product of her upbringing, finds her humanity in the shape of a young immigrant boy who asks her for help and she gets caught between her beliefs and her innate compassion. Her betrayal of her friends is complete (and violent) but not without consequence. She also adopts a 15 year old runaway who thinks its all a bit of a laugh and a game, but too late she discovers that , ridiculous as they seem, her new friends are ruthless.
This not a film with a huge budget or great production values, but Alina Levshin portrays more with her silences than a thousand lines of dialogue ever could. it is gritty and downbeat and is a truer depiction of that lifestyle than I have seen anywhere else.
Marisa, very much a product of her upbringing, finds her humanity in the shape of a young immigrant boy who asks her for help and she gets caught between her beliefs and her innate compassion. Her betrayal of her friends is complete (and violent) but not without consequence. She also adopts a 15 year old runaway who thinks its all a bit of a laugh and a game, but too late she discovers that , ridiculous as they seem, her new friends are ruthless.
This not a film with a huge budget or great production values, but Alina Levshin portrays more with her silences than a thousand lines of dialogue ever could. it is gritty and downbeat and is a truer depiction of that lifestyle than I have seen anywhere else.