"Das Fräulein" or "Fraulein" is a Swiss/German co-production from 2006, so this one had its 10th anniversary last year already. It is the most known work by director Andrea Staka and she is also one of the several writers in here. The film received a pretty solid deal of awards recognition and it is a relatively brief film at only roughly 75 minutes. This is also a positive factor actually because the film dragged on more than just a few occasions and I never managed to develop any interest in the female protagonist (played by Mirjana Karanovic) or any of the supporting players. One reason may be that I do not really know any of the actors in here, another would be that I have never been to Switzerland and it is more of a Swiss than a German film for sure. But there are also Eastern European components to this one, but this already becomes visible pretty quickly if you read the actress' names.
As for the film itself, it is certainly more on the bleak and realistic side than just for pure entertainment purposes. This is on the one hand good, but on the other hand also a disadvantage as they need to elaborate more properly in terms of character studies and plot developments and this is quite a challenge. i would say it is a challenge that the filmmaker here unfortunately did not succeed with as I not only did not develop any interest in the central characters, but also as after seeing the film I cannot really come up with one definite reason why you should check this one out, why this was a convincing watch. So I certainly do not agree at all with all the awards the movie won and as I see Staka is still making films these days it seems I hope she managed to step her game up in the last game. This one here gets a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
As for the film itself, it is certainly more on the bleak and realistic side than just for pure entertainment purposes. This is on the one hand good, but on the other hand also a disadvantage as they need to elaborate more properly in terms of character studies and plot developments and this is quite a challenge. i would say it is a challenge that the filmmaker here unfortunately did not succeed with as I not only did not develop any interest in the central characters, but also as after seeing the film I cannot really come up with one definite reason why you should check this one out, why this was a convincing watch. So I certainly do not agree at all with all the awards the movie won and as I see Staka is still making films these days it seems I hope she managed to step her game up in the last game. This one here gets a thumbs-down. Not recommended.