Baby Bitchka a film by Anna Maria Roznowska - German Films

a film by Anna Maria Roznowska

Baby Bitchka

Sasha, crazy, sexy, alcoholic, 23, falls in love with Alex crazy,
sexy, alcoholic, 60. It’s the story of two people who fall in love
with their alter ego.

Sasha, 23. She’s been out roaming Berlin streets day
and night. All she wants is to forget: her past, her ex, life
and herself. She drinks without a rest. She’d like to drop
dead. This is when she meets Alex, 60. He drinks to forget
as well. Both connect their philosophy of life and their
refusal to participate in the world’s circus. But Sasha leads
another fight: against people’s perceptions of her and their
projections onto her. What starts as a fast-paced game ends
in a trip of self-hatred and despair.

Directors Statement

An older friend of mine told me he fell in love with a young woman. Initially I was
repelled by the idea of a relationship between a young woman and an older man.
Subsequently I pondered how could I be so superficial. But the image of the ‘Lolita’
is firmly embedded in our cultural history, albeit quite worn, and it is currently used
against thoughts of emancipation. This topic and the discomfort caused by my own
prejudices and cultural context held my attention for a long time. So I decided to go
ahead with the experiment: What would have to happen to bring this unequal couple
together without bringing sex or money into the play? What if we tell the ‘Lolita’ story
differently? What are our expectations of a movie dealing with this topic?
‘Baby Bitchka’ is Sasha’s story, told from Alex’s perspective, like also Vladimir
Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ is told from men’s perspective. By the end the question is how
Sasha serves currently as a mirror for societies prejudices?

Cast

Sascha - Romina Küper
Alexander - Michael Thomas
Taxi driver - Jürgen Lehmann
Playing girls - Helena Zengel, Violet Katherine Noelani Greene
Cahit - Benjamin Lutzke
Monika - Paul Lux
Heinz - Karl-Heinz Schulze
Barber - Yavuz Sasmaz
University student - Marton Peter Nagy
Hotel guest - Jan Janowski
Page boy - Maciej Zaremba
Woman in the train - Lucie Aron
Man in the train - Raphael Rubino
Soldier- Anton Rubtsov

Credits

Director - Anna Maria Roznowska
Script - Anna Maria Roznowska, Tamara Erbe
Camera - Malte Siepen
Producer - Tamara Erbe
Editor - Anna Maria Roznowska, Levent Sülzen, Tamara Erbe
Sound - Hans-Christian Paul
Music - Fatima Yamaha, Alex Cameron, Mogwai, Blümchen,
         Tilman Brejora

Technical Details

Germany, 2020, fiction film, feature film, 62 min, color, digital, DCP,
24fps, 1:1.85, 5.1 Dolby Surround, German and English with german
and english subtitles.

Biography

Anna Maria Roznowska was born in 1985 in Poznań and grew up in
Hamburg. She studied history of art, film science, and philosophy at the
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Freie Universität Berlin.
She is studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy
(Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie). She worked for Alicja Kwade,
Gregor Hildebrandt and Dirk Bell. She participated in workshops like
- Portret}Polonia, Cental Europe Feature Project and masterclasses of
Roman Polanski (Polish Filmschool, 2013), Claire Denis (DFFB, 2013),
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (DFFB, 2017), Agnès Godard and Lucrecia
Martel (DFFB, 2018).

Filmography Director

2020 Baby Bitchka / DCP/ feature film
2019/20 Hitler love / ProRes 444 / feature film
2017 Es urlaubt / ProRes 444 / shortfilm
2015 Let me ask mum first / ProRes 444 / shortfilm
2014 Bears / ProRes 444 / shortfilm
2013 Monkey / ProRes 444 / middlelength film
2013 Europa Endlos / DCP/ middlelength film/ Film Polska 2014,
     dokumentART 2014, DOK Leipzig 2014
2012 Wo die Hunde mit den Hintern bellen / „Gdzie psy dupami
     szczekaja” / ProRes 444 / shortfilm
2011 IRA / / DCP/ shortfilm/ Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2011

Production

German Film and Television Academy Berlin
(DFFB)

Contact

Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie Berlin
(DFFB)
Josephine Aleyt
Potsdamer Str. 2 / 10785 Berlin

j.aleyt@dffb.de / festival@dffb.de
+49 30 257 59 152
www.dffb.de