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Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Nora Fingscheidt
Fotografia / Photography: Yunus Roy Imer
Montaggio / Editing: Stephan Bechinger, Julia Kovalenko.
Musica / Music: John Gürtler
Suono / Sound: Corinna Zink, Jonathan Schorr, Dominik Leube, Oscar Stiebitz
Scenografia / Art Director: Marie-Luise Balzer
Costumi / Costume Designer: Ulé Barcelos
Interpreti / Cast: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister
Produzione / Produced by: kineo Filmproduktion, Weydemann Bros
Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Oma Inge Film, ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig- Holstein, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, nordmedia, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film
Distribuzione internazionale / World Sales: Beta Cinema
She is small, but dangerous. Wherever Benni ends up, she is immediately expelled. The wild 9-year-old girl has already become what child protection services call a ‘system crasher’. And she is certainly not looking to change her ways. Because Benni has one single goal: to be back at home with her mommy! System Crasher premiered in competition at the Berlinale in 2019 and was selected as the German entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.
“While shooting a documentary about a home for dispossessed women, I heard the unofficial term ‘system crasher’ for the first time … I couldn’t get that term out of my head, so I started an intense research. During this period I met an 11-year-old boy who had been in 52 different institutions. ‘System crashers’ are children with incredible strength and endurance, but still tragic figures. At a very early age they put all their opportunities of becoming integrated into our society at risk.” (N. Fingscheidt)
Nora Fingscheidt
Film director and writer Nora Fingscheidt was born in 1983 in Braunschweig, Germany. She spent her childhood in Germany and Argentina. From 2003 onwards she supported the development of the selforganized film school filmArche in Berlin. From 2008 to 2017 she studied film directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. System Crasher, her feature debut, has won several awards worldwide.
Selected filmography
2011 Synkope cm / sf 2017 Ohne diese Welt (Without This World) doc; Premi / Awards: Premio Max Ophüls / Max Ophüls Prize 2019 Systemsprenger (System Crasher); Premi / Awards: Berlinale – Premio Alfred Bauer / Alfred Bauer Prize; German Film Awards – Migliore regia, Migliore sceneggiatura, Miglior attore, Migliore attrice, Migliore attrice non protagonista / Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress; EFA – Premio per la miglior colonna sonora / Best Composer Award 2021 The Unforgivable
