Special Guest Lena Urzendowsky in Person
For Franky, life isn’t easy. To people around her, she seems unpredictable and erratic. She has never allowed herself to fall in love because she is too busy dealing with her inner chaos. Her best friend Katja knows her changing moods, but Franky has never revealed to anyone, that she has an old Hotel in her head, inhabited by four weird but lovable characters who can switch into her body in the real world by using the elevator. She suffers from a multiple personality disorder which at different times and occasionally disrupts her attempts at a love life...
Germany 2022
Directed by Birgit Möller
DCP, 114 min
Awards:
Max Ophüls Prize (Ecumenical Jury Award), Achtung Berlin FF, Crossing Europe FF
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Lena Urzendowsky, born in 2000, can already boast an impressive acting career. She played the lead role in the coming-of-age movie COCOON, which celebrated its world premiere opening the Generation+ section at the Berlinale 2020. She was part of the ensemble in the Netflix hit-series DARK (2017/2019) by Jantje Friese and Baran Bo Odar and the thriller series THE DEFEATED (2020), as well as in the Netflix crime series HOW TO SELL DRUGS ONLINE (FAST) (2020). And most notably, in 2021 she was part of the ensemble of the series remake by Amazon Prime of the 80s hit movie WE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO, directed by Philipp Kadelbach. Whenever her acting career allows, Lena Urzendowsky is studying philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin. In the summer of 2022, Lena studied at Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.
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