Das Fräulein

• Mirjana Karanović: Ruza
• Marija Skaricic: Ana
• Ljubica Jovic: Mila
• Andrea Zogg: Franz
• Zdenko Jelcic: Ante
• Pablo Aguilar: Fredi

The young lady is a published in 2006 feature film by Swiss director Andrea Staka. The film about three originating from the former Yugoslavia, women who live in Switzerland, won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in the same year.

The film is a production of the Zurich company Dschoint Ventschr under Susan Rüdlinger and Samir, in collaboration with fifth film from Germany, Swiss Television and ZDF. The main roles Mirjana Karanović, Marija and Ljubica Jovic Skaricic play.

Action

The fifty-year Ruza from Serbia runs a canteen in Zurich, the sixty -year-old Mila from Croatia is its employees. One day takes the young homeless Ana, who lived during the war in Bosnia, to a place in the canteen. The life- hungry woman deeply affected the lives of the two elders.

Reception

The young lady was shown at various film festivals around the world and was recorded in Switzerland 66 054 admissions. The film was in 2006 at the Locarno Film Festival awarded the Golden Leopard and also won the main prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2007 he received the Swiss Film Prize for Best Screenplay.

Natalie Boehler wrote in Cinema: " The young lady is feeling the impact of emigration and the Balkan War in the life attitudes of women. The existence in a foreign country feels like one in suspense: homecoming or stay? (...) The outstanding actresses are considered by a sensitive camera that always finds the right distance from them and harmonious co-operates with a cut, just giving each adjustment, the appropriate length. "