by Jessica Hausner		Lovely Rita Website<<<
			with: Barbara Osika, Wolfgang Kostal, Karina Brandlmayr, Peter Fiala Script: Jessica Hausner DOP: Martin Gschlacht Production Design: Katharina Wöppermann Costume: Tanja Hausner Sound: Thomas Schmidt-Gentner Editing: Karin Hartusch Producers: Antonin Svoboda, Heinz Stussak, Philippe Bober Production: coop99 filmproduktion (A); Prisma Film (A), Essential Filmproduktion (A) World Sales: The Coproduction Office Format: 80 min., 35mm, Color, Dolby SR SYNOPSIS Rita is an outsider, in her family as well as in her class and her teenage life. 15 years old, lonely and searching for acceptance and sympathy: she tries to flirt with two years younger Felix– and makes love with a bus chauffer in a toilet. Trying to get more popular in her class she more and more often skips class. The police catches her, she sees her father’s gun on the kitchen table – and acts. Things just happen. The last image – Rita looks into the camera – is nothing than a big question. Selection of FESTIVALS Cannes 2001, Sélection Officielle – Un Certain Regard Viennale 2001, Wiener Filmpreis
					Jessica Hausner + Born 1972 in Vienna, Austria. + 1994 Jessica Hausner graduated from the Vienna Film Academy (direction). +1999 she cofounded coop99 filmproduction together with Barbara Albert, Martin Gschlacht and Antonin Svoboda Lovely Rita Website