On a night out in Berlin, Victoria meets four young local guys – after joining their group, she becomes their driver when they rob a bank. Finally, as dawn breaks, everyone meets their destiny.

Direction: Sebastian Schipper

Script: Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike F. Schulz

Production: Jan Dressler, Johanna Bergel, Sebastian Schipper

Cinematography: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen

Production Design: Ulrich Friedrichs

Costume Design: Stefanie Jauss

Sound: Magnus Pflüger, Matthias Lempert, Fabian Schmidt

Original Score: Nils Frahm

Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André M. Hennicke

Original Title: VICTORIA

Original Languages: English, German, Spanish

Subtitles: English

Film Production Country: Germany

Website: www.wildbunch-germany.de/movie/victoria

Social Media: www.facebook.com/VictoriaDerFilm

Statement of the Director/s
This film is not a movie; it’s not about a bank robbery. It is bank robbery.
VICTORIA was shot in one single take. Two hours and fourteen minutes. No cuts. No cheap tricks. No expensive ones either. Just one shot.
On 27 April 27 2014, we started the camera a little after 4.30 am in a club we’d built ourselves (in order to keep locations close to each other), and after 2 hours and 14 minutes – after we’d run, walked, strolled and climbed through 22 locations, had more than 150 extras handled by six assistant directors and seven actors followed in succession by three sound crews - we were done - at 06.54 am. The sun had slowly risen while we filmed, and Laia Costa finally walked away from our cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, who looked like he had just run a marathon. Well, he had. We all had.
Why did we do it? It’s crazy. A little stupid, too. Well, why do people rob banks? For the money! Of course! But maybe it’s not the only reason.
The first thought I ever had about this project was that I realised that in my life I would never rob a bank. And I didn’t like the thought. I believe it would be an experience like no other. Not hurting, wounding or even kidnapping people, but to enter a zone – dark and full of fear – to take a gun and demand everything, right away. To receive – not because you deserve it; not because you behaved well or worked hard – but to fast forward and demand it all: Right now! Right here!
Hemingway wanted to shoot an elephant. He knew it was the ultimate sin, but he did it anyway. Or maybe that’s why he did it.
So, there it was: the idea to rob a bank; and the knowledge that we weren’t robbers but filmmakers. But what if we were to shoot the entire film in one single take? The hour before the robbery – and the hour afterwards? That’s how we meet the characters, hear their stories, feel their hopes, their despair, their urge to do one defining thing, one thing that will change it all. And also: why is it that there are so many films about bank robberies, and yet so very few that really make you feel the experience?
And isn’t that, at heart, what it’s really about? Not the robbery. Not a movie about a robbery. Not even a movie about a robbery without a cut. But ... the trip.
And the more I think about it, the more I believe that’s why we even watch films to begin with: deep down it’s not about stories, action, jokes and characters, but about going somewhere and doing the undoable, demanding it all – Right now! Right here!

Biography of the Director/s
Sebastian Schipper
Born on 8 May 1968 in Hanover

Filmography:
1998 ABSOLUTE GIGANTEN
2004 EIN FREUND VON MIR
2008 MITTE ENDE AUGUST

as an actor (selection):
1997 RUN LOLA RUN
2004 NIGHTSONGS
2009 THREE
2011 LUDWIG II
2013 HERE I AM

Awards Won
Berlin IFF: Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Vilnius IFF: Best Film

7 German LOLA Awards: Best Film, Director, Actress, Actor, Cinematography, Music

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