Winter daughter.

A story too good to let them lie there: Since wrestle the arts pages of the major opinion-makers to question whether Dresen's "grip on the open road" was mainly to score with the tears bonus, why "Barbara" by Christian Petzold only Lola was a silver model of "slapped" (SZ) and why the Swabian Emmerich and his "Anonymous" is good as well as good image of the enemy of all German filmmakers. And by the way, almost unnoticed, wins the Munich-based production team's favorite movie Ltd. to Thomas and Philip Blieninger Budweg daughter with winter the German Film Award 2012 in the category of children's film. And not just like that, but - a first in the history of the award - with the help of a wildcard, and, equally amazing, with such established productions such as "Tom Sawyer", "Vicky's Road Trip" and "Five".
That the road to success was a rocky one, you may believe you. For the only candidate in the district of the Great without a literary model, which had relied on the brilliance of the story of screenwriter Michaela Hinnenthal, which was still to treat of its own Distributor quite neglected, it was necessary to use all available levers to set in motion. And although the Munich certainly no strangers to have - at least they have it in 2004 made her debut "Out of the depths of space" equal to the winners of the Bavarian Film Award and "Stupid Hat" took plenty of recognition at various festivals - still went it with "Winter's Daughter" about taking a new level and to convince the jury with imensem expense of the quality of the material and his actors.
"Winter's Daughter" is the second feature film directed by John Schmid, an unconventional road movie about the twelve year old Kattaka (Nina Monka) who learns on Christmas Eve accident that her real father is not the one with whom she spent the years of their childhood, but an unnamed Russian sailor. Enraged, she decides simply to find these unknowns - they will be accompanied on their journey in an uncertain old Barkas to Szczecin, where the vessel is to be the father, and later to Gdansk from its neighbor, the old Lena (Ursula Werner). A moving and emotional journey of it is that holds a few surprises - a stowaway suddenly appears and also harbors a tragic secret Lene, which reveals the film gradually. In Munich, the film was only one cinema in 2011 - with the price in a second round is now back on the big screen plans that will hopefully attract a few more viewers into the cinemas