Lovely Rita

  • Certificate:
     tc
  • Main category:
     Feature
  • Sub category:
     Foreign
  • Colour / BW:
     Colour
  • Country of origin:
     Austria

Year of Production: 
2001
Running Time: 
80
Sub t2: 
Subtitled
Original language: 
German
Starring: 
Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala, Wolfgang Kostal, Karina Brandlmayer, Gabriele Wurm Bauer, Harald Urban, Felix Eisier, Agnes Napieralska, Rene Wanko, Marcia Knoppel, Ursula Pucher, Peter Fiala, Christophe Bauer
Director: 
Jessica Hausner
Producer: 
Philippe Bober, Heinz Stussak, Antonin Svoboda
Writer: 
Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner directs this German coming-of-age drama. Barbara Osika stars as Rita, a moody, insolent teenager on the verge of womanhood whose confused sexual awakening leads her to seduce both a much younger schoolboy (Christoph Bauer), and a bus driver (Peter Fiala). As her efforts to break out of her solitude and the claustrophobic atmosphere of her bourgeois Catholic family life isolate her more and more, her state of mind veers inexorably towards violence and despair.


DVD / Normal
Distributor nameArtificial Eye
AvailabilityRetail / Rental
Release Date26/07/2010
Trade Catalogue NumberART 494 DVD
Barcode5021866494302