Kampf der Königinnen

Battle Of The Queens
Combat de reines

Germany / Switzerland, February 2011
FILM, Documentary, 70 min.

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directed by
Nicolas Steiner
Written by
Nicolas Steiner
Status
In distribution
Website
www.kampfderkoeniginnen.ch

A film from and about rural Europe capturing a timeless cultural event: a series of head-to-head fights of cows, not bulls, set in a valley in sunny Southern Switzerland. The fights are sudden snorting seesaws, explosions of mass and muscle, archaic and wild. We follow three concurrent story lines: an anxious farmer with his beloved contender, a neurotic unemployed reporter from Zurich come to find a story and a gang of adolescent boys on mopeds trying to catch a pretty girl's eye. This black and white film tries to capture the balance between fascinating tradition and modernity.

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World Premiere
February 2011
Original Version
French, Swiss-German (german subtitles),  s/w, DCP, 70 min.
Production
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Nicolas Steiner
Producer
Malte Can, Nicolas Steiner
directed by
Nicolas Steiner
Written by
Nicolas Steiner
Cinemato­graphy
Markus Nestroy
Editing
Kaya Inan
Sound Editing
Tobias Koch, Michael Kaczmarek
Sound Design
Tobias Koch
Re-Recording Mix
Michael Kaczmarek
Music
John Gürtler, Jan Miserre
Location Sound Mix
Tobias Koch, Sebastian Heeg

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Cineworx GmbH Distribution
Release date: 03.05.2012

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