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Section: Documentary Films
Win by Fall (2016)
Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle are 12 years old when they leave home. The "Elite School of Sport" at Frankfurt/Oder, a boarding school of the East German tradition is where they move to. They grow up in a strict regime of training schedules, weight classes and are pressured to perform. Being wrestlers, they all dream of a championship title, though off the mat, each girl fights her very own battle: Janny is searching for her standing within the group, Debby fights her own expectations, Lisa is homesick and Michelle fights with her weight. The documentary attempts to show their place outside of competitive rankings.
| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Duration | 82 min |
| Rating | 14 |
| Language | German |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Anna Koch |
| Screenplay | Anna Koch, Julia Lemke |
| Director of Photography | Julia Lemke |
| Music | Kurt Koch, Jana Irmert |
| Edited by | Martin Reimers, Henrike Dosk |
| Contact | Anna Wendt |
Biography
A German documentary filmmaker, she studied film directing in Berlin at the German Film and TV Academy (dffb). She's made the short films Fata Morgana (2008) and Sisters (Schwestern, 2011). Her first feature film is Win by Fall (Schultersieg, 2016), with which she graduated from dffb. She works at tagesschau.de and Rowohlt Verlag.