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Five beautiful women. Five talented actresses. One Night and a thousand drinks. They meet at a casting for a TV-movie. At first they size each other up, but soon they start talking - about the screenplay, about their reasons to act in the film, about their private lives. By now they realize that none of them really wants this acting job, so they follow the spur of the moment and together they leave to escape their frustrations for a day.
Dana’s secretly kept pregnancy will soon unable her to work as an actor. Barbara is growing all the more suspicious that the man she loves will leave her. Kandis is having a complicated affair while Geno likes women, which doesn’t make life easier for her. And yet none of them realizes the strong desperation that is leading Karin to an unforseen and final decision.
Somehow these five women are not able to break away from each other so what started as a day-trip becomes a journey into night. And in the course of this night, longings, hopes and fears are gradually revealed.
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Born in West-Berlin in 1968, Sathyan Ramesh has worked as a director, writer and editor and also teaches directing and film theory. His portraits, interviews and film criticism are published in film and cultural related magazines such as steadycam, RheinART and cinema. Ramesh has been working on the development of various productions for Cinema and TV such as First Kiss and The Attorney’s Guest, which has been directed by Torsten C. Fischer starring Götz George and Heino Ferch.
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Beautiful Women is a film for women, who like women and for men, who love women.
But it is also a declaration of love – to the actresses Floriane Daniel, Julia Jäger, Caroline Peters, Clelia Sarto and Ulrike C. Tscharre. The book was written for them, without them the book wouldn’ t exist.
In the end the film has become a love affair: a bitter sweet combination of an intimate play with the unique music of Queen Bee. Their music inspired the script, without their music it would have become another script. Seven beautiful women, finally. What a good luck.
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Cast
Floriane Daniel (as Barbara) had leading roles in feature films such as Wintersleepers (by Tom Tykwer), A Fatal Affair (by Michael Bartlett), Callgirl (by Peter Keglevic) and Jenny’s Dream (by Dieter Kehler).
Julia Jäger (as Dana) performed in national and international feature films including Berlin is in Germany (by Hannes Stöhr) and Foreign Fields (by Aage Rais). For Outside Time (by Andreas Kleinert) she received an Award at the Kairo International Filmfestival in 1996, for First Loss (by Maxim Dessau) she was rewarded with the Max Ophüls Prize in 1991.
Caroline Peters (as Kandis) has starred in several TV movies, TV series and feature films such as The Semmeling Affair (by Dieter Wedel) or 99 Euro Films (by Rolf-Peter Krahl and Daniel Petersen).
Clelia Sarto (as Genoveva) performed in the successful productions Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (by Thomas Jahn), Just the Beginning (by Pierre Franckh) and At Night in the Parc (by Uwe Janson).
Ulrike C. Tscharre (as Karin) has appeared in some of Germany’s most popular TV series and movies including Alphateam (by Aljoscha Westermann) and Lindenstraße (by Domenikus Probst).
Crew
Director
Sathyan Ramesh
Screenplay
Sathyan Ramesh
Director of Photography
Thomas Merker
Producer
Roland Willaert
Executive Producer
Markus Gruber
Executive in Charge
of Production
Hans-Christian Hess
Editor
Andrea Mertens
Sound
Michael Kunz
Music
Edda Schnittgard &
Ina Müller as Queen Bee
Stefan Hiss
A production of D&D Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH in Co-Production with NDR and ARTE.
Supported by Filmstiftung NRW and FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG.
Technical Information
• Beautiful Women (Schöne Frauen) • Drama • Germany 2003 • Language: German (English subtitles and French subtitles) • 87 min. •
Colour • 35 mm • 1:1,66 • Dolby Surround
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