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Utopia

1983
Germany
feature film - Drama
198 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

A harrowing fight between a sadistic pimp and his five prostitutes. Probably the most overlooked gem in german film history.

Cast

Actor/-ess: Birgit Anders (Monika); Imke Barnstedt (Renate); Gabriele Fischer (Susi); Gundula Petrovska (Rosi); Johanna Sophia (Helga); Manfred Zapatka (Heinz); Bernhard Adami; Barbara Beutler; Johanna Ebert; Fritz Ewert; Johanna Gerhard; Hans-Joachim Grubel; Andreas Hanft; Albert Heins; Irma Jagow; Klaus Jepsen; Ursula Kessler; Kurt Klein; Christoph Künzler; Lothar Lambert; Harald Lutz; Herbert Heinz Pfeiffer; Heinz Rabe; Karl Schulz; Peter Wagenbreth; Alex Zander

Direction

Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless

Assistant director: Dagmar Beiersdorf

Writing

Screenplay: Sohrab Shahid Saless; Manfred Grunert

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Ramin Reza Molai

Assistant camera / focus puller: Bernd Balaschus

Lighting design: Siegfried Gierich

Decor

Set design: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer

Prop master: Hermann Pitz; Raimund Kummer

Construction manager: Hermann Pitz; Raimund Kummer

Make-up artist: Detlef Jentsch; Nicki Tischler

Costume design: Monika Grube

Wardrobe: Barbara Winter

Hairdresser: Detlef Jentsch

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Christel Orthmann

Assistant editor: Gudrun Kieckheim

Sound: Wolf-Dietrich Peters

Sound assistant: Michael Hemmerling

Audio mixing: Rainer Lorenz

Music

Music: Rolf Bauer

Production

Producer: Willi Segler; Renée Gundelach

Editorial department: Willi Segler

Line producer: Renée Gundelach

Production manager: Traute Göres

Production office: Astrid Hensel

Companies

Production company: Multimedia Gesellschaft für audiovisuelle Information mbH

in Co-Production: Ullstein Tele Video; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)