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It's a Jungle Out There
(Nach fuenf im Urwald)

Screening on Film
Directed by Hans Christian Schmid.
With Franka Potente, Axel Milberg, Dagmar Manzel.
Germany, 1995, 35mm, color, 89 min.
German with English subtitles.

Schmid’s debut feature stars Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) as Anna, a seventeen-year-old who runs away to Munich with her devoted admirer Simon after a row with her eccentric father. After she tries her luck as a singer, she becomes immersed in the self-absorbed world of public relations. When her worried parents also go off to Munich in search of their prodigal daughter, they discover that the big city is as much of a "jungle experience" for them as it is for Anna. Schmid’s winning comedy on modern German family life marked the first of several collaborations with screenwriter Michael Gutmann.

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