Rita is an unruly outsider: her classmates laugh at her behavior, her teachers find her rude, and her parents lock her in to make her obey. On the verge of becoming a woman, her clumsy sexual awakening leads her to intimacy with a schoolboy, too young, and a bus driver, too old. Her efforts to break out of her solitude isolate her even more, until one day Rita steps across the border.
Production Coop 99 [at]; Essential Filmproduktion GmbH [de]; Prisma Film [at];
Cast Names Barbara Osika; Christoph Bauer; Peter Fiala; Wolfgang Kostal; Karina Brandlmayer; Gabriele Wurm Bauer; Harald Urban; Felix Eisier; Agnes Napieralska; Rene Wanko; Marcia Knoppel; Ursula Pucher; Lili Schageri; Frau Urban; Bettina Grossinger; Karoline Sabo; Elena Wenter; Sister Marina; Mag. Walter Holub; Hermine Floccari; Karl Veitsch; Wolfgang Urbanek; Ilse Honninger; Christian Stagl; Elfriede Brandner; Gertraud Muraoka; Liselotte Grossing-Soldan; Sebastian Forounar-Fard; Sandra Weiss; Barbara Hitzel;
Release Date 2001-10-01 * (Chicago International Film Festival)