Gangster Girls
Documentary Film, AT 2008, Farbe, 79 min.
Diagonale 2009
Director: Tina Leisch
Script: Tina Leisch
Ursula Wolschlager
Cast: Insass/innen der Justizanstalten Schwarzau und Gerasdorf
Camera: Gerald Kerkletz,
Leena Koppe
Editor: Karina Ressler,
Julia Pontiller
Location Sound: Klaus Kellermann
Music: Eva Jantschitsch
Producers: Ursula Wolschlager
Production: Witcraft Szenario
Co-production: Verein kinoki
Women wearing mask-like makeup describe how they ended up in jail and their experiences inside. In parallel, Tina Leisch accompanies the Schwarzau and Gerasdorf prison theatre groups during rehearsals. The borders start to blur. What is acted and what is real personal account? This loss of certainty leads to the inmates revealing more than their individual, criminal histories, “I'm interested in who she is, not why she’s here.”