Lovely Rita
5.9
Rita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school, where she's disdained by classmates, and at home, where her staunchly religious mother and temperamental father bemoan her inability to fit in with their comfortable bourgeois life. When Rita sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.
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Jessica Hausner Director · Dom Capuano Composer Martin Gschlacht Cinematographer
First release May 14, 2001 · Produced in Germany, Austria · Languages English, German
Production
Prisma Film
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Coop99 Filmproduktion
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Essential Filmproduktion
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Germany · Austria
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
France · May 14, 2001
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
Austria · November 2, 2001
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 8, 2001 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
July 11, 2001 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Hungary
October 5, 2001 · Premiere · Titanic International Filmpresence Festival
Japan
March 27, 2004 · Digital
Poland
October 13, 2001 · Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
Switzerland
March 7, 2002 · Digital
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