MWFF 2013: Best Actress

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

JÖRDIS TRIEBEL
Best Actress, film WESTEN (WEST)

The Montreal World Film Festival 2013 Prize for the Best Actress was awarded to JÖRDIS TRIEBEL for her lead role in the film WESTEN (WEST) by Christian Schwochow (Germany). The prize is well deserved since her acting in this film is quite remarkable and very powerful. It is well appreciated to honour an actress who can interpret a character with such intensity and edginess required for the part.

Below are photos of Jordis Triebel during the Montreal World Film Festival. The two pictures just below were taken before the press conference at the Hyatt Hotel on August 25, 2013. 

Below on the left is a photo of Jordis Triebel at the press conference. On the right Jordis Triebel relaxes at the Hyatt Hotel's terrace.

Here is the Official Synopsis of the Westen:

"Two suitcases, a schoolbag, a plush toy – that’s all Nelly Senff and her son Alexei take with them to begin their new life. A Volkswagen stops in front of their house in East Berlin. Nelly is nervous. The year is 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes. When she leaves, when she gets into the car, she is wearing a floral dress, But over there in the West, she doesn’t know anybody. The first place of refuge for immigrants from the East is Marienfelde, a cramped emergency camp in West Berlin. Marienfelde is a hotspot between two political systems. And the place where her past catches up to her. The West German secret police take her aside for interrogation; they ask her about Wassily. Nelly has to decide whether she will let the trauma of the past destroy the future she had in mind for her and her son."

Information about the film's production team:

Director : Christian Schwochow

Screenwriter : Heide Schwochow. D'après le roman/Based on the novel: Lagerfeuer. De/By: Juli Franck

Cinematographer : Frank Lamm

Editor : Jens Klüber

Cast : Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Alexander Scheer, Jacky Ido

Music : Lorenz Dangel

Film production and Sales : Thomas Kufus, Katrin Schlösser, Christoph Friedel, Zero One Film GmbH, Lehrterstr. 57, 10557 Berlin (Allemagne), tél.: (+49-30) 390 66 30, office@zeroone.de 

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Image at the top courtesy of MWFF.

All photos in this article by Nadia Slejskova.

© 2013 Nadia Slejskova