Lovely Rita

When Rita, an introverted teenager, sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably. 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.

Keywords

  • Fien Troch’s favourite films

Actors

  • Harald Urban
  • Peter Fiala
  • Karina Brandlmayer
  • Gabriele Wurm Bauer
  • Christopher Bauer
  • Barbara Osika
  • Wolfgang Kostal

Director

  • Jessica Hausner

Drama


1h 19min


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Austria
2001
When Rita, an introverted teenager, sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.

When Rita, an introverted teenager, sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.


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.

Cast & Crew