Jewels of the street

Directors: Dirk Manthey, Toti Baches / 74 min. / 2010 / Spanish (ST: German, English) / Germany

The jewels of the street are Eva, Kelly, Chiqui and many other trans women from Latin America who live in Schmuckstrasse in St. Pauli.

Director: Dirk Manthey, Toti Baches
Cinematography: Oliver Eckert
Editing: Doreen Bucholz, Toti Baches, Michelle Barbin
Production: dirk manthey film, Chroma Film und TV, nächster Halt Filmproduktion

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The jewels of the street are Eva, Kelly, Chiqui and many other trans women from Latin America who live in Schmuckstrasse in St. Pauli. They came to Hamburg because they cannot live and work as freely in their home country as they can here.

Donatella’s house and bar are the first port of call for transsexuals in the Hanseatic city.

Behind the inconspicuous Gründerzeit facade, only a few meters away from the glittering world of the Reeperbahn and the neon lights of the Große Freiheit, they have found a home for their very special women’s microcosm.

CAST
Amaloa Carolina Nava
Chiquinquirá Lorenz
Eva Rodríguez
Kelly Lugo

CREW
Director: Toti Baches
Codirector: Dirk Manthey
Script: Toti Baches, Oliver Eckert
Production: Dirk Manthey
DoP: Oliver Eckert
Sound: Michael Steinhauser, Tarja Kühne
Edition: Michelle Barbin, Doreen Buchholz, Toti Baches
Music: Andrew Krell
Sounddesign: Stefan Konken
Production: dirk manthey film, Chroma Film und TV, naechster Halt Filmproduktion

2010 Jewels of the Street
2017 Touch the sky
2021 Red Cunt | reconsidering periods

PRESSE
„Ein äußerst berührender Dokumentarfilm über einen faszinierenden Mikrokosmos im Herzen Hamburgs.“ Hamburger Morgenpost 12.5.2011 Eckart Alberts

„Gut möglich, dass sich durch diesen Film eine Szene und eine Stadt kennenlernen – nach Jahren der kontaktlosen Koexistenz.“ Taz 12.5.2011 Klaus Irler

„…höchst sehenswerte Dokumentation.“Hamburger Abendblatt 12.5. 2011 Uma

FESTIVALS (Auswahl)
Documentales Bogotà 2010
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2010
IX Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos DONOSTIA San Sebastián 2011
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg 2011