Freibad (2022) on Netflix
In the summer heat at Germany's only open-air pool for women, bathers wear bikinis, bathing suits, burkinis or bathe topless. The lifeguard cannot control the friction among them.
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Plot summary
Germany's only open-air swimming pool for women is a hot place in summer. Women bathe there topless, or in a bikini, a bathing suit or a burkini, and each of them follows rules of her own, which leads to friction. The lifeguard is overwhelmed and not quite able to control it. Then a group of women in full veils discovers the bath with enthusiasm, and the questions become whose bath it is, who sets the rules, and what makes a woman a woman.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Freibad (2022)
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- Several plotlines come from the real Lorettobad in Freiburg im Breisgau and were exaggerated for the film, among them the conflict between the pool's regulars and Muslim women from neighbouring Alsace; police there really had to settle disputes twice, in 2016 and 2017.
- Doris Dörrie originally wanted to use Freiburg's Lorettobad itself as the setting, but algae growth after the 2020 pandemic closure ruled it out, so the Freiburg women would not have to go another year without their women's pool.
- In the real Lorettobad, calm only returned once a male lifeguard was employed, which kept the Muslim women away, and a student's petition against male lifeguards came to nothing.
