My Queen Karo

My Queen Karo is a 2009 drama film. It was directed by Dorothée Van Den Berghe, produced by Frank Van Passel, and starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Déborah François, and Anna Franziska Jaeger. The film tells the story of Karo, a ten-year-old girl who witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam.
The film received three nominations at the 1st Magritte Awards.

Cast

Anna Franziska Jaeger as Karo
Matthias Schoenaerts as Raven
Déborah François as Dalia
Rifka Lodeizen as Jacky
Maria Kraakman as Alice
Hadewych Minis as Rosa
Nico Sturm as Barré
Ward Weemhoff as Joop
Christelle Cornil as Anne Clare
Bastiaan Rook as Kraker

Production

From the beginning, director Dorothée [Van Den Berghe] had chosen Anna Franziska Jaeger to play Karo, but the film took two years to put together, and by that time, she was too old for the part as she had written. "She had breasts already, and the part I had written was definitely for a child who was younger than that. So.. I held auditions and auditions, but I never found that quality, what I found in her. I rewrote the script, then, and we had to rethink how to shoot the nudity, for example, because of her breasts. But I think it puts the film into a better perspective, a child that age."