Directed by:
Marie KreutzerCinematography:
Leena KoppeComposer:
David HebenstreitCast:
Andreas Kiendl, Andrea Wenzl, Marion Mitterhammer, Pia Hierzegger, Johannes Krisch, Hille Beseler, Tom Hanslmaier, Philipp Hochmair, Emily Cox (more)Plots(1)
Two men and two women gather around their father’s deathbed. The four siblings meet at the home where they grew up and where several decades previously an attempt was made, drawing on the idealistic atmosphere of the 1960s, to live in an alternative community. But the community broke up and the individual members went their separate ways. The older daughter Kyra is seeing her siblings for the first time in 23 years, and everyone expects her presence to provoke unpleasant memories; no one wants to dredge up the past. Why, soon after her sister was born, did Kyra and her mother have to leave the community? Why did Kyra’s father Hans never respond to her letters? Family secrets, the past, and the present combine to create a tragic destiny of unfulfilled desire for an independent life. Although debut director Marie Kreutzer employs clichés typical of a family drama, she successfully moves beyond them through her depiction of vivid and entirely authentic characters. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Andreas Kiendl
Austria
Best movies:
Slumming (2006)
Antares (2004)
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Andrea Wenzl
Austria
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Marion Mitterhammer
Austria
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The Fatherless (2011)
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Pia Hierzegger
Austria
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Johannes Krisch
Austria
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Hille Beseler
Germany
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Tom Hanslmaier
Austria
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Philipp Hochmair
Austria
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Emily Cox
Austria
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Axel Sichrovsky
Austria
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Sabine Friesz
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Seraphine Rastl
Austria
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Sami Loris
Switzerland
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Dominik Warta
Austria
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Markus Hamele
Austria
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Daniel Doujenis
Austria
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Sandy Lopicic
West Germany
Best movies:
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Rupert L. Lehofer
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