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10/10/2024 Drama 1h 57m
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Overview

Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen’s parents’ house. Karen’s sister Jule travels with her family to Markus’ birthday party. While Karen takes everyone’s breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a front forms against Karen until everything escalates into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to create the new.

  1. Ramon Zürcher

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Maren Eggert

    Karen

  2. Britta Hammelstein

    Jule

  3. Luise Heyer

    Liv

  4. Andreas Döhler

    Markus

  5. Milian Zerzawy

    Jurek

  6. Lea Zoë Voss

    Johanna

  7. Paula Schindler

    Christina

  8. Ilja Bultmann

    Leon

  9. Luana Greco

    Edda

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Reviews

A review by Brent Marchant
Written by Brent Marchant on 2024-10-25
To be blunt, I really dislike arthouse films that give the genre a bad name, yet writer-director Ramon Zürcher’s third feature outing regrettably does just that. This pretentious, meandering exercise in allegedly profound cinema falls flat shortly after it begins and never recovers, growing ever more pointless, unfocused and self-important as it unfolds. Set in the rural childhood home of two very different and quietly combative sisters (Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein), the film follows the events associated with a birthday celebration involving the siblings and their families. As the fes...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
German

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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