It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.
Elfi Mikesch
Director, Writer
Carolina Cardoso
Franzi
Eva Mattes
Franziska
Martin Wuttke
Vater
Nicole Max
Mutter
Louis Wagner
Bruder
Luc Lamesch
Junge im Schlachthof
Sascha Ley
Mme Marguérite
André Jung
Jaques Briquet
Luc Feit
Monsieur Charbon
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