A woman walks out on her husband and two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free. Nora (40) roams through a museum in Vienna, has sex with a young man and hitchhikes randomly on to Bratislava. She hides her identity by telling little lies. She changes her look, finds work as a chambermaid and makes friends with a young Slovakian stripper, Etela, and her husband Tamás, a cook. Meanwhile in Berlin, Philip (mid 40s) is trying to manage his family, his job and his affair with Monika. Against his own convictions he has to defend a racist teenager in court, who has beaten an African man into a coma. He struggles with his role as a single parent and cannot really commit himself to Monika as his everyday life has lost meaning since Nora disappeared. The only person Philip really opens up to is the unconscious coma patient. Nora’s desire for freedom is Philip’s chain.
CAST
Johanna Wokalek
Hans-Jochen Wagner
Inga Birkenfeld
Andrea Szabová
Ondrej Koval
One Two Films | BFILM | ZAK Film Productions | ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel
DIRECTOR Jan Speckenbach
SCRIPT Jan Speckenbach, Andreas Deinert
PRODUCED BY Jamila Wenske, Sol Bondy
COPRODUCER Peter Badac, Jelena Goldbach
LINEPRODUCER Milena Klemke
PRODUKTIONMANAGER Seven Swirko, Dominika Faberova
CINEMATOGRAPHY Tilo Hauke
FILM EDITING Jan Speckenbach
PRODUCTION DESIGN Juliane Friedrich
COSTUME DESIGN Stephanie Riess, Zuzana Hudakova, Anna Wübber
MAKE-UP Michaela Payer, Eva Kranich, Aline Schlegel
SOUND Jan Hetmer, Tobias Rüther, Andreas Samland
SOUNDDESIGN Marian Alexander Mentrup
Alexa | Sony | Cooke S4 | 2,39:1
Festivals & Awards
Grimmepreis 2020 | Nomitation Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung. FBW | Prädikat besonders wertvoll | Highly Recommended 70th Locarno Festival (Concorso internazionale) 51st Hof International Film Festival, Germany Warsaw Film Festival, Poland HAIFA IFF, Israel Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain 41st São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany The Northern Film Festival, The Netherlands 48th International Film Festival of India 2017, GOA^ 39. Biberacher Filmfestspiele