BASTARD
synopsis
Nine-year-old Nikolas disappears without a trace and the police fears that this might be a sex crime. The profiler Claudia Meinert comes across inconsistencies in her conversations with the boy’s parents, and the mother, in particular, seems to be hiding something. When a video then appears of Nikolas in handcuffs, the trail leads to the 13-year-old Leon. Now it is up to the psychologist to gain Leon’s trust and solve the case. But the boy begins a game of cat and mouse with the investigators and the family that could lead to a catastrophe for everyone involved.
original title: | Bastard |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2010 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Carsten Unger |
film run: | 130' |
release date: | DE 18/04/2013 |
screenplay: | Carsten Unger |
cast: | Martina Gedeck, Markus Krojer, Thomas Thieme, Finn Kirschner, Antonia Lingemann, Hanns Zischler, Beate Maes, Stephan Schad |
cinematography by: | Lars Petersen |
film editing: | Dora Vajda |
art director: | Christian Strang |
producer: | Reza Behar, Nicole Ringhut |
production: | Maranto Films, Gifted Films / Gifted Films West, SWR – Südwestrundfunk |
backing: | MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmstiftung NRW, BKM |
distributor: | W-film Filmproduction & Distribution |