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FINSTERWORLD

by Frauke Finsterwalder

synopsis

Pedicurist Claude Petersdorf harbours a special fondness for the feet of his female clients and reveals himself to Ms. Sandberg who lives in an old people's home. Documentary filmmaker Franziska Feldenhoven wants to make a film about the realities of German council housing which proves to be beyond boring. She is so focused on her project that she completely overlooks her partner, policeman Tom, and his fascinating secret. Evil enters and forever changes the life of a hermit, happily living in harmony with nature. Inga and Georg are aging show-offs, first snobbish, then lucid, and ultimately vulnerable. During a school trip to the memorial site of a concentration camp, popular student Maximilian humiliates outsiders Dominik and Natalie and sets up a cruel trap for his teacher, Mr. Nickel...

original title: Finsterworld
country: Germany
sales agent: Walker+Worm Film GmbH & Co. KG
year: 2013
genre: fiction
directed by: Frauke Finsterwalder
release date: DE 17/10/2013
screenplay: Frauke Finsterwalder, Christian Kracht
cast: Michael Maertens, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sandra Hüller, Corinna Harfouch, Margit Carstensen, Leonard Scheicher
cinematography by: Markus Förderer
film editing: Andreas Menn
art director: Katharina Wöppermann
costumes designer: Charlotte Sawatzki
music: Michaela Melian
producer: Tobias Walker, Philipp Worm, Cornelia Ackers, Cornelius Conrad, Jochen Kölsch, Monika Lobkowicz, Andreas Schreitmüller
production: Walker + Worm Film GmbH & Co. KG
distributor: Alamode Film

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