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 |















