Finsterworld

Year
2013
In co-production with
Lhasa Films, BR/ARTE
Director
Frauke Finsterwalder
Screenplay
Frauke Finsterwalder, Christian Kracht
Starring
Sandra Hüller, Ronald Zehrfeld, Bernhard Schütz, Corinna Harfouch, Michael Maertens, Margit Carstensen, Johannes Krisch, Christoph Bach, Carla Juri, Leonard Scheicher, Jakub Gierszal, Max Pellny
Awards
German Film Critics Association Award 2013: Best Screenplay, Zurich Film Festival 2013: Critics’ Award; Feature Film Award Switzerland, Germany, Austria, German Film Award 2014: Best Actress (Sandra Hüller), German Acting Award 2014: Supporting Actor (Michael Maertens)
Festivals

Munich International Film Festival / Festival of German Films in Buenos Aires / Panorama Alemão Brasilien / Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival / Oslo International Film Festival / German Film Days Denmark / Festival of German Films Russia / Freiburger Filmfest / Heimspiel / Das Regensburger Filmfest / Jameson Dublin International Film Festival / Filmfest KINO Portugal

A journey through a surreal Germany: A police officer in a bear costume. A female documentary filmmaker who is unable to find an interesting story. A pedicurist who carefully sets aside the hard skin removed from the feet of his aged female patient. A rich couple that refuses to sit in a German-built car. A history student uninterested in a class visit to a concentration camp. A wild man training a raven in the woods.

In this anthology film, all are bound by family ties or a moment of coincidence in a country where the sun always shines and everybody is beautiful, polite, successful or happy. That is until they reveal their darker side, and we discover that the step from idyll to inferno is a short one.

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