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A rivetingly sure-footed performance by German star Martina Gedeck (“The Lives of Others”)

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Sven Taddicken
  • Germany 2016
  • 102 minutes
  • German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Desperately trapped in a failing marriage, Helene Brindel finally loses all hope when she feels she has been abandoned by God as well. Reaching out, she sees the key to her liberation in the form of the celebrated psychologist Eduard E. Gluck. But the charismatic Gluck has to fight demons of his own.
Martina Gedeck (The Lives of Others) and Ulrich Tukur (The White Ribbon) star in an uncommon psychological romance based on a novel by renowned Scottish author A.L. Kennedy.
Filmography: 12 Paces without a Head (2009), Emma’s Bliss (2006), Getting My Brother Laid (2001).


  • Director Sven Taddicken
  • Production Alexander Bickenbach, Manuel Bickenbach
  • Script Sven Taddicken, Stefanie Veith, Hendrik Hölzemann, based on the short story collection by A.L. Kennedy
  • Cinematography Daniela Knapp
  • Editing Andreas Wodraschke
  • Music Riad Abdel-Nabi, Wouter Verhulst
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary (Fipresci Prize, Europa Cinemas Label Award)
  • Actors Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Tukur, Johannes Krisch
  • Source Picture Tree International, Berlin

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