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FREEDOM (FREIHEIT)
DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video, VOD, GERMANY
Release date : Feb 08, 2018
 
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Completed - GERMAN - Drama - 106 minutes

Log Line

Nora walks out on her husband Philip and their two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Jan SPECKENBACH
Writer(s) : Jan SPECKENBACH, Andreas DEINERT
Cast : Johanna WOKALEK, Hans-Jochen WAGENER

Producer(s) : Sol BONDY (ONE TWO FILMS), Jamila WENSKE (ONE TWO FILMS)

Synopsis

Nora roams through a museum in Vienna, has sex with a young man and hitchhikes randomly on to Bratislava. She hides her identity by telling little lies. She changes her look, finds work as a chambermaid and makes friends with a young Slovakian stripper, Etela, and her husband Tamás, a cook.

Meanwhile in Berlin, Philip is trying to manage his family, his job and his affair with Monika. Against his own convictions he has to defend a racist teenager in court, who has beaten an African man into a coma. He struggles with his role as a single parent and cannot really commit himself to Monika as his everyday life has lost meaning since Nora disappeared. The only person Philip really opens up to is the unconscious coma patient. Nora’s desire for freedom is Philip’s chain.

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Country(ies) : GERMANY

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Festivals and Awards

Warsaw FF 2017 Discoveries
Sao Paulo IFF 2017 (New Directors Competition)
Copenhagen CPH PIX 2017
Locarno 2017 (International Competition - World Premiere)
Les Arcs European Film Festival 2017
Valladolid IFF 2017 (Official Competition)
Goa International Film Festival 2017 (International Competition)
HAIFA IFF 2017
International Film Festival of Kerala 2017
Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018


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