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The Trouble with Being Born
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
2020 · Directed by Sandra Wollner · 94 min · Science Fiction · Drama · 10 frames
Crew
- Written by: Sandra Wollner, Roderick Warich
- Cinematography: Timm Kröger
- Edited by: Hannes Bruun
- Music: Peter Kutin, David Schweighart
- Production design: Pia Jaros
- Produced by: Lixi Frank, David Bohun
Cast
- Lena Watson as Elli / Emil, Android
- Dominik Warta as Georg
- Ingrid Burkhard as Frau Schikowa
- Jana McKinnon as Elli
- Simon Hatzl as Toni
- Susanne Gschwendtner as Birgit (uncredited)
Production
- Country: Austria, Germany
- Language: German
- Studios: Panama Film, The Barricades, ZDF, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
- Themes: android, dystopia, forest, swimming pool, vienna, austria, nonlinear timeline, woman director, traumatic accident, father daughter relationship, human android relationship
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