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Freedom

5.3

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Original title

Freiheit

Year

2017

Running time

102 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Jan Speckenbach

Screenwriter

Andreas Deinert, Jan Speckenbach

Cast

Cinematography

Tilo Hauke

Producer

Co-production Germany-Slovakia;

ZAK Film Productions, BFILM, ONE TWO Films

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

A mother goes away, leaving her husband and their two children in limbo. She is driven by a force she cannot ignore: freedom. In Vienna, Nora wanders through a museum, succumbs to a flirtation and then thumbs a lift to Bratislava. Nora conceals her origin behind small lies, changes her appearance, finds work as a chambermaid and makes friends with the young Slovak woman Etela, a stripper, and her husband Tamás, a cook. Meanwhile in Berlin, Philip tries to keep his family and job as well as his affair with Monika going. Against his own convictions, he, a lawyer, defends a xenophobic youngster, struggles with the role of single parent. Philip finds an – albeit unconscious – ear for his worries in the figure of a coma patient... The freedom Nora is longing for becomes Philip’s chains.

Awards: 2017: Locarno Film Festival: Official Competition

2017: Festival of Valladolid - Seminci: nominated to Best Picture - Golden Spike.

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Critics' reviews

"[It] doesn't quite fulfill its loftier ambitions (...) Intriguing, sincere, if somewhat overreaching (...) The issues around racial identity and white liberal guilt are far too complex to be used as mere background texture."

Jessica Kiang: Variety

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Freedom

2017

Jan Speckenbach

5.3

(43)