(Das Sommerhaus)

Content: A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral decadence. The Larsens are a picture perfect family from the German upper-middle class. However, the head of the family, Markus, an architect, lives a secret, bisexual double life as his wife Christine and their eleven-year-old daughter Elisabeth drown in unendurable loneliness. Markus realizes that he has a strong yearning for one of his daughter's school friends, Johannes, 12. He succeeds in getting closer to Johannes and binds the boy to himself with ever-increasing intensity. His wife is desperately aware of the emotional distance of her husband, but only her daughter Elizabeth, reacting to the sexually laden atmosphere, sees through the lies and secrets that she instinctively knows to be an growing, disruptive threat to the entire family

Countries:

Germany

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

95 minutes

Year:

2014

Directors:

Curtis Burz

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Production companies:

Focusing Films

Actors:

Markus Larsen

Christine Larsen

Elisabeth Larsen

Johannes Degenhardt

Christopher Degenhardt

Crews:

Director

Writer

Music

Director of Photography

Editor