Heimsuchung

A quiet, gray-toned chamber drama of ideological disillusionment, watching a convinced woman slowly confront the emptiness of everything she built her life on.

Directed by

Edgar Kaufmann

Genres

Drama, Tv movie

Starring

Renate Geißler, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Gudrun Okras

Overview

The film is set in 1989/1990 at a time when the "socialist" ideology underwent another major revolutionary collapse and the supposedly only progressive German "socialist", but walled-in GDR, joined the free West German society of the Federal Republic of Germany. In those days, the son of an East German teacher turns his back on the GDR because he is fed up with the eternal talk of the alleged superiority of "socialist" society and this "socialist" old day is nothing but dreariness and eternal gray everyday life for him. His mother, the convinced teacher and communist Christine Rautmann, suddenly realizes that her eternal propaganda of a golden socialist future is not falling on fertile ground with either her son or her pupils. She is suddenly faced with the ruins of her life as a teacher and mother. She herself becomes a seeker on a tremendously shaky social ground.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, bleak and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Identity, family, politics, betrayal

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

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