Daughters

GER 2014, 87 min

A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.

Synopsis

Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking for her missing daughter, she comes across a young stray called Ines, who no longer leaves her side. (Berlinale - Forum 2014)

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Language: German, Subtitles: English, French

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Press reviews

In Daughters her third fiction feature, selected for the Berlinale in the Forum section, Maria Speth calmly addressesthe very sensitive subject of the harm that can be caused by a mother's lack of love and the sadness of a failed mother-daughter relationship. She does so in a way which is undoubtedly the best, ie. never expressing it in words, but rather conveying it through an impression of emptiness. From the first images – a homeless young girl lying on a slope near the road, ranting and raving all alone in the mist, a blond woman alone in an airport who seems totally disorientated, a morgue where the corpse of a young girl lies dissected on the slab –, we are struck by the pervasive coldness of the film. (cineuropa.org)

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Awards and Festivals

Berlinale - Forum 2014

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Credits

Director
Maria Speth
Screenplay
Maria Speth, Reinhold Vorschneider
With
Corinna Kirchhoff, Kathleen Morgeneyer, Hermann Beyer, Lars Mikkelsen, Hans Jochen Wagner, Fabian Hinrichs, Peter Kurth, Matthias Matschke, Hiroki, Irina Potapenko, Dzamilja Sjöström
Director of Photography
Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor
Maria Speth, Gergana Voigt
Casting
Ulrike Müller
Production Design
Olivier Meidinger
Costume Design
Birgitt Kilian
Original Sound
Johannes Grehl
Sound Mix
Denis Sechaud
Assistant Director
Lisa Hauss
Commissioning Editor
Claudia Tronnier (ZDF), Anne Even, Doris Hepp (ZDF/Arte), Barbara Häbe (Arte)
Production Manager
Sabina Belcher
Line Producer
Michael Stricker
Producer
Maria Speth
Produced by
Madonnen Film
In Coproduction with
ZDF „Das kleine Fernsehspiel“
In collaboration with
ARTE and Förderung des BKM
World Premiere
Februar 2014, Berlinale - Forum
German Theatrical Release
11.09.2014

DVD-Details

Language
German
Subtitles
English, French
Country Code
Code-free
System
PAL / Color
Length
87 min
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
DD 5.1 + DD 2.0
Release Date
13.03.2015
Rating
From 12 Years

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