Marie Kreutzer’s amazingly assured first film The Fatherless is set in the idyllic Austrian countryside in a large, run-down house which was the site of a sexually liberated commune back in the ‘80s. Now the commune’s charismatic former leader Hans is dying, attended by his oldest son, who never got the approval he craved. Hans’ four adult children, one of whom has not seen her siblings in 23 years, reunite for his funeral and thrash out their conflicted feelings about their childhoods, uncovering buried secrets. With novelistic richness, Kreutzer’s drama examines the fallout from a failed utopian dream.
- Countries
- Austria
- Director:
- Marie Kreutzer
- Running Time:
- 104 mins
- Subtitles:
- Yes
- Year:
- 2011
- Showing:
- This is a past event.
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