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Verlorene

Lost Ones
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2018
© VIAFILM / Bernhard Keller
The only time Maria feels liberated is when she is playing the organ. Bach’s music is something you feel in your gut. At home she bears the brunt of responsibility – both for her rebellious sister Hannah, two years her junior, who is busy planning her escape from the village, and for her father, Johann. Ever since their mother’s untimely death, these two very different sisters have been living alone with their father in the backwoods of southern Germany. Maria does everything in her power to keep their fragile little family together – even if it means giving up her own dreams. Everything changes when a young journeyman carpenter takes up a job at their father’s workshop. Maria falls in love with him – for the first time in her life, and against all reason. The stoical mask she wears in her role of her sister’s protector is about to fall. The young carpenter Valentin reciprocates Maria’s secret affection for him, but the closer he gets to her the more she retracts, desperate to conceal a dark family secret. Her younger sister discovers the secret, but their world has long since been thrown out of kilter. Hannah decides to liberate Maria - if necessary against her will.

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by Felix Hassenfratz (Written and Directed by)
with Maria Dragus, Anna Bachmann, Clemens Schick, Enno Trebs, Meira Durand, Anne Weinknecht Germany 2018 German 91' Colour World premiere

With

  • Maria Dragus (Maria)
  • Anna Bachmann (Hannah)
  • Clemens Schick (Johann)
  • Enno Trebs (Valentin)
  • Meira Durand (Jenny)
  • Anne Weinknecht (doctor)

Crew

Written and Directed by Felix Hassenfratz
Cinematography Bernhard Keller
Editing Barbara Toennieshen
Music Paul Eisenach, Gregor Schwellenbach
Sound Design Oliver Achatz
Production Design Jan Lasse Hartmann
Costumes Bettina Marx
Make-Up Monika Knauf
Casting Jacqueline Rietz
Assistant Director Claudia Horst
Production Manager Andreas Schumann
Producers Max Frauenknecht, Benedikt Böllhoff
Co-Producers Christian Becker, Benjamin Munz
Co-Production Rat Pack Filmproduktion Stuttgart

Produced by

VIAFILM GmbH

Grünwald, Germany

Photos

Felix Hassenfratz

© Celestine Hassenfratz

Born in 1981, he lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He worked as a freelance writer as well as stills photographer and assistant director for filmmakers including Romuald Karmakar. Between 2004 and 2007 he studied film directing at the Internationale Filmschule Köln followed by work as a freelance director of television programmes including for children and young people. His documentary series Schnitzeljagd im Heiligen Land won the Grimme Award.

Filmography

2007 Der Bäcker war's; short documentary 2008 Der Verdacht; short film 2010 Unser Haus in Schlesien; documentary 2011 Schnitzeljagd im Heiligen Land; documentary series 2012 The Alqueva Project; documentary 2018 Verlorene (Lost Ones)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018