A catastrophe wipes out almost all of humanity. A single girl appears to be the only survivor. Having managed to escape the ruins, she is now growing up in the woods. Could this last person on earth be a new beginning?
Cinematography
Haunting forest imagery that makes decay look hypnotic.
Direction
Fritzch crafts dread from silence, not spectacle.
Director
Sebastian Fritzch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on a shoestring budget in actual abandoned German industrial sites, with von Keller performing many of her own stunts in hazardous locations.
Part of a wave of 2010s German 'slow apocalypse' cinema that rejected Hollywood spectacle for ecological dread and personal collapse.
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