Ten-year-old Jack has to take care of his little brother, six-year-old Manuel, every day from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. When Manuel suffers an accident, their lives change forever.
Acting
Ivo Pietzcker's performance is devastatingly authentic.
Direction
Berger never lets the camera look away from Jack's burden.
Editing
Tight runtime that refuses to let you breathe.
Director
Edward Berger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Berger based the film on real cases of 'parentified' children in Germany's social care gaps, where kids as young as eight routinely become primary caregivers.
The lake sequence was shot in freezing November water; Ivo Pietzcker performed his own drowning struggle take after take at age nine.
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