Maria embarks on a one-night stand with Lothar. Lothar proves to be a ruthless seducer and when Maria becomes pregnant, she sinks into a nightmare from which there seems to be no escape.
Acting
Natja Brunckhorst's unraveling is genuinely haunting.
Direction
Huettner turns mundane spaces into traps.
Director
Ralf Huettner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare German 'rape-revenge' adjacent thriller that punishes the victim instead — controversial even in 1991 Berlin.
Natja Brunckhorst was already famous for Christiane F. (1981); this was her deliberate return to dark material.
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