Luise was there for her husband and their two children her whole life. In the meantime, however, daughter Charlotte and son Daniel have long since grown up and are able to stand on their own two feet. And since the death of her beloved husband, Luise has been living alone with her faithful housekeeper Rita in the elegant Hamburg villa. In the meantime, not the slightest thing has changed in Luise's strict solicitude.
Acting
Christiane Hörbiger's terrifying maternal precision
Production
The villa as character: beautiful and claustrophobic
Director
Berno Kürten
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hamburg's wealthy Blankenese district serves as perfect metaphor for genteel German emotional repression.
Kürten based Luise partly on his own grandmother, explaining the uncomfortable specificity of her cruelty.
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