A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love, and jealousy.
Acting
Martina Gedeck's unraveling is surgical and devastating.
Direction
Krohmer turns sunny days into suffocating pressure cookers.
Cinematography
Baltic Sea beauty weaponized against domestic complacency.
Director
Stefan Krohmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Berlin School' movement—anti-dramatic, observational, deeply uncomfortable with bourgeois comfort.
The sailing metaphor isn't subtle: Miriam's 'anti-authoritarian' parenting is literally letting the children steer while she drinks wine below deck.
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