Newlyweds Hedda and Jorgen Tesman are just returning from their honeymoon to a villa by the edge of the forest with a breathtaking view on the city. Restoration work on their home has not yet been completed, and Jorgen will soon be running out of money. That's if he doesn't succeed Dr. Franck Brack as head physician of the city hospital. Jorgen and Hedda prepare dinner for Brack, when two uninvited guests emerge. As the evening progesses the group becomes entangled in a weave of guilt, love and betrayal and when morning comes disaster has struck.
Acting
Susanne Wolff's Hedda: smiling while dying inside, every frame.
Direction
Kleinert traps you in that unfinished house like a gorgeous coffin.
Production
The villa itself becomes a character—crumbling, aspirational, doomed.
Director
Andreas Kleinert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was filmed in a real half-renovated villa outside Berlin; the production couldn't afford to finish the set, which accidentally perfected the atmosphere of aspirational rot.
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