A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
Acting
Sandra Hüller's volcanic stillness before her international breakthrough.
Direction
Speth's documentary rigor applied to fiction—no easy catharsis allowed.
Director
Maria Speth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sandra Hüller learned basic obstetrics for the birth scenes and reportedly found them more exhausting than her later 'Toni Erdmann' physical comedy.
Released during Germany's prison reform debates, the film was criticized by some activists for aestheticizing incarceration while praised by others for its unflinching carceral gaze.
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