17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which he assumed to be happy and sound – is built on lies. Unable to deal with this disappointment, he flees from it and moves in with his older brother and his roommates...
Acting
Jacob Matschenz makes skin-crawling literal.
Direction
Two directors, one suffocating vision of domestic rot.
Director
Jan-Christoph Glaser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors later admitted they cast Matschenz partly because his actual skin condition during auditioning was alarmingly perfect for the role.
Part of a mid-2000s wave of German cinema obsessed with working-class family collapse, though this one never got the festival love of its peers.
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