Description
After surviving a near-fatal car accident on a countryside journey, pianist Laura finds shelter with a local woman and stays on with her family. But secrets from the past soon disturb this fragile idyll. Once again drawing on the themes of Romanticism, leading German filmmaker Christian Petzold has crafted a minimalist tale of fate’s transformation, which ultimately proves unattainable.
About the director:
Christian Petzold
Director and screenwriter. A luminary of the “Berlin School” in German cinema of the 1990s and 2000s, Christian Petzold was born in Hilden in 1960. He studied at the Free University of Berlin and later at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). His feature debut, The State I Am In (2000), won the German Film Award for Best Film. A regular at the Berlinale, where most of his films have premiered, Petzold has earned numerous accolades for Wolfsburg (2003, FIPRESCI Prize), Barbara (2012, Silver Bear for Best Director), Undine (2020, FIPRESCI Prize), and Afire (2023, Jury Grand Prix). Other notable works include Yella (2007), Jerichow (2008), Phoenix (2015), and Transit (2018).