The Innocent

OT: Der Unschuldige

Simon Jaquemet // Switzerland, Germany, 2018
Fiction Feature // FF2018

Story

A disturbing drama about a woman shaken to the core by an encounter with the past.The active Christian and neuro-scientific assistant Ruth leads a quiet life in a provincial town with her husband and two daughters. But this changes when Ruth sees a man she loved many years previously. He’s been in prison for 20 years for a murder he never confessed to. Ruth is torn between the desire to keep things as they are and the destructive attraction of her former lover. But the foundations of her beliefs are beginning to crumble, the abyss beckons.

Director

SIMON JAQUEMET (*1978) studied film at the Zurich University of the Arts. His 2015 debut film War won several awards, including the Max Ophüls Prize.

Trailer

Info

Original title: Der Unschuldige

Film type: Fiction Feature

Original language: German

Section: Freihafen//FF2018

Production country: Switzerland, Germany

Produced: 2018

Runtime: 110 min

Language and subtitles: OV with German subtitles

Director: Simon Jaquemet

Screenplay: Simon Jaquemet

Cast: Judith Hofmann, Christian Kaiser, Urs-Peter Wolters, Naomi Scheiber

Producer: Tolga Dilsiz, Aurelius Eisenreich, Jonas Katzenstein (Ko-Produzent), Maximilian Leo (Ko-Produzent)

DoP: Gabriel Sandru

Editor: Christof Schertenleib

Production design: Michael Baumgartner

German Distributor: Jürgen Lutz, FilmKinoText

World Sales: Kinology

Production Company: 8horses GmbH; Augenschein Filmproduktion GmbH; ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen; ARTE; Teleclub AG

Film contact: Jonas Katzenstein, Augenschein Filmproduktion: info@augenschein-filmproduktion.de

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