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The Unpolished

OT: Die Unerzogenen

Pia Marais | Germany, 2007
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Story

Powerful, sensitive and playful: Pia Marais’ debut film portrays a society where parents and children seem to have swapped roles and responsibility and commitment no longer seem important. Stevie has two homeless hippies for parents. When they move from Portugal to the German provinces, the 14-year old finally hopes for a normal, regulated family life. But it soon becomes clear that Axel and Lily are once again engaged in illegal activities to finance their lifestyle. To make herself more interesting to her peers, Stevie claims that her parents are diplomats. The more the house fills with their friends and hangers-on, the more Stevie is forced to take a decision.

 

Film talk after the screening.

Director

PIA MARAIS (*1971 in Johannesburg) grew up in South Africa and Sweden and studied Film at the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin. Her debut The Unpolished (2007) won several awards, including the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, while Layla Fourie (2013) gained an Honourable Mention at the Berlinale. In 2010, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed her film Im Alter von Ellen. Transamazonia is her fourth feature film.

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Die Unerzogenen

Fiction Feature

German

Kaleidoscope | FF2024


Germany

2007

95 min

OV

Pia Marais

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Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel

Diego Martinez Vignatti

Andreas Hildebrandt

Daniela Boch, Mona Bräuer

Jochen Arbeit, Yoyo Röhm, Horst Markgraf

Petra Barchi

Julia Koep, Juliane Brandes

Géraldine Bajard

Pandora Film

WDR, SWR

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Coming of AgeParentsFamily and RelationshipsWomenSocietyAdolescenceChildhoodFemale DirectorsTravellingSexuality

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