Human Flowers of Flesh

Story

A gentle drift through various levels of time and story-telling: In Helena Wittmann’s new film the sea plays a major role. Ida (Angeliki Papoulia) lives with her five-person crew on a sailing ship. When she encounters the Foreign Legion in Marseille, she is confronted by a closed, masculine world and decides to follow its tracks across the Mediterranean. Via Corsica, where the Legion’s largest regiment is based, her quest takes her to the Algerian city of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, which served as the Legion’s headquarters until Algerian independence in 1962. On the journey, borders and facts blur, whilst life at sea calls for a particular kind of mutual understanding.

Director

HELENA WITTMANN (*1982) graduated in 2014 from the HfbK art school in Hamburg. Her debut feature Drift was shown at numerous festivals worldwide, including at FILMFEST HAMBURG in 2017, and won several awards.

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