Made in/With Luxembourg
Blind at Heart (Die Mittagsfrau)
Barbara Albert
Female Director
2023
137 min
Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland
Synopsis
A forceful period drama about one woman’s resolve to survive
The luminous and bookish Hélène arrives in decadent Weimar-era Berlin as a young woman with aspirations of becoming a doctor. As the city’s carefree ambiance darkens and her fiancé is killed during a protest at the Reichstag, Hélène’s grief gives way to a determination to keep her lineage a secret: she is half-Jewish. When a handsome Luftwaffe officer professes his love and offers her a forged Aryan identity, she accepts his offer of marriage—yet the steps she takes for self-preservation lead her down a harrowing path.
Based on Julia Franck’s award-winning novel Die Mittagsfrau, Barbara Albert’s film adaptation is a richly textured portrait of one woman’s struggle to maintain selfhood in an increasingly hostile landscape. Hélène’s complexity is brought to life by the mesmerizing Mala Emde in this stirring drama.
Accessible from 16 and over
Cast/Avec
- Mala Emde
- Max von der Groeben
- Thomas Prenn
Scénario
- Barbara Albert and Meike Hauck
- based on the book Die Mittagsfrau by Julia Franck
Image
- Filip Zumbrunn
Son
- Marc Thill
- Nicolas Leroy
- Loïc Collignon
Musique
- Kyan Bayani
Production
- Lucky Bird Pictures
- C-Films AG
- Iris Productions
Séances
Dates
Heure
Lieu
Langue
Sous-titres
Type de séance
Thursday 07 March 2024
7:00 pm
Kinepolis Kirchberg
German
English
Public Screening
Thursday 07 March 2024
19:00
Lieux :
Kinepolis Kirchberg
Audio :
German
Sous-titres :
English
Séance :
Public Screening
Bande annonce et photos
Barbara Albert
Born in 1970 in Vienna, Berlin-based Barbara Albert began studying directing and screenwriting at the Vienna Film School in 1991. Her student film Nachtschwalben won the ‘Best Short’ at Saarbrücken’s Filmfestival Max Ophüls-Preis in 1994. She has since directed, written and produced numerous award-winning feature films which have premiered at major film festivals worldwide, making her one of the most respected German-language directors of her generation.
Filmographie
- Die Mittagsfrau 2023
- Mademoiselle Paradis 2017
- The Dead and the Living 2012
