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Goodnight Mommy

Severin FIALA, Veronika FRANZ

Austria2014 99min D-Cinema Color Korean Premiere

Synopsis

In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.

Diretor

Severin FIALA, Veronika FRANZ

Severin Fiala was born in Vienna in 1985. For the first time co-directing with Veronika Franz, he made the feature documentary Kern(2012) about the legendary Austrian actor, film director, Peter Kern. Veronika Franz was born in Vienna in 1965, is a co-scriptwriter on all of Ulrich Seidl’s films since The Bosom Friend(1997).