Hurensöhne: A Requiem (2020)
This is a story set in the distant past, in the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years’ War. In the city of Nordhausen, in the Harz Mountains, life is cheap, and the prevailing class divisions and interpersonal relations increasingly intense. The children are taken away from their parents by force, and when they return after many years, they seem to be strangers to them. Yet this is also a story set in modern times where people are still incapable of learning the lessons left for them by the previous generations of cruel divisions. The film is a cinematic experiment dealing with the beauty, fragility, and imperfection of human nature through archetypes and myths.
Director: Christina Friedrich
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Deborah Kaufmann as Living Dead |
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Julischka Eichel as Mother |
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Roland Bonjour as Living Dead |
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Franz Liebig as Son |
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Gina Haller as Prophet |
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Ines Schiller as Living Dead |
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Manuel Klein as Father |
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Claudio Gatzke as Living Dead |
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Gitte Reppin as Living Dead |
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Godje Hansen as Living Dead |
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Alois Reinhardt as Wild Man |
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Daniel Mutlu as Living Dead |
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Alexandra Lukas as Tree Nymph |
| Directing | Christina Friedrich | Director |
| Writing | Christina Friedrich | Writer |
| Sound | Carel Christiaan Schulz | Music |
| Sound | Henry Uhl | Music |
| Crew | Jana Pape | Cinematography |
| Lighting | Maik Uhlig | Gaffer |
| Lighting | Vitali Kirsch | Lighting Manager |
| Production | Petra Maria Wirth | Production Designer |
| Editing | Christina Friedrich | Editor |
| Editing | Jörg Volkmar | Editor |
| Editing | Marisol Barrientos Lima | Editor |