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DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS

By Stina WERENFELS

DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2013

After her mother decides that eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora discovers her sexuality her strive for independence becomes increasingly risky. Her mother struggles to protect her: the famil

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, AUSTRIA
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Stina WERENFELS
- Writer(s)
- Lukas BÄRFUSS, Stina WERENFELS
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-BE3F-0000-B-0000-0000-4
- EIDR
- 10.5240/13C2-D9E8-127B-7266-5CBE-N
- Producer(s)
- Nicole GERHARDS (Niko Film), Oliver NEUMANN (Freibeuter Film), Samir (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG)
- Synopsis
- Dora is 18 years old and mentally handicapped. After having been taken off her
  drugs by her mother, her sexuality awakens. When Dora starts to untie herself
  from the close bond with her mother and engages in a sexual relationship, it
  sets her mother severely off balance. Then Dora gets pregnant and her greatest
  wish «to be like all the others» comes within reach. But her mother is unable to
  handle the additional pressure: which leads to an existentially charged struggle
  between the two women…