FREEDOM

FREIHEIT

By Jan SPECKENBACH

FILM KINO TEXT - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video, VOD, GERMANY

Drama - Completed 2017

Nora walks out on her husband Philip and their two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.

Festivals
& Awards

Warsaw FF 2017
Discoveries
Valladolid IFF 2017
Official Competition
Sao Paulo IFF 2017
New Directors Competition
Copenhagen CPH PIX 2017
Goa International Film Festival 2017
International Competition
HAIFA IFF 2017
International Film Festival of Kerala 2017
Les Arcs European Film Festival 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 106 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jan SPECKENBACH
    • Writer(s)
    • Jan SPECKENBACH, Andreas DEINERT
    • Producer(s)
    • Sol BONDY (ONE TWO FILMS), Jamila WENSKE (ONE TWO FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Nora roams through a museum in Vienna, has sex with a young man and hitchhikes randomly on to Bratislava. She hides her identity by telling little lies. She changes her look, finds work as a chambermaid and makes friends with a young Slovakian stripper, Etela, and her husband Tamás, a cook.

      Meanwhile in Berlin, Philip is trying to manage his family, his job and his affair with Monika. Against his own convictions he has to defend a racist teenager in court, who has beaten an African man into a coma. He struggles with his role as a single parent and cannot really commit himself to Monika as his everyday life has lost meaning since Nora disappeared. The only person Philip really opens up to is the unconscious coma patient. Nora’s desire for freedom is Philip’s chain.