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MÄR - A GERMAN TALE.

MÄR

By Katharina MIHM

BUTTERFILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2019

In dystopian Germany - just a breath away from
our current reality - the return of the wolf triggers
a mysterious fascination among the citizens. When journalist Leo Bernstein sets out to investigate, he gets drawn into a long-forgotten fairy tale that places him in great danger.

Festivals
& Awards

Filmfest München 2019
New German Cinema
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, AUSTRIA
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 72 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Katharina MIHM
    • Writer(s)
    • Katharina MIHM
    • Producer(s)
    • Katharina MIHM (Opak Film), Judith WEILER (BUTTERFILM), Hong Chang KIM (Opak Film), Til STROBL (BUTTERFILM)
    • Synopsis
    • Journalist Leo Bernstein travels from Vienna to the Ruhr district where allegedly wolves were seen again. He tries to find out why the return of this
      wild animal seems to exert a disturbing power of attraction over many citizens. Coming up empty- handed in his research, more and more fragments of a fairy tale come to his mind though and ultimately take hold of him. They tell of a young handmaid who once gave birth to a wolf emanating mortal danger to its surroundings. In order to protect the population the handmaid seeks help from a stranger. She asks him to go into the woods to see her son and sacrifice himself for the good of the people. Still nursing the emotional scars of a car accident obtained at the onset of his journey, Leo begins to lose touch with his body and cedes all contact with his former life. As the fairy tale turns increasingly realistic it leads Leo dangerously close to the fears and longings marking the return of the wolf.

      Using a lyrical narrative MÄR creates a multi-layered image of Germany whose staging oscillates between woodcut-like scurrility, ordinary reality and ghostly emptiness.
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