PARENTS

WIR ELTERN

By Eric BERGKRAUT, Ruth SCHWEIKERT

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Comedy - Completed 2019

Two parents in Zurich think they have been doing everything right. Yet their teenage children disrupt their perfect family system until the parents move out themselves. The boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2019
Tromso IFF 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • SWISS-GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Eric BERGKRAUT, Ruth SCHWEIKERT
    • Producer(s)
    • Eric BERGKRAUT
    • Synopsis
    • Step by step, Veronika and Michael Kamber-Gruber let their late-pubescent twin sons paralyze their lives. And neither carrot nor stick are of any use. Romeo and Anton can hardly get out of bed and rarely go to school; sexist and racist slogans are the order of the day. When their grandfather entices his grandsons to even more autonomy with an advance of 80,000 francs on their inheritance, the situation escalates completely. The unnerved parents flee the apartment with the youngest of their three sons and move into the studio they actually rented for Romeo. The couple believes they are saving their marriage and don’t realize that they are celebrating their own surrender.