Under the Family Tree

Oct 8, 2017

1h 32m

★ 5.5

Overview

Because of trouble at school, 16-year old Isabell's single mum persuades her to take part in a self-knowledge seminar in the Sudeten Mountains. What begins as an unusual holiday adventure in an esoteric group, changes when one of the participants has a mental breakdown and disappears. Has the young woman left or is she the victim of a crime? Isabell is alarmed and begins to investigate the seminar and the other members. Her enquiries are met with a wall of silence. When the mutilated body of the woman who disappeared turns up, Isabell's stay at the wildly romantic resort becomes a nightmare.

Genres

Thriller

Production Companies

Neufilm GmbH

ZDF

Cinelight

Avantgarde Productions

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Cast

Einar

Godehard Giese

Jule

Karin Hanczewski

Marie

Şiir Eloğlu

Saskia

Alma Leiberg

Isabell

Stephanie Amarell

Inspector

Mirosław Baka

Meret

Claudia Geisler-Bading

Tereza

Emma Nova

Tobi

Leon Ullrich

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