Family Practice

Mar 14, 2019

1h 29m

★ 3.6

Overview

Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

TILT Production

Family Practice Trailers

Cast

Simon Kaufmann

Dimitri Stapfer

Karl Kaufmann

Dani Levy

Agnes Kaufmann

Sibylle Canonica

Sonja Brunner

Katja Kolm

Fabienne Schmid

Miriam Joya Strübel

Lilli Fehr

Morgane Ferru

Jean Graf

Georg Scharegg

Elias

Giulin Stäubli

Uncle Freddy

Michael Gempart

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