The Trouble with Being Born

Dec 3, 2020

1h 34m

★ 5.2

Overview

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Genres

Science Fiction

Drama

Production Companies

Panama Film

The Barricades

ZDF

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

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Cast

Elli / Emil, Android

Lena Watson

Georg

Dominik Warta

Frau Schikowa

Ingrid Burkhard

Elli

Jana McKinnon

Toni

Simon Hatzl

Birgit (uncredited)

Susanne Gschwendtner

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The Trouble with Being Born

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