The Unpolished ( Die Unerzogenen )

The Unpolished (DVD) (*)

$35.99

Original Title: Die Unerzogenen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Pia Marais

Written By:
Horst Markgraf
Pia Marais

Actors:
Ceci Schmitz-Chuh ..... Stevie
Birol Ünel ..... Axel
Pascale Schiller ..... Lily
Georg Friedrich ..... Ingmar
Johanna Gastdorf ..... Dr. Irm Branzger
Jakob Gillmann ..... Edith
Laura Henschel ..... Didier
Dieudonné Kabongo ..... Micha
Jan Litzinger ..... Eric
Joseph Malerba ..... Louise
Joana Preiss ..... Kai
Dominique Wegner

Synopsis:

A 15-year-old girl whose free-spirited parents provide no sense of stability finds the roles between parent and child perpetually shifting in director Pia Marais's energetic family drama. Stevie's life is an unpredictable mess -- a fact she casually credits to her mother and father's excessive lifestyle. When her parents announce that the family will be moving to a town in the German countryside, Stevie furtively hopes that the change of scenery will provide their household with some much-needed equilibrium. As if to will her hopes into existence, Stevie introduces herself to the townspeople as the daughter of a respected diplomat. Her dreams are dashed, however, when her parents continue to fund their lavish lifestyle by resorting to illegal activities. As the house suddenly fills with shady strangers and suspicious undesirables, the precocious Stevie gradually begins to wander away from her family and down her own path in life.

The precocious 15-year-old Stevie is continually wrestling with the unpredictable parameters of her parents' life of excess. When the family moves to a German country town, the girl hopes that at last she will have a normal and regular family life. In order to emphasize her hope, she pretends to be a respectable diplomat's daughter in her new town. But it soon becomes clear that her parents have again turned to illegal activities to finance their expensive lifestyle. Slowly but surely everything gets out of hand. The more the house fills with her parents' friends and sidekicks, the more Stevie is forced to go her own way.

The story of a girl caught up in a complicated adult world. A world in which the child/parent roles have been washed away and responsibilities are thrown back and forth.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 03 October, 2009.

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