The Poll Diaries ( Poll )

The Poll Diaries (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Poll
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
128 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Estonia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Chris Kraus

Written By:
Chris Kraus
Oda Schaefer

Actors:
Paula Beer ..... Oda von Siering
Edgar Selge ..... Ebbo von Siering
Tambet Tuisk ..... Schnaps
Jeanette Hain ..... Milla von Siering
Richy Müller ..... Mechmershausen
Enno Trebs ..... Paul von Siering
Yevgeni Sitokhin ..... Hauptmann Karpow
Susi Stach ..... Gudrun Koskull
Erwin Steinhauer ..... Professor Plötz
Michael Kreihsl ..... Professor Hasenreich
Gudrun Ritter ..... Oda Schaefer
Uma Fritze ..... Gigola
Paula Fritze ..... Karin
Valentina Väli ..... Lisbeth
Dennis Mojen ..... Meelis

Synopsis:

In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her father's lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing Oda's family to make impossible choices.

Recounts the scorching summer of 1914, as experienced by thirteen-year-old Oda, who arrives from Berlin with her mother to visit her father, a surgeon in Estonia, in the Poll farming estate. While the adults are absorbed by various love affairs, Oda makes friends with a young revolutionary whom she hides, unbeknownst to her parents, in order to protect him from the Tzarist Cossacks in Poll.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 02 January, 2012.

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