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Headstand (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kopfstand
Alternate Title: Head stand
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1981 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ernst Josef Lauscher

Written By:
Ernst Josef Lauscher
Götz Hagmüller

Actors:
Christoph Waltz ..... Markus Dorn
Ingrid Burkhard ..... Hilde Dorn
Elisabeth Epp ..... Lydia Mohn
Pavel Landovský ..... Stunk
Rosmarie Müller-Melchers ..... Dr. Rene
Heinz Petters ..... Hubert Kohlmann
Krista Posch ..... Barbara
Alfred Solm ..... Karl
Hermann Schmid ..... Brenner
Otmar Schrott ..... Alex
Bert Breit ..... Dr. Melzer
Joe Berger ..... Pfleger
Peter Hiebner ..... Schmeller
Stefan Timpo Hiros ..... Christus
Kurt Jaggberg ..... Gerichtspsychiater

Synopsis:

A youth, Markus Dorn (Christoph Waltz), hits his mother after she has unjustly accused him of being a drug user. At the police station, he reacts violently to the way he's being questioned and is sent to a mental institution. After two attempts to escape have failed, medicla and electric shock treatment have almost made him passive. An orderly, Brenner, who does his best to prevent this, is fired. A new and young doctor, Dr. Rene is able to stop the 'treatment'. She discharges Markus. The social Service Agency arranges for him to take care of Mrs. Lydia Mohn. He does this with great devotion and the old lady learns to trust him and to communicate with him. She gives him the home that his moithet failed to gove him.

Story of what happens when a sensitive boy from a turbulent background is confined to a mental institution and given electro-shock treatment, and what happens to him afterwards.

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