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Bastard (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
121 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Carsten Unger

Written By:
Carsten Unger
M. Reza Bahar

Actors:
Sibylle Canonica ..... Cora Schweizer
Martina Gedeck ..... Meinert
Finn Kirschner ..... Nikolas
Matthias Koeberlin ..... Stefan - Vater im Schwimmbad
Markus Krojer ..... Leon
Antonia Lingemann ..... Mathilda
Beate Maes ..... Anja Heine
Volker Muthmann ..... Lehrer
Stephan Schad ..... Raphael Heine
Kerstin Thielemann ..... Direktorin
Thomas Thieme ..... Decker
Hanns Zischler ..... Samuel Schweizer
Marc Zwinz ..... Streifenpolizist Schlüter

Synopsis:

On the surface, BASTARD is a psychological thriller about the fate of a missing child. Underneath lies a touching drama of children determined for revenge. The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Nikolas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school. The 13-year-old Leon and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Nikolas' parents at the local swimming pool and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda. Now it is up to the psychologist to resolve the dark mystery of Nikolas' disappearance and save the child.

As a viral video makes chillingly clear, a nine-year-old boy is being held against his will in a cavernous concrete basement. Criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert (Martina Gedeck) makes inquiries, finding inconsistencies in his parents' stories. Soon the trail leads to the boy's school and 13-year-old Leon (Markus Krojer), an adopted bad seed of monstrous proportions whose link to, and interest in, the affected families is far from clear. When Leon's needy, malicious classmate Mathilda (Antonia Lingemann) stumbles on new information, the stakes are raised enormously. Bastard is a supremely confident and profoundly disconcerting feature film debut by 33-year-old Carsten Unger, who has made a confrontational, thought-provoking thriller in the vein of Roman Polanski and Michael Haneke that deservedly won recognition at the Hof festival for Lars Petersen's glacially beautiful widescreen cinematography.

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