BASTARD

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BASTARD

Germany 2011, 125 minutes in 35 mm/Digital
Directed by Carsten Unger
Script Carsten Unger
Music Stevie B-Zet, Ralf Hildenbeutel
Actor Sibylle Canonica, Martina Gedeck, Finn Kirschner, Matthias Koeberlin, Markus Krojer, Antonia Lingemann, Beate Maes, Stephan Schad, Thomas Thieme, Hanns Zischler
Camera Lars Petersen
Cut Dora Vajda
Produced by Reza Bahar, Nicole Ringhut
Sponsored by MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Production Gifted Films, Gifted Films West
Genre Crime, Drama, Feature, Thriller
FBW: besonders wertvoll
Film tags Adoption Kindesentführung Vernachlässigung

The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days.
The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert (Martina Gedeck) notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas\' mother (Beate Maes) appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Niklas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school.

The thirteen-year-old Leon (Markus Krojer) and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Niklas\' parents in the swimming baths, and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda.

On the surface, BASTARD is a psychological thriller about the fate of a missing child. Underneath lies a touching drama of children determined on revenge.

Cinema release: spring 2012