Bastard

2h

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

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.

Production Companies

SWR

W-film

Cast

Sibylle Canonica

Sibylle Canonica

Cora Schweizer
Hanns Zischler

Hanns Zischler

Samuel Schweizer
Beate Maes

Beate Maes

Anja Heine
Stephan Schad

Stephan Schad

Raphael Heine
Marc Zwinz

Marc Zwinz

Streifenpolizist
Maya Bothe

Maya Bothe

Mathildas Mutter (uncredited)
Hansa Czypionka

Hansa Czypionka

Max (uncredited)
Marco Klammer

Marco Klammer

Fotoreporter (uncredited)

Release date

25th Oct 2011

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch