The Trouble with Being Born

1h 34min

Science Fiction

Drama

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Production Companies

Panama Film

The Barricades

ZDF

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Cast

Lena Watson

Lena Watson

Elli / Emil, Android
Ingrid Burkhard

Ingrid Burkhard

Frau Schikowa
Susanne Gschwendtner

Susanne Gschwendtner

Birgit (uncredited)

Release date

3rd Dec 2020

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch