NOVEMBER CHILD

NOVERMBERKIND

Directed by Christian Schwochow

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21 2:30PM CASTRO

Inga (Anna Maria Mühe), now 25, was raised by her grandparents in an East German village in the Mecklenburg Lake District. Her mother is said to have drowned when Inga was six months old, and a grave is the touchstone that connects her to her mother’s story. As she is at work in the library one day, an out-of-town professor who had taught creative writing to Inga’s mother in Konstanz seeks her out. He wants to write a book about Inga’s mother. Once she learns that her mother escaped to the West, Inga’s search for all the missing pieces in her life begins. Who is her father? What is the truth about her mother? Why did she abandon her? Is she alive? With the professor in tow Inga embarks on a journey to the west to find the answers.

additional screening in Point Arena

PURCHASE TICKET

US Premiere

Country
Germany
Year
2008
Run Time
35mm, 95min., German
with English subtitles
Cast
Anna Maria Mühe
Ulrich Matthes
Christine Schorn
Hermann Beyer
Jevgenij Sitochin
Adrian Topol
Thorsten Merten
Christina Drechsler
Steffi Kühnert
Juliane Köhler
Camera
Frank Lamm
Screenwriter
Christian Schwochow
Heide Schwochow
Printsource
Sommerhaus Filmproduktion
Ludwigsburg
Email
jochen.laube@gmx.de

Awards
First Steps Award 2008: In Competition
Max Ophüls Festival 2008:
Audience Award
Biberacher Filmfestspiele 2008:
Best First Feature Film

Director

Christian Schwochow
was born in 1978 in Bergen on the island of Rügen, Germany. He worked as an author and reporter for various television and radio broadcasters before studies from 2002-2008 in Film Directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. His films include: SOAPSTAR (documentary, 2003), DER GROSSE FRANZ (short, 2004), MARTA UND DER FLIEGENDE GROSSVATER (TV, 2006), JAEGER VERLORENER SCHAETZE (TV, 2007), and NOVEMBER CHILD (NOVEMBERKIND, 2008) is his feature debut.