BRUT
Fiction | 2017 | 123 min
For Marie, a prospective medical student, the catastrophe starts every day with waking up. She lives in social isolation with her extremely dominant mother, a successful gynecologist. For her entire life, Marie has suffered from her mother’s emotional blackmail, it seems as though the umbilical cord had never been cut. But now, Marie finally wants to escape this dependency and seeks her first sexual contact with men in order to force her mother into resignation.
Cast: Luise Aschenbrenner, Anja Schneider, Nicolai Despot
Screenplay and Director: Constantin Hatz
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Co-Production: DOMAR Film (Dominik Utz, Martin Schwimmer)
Cinematography: Rafael Starman
Editor: Marco Rottig
Original Sound: Michael Arens
Sound Design and Sound Mix: Jan Brett
Production Design: Madeleine Schleich
Costume Design: Lara Scherpinski
Producer: Martin Schwimmer, Katharina Wuerthner, Dominik Utz
Festivals:
Hof, Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2017
Potsdam, Sehsüchte Filmfestival 2018
Awards:
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2017 – Bild-Kunst Förderpreis Bestes Kostümbild, Bestes Szenenbild
Sehsüchte Filmfestival 2018 – Bester Spielfilm