Fieber 2014

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.

Cast:

Carolina Cardoso
Franzi 

Eva Mattes
Franziska 

Martin Wuttke
Vater 

Nicole Max
Mutter 

Louis Wagner
Bruder 

Luc Lamesch
Junge im Schlachthof 

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