CARLA       MURESAN     BVK    
director of photography

No Lullaby

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Cinema Documentary / 74min / 2014 / D: Helen Simon / P: Filmallee GmbH

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Tina, now in her late 50s, was taught from early on that nothing which happens at home in a well-off family is carried outside. So she keeps silent as her own father abuses her throughout her

childhood. She buries this part of her life so deep down in her unconscious that she’s unable to see the desperate signs of her daughter, Floh, when she suffers the same ordeal by the same

culprit. After many years of silence, Tina and Floh gather their courage and strength to break the vicious circle: they go to the police. But after a shocking court ruling, Tina helplessly watches her daughter’s fragile life spiral out of control, eventually ending in suicide.

 

Tina and Floh take us on a journey into the depth of an unbearable trauma, where nothing is as it should be. Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world,

a mother and a daughter embrace the fight to break the ice under which a whole society has gone indifferent and mute.

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director HELEN SIMON editor NINA ERGANG music KONSTANTIN VON SICHART sound KATHARINA KOESTER cinematography CARLA MURESAN

production DAVID LINDNER FILMALLEE / BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK / UNIVERSITY OF TELEVISION AND FILM MUNICH