Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Kim lives with her emotionally distant mother, mute younger brother, and strangers hiding in a secret room in their apartment at the Baltic coast. Vietnamese migrants regularly pass through their home as her mother, a key figure in a criminal network, runs human trafficking operations. When her mother's associate Luc defects to start a rival operation, Kim seizes her chance to prove herself to her mother. She navigates her first romance while entering a clandestine family business. As her good intentions drag her into a dark and brutal underworld that contradicts her sensitive nature, Kim begins to question the true costs of earning respect by crossing her own boundaries.
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Details
Director: Alison Kuhn
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Original title: DIE MATRIARCHIN
English title: THE MATRIARCH
Country of production: Germany
Length: 102min
Color: Color
Shooting format: 6K
Screening format: DCP 2K (2048x858) (1:2, 5.1, un-encrypted)
Original language: German, Vietnamese
Subtitles: English
Cast: Tuyen Do, Lissy-Marie Nguyen, Viet Pham, Trang Le Hong, Marlon Minh-Hai Leyck, Viet Long Hoang, Yung Ngo, Long Dang-Ngoc
Scriptwriter: Alison Kuhn
Director of photography: Jan Mayntz
Production designer: Lucia Jo Eifler
Editor: Christian Zipfel
Sound design: Larissa Kischk
Sound mixing: Torben Seemann
Music: Christian Dellacher
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Philipp Goeser, Paula Elina Klossner, Stephan Buske
Production company: Schiwago Film GmbH, Tidewater Pictures
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