Upper Austria in 1750: Agnes, a young married woman, doesn’t feel at home in her husband’s world. The deeply religious and highly sensitive woman withdraws into herself, moving further and further away from the rural world of work and everyday life. Ultimately, a shocking act of violence seems to be the only way out of her inner prison. This profound and disturbing psychogramm of a woman who hopes, searches and finally flees is based on historical records and charts a true, previously unexplored chapter of European (women’s) history.
International Competition
Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Veronika Franz, born in Vienna in 1965, studied German and philosophy and worked as a journalist. She has also worked as an artistic collaborator with Ulrich Seidl since 1997 and co-wrote the screenplays for all of his films including Dog Days (2001), Import Export (2007), the Paradise trilogy (2012/13) and Wicked Games – Rimini, Sparta (2023). In 2003 she also founded the Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH with him. Severin Fiala, born in 1985 in Horn, studied at the Vienna Film Academy. He worked at the Red Cross and celebrated his first success with the award-winning short film Elephant Sking (2009, co-directed with Ulrike Putzer).
in German
with English and Hungarian subtitles
Belinale 2024 (Competition) - Silver Bear for Best Cinematography
Diagonale 2024 - Best Sound Design
The Lodge, 2019
Goodnight Mommy, 2014
Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Cast: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Natalija Baranova, Lukas Walcher, Agnes Lampl
Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
Screenwriter: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Producer: Bettina Brokemper, Georg Aschauer
Editor: Michael Palm
Music: Anja Plaschg
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
Run time: 121 min
