Blind At Heart (Die Mittagsfrau)

Barbara Albert

Year of release in Luxembourg 2024

Director Barbara Albert

Luxembourg producer IRIS PRODUCTIONS

In co-production with

Lucky Bird Picturs (DE)
C-Films AG (CH)

Script Meike Hauck & Barbara Albert, adapted from the novel by Julia Franck

Original version

German

Duration 136 minutes

Type of financing

Aide Financière Sélective (AFS)

International sales

The Match Factory
Michael Weber
T +49 221 539 709 0
michael.weber@matchfactory.de

Cast and crew

Cast

Mala Emde, Max Von Der Groeben, Thomas Prenn, Fabienne Elaine Hollwege, Steve Karier, Max Thommes, Monique Reuter

Crew

Synopsis

Why does a woman abandon her little boy in a train station at the end of the war in 1945? Helene has Jewish origins and experience her transition to adulthood, as well as love, in Berlin during the war. The twists of fate and a marriage of convenience will gradually deprive her of her own identity. The film adaptation of Julia Franck’s bestseller.

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