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Source: Colonia Media, Schwarzweiss, © Anne-Kathrin Golinsky
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Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo
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The Free Will
Theo, a rapist, is released after nine years in a psychiatric hospital’s prison ward. His fear of women and the unfulfilled desire this generates turns normal life into a kind of martyrdom. At the age of 27, Nettie finally manages to cut herself free from her father and a lifetime of mental abuse at his hands. Theo and Nettie meet. The moment they start loving each other marks the beginning of their journey to the limits of free will.
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Matthias Glasner: "This film is about things we think of as monstrous or abnormal. We shot it in chronological order and, when I looked through the camera and saw what Theo does to this woman in the opening sequence, I had my doubts as to whether I would stay the course. But I wanted to make a tender film about the terror of loneliness. And so I filmed everything with the same amount of interest – regardless of what happened, and no matter if events were brutal or guardedly hopeful. 'Der freie Wille' is not a film about an issue such as, in this case, say, physical and mental violation. It’s not a film that grapples with a difficult topic but rather a kind of 'trip', during which we accompany two people resolutely to the end. For better or for worse."
Source: 56. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (catalogue)
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Deutschland
2004-2006, Spielfilm
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