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Bastard

Deutschland 2010/2011 Spielfilm

The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Nikolas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school. The 13-year-old Leon and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Nikolas' parents at the local swimming pool and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda. Now it is up to the psychologist to resolve the dark mystery of Nikolas' disappearance and save the child.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Carsten Unger

Screenplay

  • Carsten Unger

Director of photography

  • Lars Petersen
  • Patrick Pawig (Unterwasser)

Editing

  • Julia Böhm
  • Dora Vajda

Cast

  • Martina Gedeck
    Meinert
  • Markus Krojer
    Leon
  • Antonia Lingemann
    Mathilda
  • Thomas Thieme
    Decker
  • Beate Maes
    Anja Heine
  • Stephan Schad
    Raphael Heine
  • Finn Kirschner
    Nikolas
  • Volker Muthmann
    Lehrer
  • Sibylle Canonica
    Cora Schweizer
  • Hanns Zischler
    Samuel Schweizer

Production company

  • Gifted Films West GmbH (Ludwigsburg/Köln)
  • Maranto Films GmbH (Köln)

Producer

  • Nicole Ringhut
  • Reza Bahar

Alle Credits

Director

  • Carsten Unger

Assistant director

  • Jörg Lindemann

Script supervisor

  • Djémila Stiti

Screenplay

  • Carsten Unger

Director of photography

  • Lars Petersen
  • Patrick Pawig (Unterwasser)

Assistant camera

  • Daniel Weber

Steadycam operator

  • Marc Stoppenbach

Optical effects

  • Martin Becker (Digital Colorist )

Still photography

  • Kerstin Stelter

Lighting design

  • Matthias Reisser

Key grip

  • Sascha Ossendorf
  • Rudolf Kurth

Production design

  • Christian Strang

Property master

  • Volker Stroebel
  • Janine Groth

Stand-by props

  • Anna Luise Weinkamm

Construction manager

  • Alexander Dercks

Make-up artist

  • Melanie Glawon
  • Sarah Micucci

Costume design

  • Isabelle Baumgartner
  • Sarah Raible (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Julia Böhm
  • Dora Vajda

Sound

  • Rico Prauss

Sound assistant

  • Jascha Schulze

Synch sound

  • Clemens Nürnberger (Geräusche)

Audio mixing

  • Ansgar Frerich

Cast

  • Martina Gedeck
    Meinert
  • Markus Krojer
    Leon
  • Antonia Lingemann
    Mathilda
  • Thomas Thieme
    Decker
  • Beate Maes
    Anja Heine
  • Stephan Schad
    Raphael Heine
  • Finn Kirschner
    Nikolas
  • Volker Muthmann
    Lehrer
  • Sibylle Canonica
    Cora Schweizer
  • Hanns Zischler
    Samuel Schweizer
  • Matthias Koeberlin
    Stefan, Vater im Schwimmbad
  • Kerstin Thielemann
    Direktorin
  • Marc Zwinz
    Streifenpolizist Schlüter

Production company

  • Gifted Films West GmbH (Ludwigsburg/Köln)
  • Maranto Films GmbH (Köln)

in co-production with

  • Südwestrundfunk (SWR) (Stuttgart)

Producer

  • Nicole Ringhut
  • Reza Bahar

Unit production manager

  • Annette Schilling

Location manager

  • Dirk Seibert
  • Ali-Reza Bahar (Motiv)
  • Marcel Kommissin (Set)

Original distributor

  • W-film (Köln)

Funding

  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 09.03.2010 - 28.04.2010: Köln, Aachen, Düren, Troisdorf, Wuppertal
Duration:
3553 m, 129 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 29.03.2011, 127120, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 25.10.2011, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 18.04.2013

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Bastard

Versions

Original

Duration:
3553 m, 129 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 29.03.2011, 127120, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 25.10.2011, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 18.04.2013

Awards

Verband der deutschen Filmkritik 2014
  • Beste Darstellerin
FBW 2011
  • Prädikat: besonders wertvoll
Filmtage Hof 2011
  • Förderpreis Deutscher Film (ex aequo >Die Farbe des Ozeans<), Bildgestaltung
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