Rabenmutter
Childhood Scars

film type experimental film, fiction Production Country Germany production year 2006 runtime 23'00 colour Color
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

Chris spent her childhood in a home for difficult children in the country. After a visit to a doctors she makes up her mind: She wants to find her mother who she hasnt seen for years. Chris makes her way to Berlin but when she enters the familys flat, she can tell that it is not her mother facing her.

director Alex Schmidt Cast Celina Bienert, Daniel Zillmann, Evelyn Meyka, Heike Warmuth, Kathrin Brunner, Rosa Enskat, Teo Vadersen Original Score Marian Lux Editing Ulrich Kruse DOP Tom Bergsteiner Script Sylka Kramer Sound Design Benjamin Krbetschek film school Hamburg Media School
Festivals
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
FIPADOC International Documentary Festival, Biarritz, France
Production
  • Florian Gees
  • Stolbergstr. 7
  • 22085 Hamburg
  • +49 40 2298592
Distribution
  • Hamburg Media School
  • Anja Schmuck
  • Finkenau 35
  • 22081 Hamburg
  • Germany
  • +49 40 41346863
  • http://www.hamburgmediaschool.com
School

Alex Schmidt

1996-2002 social worker;
2002-2004 Film and Television Academy Konrad Wolf Potsdam;
since 2003 writer for Schloss Einstein (TV Soap for children);
2004-2006 postgraduate film studies in directing at the Hamburg Media School

Filmography
2002 Martin Luther
2004 The little Poisonmixer
2005 Bass in Contra
2005 Dow Jane Index
2006 Rabenmutter