SANCTUARY
synopsis
May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War… While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be “educated” to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?
international title: | Sanctuary |
original title: | Freistatt |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Pluto Film |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Marc Brummund |
film run: | 104' |
release date: | DE 25/06/2015 |
screenplay: | Nicole Armbruster, Marc Brummund |
cast: | Louis Hofmann, Gerald Alexander Held, Stephan Grossmann, Katharina Lorenz, Max Riemelt |
cinematography by: | Judith Kaufmann |
film editing: | Hans Funck |
producer: | Rüdiger Heinze, Stefan Sporbert |
production: | Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion, SWR – Südwestrundfunk, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), NDR - Norddeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE GEIE |
backing: | MFG, DFFF, BKM, FFHSH, FFA, Nordmedia |
distributor: | Salzgeber & Co. Medien |