Completed - GERMAN - Family, Drama - 100 minutes
A teenage girl’s family falls for a cosmic cult promising salvation in a higher existence on Jupiter. As flashbacks leading deeper into the past unravel the family’s struggle to get a hold on life, the girl has to decide if to follow her parents or to make her own way on earth.
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Benjamin PFOHL Writer(s) : Benjamin PFOHL Cast : Mariella AUMANN, Laura TONKE, Andreas DÖHLER, Ulrich MATTHES, Paula KOBER Producer(s) : Martin KOSOK (Dreifilm), Alexander FRITZEMEYER (Dreifilm)
The comet is coming. And in a rush, LEA (14) is being torn from her life as her parents take her and her bro- ther to the mountains. On the arduous journey Lea's memories, which go deeper and deeper into the past, gradually unravel her struggle for a place in this world, and her parent’s odyssey to find explanation and cure for their son’s mental illness.At a remote mountain camp, the family is warmly welcomed. Here, a group of people gathered to witness a comet passing Earth on its way to Jupiter. Promoting the belief in an origin of mankind on distant Jupiter, it is this group in which the family finally found sense in their fate and hope for their future.But soon Lea finds her father building a strange machine and discovers the true purpose of their stay: See- king a higher form of existence, the group plans a collective suicide by which they will ascend to the passing comet and travel with it to Jupiter.Lea must decide whether to follow her parents or to flee and face the obstacles of a life on Earth.
Country(ies) : GERMANY
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