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Feature film — 2020

The Trouble with Being Born (2020)

4.91h 34mScience Fiction — Drama

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

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A high-signal pick with 56 votes.

Panama Film / The Barricades / ZDF / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

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Director: Sandra Wollner

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Cast & crew

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Lena Watson

Elli / Emil, Android

Dominik Warta as Georg

Dominik Warta

Georg

Ingrid Burkhard as Frau Schikowa

Ingrid Burkhard

Frau Schikowa

Jana McKinnon as Elli

Jana McKinnon

Elli

Simon Hatzl as Toni

Simon Hatzl

Toni

Susanne Gschwendtner as Birgit (uncredited)

Susanne Gschwendtner

Birgit (uncredited)

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