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Michael DVD

Markus Schleinzer, 2011

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Film Details

Directed by Markus Schleinzer

Produced in 2011

Main Language - German with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - European Film, German Film

Cast

Ursula Strauss, Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain, Victor Tremmel, Xaver Winkler

Genres

Contemporary Drama • Contemporary Thrillers • Contemporary Blu-rays • European Film • German Film • Blu-ray

Film Description

An acclaimed Austrian drama focusing on five months in the life of an outwardly respectable paedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement. Despite its controversial subject matter, Michael is a restrained observational thriller, revealing its alarming plot with a patient, naturalistic atmosphere.

Michael (Michael Fuith) appears to be an ordinary member of society. He holds down a steady, well-paid job, pays visits to his family and neighbours and maintains a clean and orderly house. However, unknown to his friends, Michael is a paedophile who keeps a young boy, Wolfgang, in a furnished room in his basement. Though their respective roles of victim and abuser are clear, the duration of Wolfgang's captivity has led to a complexity developing in the relationship between the man and child. For all that Wolfgang loathes and resents Michael, he has also come to perceive him as his only human contact and source of company. Will the sanity of both survive the stresses that occur as Michael struggles to maintain his respectable facade?