Fever

Overview

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 11, 2014

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Luxembourg, Austria

Cast

Eva Mattes,Martin Wuttke,Sascha Ley,André Jung,Nicole Max,Louis Wagner,Luc Lamesch,Luc Feit,Carolina Cardoso

Director

Elfi Mikesch

Writer

Elfi Mikesch

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2999826