Safe and Sound
The film is about 22-year-old Gwenda's psychosis and how she deals with this mental affliction. After the car she shares with her friends Theo and Lotta is stolen following a festival in the middle of nowhere in Brandenburg, the three of them embark on an involuntary road trip across Germany. Little by little, Gwenda slips further into her psychosis. Eventually, she is convinced that the world, including her two friends, has conspired against her. Theo and Lotta notice their friend’s change of character. Their friendship is put to the test.
Cast
- Gwenda
- Helena Houssay
- Theo
- Jacob Ernst
- Lotta
- Stefanie Herzgsell
- Liese-Lotte
- Ilona Schulz
- Polizeibeamter
- Ulrich Faßnacht
- Pfarrer
- Julius Robin Weigel
Safe and Sound
Victor Kunze
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2022
- Language
- dt. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 93min
1.85:1, Stereo PCM
- Original Title
- Ab nach Hause
Director & Crew
Victor Kunze
Born in 1996 in Berlin. Studies Screen-Based Media at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik. Active as a director, writer, editor and producer.
Filmography
| 2019 | Die Wände haben Ohren | Kurzfilm | |
| 2022 | Vögeln wie uns | Kurzfilm Co-Autor |
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| Ab nach Hause | Spielfilm | 2022 |
Director's Statement:
“So many people are affected by mental health crises, and yet people don’t talk about it much. Before I noticed it in a person close to me, I, too, had an abstract image of it, much like it is represented in the media. No matter which mental illness, it’s usually the person affected that poses a threat, and the person behind it isn’t highlighted in any detail. So I thought I would make a film that does just that. The fears of the person affected and also those of their relatives, their feelings of guilt and hopelessness, but also the beautiful moments that you can sometimes experience with a person in crisis—especially when you’re not expecting it.”
Victor Kunze
- Writer
- Victor Kunze
- Director of Photography
- Regina Wiebe
- Editor
- Pia van den Bruck
- Production Designer
- Hannah Aschenbrenner
- Sophia Forst
- Costume Designer
- Dorothea Rheinfurth
- Sound
- Carlotta Monath
- Gabriel Ohresser
- Music Composer
- Tara Nome Doyle
- Make-up
- Evelina Witt
- Producer
- Philip Alexander Deutenbach