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.
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Carolina Cardoso
Franzi
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Eva Mattes
Franziska
Known for
Enemy at the Gates
Stroszek
Martin Wuttke
Vater
Known for
Inglourious Basterds
Babylon Berlin
Nicole Max
Mutter
Known for
Capitani
Retrograde
Louis Wagner
Bruder
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Luc Lamesch
Junge im Schlachthof
Sascha Ley
Mme Marguérite
Known for
Shadow of the Vampire
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André Jung
Jaques Briquet
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Capitani
Lara
Luc Feit
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Babylon Berlin
All Quiet on the Western Front
Elfi Mikesch Director
First release February 11, 2014 · Produced in Luxembourg, Austria · Original title Fieber
Production
Luxembourg · Austria
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Languages
Original title
Fieber
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · February 11, 2014
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No release date listed for United States.
Romania
February 11, 2014 · Theatrical
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