Johanna is just twenty years old but struggling with her boring and aimless existence. Disturbing visions start the day she gets fired from her job. Soon Johanna is carried off into a different world beneath the city where people live in a parallel universe full of darkness and magic rituals. The denizens of this world are inspired and guided by a mysterious woman, The Mistress. Drawn into her cult through an extravagant initiation ceremony, Johanna encounters fascinating characters: People like Simon, the collector, with whom she embarks on an obsessive affair. As Johanna plunges deeper into the occult her old world slowly collapses...
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Cast
12 people
Angela Maria Romacker
Johanna
Annika Strauss
Assistant
Known for
German Angst
13 Minutes
Julia Ostertag
Also in
Mommy Is Coming
Vortex
Namjira As-Sefid
Mistress
Florian Gysin
Simon the collector
Also in
Nulllinie
Nikolai Arnold
Dandy
Also in
Der Sandmann
The forgotten Winchester
Louis Fleischauer
Master of ceremony
Haik Liebreich
Vanessa Baden Kelly
Known for
Kenan & Kel
Iris Lange
Carole Jachtmann
Julia Ostertag Director
First release September 9, 2016 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German
Production
Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
France · September 9, 2016
Theatrical
Germany · November 25, 2017
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No release date listed for United States.
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