without mercy

by Julia Charakter
  • 2017  Julia Charakter
  • 2018  Julia Charakter
  • 2018 Julia Charakter
  • 2018 Julia Charakter

    Synopsis

    In the 60s and 70s more than one million children were mentally and physically abused in nursing homes. Often led by nuns and priests, the defenseless children were beaten and forced to hard physical work. In the end of the 1990s a financial compensation was offered for the victims per law.

    In animated flashbacks the anonymous protagonist tells of the everyday life in an orphanage of the 70s and her personal struggle against the ruthless authority of the nuns. 40 years later, when she is to be financially compensated by the authorities, she meets with incomprehension and renewed ruthlessness.

    Festivals

    DOK.fest Munich
    Landhuter Kurzfilmtage
    71. Filmfestival Cannes
    Neiße Filmfest
    Tresenfilmfestival Dortmund
    TIFF - Tirana Short
    Interfilm Berlin
    Deutsches Filmfestival Moskau