Films by Maria Teresa Cmoglio

Germany 2008
by Maria Teresa Cmoglio

Anorexia, refusing to eat until death by starvation is a deliberateselfdestruction in public and the most symptomatic of alldiseases in our world of exuberance and abundance. The Thin Girls is not about models, fashion, celebrities orfame. It is about crying for help. It is about and with some girlsnext door, about their agony, their struggle, their life sufferingfrom Anorexia. The film tries to give insight to their motivesand the conditions of the soul, that lead to such a terrible selfdestruc