Films by Susann Reck

Germany 2013, 105 min
by Susann Reck

Blender is an autobiographically inspired documentary. The title stands for a 1100 meter high mountain at the foothills of the Alps, where my parents founded an open home for the mentally ill and gave it the name of the mountain, BLENDER. The film documents the period of a year. Why did four of the six protagonists have to leave the home during shooting? This question is also connected to my childhood, where patients were coming and going all the time. Of course the reasons for it are understand