The 58-year-old hairdresser Melanie drives her son Stefan (32), a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel DER SALON. While for Stefan the trip turns into an argument about upward mobility narratives, his relationship with his mother and class shame, a pressing unease grows in Melanie: Who is her son, who suddenly talks as rantingly as the people on TV and looks as if he hasn't washed in three weeks? How is she supposed to hold her own in an environment that is actually completely alien to her and where she sees no place for herself? The situation escalates during the reading, where they find no more words for this conflict. The story of a distant love and the double shame.
CREDITS
CREW:
Script: Romina Küper, Max Lindemann
Director: Romina Küper
Cinematography: Philipp Schaeffer
Film Music: Mathias Schwarz
Sounddesign: Sirius Kestel
Sound: Rachel Oker
Editing: Silvan Marty
Production Design: Rafael Loß
Executive Producer: Katharina Mumper, Maxine Paatzsch, Isabella Müller de Paula
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Costume Design: Eleonore Carrière
Make-Up: Carlotta Cécile Whan, Ebru Yildrim
Musician Score: Derya Atakan
CAST
Actor/ Protagonist: Adriane Gradziel, Michou Friesz, Serdar Gençol, Janne Pauline Böhm, Stella Holzapfel, Laura Janik, Daria Kleyn, Katibe Özdakak, Jona Schloßer
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