The Trouble with Being Born

The Trouble with Being Born

94 mins | Drama, Science Fiction | Dec. 3, 2020

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

The Trouble with Being Born

94 mins | Drama, Science Fiction | Dec. 3, 2020

The Trouble with Being Born
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, ZDF, Panama Film, The Barricades
Original title The Trouble with Being Born
Directors Astrid Schäfer, Sandra Wollner
Writers Roderick Warich, Sandra Wollner

Cast

Lena Watson

as Elli / Emil, Android

Dominik Warta

as Georg

Ingrid Burkhard

as Frau Schikowa

Jana McKinnon

as Elli

Simon Hatzl

as Toni

Susanne Gschwendtner

as Birgit (uncredited)