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The Trouble with Being Born (2020)

Dec 03, 2020 Science Fiction, Drama 1h 34m
User Score
52%
50 votes
Internet Movie Database
55%
Rotten Tomatoes
92%

Overview

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.

Sandra Wollner
Writer
Roderick Warich
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Lena Watson
Lena Watson

Elli / Emil, Android
Dominik Warta
Dominik Warta

Georg
Ingrid Burkhard
Ingrid Burkhard

Frau Schikowa
Jana McKinnon
Jana McKinnon

Elli
Simon Hatzl
Simon Hatzl

Toni
Susanne Gschwendtner
Susanne Gschwendtner

Birgit (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Media

The Trouble With Being Born Q&A with Sandra Wollner
The Trouble With Being Born Q&A with Sandra Wollner
Featurette
The Trouble With Being Born Official Trailer
The Trouble With Being Born Official Trailer
Trailer
The Trouble With Being Born - Trailer
The Trouble With Being Born - Trailer
Trailer
Trouble With Being Born | Trailer | Berlinale 2020
Trouble With Being Born | Trailer | Berlinale 2020
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Reviews

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A review by SWITCH.
Written on November 26, 2020

Deeply unsettling and thematically rich, Sandra Wollner's film is, most of all, thought-provoking. If you can push past the controversy, 'The Trouble with Being Born' will haunt you.
- Jake Watt

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