STORM & STRESS

Knittlingen, 1789. To escape her stifling home, Cornelia decides to run away and, with her father's stolen money, pays a Prussian lieutenant to marry her and go with her to Paris. When a stranger and his pregnant wife appear at her meeting with her fiancé and invite her to a picnic, Cornelia realizes that the revolution made by men will not set her free, and she begins to provoke the men until weapons are drawn in the name of liberty.

STORM & STRESS

Knittlingen, 1789. To escape her stifling home, Cornelia decides to run away and, with her father's stolen money, pays a Prussian lieutenant to marry her and go with her to Paris. When a stranger and his pregnant wife appear at her meeting with her fiancé and invite her to a picnic, Cornelia realizes that the revolution made by men will not set her free, and she begins to provoke the men until weapons are drawn in the name of liberty.

Schmidbauer-Film in co-production with the University of Television and Film and Bavarian Broadcasting
Funded by FFF Bayern (Talent Film Funding), Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Short Film Funding)
supported by the Friends of the HFF Munich eV
Director Wouter Wirth
script Romina Ecker
Production Andreas Schmidbauer, Tanja Schmidbauer, Kirsten Wehr
Editorial staff Natalie Lambsdorff
Camera Caroline Spreitzenbart
Scene Ann-Kathrin Erberhard
Costume design Theresa Raab
Mask image Laura Weber, Lea Potthoff
cut Andreas Schumacher
Ton Xavier Fleming
Cast Katharina Stark, Felix Bickele, Michael Schrodt, Joseph Bundschuh, Mia Müller, Yann Mbiene, Eckhard Greiner, Gisela Aderhold, Roberto Martinez, Sascha Maaz
full cast & crew

"With a twinkle in their eyes and a good dose of biting, dry humor, Wirth and Ecker point to the ongoing marginalization of women's rights, which even during the Sturm und Drang period was neither truly addressed nor questioned by the almost exclusively male poets and thinkers. With their graduation film at the Munich Film School (HFF München), Wirth and Ecker have created a wonderfully amusing and clever film that captures a historical period atmospherically and with a touch of irony."

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Click here for the full jury statement.


"With a twinkle in their eyes and a good dose of biting, dry humor, Wirth and Ecker point to the ongoing marginalization of women's rights, which even during the Sturm und Drang period was neither truly addressed nor questioned by the almost exclusively male poets and thinkers. With their graduation film at the Munich Film School (HFF München), Wirth and Ecker have created a wonderfully amusing and clever film that captures a historical period atmospherically and with a touch of irony."

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Click here for the full jury statement.