24 WEEKS
synopsis
Berrached’s new film centers on the dilemma faced by a woman who is already six months pregnant when she learns that her unborn child will have Down‘s syndrome as well as a serious heart defect. Should she be able to choose the option of a late-term abortion? How can she and her husband know whether the unborn child could have a life worth living or would only suffer? In the end, the expectant mother realizes that only she can make this decision.
international title: | 24 Weeks |
original title: | 24 Wochen |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Beta Cinema |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Anne Zohra Berrached |
film run: | 102' |
screenplay: | Anne Zohra Berrached, Carl Gerber |
cast: | Julia Jentsch, Bjarne Mädel, Emilia Pieske, Johanna Gastdorf, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Karina Plachetka |
film editing: | Denys Darahan |
art director: | Janina Schimmelbauer, Fabian Reber |
costumes designer: | Bettina Werner, Melina Scappatura |
music: | Jasmin Reuter |
producer: | Melanie Berke, Tobias Büchner, Tobias Ebner, Johannes Jancke |
production: | Zero One Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg |