Diagonale
Diagonale
Diagonale

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MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
Feature Film, AT 2022, Farbe, 92 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2023

Director: Franziska Pflaum
Script: Franziska Pflaum, Christiane Kalss
Cast: Stefanie Reinsperger, Julia Franz Richter, Karl Fischer, Nico Ehrenteit, Inga Busch, u. a.
Camera: Robert Oberrainer
Editor: Friederike Hohmuth
Location Sound: Gregor Manhardt
Music: Anda Revertera, Moritz René Scharf
Sounddesign: Veronika Hlawatsch
Production Design: Thomas Lehner, Rafael Loß
Costumes: Johanna Pflaum
Producers: Viktoria Salcher, Mathias Forberg
Production: Prisma Film- Fernsehproduktion GmbH

 

Annika (Stefanie Reinsperger) dreams of having a synthetic mermaid fin—expensive fun for the supermarket cashier who longs for distraction from the worries of her everyday life. Franziska Pflaum’s feature film debut in iridescent pastel colors and magically playful settings reverses the classical mermaid myth and tells of a woman who realizes that it makes no sense to wait for salvation—and ultimately takes charge of her own life.

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