The Impossible Picture

The father gazes in the camera, "What do you see?" - "You," says the daughter. It is the last image that will be made of the father, as he dies a short time later, in summer of 1956. In his place, the daughter Johanna (Jana McKinnon), takes over documenting the family´s life with a handed-down Super 8 film camera. There is a lot to see: Johanna moves with her mother and sister to her grandmother´s (Andrea Schramek) in a bourgeois, old-style apartment in Vienna, where the relatives gather not only for birthdays and at Christmas. The camera gaze pans...

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Orig. Title
Das unmögliche Bild
Year
2016
Countries
Austria, Germany
Duration
70 min
Director
Sandra Wollner
Category
Fiction
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
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