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Section: Panorama
Godless Youth (2017)
In a dystopian, performance-oriented society, adolescents struggle for good grades while their dreams are shattered by an indifferent system. In a not-to-distant future, cities are hellholes and the countryside holds the fairytale promise of a better life. A school girl’s body is found in the woods during the annual graduates' assessment camp and a teacher tries to find the truth – and is increasingly entangled in a net of his own lies. Suddenly someone confesses to a murder that they couldn‘t have committed, and the fragile cohesion of a youthful elite society is threatened.
| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Duration | 113 min |
| Rating | 16 |
| Language | German |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Alain Gsponer |
| Screenplay | Alexander Buresch, Matthias Pacht |
| Director of Photography | Frank Lamm |
| Music | Enis Rotthoff |
| Edited by | Tobias Haas, Melanie Landa |
| Contact | Beta Cinema |
Biography
A Swiss screenwriter and director. He studied at a school of design in Berne and worked as a journalist. He later graduated in directing at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. He debuted with the drama Rose (2005) and went on to direct Bummm! (2006) or The Little Ghost (Das kleine Gespenst, 2013).
Friendship, Love, Youth, Education, School, Crime, Drama, Science + Technology