Director/Script: Christoph Hochhäusler
Script: Benjamin Heisenberg
Photography: Ali Gözkaya
Principal Cast: Judith Engel, Horst-Günther Marx
Sound: Thorsten Bolzè
Producers: Mario Stefan, Clarens Grollmann
Commissioning editor ZDF: Burkhard Althoff
Production: fieber.film in co-production with ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Colonia Media/Cine Images/Filmcontract Ltd./Schmidtz Katze,
supported by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern/Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Distribution: Bavaria Film International
Tel: 0049 89 649 926 86
Fax: 0049 89 649 937 20
On a shopping trip to Poland, Sylvia loses the plot after an argument with her stepchildren, Lea and Konstantin, and abandons them in the Polish no man’s land. When she returns later to collect them, the children have vanished. A modern retelling of”Hansel and Gretel” where the aesthetic is cool and austere, the stepmother isn’t wicked and the witch isn’t a woman. Hochhäusler - who also studied architecture - made “Milchwald” as his graduation project at the HFF, Munich.