Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
Script: Daniel Nocke
Photography: Rainer Klausmann
Editor: Eva Schnare
Production Design: Bettina Schmidt
Casting: Ingeborg Molitoris
Music: Biber Gullatz, Andreas Schäfer
Sound: Max Meindl
Principal Cast: Ulrike Krumbiegel, Edgar Selge, Jeanette Hain, Michael Altmann, Louis Hofmann, Paraschiva Dragus, Carlo Ljubek, Jan Peter Kampwirth
Producer: Ernst Ludwig Ganzert
Commissioning Editor WDR: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Commissioning Editor ARTE: Andreas Schreitmüller
Distribution:
WDR
Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
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Fax: +49 (0)221 220 57 58
fernsehen@wdr.de
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Arte
Andreas Schreitmüller
Tel: +33 388 14 22 22
Fax: +33 388 14 22 00
www.arte.tv
Selected Filmography Hermine Huntgeburth - Director:
Bibi Blocksberg, 2002; Der Boxer und die Friseuse, 2004; Die weisse Massai, 2005; Teufelsbraten, 2006; Effi Briest, 2009
The process is as commonplace as it is dramatic. A married couple breaks up because the husband has fallen in love with another woman. The children become bargaining chips for the separated parents. "Der verlorene Vater" ("The Lost Father") tells the story from the perspective of the "new" woman. Elke has fallen in love with Arndt. When he and his wife separate for good, he does not want to give up his children. The fight with his ex-wife escalates more and more, until one day Arndt abducts his own children. Elke has to react. Hermine Huntgeburth ("Effi Briest") and Daniel Nocke ("Dutschke") tell a gripping and realistic story of a struggle for custody without imparting moral judgements.