THE CULPABLE
synopsis
“Someone is blackening our name! Shit sticks if there’s enough of it!” Catholic minister of a state penitentiary Jakob Voelz would be more than happy to believe this statement as his hieratical colleague and best friend Dominik Bertram is arrested under suspicion of sexual abuse. Yet, what Jakob is beginning to suspect but doesn't want to know, becomes a crucial test for his faith and his self-conception as a priest: There is a truth we welcome and there is a truth we fear, about which we tend to fall silent. As Jakob begins to turn against that silence within the church, he is taught a lesson – the church is a mother, and one does not beat a mother. But finally Jakob must raise his hand...
international title: | The Culpable |
original title: | Verfehlung |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Pluto Film |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Gerd Schneider |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | DE 26/03/2015 |
screenplay: | Gerd Schneider |
cast: | Sebastian Blomberg, Kai Schumann, Jan Messutat, Sandra Borgmann, Valerie Koch |
cinematography by: | Pascal Schmit |
film editing: | Uta Schmidt |
music: | John Gürtler, Jan Miserre |
producer: | Felix Eisele, Julia Kleinhenz, Katja Siegel, Bernhard Stegmann |
production: | AV Medien Penrose GmbH |
backing: | MFG Filmförderung, BKM, General Federal Film Fund (DFFF) |
distributor: | Camino Filmverleih |