Wetlands (2013 film)
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| Directed by | David Wnendt |
| Produced by | Peter Rommel |
| Screenplay by | David Wnendt Claus Falkenberg |
| Based on |
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche |
| Starring |
Carla Juri Christoph Letkowski Marlen Kruse Meret Becker |
| Music by | Enis Rotthoff |
| Cinematography | Jakub Bejnarowicz |
| Edited by | Andreas Wodraschke |
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Rommel Film
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| Distributed by | Strand Releasing |
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Running time
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109 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Box office | $10,501,000 |
Wetlands (German: Feuchtgebiete) is a 2013 German drama film and directed by David Wnendt. It is based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Charlotte Roche and focuses on feminist issues, sexuality, and coming of age. The film premiered in International competition at the 2013 Locarno International Film Festival on August 11, 2013.
The film later premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Strand Releasing acquired the US distribution rights for the film.
18-year-old Helen uses vegetables for masturbation and believes that body hygiene is overrated in our society. She provokes others by saying and doing things most people would not even dare to imagine.
Helen's parents are divorced and she desperately wishes that they get back together. But her mother is depressive, hygiene-obsessed and mentally unstable, and her father is insensitive and seems not to take notice of what people around him think. She also has a quiet, younger brother whom she teases by taking his stuffed bear.
Helen feels alone and unloved in the world. Only her best friend Corinna makes her feel comfortable. Together they break many of society's taboos.
By shaving her anal hair too fast, she cuts herself badly and needs to go to hospital. There she plans to get her parents back together and charms her handsome nurse Robin, who is still suffering from a relationship with another nurse from two years before. That nurse does not get along with Helen and is still infatuated with Robin. She makes Helen's life in the hospital more difficult, but Helen and Robin fall in love during her hospital stay.
Helen's behaviour is revealed to be related to a traumatic experience she had when she was eight years old. At the end of the movie, she reflects on this trauma by saying that she finally talked to her little brother and that this was the hardest talk she ever had: still being a child, she found her mother trying to kill herself and Helen's little brother, using the gas from the oven. In the end Helen gives up on idea of bringing her parents back together and decides to go and stay with Robin.
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