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TORRENT DETAILS
Poll (2010) AKA The Poll Diaries
TORRENT SUMMARY
The Poll Diaries
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Theatrical Release: 2010-12-17 DVD Release: 1970-01-01 Torrent Release: 15-11-2011 by user
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Movie Genre:
Drama
Runtime:
129 min.
Parental Rating:
N/A
Awards:
11 wins & 7 nominations.
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DESCRIPTION
In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her father's lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing Oda's family to make impossible choices.
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Country: Germany, Austria, Estonia
Language: German, Russian, Estonian, French
Director/Screenplay: Chris Kraus
Runtime: 129 minutes
With the award-winning Four Minutes, director Chris Kraus established a talent for powerful drama rooted both in character and history.
The Poll Diaries furthers his craft and his curiosity about human nature, but this time the story comes from the life of his own great aunt. Unlocking a too-little known chapter of European history, Kraus recreates a Baltic community on the brink of the First World War.
In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda Schaefer (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The Schaefer family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her motherΓΓé¼Γäós coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities.
Ebbo Schaefer (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ and what Oda luckily understands ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her fatherΓΓé¼Γäós lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing OdaΓΓé¼Γäós family to make impossible choices.
Shot in rich, muted tones and sharp shadows, The Poll Diaries is historical drama at its finest. Posing a range of ethical questions, the film offers a compelling commentary on a morally bankrupt brand of reasoning that would come to underlie some of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. (Cameron Bailey)
director bio
Chris Kraus was born in Goettingen, Germany and studied at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin, where he now teaches. He is an award-winning screenwriter and director, whose films include Shattered Glass (02) and Four Minutes (06). The Poll Diaries (10) is his latest feature film.
Interview With Chris Kraus:
http://twitchfilm.com/interviews/2010/12/psiff-2011-the-poll-diaries-2010-interview-with-chris-kraus.php
