THE CULPABLE

GERMANY – 2015 – 95 MIN – DRAMA – DCP/ HD

THE CULPABLE

Original title: Verfehlung

A film by Gerd Schneider

“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...

Original language: GERMAN
Produced by: Av medien penrose, Penrose Film, with Sebastian Blomberg, Kai Schumann, Jan Messutat, Sandra Borgmann Valerie Koch, Rade Radovic, Hartmut Becker.
SALES CONTACT : PLUTO FILM

Festivals:
Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis 2015 - German Premiere Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen 2015, Germany Arras International Film Festival - Prix Regards jeunes Région Nord-Pas de Calais Santa Barbara IFF, USA - Public Choice Award Preis der deutschen Filmkritik im Rahmen der Berlinale - Bestes Spielfilmdebüt Festival International du Film d´Aubagne, France Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy Shanghai IFF, China
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