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The Summer House

You want to look away, but you cannot.

★ 5.7 (21 votes) | 2014 | 1h 35m
Drama
Overview

A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral decadence. The Larsens are a picture perfect family from the German upper-middle class. However, the head of the family, Markus, an architect, lives a secret, bisexual double life as his wife Christine and their eleven-year-old daughter Elisabeth drown in unendurable loneliness. Markus realizes that he has a strong yearning for one of his daughter's school friends, Johannes, 12. He succeeds in getting closer to Johannes and binds the boy to himself with ever-increasing intensity. His wife is desperately aware of the emotional distance of her husband, but only her daughter Elizabeth, reacting to the sexually laden atmosphere, sees through the lies and secrets that she instinctively knows to be an growing, disruptive threat to the entire family

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date April 15, 2014
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production Focusing Films

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THE SUMMER HOUSE | Official Trailer 2016
THE SUMMER HOUSE | Official Trailer 2016

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