HERKUNFT
WHERE YOU COME FROM
Based on Saša Stanišić’s 2019 autofictional novel Herkunft: Writer Aleksandar returns to Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to take his strong-willed grandmother Kristina, who has dementia, to a nursing home. But Kristina firmly believes they are setting off for her native village of Oskoruša. Their road trip becomes an unexpected journey into the past, intertwining Aleksandar’s memories of fleeing the Bosnian War as a child and growing up as a refugee in Heidelberg with Kristina’s return to her hometown.
A tragicomic story about past and present, memory and forgetting, the impossibility of ever truly arriving, and the first and most decisive coincidence in our biography: our origin.
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Genre
Tragicomedy, Literature, Road Movie, Drama, History -
CATEGORY
Feature -
DIRECTOR
Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim -
SCREENPLAY
Senad Halilbašić -
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jieun Yi -
CAST
Slavko Popadić, Gordana Boban, Marija Škaričić, Carlo Ljubek, Maro Lovrić, Arsseni Bultmann, Stipe Erceg, Bjarne Mädel, Anke Engelke, Karoline Herfurth, Max Riemelt, Nina Kunzendorf, and many more -
PRODUCERS
Sinah Swyter, Leslie-Alina Schäfer, Sebastian Werninger -
CO-PRODUCERS
Steffi Ackermann, Cosima von Spreti, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann -
PRODUCTION COMPANY
UFA Fiction in co-production with LEONINE Studios and ARD Degeto Film -
LANGUAGE
German, Bosnian -
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR
LEONINE Studios -
CONTACT
UFA Fiction, Antonia Matthes
antonia.matthes@ufa.de
www.ufa.de