"Die Saat"

The drama "Die Saat" about a family in the capitalist constraints of the present - from the director of "22 Bahnen"...

THE SEED

DEU 2021. dir: Mia Maariel Meyer. D: Hanno Koffler, Dora Zygouri, Anna Blomeier, Andreas Döhler, Robert Stadlober. 100 min. FSK: 12

Rainer toils in the sweat of his brow on the building site. His first job as a site manager is the big opportunity he desperately needs. Rising rents in the city have already forced him, his pregnant wife and their 13-year-old daughter Doreen to move to a small house in need of renovation in the surrounding countryside. There, Doreen befriends the girl next door, Mara, whose parents are as rich as they are narrow-minded. But Mara encourages Doreen to play nasty tricks. And father Rainer, who wants to do everything right, is demoted and humiliated at work. When an older employee is to be fired, Rainer stands up to his new superior and involuntarily becomes the leader of a burgeoning resistance.
Director Mia Maariel Meyer (22 RAILWAYS) describes a world dehumanized by capitalism, in which the fight for justice and integrity becomes an acid test. The pressure rises inexorably, hopes are shattered, social advancement is impossible. "It is painful to witness how the anger in Rainer and Doreen builds up more and more. The prevailing social conditions produce nothing but blunting, paralysis or brutality." (epd Film)