The Trouble with Being Born

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

2020

Science Fiction·Drama

1h 34min

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Top Billed Cast

Lena Watson
Elli / Emil, Android
Dominik Warta
Georg
Ingrid Burkhard
Frau Schikowa
Jana McKinnon
Elli
Simon Hatzl
Toni
Susanne Gschwendtner
Birgit (uncredited)

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