Falscher Bekenner

Christoph Hochhaeusler

IndieLisboa 2007 •

Germany, Fiction, 2005, 94′

18-year-old, freshly graduated Armin is slowly being suffocated by his mother’s well-meaning, his father’s expectations, the lethal boredom of suburban life. His brothers have long since left home. They are a shining example of how to live: modern biographical variations of their parents’ lives. But Armin feels paralyzed in this family goodwill. Incapable of resistance, he longs for the starkness and subjugation which no-one at home can give him. He starts randomly making anonymous claims of responsibility for accidents he witnesses, crimes he reads about. It starts as a game and quickly becomes an obsession. Soon, pretending to be guilty just isn’t enough…