Film student Willie Lindmann’s final project will be a documentary on her parents’ first encounter in 25 years. But neither of them, nor her stepmother and adopted brother who are along for the ride, have the slightest inkling of how fundamentally earth-shattering the afternoon will turn out to be. Emotions run high and boil over, as alcohol flows and secrets and lies, new and old, come to the surface. ACT NATURAL is a tragicomic found-footage drama about appearances and the truth behind them—in a completely normal patchwork family.
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Produktion
A co-production between Orange Roughy Filmproduktion and eitelsonnenschein, in association with Darling Point, funded by Filmstiftung NRW
Credits
Cast: Lou Strenger, Catrin Striebeck, Johanna Gastdorf, Markus John, Florian Geißelmann, Jean-Paul Baeck
Director and Writer: Alice Gruia
Producers: Corinna C. Poetter, Lutz Heineking jr., Marco Gilles, Alice Gruia
Director of Photography: Thorsten Schönrade
Editor: Vlad Litvak
Costume and Set Design: Nina-Sophie Brettschneider
Sound: Tarik Badaoui
Music: Tom Ashforth
Sound Design and Mixing: Jascha Viehl
Grading: Yannick de Decker
Light: Jan Nieschulz
Art Design: Jan Partke
Production Management: Christopher Albrodt
Make-Up Artists: Katharina Lenz, Ursula Windmann, Natalie Korani
and many other talented crew members
