It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.
Carolina Cardoso
as Franzi
Eva Mattes
as Franziska
Martin Wuttke
as Vater
Nicole Max
as Mutter
Louis Wagner
as Bruder
Luc Lamesch
as Junge im Schlachthof
Sascha Ley
as Mme Marguérite
André Jung
as Jaques Briquet
Luc Feit
as Monsieur Charbon
