Directed by:
Wolfgang MurnbergerCinematography:
Fabian EderComposer:
Mischa KrauszCast:
Clarence Ryan, Julia Krombach, Lena Stolze, Hans-Werner Meyer, Christoph Waltz, Gregor Bloéb, Vadim Glowna, Barbara Weber, Karl Künstler, Martin Strele (more)Plots(1)
A blazing meteorite crashes into a glacier in the midst of an alpine wilderness, bringing back to life a frozen Neanderthal boy. The boy, whose name is Bataa, meets Sophie, a girl who has run away from a holiday chalet in the mountains. At first their communication is hampered by the divisions of language and time, but, before long, they discover that they have a number of things in common – for Sophie has lost her mother and can't get along with her new patchwork family, and Bataa feels very lonely and longs for his own family. Both in need of each other, a special friendship soon evolves that is jeopardised when they are discovered by scientists determined to track down and capture Bataa as if he were a wild animal. Sophie helps him escape. The two children hide in an ancient, secret cave that was once a holy site for Neanderthals. Here, Bataa dies his hair with "lapislazuli" according to a mysterious ritual. When Bataa falls ill Sophie persuades her friend to go down into the valley. But the closer they get to modern civilisation, the more Bataa's condition deteriorates. Sophie realises that Bataa cannot survive in today's world, and a race against time begins... (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Clarence Ryan
Best movies:
OtherLife (2017)
Blueback (2022)
Eye of the Bear (2006)
Julia Krombach
Germany
Best movies:
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Das Traumschiff (1981) (series)
Rosamunde Pilcher (1993) (series)
Lena Stolze
Best movies:
Lemmings, Part 1 - Arcades (1979) (TV movie)
The White Rose (1982)
The Nasty Girl (1990)
Hans-Werner Meyer
West Germany
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Homevideo (2011) (TV movie)
Die Cleveren - Du stirbst, wie ich es will! (1998) (TV movie)
Christoph Waltz
Austria
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Gregor Bloéb
Austria
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Rabbit Without Ears (2007)
Die Toten vom Bodensee (2014) (series)
Vadim Glowna
German Empire
Best movies:
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
No Place to Go (2000)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Barbara Weber
Austria
Best movies:
Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Eye of the Bear (2006)
Karl Künstler
Austria
Best movies:
Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Martin Strele
Best movies:
K2 La Montagna Degli Italiani (2012) (TV movie)
Die Bergretter (2009) (series)
Eye of the Bear (2006)
Thomas Kamper
Best movies:
Menandros & Thaïs (2016) - narrator
Eye of the Bear (2006)
Johannes Nikolussi
Austria
Best movies:
The Eremites (2016)
The Dark Valley (2014)
Sisi (2009) (TV movie)
Paula Nocker
Austria
Best movies:
Eye of the Bear (2006)