Bastard (2011)
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Nikolas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school. The 13-year-old Leon and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Nikolas' parents at the local swimming pool and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda. Now it is up to the psychologist to resolve the dark mystery of Nikolas' disappearance and save the child.
- Released
- 2011-10-25
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Carsten Unger
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 17 votes
Cast
- Martina Gedeck as Meinert
- Markus Krojer as Leon
- Antonia Lingemann as Mathillde
- Finn Kirchner as Nikolas
- Sibylle Canonica as Cora Schweizer
- Hanns Zischler as Samuel Schweizer
- Thomas Thieme as Decker
- Matthias Koeberlin as Vater
- Beate Maes as Anja Heine
- Volker Muthmann as Lehrer
- Stephan Schad as Raphael Heine
- Marc Zwinz as Streifenpolizist
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