The State I Am In
At first glance, they seem like a perfectly ordinary small family: Clara, Hans, and their 15-year-old daughter Jeanne. They live in a small apartment by the sea in a Portuguese seaside resort. But the family avoids any contact with other people. The reason: Hans and Clara are former terrorists on the run. For 15 years, they have been living underground, constantly changing their identities and places of residence. Their lifestyle doesn't allow them to make friends, because the police have never stopped searching for them. Jeanne, too, submits with iron discipline to this life of lies and secrecy. While other girls her age are partying, making out with boys, or going shopping with their friends, she spends her adolescence in social isolation. Until she falls in love with Heinrich, a young surfer tourist, in Portugal. Suddenly, she realizes how much she has subordinated her own needs to her parents' demands. She begins to rebel against the strict rules, meets secretly with Heinrich, and toys with the idea of leaving her parents. The thought of this possibility plunges the adolescent girl into a severe conflict of conscience and loyalty, since her parents have been her only caregivers for 15 years. Meanwhile, things are getting increasingly dicey for Hans and Clara in Europe; the police are hot on their trail. They are frantically preparing to flee to South America. One last bank robbery is supposed to finance the trip. But the situation spirals out of control.
- 2000
- 1 Hr 46 Mins
- Drama
At first glance, they seem like a perfectly ordinary small family: Clara, Hans, and their 15-year-old daughter Jeanne. They live in a small apartment by the sea in a Portuguese seaside resort. But the family avoids any contact with other people. The reason: Hans and Clara are former terrorists on the run. For 15 years, they have been living underground, constantly changing their identities and places of residence. Their lifestyle doesn't allow them to make friends, because the police have never stopped searching for them. Jeanne, too, submits with iron discipline to this life of lies and secrecy. While other girls her age are partying, making out with boys, or going shopping with their friends, she spends her adolescence in social isolation. Until she falls in love with Heinrich, a young surfer tourist, in Portugal. Suddenly, she realizes how much she has subordinated her own needs to her parents' demands. She begins to rebel against the strict rules, meets secretly with Heinrich, and toys with the idea of leaving her parents. The thought of this possibility plunges the adolescent girl into a severe conflict of conscience and loyalty, since her parents have been her only caregivers for 15 years. Meanwhile, things are getting increasingly dicey for Hans and Clara in Europe; the police are hot on their trail. They are frantically preparing to flee to South America. One last bank robbery is supposed to finance the trip. But the situation spirals out of control.