Philip Gröning : 2013
The Police Officer's Wife
A young couple and their four-year-old daughter live a quiet life in a small border town. Uwe, the husband is a policeman, a common middle-class civil servant. Christine, the wife stays at home and cares for their little girl, Clara, an alert and curious child, always looking up inquisitively at her mother. This beautiful, seemingly ordinary family live a frugal life of simple joys. But it is also a life of increasing violence measured by the dark bruises of the police officer's wife. Little by little, fragments of their daily life unfold before us, chapter by chapter, never-ending, until we and they are trapped without escape in their tragedy. The film was winner of the Special Jury Prize when it premiered at La Biennale di Venezia 2013.
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