MEIN BRUDER HEISST ROBERT UND IST EIN IDIOT

What is the nature of time? For the teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence. Nature, time, love, death.

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.” Saint Augustine

Director

PHILIP GRÖNING was born in 1959 in Düsseldorf. Also active as a screenwriter and producer, his award-winning films include: SUMMER (1986), THE TERRORISTS (1992), VICTIMS. WITNESSES (doc, 1993), LOVE, MONEY, LOVE (2000), INTO GREAT SILENCE (doc, 2005), THE POLICE OFFICER’S WIFE (2013), and MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT (2018).

Tilman Singer (photo © Miriam Gossing) photos © Tilman Singer, Dario Mendez Acosta