BRUT

For Marie, a young medical student, the catastrophe of her life begins when she awakes every morning. She lives in social isolation with her strict and dominant mother, a successful gynecologist. Marie has suffered from her mother’s emotional suppression all her life; it is almost as if the umbilical cord had never been cut. Marie wants to escape this environment and seeks sexual contact with men in order to force her mother into resignation. Under the guise of love and dependency, a power struggle between mother and daughter begins to grow.

Director

CONSTANTIN HATZ was born in 1989 in Korneuburg/Austria and grew up in Vienna. After graduating from the Vienna Art School for Photography and Media Design, he worked in arthouse cinemas and began making his own films. Since 2012 he has been studying at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His award-winning films include: NÄHE (short, 2014), HELIKOPTER – HAUSARREST (doc, 2014), the feature FUGE (2015) which won the German Cinema New Talent Award at the Hof International Film Festival, TALSPERRE (short, 2016), and his graduation film BROOD (BRUT, 2017).

Constantin Hatz photos © BRUT/Karolina Sobel