The Sparrow in the Chimney

The Sparrow in the Chimney (2024)

Der Spatz im Kamin

Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen’s parents’ house. Karen’s sister Jule travels with her family to Markus’ birthday party. While Karen takes everyone’s breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a front forms against Karen until everything escalates into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to create the new.

Date of release
2024-10-10
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 57m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ramon Zürcher

Casting

Interesting facts

The Sparrow in the Chimney is a Swiss drama film, directed by Ramon Zürcher. The film, starring Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Andreas Döhler, Luise Heyer and Milian Zerzawy, is the third part of a trilogy about family life, after The Strange Kitten and The Girl and the Spider, which the director created together with his twin brother Silvan Zürcher. The film follows two adult siblings who come together with their respective families in their parents' house in Switzerland to celebrate a birthday.

Production

The film written and directed by Ramon is the third and final part of Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher's trilogy about family life, following The Strange Kitten 2013 and The Girl and the Spider 2021. The music was composed by Balz Bachmann.

Maren Eggert and Andreas Döhler play the parents Karen and Markus in the main roles, and Britta Hammelstein plays Karen's sister Jule. Other roles are played by Milian Zerzawy as Karen's brother-in-law Jurek and Luise Heyer as the arsonist Liv, who lives nearby and spent a long time in a psychiatric hospital. Lea Zoë Voss plays Johanna, Karen's eldest daughter, and Ilja Bultmann plays her youngest son Leon.

The film was supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and received production funding of 695,000 Swiss franc from the Bern Film Fund.

Filming began on 11 July 2022 and took place over 35 shooting days until the end of August 2022, mostly in a large house in Rapperswil, Bern, where the film is set.

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