The Trouble with Being Born

The Trouble with Being Born (2020)

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Date of release
2020-12-03
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (57)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Science Fiction, Drama
Director
Sandra Wollner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Austrian Film Award for Best Feature Film

The Trouble with Being Born is a 2020 science fiction drama film directed and co-written by Sandra Wollner. An Austrian-German co-production, the film follows Elli, an android made to resemble the missing daughter of Georg, the man with whom she lives.

Production

Director and co-writer Sandra Wollner has referred to the film as the "antithesis to Pinocchio". Wollner initially intended to cast a 20-year-old actress in the role of the android Elli, but after removing some of the more explicit elements from the film's script, instead chose 10-year-old actress Lena Watson, a stage name inspired by Emma Watson, for the role.

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