THE POLL DIARIES

Screenplay & Director

Chris Kraus

Cast

Paula Beer
Tambet Tuisk
Edgar Selge
Jeanette Hain
Richy Müller
and many others

Feature Film | Historical Drama

Key Facts

IMDB

A co-production with DOR Film, Amrion, SWR, BR, ARTE, Degeto and ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen. Funded by
German Federal Board, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF), Filmstiftung NRW, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), MFG Baden-Württemberg, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund, Media, Eurimages

World premiere: 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Cinema Release: 03rd February 2011 First Broadcast: 8:15 pm | ARTE | 16th January 2013

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Oda von Siering is witnessing the end of an era at Baltic east coast of summer 1914. Before World War I breaks loose, the Baltic States, which are German coined but belong to the Russian empire, are about to fall apart. While her father is buying dead bodies of Estonian soldiers from the Russians to dissect them in his medical laboratory, Oda is hiding injured Estonian anarchist “Schnaps” in their attic to nurse him. The war is threatening Oda’s life, her aristocratic family and all certainty – but still she finds a happiness that will determine her destiny.