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Poison

Synopsis

In POISON we encounter a man (Lucas) and a woman (Edith) who are seeing each other again for the first time in ten years at the cemetery where their only child is buried. They're meeting after many years apart - the body of their son Jacob needs to be exhumed because toxins have seeped into the ground. We follow them over the course of an afternoon, while they wait for their meeting with the cemetery's caretaker - who never turns up. During the course of the afternoon, both Edith and Lucas drop their masks, and secrets are revealed. Lucas has remarried, his new wife is pregnant and he is writing a book about the loss of his son. Edith has never been able to move on despite doing her best to pretend to. It slowly becomes clear that their whole meeting is based on one big lie. Edith fabricated the event to lure Lucas into meeting her after all these years, without knowing what it is exactly that she is looking for. It’s not until Edith and Lucas have exposed their vulnerabilities to each other that they are able to let each other go, and each go their own way.
Official Selection Munich International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2024

Details

Year
2024
Type of project
Features
Running time
86 min
Format
Digital
Director
Désirée Nosbusch 1st Feature
Producer
Alexandra Hoesdorff, Désirée Nosbusch
Co-Producer
Petra Goedings, Maaike Benschop, Vivien Muller-Rommel, Michael Lehmann
Executive Producer
Tim Roth
Editor
Micheiel Reichwein
Screenwriter
Lot Vekemans
Director of Photography
Judith Kaufmann
Production Designer
Marie-Luise Balzer
Sound
Yves Bemelmans, Ken Rischard
Composer
Fons Merkies
Principal cast
Tim Roth, Trine Dyrholm

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Luxembourg, Netherlands, UK, Germany, France co-production

A Deal Productions (LU), Phanta Films (NL), Studio Hamburg UK (UK), Letterbox Filmproduktion (DE) production in co-production with Arte G.E.I.E. (FR)

Studio Hamburg UK

Vivien Muller-Rommel
41-42 Eastcastle Street
London
W1W 8DU

Sales Company

Hyde Park International

Carl Clifton

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