The Misplaced World
– By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabia..
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.
07 May 2015
German, English, Italian
Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)
Katja Riemann, Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Robert Seeliger
By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to recognize the image as that of his deceased wife Evelyn, Sophie's mother. Unable to convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a-fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New York to seek out this mysterious stranger...
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