The Poll Diaries Page #2

Synopsis: In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Chris Kraus
Production: Piffl Medien GmbH
  11 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Year:
2010
129 min
18 Views


their country so strange,

their company so unbearable.

Only screaming helped.

And whenever I found the time,

I screamed into my diary.

And I hated it to be interrupted

while screaming.

You are never with the others.

Leave me alone.

Your father wants me to show you

our entire property.

Nothing here belongs to him.

You're lying.

Everything here belongs to my mother.

And one day it will be mine.

You will never be the Tsar's adjutant.

Why?

You're too stupid.

- I'm not that stupid.

- And you are a liar.

Yes, that's right.

And you could leave now.

There's your present.

Your present.

We could preserve it in schnapps.

It'll keep that way.

Are you all happy here?

You will be happy here too one day.

He saw it came from a shield,

carried by a giant, huge and wild.

Roland grabbed him by the hair,

chopped off his head and a flood of...

Oda?

Oda! Come now, please!

Look at this!

I trained him!

Good for you.

No. Really!

Clever, eh?

Coincidence.

Try it!

There!

His name is Seneca.

Seneca?

Because he is so clever.

Would you like to have him?

Thank you.

And the duke said:

"I have a trusty servant, Taillefer,

who serves me well and right.

He spins my wheel and stokes my fire

and sings with a voice so bright...

I can't speak Russian.

That was Estonian.

I can't speak Estonian either.

But I can speak German.

Am I right?

Yes.

"Unfortunately

I am not in the best of health. "

Is that the correct syntax?

Good.

Did I frighten you?

I had frightened of that.

I was afraid of that.

Excuse me?

You mean:
I was afraid of that.

I was afraid of that.

Who are you?

Don't you want to tell me who you are?

I am hungry.

You are one of those "Maessajads", right?

Listen!

Whoever you are,

I won't betray you, I promise.

But you really can't stay here.

My cousins are outside.

And we have soldiers billeted with us!

Your wound,

may I have a look at it?

I can tend to it.

First of all I'll get you something to eat.

What are you doing in there?

Thinking.

Thinking.

You are thinking about that chicken?

About death.

The chicken is dead.

That is a very masculine way of thinking.

Men think about the beyond.

While women...

think about the here and now.

Unfortunately that is the way it is.

Come on, sit down.

So...

Sit down.

Eat if you are so hungry.

You do know that you are

not allowed to steal here, right?

I know that I shouldn't be smoking here.

We won't do this again, right?

Eat. It's tasty.

You have a very masculine nature.

Do you know what I mean?

When I say masculine?

You would rather have had a son.

Mama told me that.

I love you.

I love you like a son.

Come now.

I will measure you.

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