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Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Jun 4, 2021 | Theatrical Limited (56 locations)
Other Key Dates
Feb 23, 2020 (Berlin International Film Festival (Germany))
Aug 20, 2020 (New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival (Russia))
Aug 22, 2020 (Beijing International Film Festival (China))
Sep 16, 2020 (European Film Festival Palic (Serbia))
Sep 27, 2020 (Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada))
Oct 9, 2020 (Hamptons International Film Festival (USA))
Oct 9, 2020 (Mill Valley Film Festival (USA))
Oct 9, 2020 (New York Film Festival (USA))
Oct 12, 2020 (BFI London Film Festival (UK))
Oct 14, 2020 (Chicago International Film Festival (USA))
Oct 15, 2020 (virtual cinema Middleburg Film Festival (USA))
Oct 17, 2020 (virtual cinema Montclair Film Festival (USA))
Oct 25, 2020 (Busan International Film Festival (South Korea))
Oct 27, 2020 (Philadelphia International Film Festival (USA))
Nov 4, 2020 (Scanorama Film Festival Vilnius (Lithuania))
Nov 5, 2020 (virtual cinema St. Louis International Film Festival (USA))
Nov 7, 2020 (Seville European Film Festival (Spain))
Nov 11, 2020 (Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan))
Nov 22, 2020 (Lisbon Film Festival (Portugal))
Jan 30, 2021 ()
Feb 11, 2021 (International Film Festival of Kerala (India))
Mar 13, 2021 (internet Dublin International Film Festival (Ireland))
Mar 21, 2021 (Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria))
Apr 2, 2021 (Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong))
May 14, 2021 (internet Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (USA))
Jul 21, 2021 (RTP 1 TV premiere (Portugal))
Aug 6, 2021 (internet Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia))
Sep 16, 2021 (Buenos Aires German Film Festival (Argentina))
$27,065
$78,689
$1,091,578
$1,170,267
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Country of Origin: Germany
Undine is a young woman with a degree in urban history who gives guided tours about the development of Berlin. She works freelance and lives in a small, impersonal flat. As ordinary as her city life may seem, her secret weighs heavily. When she is left by her boyfriend for another woman, she is caught up in a curse that would mean death for one person and a farewell to earthly existence for another. But Undine resists her destiny. At the moment of betrayal, Christoph appears and she falls in love with him. He is an industrial diver and shows her his underwater world – which she already knows. And which is part of her secret and the curse she can’t seem to escape. Undine is young, but has an old, mythical name. In the myth, she lives in a forest lake, a beautiful, virginal nymph. A man who steps onto the shore of the lake and calls her name becomes her wife. If the man betrays love, he must die – Undine will kill him. The Undine in the film is light and clever and stubborn. The city historian Undine is left by her boyfriend. According to the myth, she kills the man who betrays her and then returns to the water. But unlike the legendary figure, the protagonist decides to find a new love. Following Ingeborg Bachmann’s story “Undine geht”, the film modernizes the old myth of the water woman and places a modern demimondaine at the center. With a view to Berlin’s urban history, it also tells of a woman’s escape from the repetition loop and touchingly combines romantic fairy tale, underwater adventure film and contemporary realism.