Geborgtes Weiß

Marta (Susanne Wolff) and Roland (Ulrich Matthes) lead a quiet life with their young son Nathan (Elia Gezer) in the midst of a eerily beautiful moorland landscape. However, when Albanian migrant worker Valmir (Florist Bajgora) enters the family's life, their idyllic world is shaken. The spiritual Roland is only too happy to hire the rough-edged, taciturn stranger to do some renovation work. At first, he doesn't even mind that Marta is attracted to the young man. While Valmir renovates the bathroom of the traditional property, he increasingly intrudes into the family's everyday life. Soon Marta learns that she and Valmir share a secret that threatens not only her marriage but her entire existence... Sebastian Kos' film “Geborgtes Weiß” (Borrowed White) proves to be a carefully staged drama that skillfully uses thriller elements to slowly chip away at the bourgeois facade of a seemingly harmonious family. Particularly convincing is the consistently threatening atmosphere created by pale, almost Scandinavian-style imagery and steadily growing emotional pressure. The strong lead actors—above all Susanne Wolff—carry the film and lend particular depth to the story of repressed pasts and moral ambivalence.