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In Sachen Kaminski

2008
7.5 / 10 · TMDB

Petra and Martin Kaminski, a couple with intellectual disabilities, follow a doctor's advice and seek early intervention support from youth services for their daughter, Lona. Instead of aid, they encounter a system that uses the guise of welfare to strip them of custody. The assigned social worker becomes not an ally, but a threat to their fragile family unit. Desperate, the couple finds a lawyer willing to challenge the bureaucratic machinery. Their struggle evolves into an exhausting odyssey through courtrooms and legal procedures, where every step is a battle and the fundamental right to be a family must be proven from the ground up.

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Year 2008
Country Germany
Director Stephan Wagner
Rating TMDB: 7.5/10 (2 votes)

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The film applies an unflinching lens to the seams of the welfare state, exposing its mechanistic coldness. The director sidesteps easy judgments, portraying a tragedy woven from good intentions and institutional indifference.

What lingers after the screen fades is not a verdict on the characters, but the unsettling echo of an ethical maze where fault has no single address. It's a quiet, devastating inquiry into the vulnerability of ordinary lives. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Stephan Wagner

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A suffocating bureaucratic reality, pierced by quiet despair and official forms.

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