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The Trouble with Being Born

  • 2020
  • 1h 34m
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5.5/10
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The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
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Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

  • Director
    • Sandra Wollner
  • Writers
    • Roderick Warich
    • Sandra Wollner
  • Stars
    • Lena Watson
    • Dominik Warta
    • Ingrid Burkhard
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    • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    1.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sandra Wollner
    • Writers
      • Roderick Warich
      • Sandra Wollner
    • Stars
      • Lena Watson
      • Dominik Warta
      • Ingrid Burkhard
    • 9User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 20 wins & 13 nominations

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        • Director
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          • Roderick Warich
          • Sandra Wollner
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          The Melbourne International Film Festival decided to not screen the film at its 2020 festival, citing concerns raised by two forensic psychologists that it might "[normalise] sexual interest in children" and be "used as a source of arousal for men interested in child abuse material." The decision to remove the film from the festival line-up was denounced by film critics Peter Krausz, Tom Ryan and David Stratton, declaring it was artistic censorship.
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        4/10
        Artificial & Unemotional Intelligence...
        Provocative but wholly unoriginal, exceptionally dull, dreary, disinteresting, and nonsensical - the effects of replicating people and the reasons for doing it are captured in far more elegant evaluations through the films of others.
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        • Release date
          • July 1, 2021 (Germany)
        • Countries of origin
          • Austria
          • Germany
        • Language
          • German
        • Also known as
          • Тягар бути народженим
        • Filming locations
          • Austria
        • Production companies
          • Das kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF)
          • Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
          • Panama Film
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          • $13,748
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 34 minutes
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        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.37 : 1

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