Documentary | Switzerland 2020
OV Ger. | 123′ | Daniel Howald
Martin Miller, Irenka Taurek, Alice Miller, Katharina Thalbach
Talk with Daniel Howald and Martin Miller
Houdini
Online-Edition
Martin is beaten by his father and coldly punished by his mother – his childhood is devoid of love. What sounds like a case study from the book The Drama of the Gifted Child by world-famous Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller is actually the trauma experienced by her son Martin. After Alice Miller’s death, he sets out on a journey to understand the contradiction between the famous childhood researcher and the destructive mother. The deeper Martin delves into his mother’s biography though, the clearer it becomes that his mental pain is the legacy of something he himself never experienced.