74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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Krux

Tony Vahl
Germany - Poland      92 m.
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Inspired by true events, Krux tells the dark story of a small northeastern German village at the end of WWII, when the Nazi regime gave its citizens the order to leave nothing alive for the enemy to find. Most of the men are at the front. What remains is a handful of women, children, and the few men who were allowed to stay behind. Life still runs on its old rituals: school, church, weddings, work. The villagers still believe it will end well. Then the river gives up bodies no one can name.  No one knows when the enemy will come, or what will happen when they do. Rumors fill the silence where facts should be. Out of that silence grows a fear larger than the enemy itself. 


Director
Tony Vahl (Germany)
Screenplay
Tony Vahl
Production
CALA Filmproduktion GmbH (Germany)
Martina Haubrich
Extreme Emotions (Poland)
Ewa Puczscynska
Co-Production
CALA Film Central (Germany)
Claudia Schröter
Kineo Film (Germany)
Peter Hartwig
Sales
Global Constellation (Germany)
Photography
Piotr Sobocinski, jr
Editing
Nikodem Chabior
Music
Lorenz Dangel
Sound
Sebastian Schmidt
Cast
Jella Haase, Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Clemens Schick, Lukas Miko, Martin Wuttke, Steffi Kühnert, Hans Uwe Bauer, Marlene Franzone, Phileas Heyblom, Hugo Goers
Format
DCP
Run time
92 m.
Original language of the film
German
Country
Germany - Poland
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