My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot
Robert and Elena are twins entangled in a tale of puberty, philosophy and sexuality. A summer weekend in the countryside. The 19-year-old twins Elena and Robert spend their time in a remote meadow in…
My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot
Robert and Elena are twins entangled in a tale of puberty, philosophy and sexuality. A summer weekend in the countryside. The 19-year-old twins Elena and Robert spend their time in a remote meadow in southern Germany. While Elena prepares for her oral A-level exams in philosophy, the seemingly harmless conversations with Robert turn into an existential thought experiment. Between heat, boredom and increasing aggression, the boundaries between play and reality become blurred. —ARD Summer heat. A gas station in the countryside, cornfields, wind, and distant mountains. Twins Robert and Elena lie in the grass and prepare for Elena's high school graduation exam in philosophy. For 48 hours, the summer meadow, the forest, and a lake are their universe. For 48 hours, the gas station is their only contact with the outside world. Forty-eight hours to break away from childhood and the symbiosis of the twin world. Twin games, bets, conversations about philosophy. The more they struggle to break away from each other, the more they are drawn into their shared world. When the weekend is over and the sun rises again over the gas station, nothing is the same as it was before. —BR
My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot
Crime,Drama
Film Details
Robert and Elena are twins entangled in a tale of puberty, philosophy and sexuality. A summer weekend in the countryside. The 19-year-old twins Elena and Robert spend their time in a remote meadow in southern Germany.
While Elena prepares for her oral A-level exams in philosophy, the seemingly harmless conversations with Robert turn into an existential thought experiment. Between heat, boredom and increasing aggression, the boundaries between play and reality become blurred. —ARD Summer heat.
A gas station in the countryside, cornfields, wind, and distant mountains. Twins Robert and Elena lie in the grass and prepare for Elena's high school graduation exam in philosophy. For 48 hours, the summer meadow, the forest, and a lake are their universe.
For 48 hours, the gas station is their only contact with the outside world. Forty-eight hours to break away from childhood and the symbiosis of the twin world. Twin games, bets, conversations about philosophy.
The more they struggle to break away from each other, the more they are drawn into their shared world. When the weekend is over and the sun rises again over the gas station, nothing is the same as it was before. —BR.