• Director: Jessica Krummacher
  • Screenplay: Jessica Krummacher
  • Cinematography: Björn Siepmann
  • Editing: Jessica Krummacher
  • Cast: Marina Frenk, Natja Brunckhorst, Benno Ifland, Alissa Wilms, Cedric Koch
  • Production: Martin Blankemeyer, Jessica Krummacher, Philipp Budweg, Timo Müller / Arepo Media GmbH
  • Distributor: Filmgalerie 451
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  • Festivals: La Biennale di Venezia (Critics‘ Week)
  • Homepage: www.arepomedia.de/totem/

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Jessica Krummacher
Film maker. Diploma at HFF Munich, (Doc.). Studied Media Art at HFG Karlsruhe, and politics at Ruhr-University Bochum. In 2006 she founded the film production Klappboxfilme with film maker Timo Müller. 2011 her debut feature Totem had its world premiere at the IFF Venice. Currently she is developing her next feature Birth of Purple (AT), which was awarded with the „Eurimages Co-Production Development Award“.

Filmography
2008 Die Kinder von Ahaus oder das grüne Kaninchen (short-doc)
2008 Morscholz by Timo Müller (production)
2011 Totem (debut feature)
2014 Der Rote Berg Komplex (AT) by Timo Müller (production)

Totem by Jessica Krummacher,  2011 2011,  88 min,  DCP

A young woman called Fiona shows up in a city in the Ruhr region to work for the Bauer family as a housekeeper. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer and their children all live their own lives, they coexist without communicating with each other. They fail to realize that Fiona has made a devastating decision. Only the Bauer family‘s neighbour starts to suspect that something might be wrong.