"Poll": A very special movie asset

Great discovery: Paula Beer as Oda Schaefer

Everything is huge on this film: His unforgettable pictures, his never before told tale of the growing up of a young girl and, down to the supporting roles, the performances of his actors.

"Poll" is the name of a dilapidated farmhouse on the Estonian coast, Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the young Oda (Paula Beer) comes here to live with her father after the death of her mother. Nothing on Poll is normal: Her father (Edgar Selge) is a proverbial crazy professor, Russian soldiers are quartered on the estate, and then Oda discovers a young injured who has good reason to hide from the soldiers. And Oda understands that she has to make her own decisions and take responsibility in this out-of-touch world, Very big cinema from Germany by director Chris Kraus ("4 minutes").