Lose My Self

Any memory of her previous life is erased from her mind, her biographical memory is no longer present. Husband Tore is suddenly a stranger, her friends are unknown to her. Her entire life is now only a fictional story that other people tell her about. Lena tries to be the person she once was, like an actor who slips into a role. But a resistance against this given personality is spreading in her, because her new self is developing in a very own direction...

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Made in Germany
  • conflict
  • family
  • Mental Health
  • psychology
  • relationship
  • women

Actors

  • Maria Schrader
  • Johannes Krisch
  • Ronald Zehrfeld
  • Sandra Hüller
  • Paul Herwig
  • Jeffrey Zach

Director

  • Jan Schomburg

Drama, Romance


1h 29min


12 FSK

DE

Germany
2012
Lena Ferben loses her entire memory in one fell swoop. Diagnosis: retrograde amnesia due to undiagnosed meningitis.

Lena Ferben loses her entire memory in one fell swoop. Diagnosis: retrograde amnesia due to undiagnosed meningitis.


Any memory of her previous life is erased from her mind, her biographical memory is no longer present. Husband Tore is suddenly a stranger, her friends are unknown to her.


Her entire life is now only a fictional story that other people tell her about. Lena tries to be the person she once was, like an actor who slips into a role. But a resistance against this given personality is spreading in her, because her new self is developing in a very own direction...

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