The Head of the Cat

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist. The curriculum includes shooting, driving, science, and housework. When the girl gets a 13-year-old house slave named "Dog" as a reward, everything changes. The director and writer duo Harriet Maria and Peter Meining (FALTER) were inspired for THE HEAD OF THE CAT by the disturbing educational guidebook "The German Mother and Her First Child" from 1934. "THE HEAD OF THE CAT is a surreal, fascinating dystopia that makes viewers shudder." (FBW)

Keywords

  • Made in Germany
  • Storyline: Daughters
  • Childhood
  • dystopia
  • education
  • family
  • future
  • women

Actors

  • Petra Schmidt-Schaller
  • Rosa Henriette Löwe
  • Oskar Brandt

Director

  • Harriet Maria Meining
  • Peter Meining

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantaisie


29min


12 FSK

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Germany
2021
Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.


Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist. The curriculum includes shooting, driving, science, and housework. When the girl gets a 13-year-old house slave named "Dog" as a reward, everything changes.


The director and writer duo Harriet Maria and Peter Meining (FALTER) were inspired for THE HEAD OF THE CAT by the disturbing educational guidebook "The German Mother and Her First Child" from 1934.


"THE HEAD OF THE CAT is a surreal, fascinating dystopia that makes viewers shudder." (FBW)

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