Losing Balance

• Elisa Schlott: Jessika
• Petra Kleinert: Tine
• Michael Lott: Ernst
• Sina Tkotsch: Caro
• Maximilian Befort: Tim
• Benjamin Trinks: Basti

Out on the lake is a German film drama from the year 2009.

Action

The fourteen- year-old Jessika lives in a family of four. Withdrawn in to girl enjoys the security of the monotony, broken only by the common rides the family to a gazebo on a lake. When the father is unemployed, breaking apart the idyll. The mother Tine is the caregiver of the family, and Jessika has to watch as her father neglected gradually. Without her family to say anything about it, Tine is pregnant. When the child is born, it is killed by her and then buried and concreted by Ernst in the grounds of the arbor. Jessika and her sister learned from their parents and look for an apartment together. Last reports Jessika the grave of the child to the police.

Awards

At the Munich Film Festival the film was twice awarded the German Film. The film won in the categories of "production" and " spectacle Female ". The jury consisted of the director Caroline Link, producer Uli Aselmann and actor Maximilian Brückner.

In the Biberach Film Festival Outside received at the lake both the " debut beaver " and the "Student Beaver".

Reviews

" Despite the apparent efforts to an artistic handwriting, the film does not always come out on a well-made television format. This was mainly due to the father, who must act almost pitiable one-dimensional the characters are created easy to oversimplify. "

" From this he distilled ( Felix Fuchssteiner ) sometimes a caricature of a dysfunctional family and the consistently good performers are busy, the one-dimensional properties with which they labeled the script to overcome - which succeeds with her ​​sensitive game best Elisa Schlott. Nevertheless, the overloaded Portrait of a nigh mindless middle class, which manages to maneuver through life without a single time or intent to be honest, strong sides. "