Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) (2006)
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83% of users liked it
(1,075 ratings)
Theo (Jürgen Vogel) has raped several women and is, after several years of committing acts of sexual violence, caught. He is committed to a psychiatric prison and, after 12 years in prison, he is released to return to normal life. Theo finds work as a printer, goes regularly to therapy, and lives in… More Theo (Jürgen Vogel) has raped several women and is, after several years of committing acts of sexual violence, caught. He is committed to a psychiatric prison and, after 12 years in prison, he is released to return to normal life. Theo finds work as a printer, goes regularly to therapy, and lives in a supervised group. But Theo finds that finding a normal life isn't all that easy. Functioning more like a wooden puppet than a person, Theo wanders through his post-prison days more like an inhibited loner with severe difficulties in his social encounters with women. In spite of overwhelming loneliness and growing depression, Theo fights returning to his old violent ways. And then a ray of hope enters Theo's life: he gets to know Netti (Sabine Timoteo), the daughter of the domineering printing house owner. Netti mistrusts men in the same way that Theo mistrusts women. The two outsiders befriend each other and eventually fall in love. But Nettie knows nothing about Theo's past and his problems -- until one night when Theo decides that he can't keep living a lie. Der Freie Wille tells the story of a man who is given freedom but still remains a prisoner inside. ~ Heidi Philipsen, Rovi
- Directed By
- Matthias Glasner
- Written By
- Judith Angerbauer, Matthias Glasner
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 13, 2006 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
The contemplative rape film Irreversible wished it were.
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Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Rigorous and wrenching.
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Cast
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Jürgen Vogel
as Theo
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Sabine Timoteo
as Netti
- André Hennicke
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Manfred Zapatka
as Netti's Father
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Maya Bothe
as Sybille
- Judith Engel
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Frank Wickermann
as Michael
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Andreas L. Maier
as Marius
- Anna Brass
- Anne-Kathrin Golinsky
- Anna de Carlo
- Bernadette Buellmann
- Andreas Laurenz Maier
