The Wicked Uncle (2011) on Netflix
Trix Brunner, a single mother, accuses the village gym teacher of molesting her daughter. The village is outraged, because the coach she accuses is a former world champion.
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Plot summary
Trix Brunner is a single mother who left the city some years ago for a small Swiss village. She accuses the gym teacher of molesting her daughter. The coach teaches sport at the local school, and residents are angry that a mother would level such a charge against a former world champion, the closest thing the town has to a sporting legend.
Cast
- Jörg-Heinrich Benthienas Armin
- Stephan Dierichsas Dr. Jacobi
- Nikolaus Schmidas Hauswart
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Wicked Uncle (2011)
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- Urs Odermatt's low-budget Swiss film had a budget of over 4 million Swiss francs, but only 68,000 francs were actually financed, because no funding body or broadcaster would back the project's artistic radicality. Cast, crew and service providers worked on 100% deferral, initially going unpaid.
- Before its world premiere at the 45th Hof Film Festival in 2011, actors and crew members protested against Odermatt's production company Nordwest Film AG because they had never received employment contracts, so no image rights for a screening existed.
- The plot recalls the real "Möriken case"; victim representatives believe it inspired Urs Odermatt's play Der böse Onkel and the film of the same name, but Odermatt denies this, pointing to how archetypal such abuse cases are in every village and small town.
