Austrian Film
Adaptation of Cornelia Travnicek’s eponymous novel.
Directed by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl, Austria, 2015, 93 min.
In German (Austria) with English subtitles.
Mae quit school and ran away from home. After her brother’s death her family is broken. Only his red Chucks remain. Mae has to start working in a social institution where she meets Paul. He is funny, sensitive, takes Mae as she is - and he is terminally ill. In a book named Chucks Mae writes down her own story about growing up between life and death: wild, tender and absolutely honest.
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