THE CASE YOU

Haus-Kino at Goethe-Institut Montreal (1626  Blvd. St. Laurent, Montreal, QC, H2X 2T1):

THE CASE YOU

Germany | 2020 | 86 mins
Documentary
Director: Alison Kuhn

I invited five women to spend several days with our team in a theater hall. Within this protected space, we try to figure out what connects them. They are in their 20s, actresses and four years ago they participated in the same audition, in which they experienced systematic abuse of sexual and violent nature, as did hun­dreds of others. I was one of the contenders as well.

As many of my colleagues, I wanted to suppress this day as quickly as possible. But since the director con­tinued his abuse by using the audition material to edit a whole new movie, there is currently a legal battlebetween  the  production  company  and  the  actresses  taking  place.  Not  much  of  it  has  yet  reached  the public.

Today, I myself study directing and explore with the women in "The Case You", what occurred back then,how it was possible for it to even happen and what it now means for our lives and our work. 

Alison Kuhn

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH