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Caged Birds

Corinth Films | Release Date (Streaming): March 1, 2022

Summary: Barbara “Babs” Hug (Marie Leuenberger) is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland’s antiquated prison system in the 1980s, and finds it to be an endless, draining battle. She is tracked down by Walter Stürm (Joel Basman), who has just managed to escape from prison…again…and hands her a secret file not supposed to have left the prison. Although a good-hearted soul at his core, Stürm uses his newfound freedom to commit another crime, and soon finds the police closing in. Using her connections, Babs finds Stürm temporary refuge with a militant organization, and takes him on as a client in hopes of using the publicity to advance her cause. Stürm, however, has a very different ideology of freedom, and proves to be more difficult to manage than Babs realizes. Based on a true story.

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Runtime:	118 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Production:	ARTE
Genres:	Drama, Romance
Countries:	DE, CH
Languages:	German, Spanish, gsw

Director	Credit
Oliver Rihs	Director

Writer	Credit
Dave Tucker	Writer
Ivan Madeo	Co-Writer
Norbert Maass	Co-Writer
Oliver Keidel	Co-Writer
Oliver Rihs	Co-Writer

Principal Cast	Credit
Anatole Taubman	Peter Rothenburg
Beat Marti	Doctor Steiner
Bibiana Beglau	Meret Spengler
Danny Exnar	Konrad Tönz
Emanuela von Frankenberg	Barbaras Mutter
Jella Haase	Heike Vollmer
Joel Basman	Walter Stürm
Marie Leuenberger	Barbara Hug
Masoud Tosifyan	Principal Cast
Pascal Ulli	Roger Belier

Cast	Credit
Davide Gagliardi	Grenzwache
Deborah De Lorenzo	Frieke
Martina Schöne-Radunski	Sieghilde Braun
Michael Schertenleib	Remo
Philippe Graber	Felix Lammel

Producer	Credit
Ivan Madeo	Producer
Jan Krüger	Producer
Jörg Trentmann	Producer
Marcus Machura	Co-Producer
Stefan Eichenberger	Producer
Stephan Barth	Line Producer
Thomas Reisser	Co-Producer
Urs Frey	Producer