Sabine Hiebler & Gerhard Ertl returned to the Montréal World Film Festival with their new feature film CHUCKS and enthused
again the audience. After Coming of Age (2012) they won the prize for the most popular film of the festival for the
second time.
CHUCKS directed by Sabine Hiebler & Gerhard Ertl
Mae quit school and ran away from home. After her brothers 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.
with: Anna Posch, Markus Subramaniam, Thomas Schubert, Stefanie Reinsperger, Susi Stach
CHUCKS is based on the eponymous novel by Cornelia Travinicek.
«Cornelia Travnicek has created a wonderful, powerful heroine. A strong, rebellious and almost unruly female character who
is at the same time fragile and vulnerable.» Read more about CHUCKS in our interview with the directors.