Screenplay Benjamin Karalic
Directed by Moritz Mohr
Cinematography Moritz Reinecke
Produced by Andreas Bareiß, Morgane Dubief
Set design Kerstin Weiß
Score Martin Sponticcia
Edited by Philipp Thomas
With Hans U. Radke, Marylu-Saskia Poolman, Walpurga Kwiet
The comedy begins in a brothel in the present and ends in an old people’s home in the future.
On the eve of the St Nicolas’ Day celebrations, a bearded man comes to a brothel to see one of the women, Stella. After they sleep together, the bearded man promises he’ll return and fetch his son. Stella does indeed end up pregnant.
She promises her little son when he’s born that she will always protect him and above all that she won’t let the man with the beard take him away. This promise will determine every last detail of their lives. The mother and her child live in absolute paranoia, which hits the roof every year on St Nicolas’ Day.
90 years later, mother and son are both in an old people’s home. The son reproaches his mother for having ruined his whole life with her paranoia. He hasn’t achieved a thing - not even a beard.
Then the bearded man from the start of the film appears in a magnificent red costume. It’s the one true Nicolas, in search of his son. They swap places. Nicolas becomes an old man and the son becomes Nicolas, recovering his strength.
The former Nicolas, who’s now mortal, lies down in his son’s bed as an old man. He looks kindly at the mother and they fall asleep for ever side by side. Their son however starts a new life as Nicolas.
“Son of a Whore” is a surrealistic pop fable about a mother’s fear of loss and her son’s unexpected new life.
