Punish Me


1h 30m 2006

Brief Synopsis

Through obsessive sexual encounters with a sixteen-year-old boy, fifty-year-old social worker Elsa discovers the whole extent of the desire she had always repressed. However, it turns out that the boy has just come out of a reform school and that Elsa is his social inclusion tutor. The relationship

Film Details

Also Known As
Hounded, Verfolgt
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Teens
Release Date
2006
Production Company
Media Luna Entertainment
Distribution Company
24 Bilder

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 30m

Synopsis

Through obsessive sexual encounters with a sixteen-year-old boy, fifty-year-old social worker Elsa discovers the whole extent of the desire she had always repressed. However, it turns out that the boy has just come out of a reform school and that Elsa is his social inclusion tutor. The relationship between the two becomes increasingly ambivalent and sado-masochistic, though not without tenderness and love.

Film Details

Also Known As
Hounded, Verfolgt
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Teens
Release Date
2006
Production Company
Media Luna Entertainment
Distribution Company
24 Bilder

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 30m

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Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Winner of the Golden Leopard Filmmakers of the Present award at the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival.

Released in United States August 2006

Released in United States June 2007

Released in United States on Video September 11, 2007

Shown at Brooklyn International Film Festival (Narrative Feature) June 1-10, 2007.

Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Filmmakers of the Present Competition) August 2-12, 2006.

Released in United States June 2007 (Shown at Brooklyn International Film Festival (Narrative Feature) June 1-10, 2007.)

Released in United States August 2006 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Filmmakers of the Present Competition) August 2-12, 2006.)

Released in United States on Video September 11, 2007