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THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNE / DJECA IZ KOMUNE

DIE KINDER VOM FRIEDRICHSHOF

In Competition > Documentaries

In 1972 the artist Otto Mühl founded the Friedrichshof, a comune for like-minded artists and friends, outside of Vienna. Here he hoped to raise children that were "unspoilt from the nuclear family", a new human breed. Setting out as a free collective, the social experiment soon turned into a totalitarian system with Otto Mühl at its head. Twenty years later Mühl was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Through the eyes of these children, the film looks back at the commune and examines what became of the children of this utopia. 

Juliane Großheim  was born in Berlin, Germany in 1982. From 2001 – 2003 arthistory, literature and musicology studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. 2002 – 2003 studies of photography at the New School for Photography, Berlin. From 2003– 2009 studies in film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, graduating with „The Children Of The Commune“. She lives and works in Berlin. 

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