Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 09/11/2007
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: Ger
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 87 min
Distributor/Studio: Picture This! Entertainment
A woman has a relationship with a much younger man which leads her to explore desires she'd never considered before in this
drama from Germany.
Elsa Seifert (
Maren Kroymann) is a woman nearing her fiftieth birthday who has a career as a social worker.
Elsa is married to
Raimar (
Markus Voellenklee), who runs an auto repair shop, and they have a comfortable relationship, with one grown daughter who lives on her own.
Elsa is assigned to look into the case of
Jan Winkler (
Kostja Ullmann), who is only sixteen but has a precocious criminal record and has just been released from a juvenile detention facility. When
Elsa meets
Jan for the first time, she senses that he's attracted to her, and to her surprise he begins stopping by her home, sometimes bringing her gifts.
Elsa persuades
Raimar to give
Jan a part time job at his shop to keep the boy occupied, but this does little to blunt
Jan's ardor, and
Raimar strikes up a friendship with him. One night, aware that
Jan is watching from the sidewalk,
Elsa leaves the curtains open as she makes love with
Raimar, which becomes the first step in an erotic relationship with her young client. However,
Elsa quickly discovers
Jan is a masochist with a deep need to be disciplined during sex, something she'd never encountered with her previous lovers, and her sexual experimentation has a profound effect on her life.
Verfolgt has been screened in English-speaking territories under the titles
Hounded and
Punish Me.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
