Anne Haug, Lucien Haug

In this new adaptation of the well-known Sorbian saga, Krabat has taken his own life. For one reason: the whole family should come together one last time. And so the siblings gather for a weird and curious funeral. The memory of their common childhood, of Krabat, the deceased mother and father cannot be suppressed. It awakens an old song that their mother Kantorka used to sing. The sound of the past takes the siblings back to their childhood and the repressed magical history of their family. Because there was only one thing that held them all together at the core back then: this one melody.

"You know, Mama, I think a family is like a star. If a family has enough mass, if it is heavy, heavy like a star, then at some point it can only collapse, because its own hunger becomes its undoing, because it eats itself, because it feeds on itself until there is nothing left of it. A family, just like a star, only shines when it eats itself."