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EMANcipation (2011)

EMANcipation poster
Original title
eMANNzipation
Directed by
Philipp Müller-Dorn
Genre
independent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 55m
Rating
3.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man tries to find support at a shelter for abused men in Hamburg. The film follows his difficult journey to talk about what happened to him.

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What happens

Emancipation or eMANcipation (German: Emannzipation; styled as eMANNzipation) is a 2011 independent drama feature film directed by Philipp Müller-Dorn. The movie had its world premiere on October 25, 2011 at the Kansas International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film. Müller-Dorn initially came up with the idea for the film in 2006 after reading a newspaper article about a shelter for abused men in Hamburg. Since it turned out to be difficult to find abused men who were willing to talk about their experiences, the research phase took a lot longer than Müller-Dorn expected and the screenplay of eMANcipation was finished in early 2010. Principal shooting took place in Berlin and Guxhagen in Northern Hessia in July and August 2010. From 2012 to 2020 eMANcipation was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the USA distributed by Olive Films. Since fall 2021 it is available on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft Store in 56 countries around the world. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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