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Shed My Skin

Country: Germany, Language: German, 86 mins

Original Title

Aus der Haut
  • Director: Stefan Schaller
  • Writer: Jan Braren
  • Producer: Nico Hofmann; Holger Krenz

CGiii Comment

Angsty teens, angsty parents...it's just too damned angsty!

It takes half the film for this young man to come out...you'd think then...things might brighten up...not in a month of Sundays!

It certainly paints a bleak and miserable picture for gay youth...throw into the mix, a vile pederast and a crumbling marriage...

It really is 86 minutes of abject misery!


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

When 17 year old Milan wrecks his father’s car, drunk, his parents imagine the worst. They are relieved to find out he’s ‘just’ gay: not a problem for modern, well-adjusted parents like them. Or is it? With a brilliant cast and sensitive screenplay, this turns the classical coming-out film into something far more relevant, modern and relatable.

Cast & Characters

Merlin Rose as Milan;
Claudia Michelsen as Susann;
Johann von Bülow as Gustav;
Leonard Proxauf as Christoph;
Johannes Krisch as Roland;
Manuel Rubey as Harro;
Nicole Mercedes Müller as Larissa;
Henriette Hölzel as Cora;
Sophia Geidel as Jessica;
Vincent Alexander Göhre as Leander;
Isabel Schosnig as Ines;
Luc Feit as Peter;
Jan Bülow as Julian;
Silvina Buchbauer as Rebecca;
Alexandra Finder as Gita