Dark Fortune

Dark Fortune

2016•1h 53m•6.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(10)

Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.

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Production

Fontana Film, Triluna Film AG

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Eleni Haupt

Eleni Haupt

Eliane Hess

Noé Ricklin

Yves Zanini

Elisa Plüss

Elisa Plüss

Helen Hess

Carla Chiara Bär

Alice Hess

Martin Hug

Martin Hug

Adrian

Peter Jecklin

Peter Jecklin

Dr. Wieland

Alice Flotron

Alice Flotron

Aunt Julia

Rebecca Indermaur

Rebecca Indermaur

Sandra

Suly Röthlisberger

Suly Röthlisberger

Grandma Zanini

Mona Petri

Mona Petri

Vera

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