"Friedas Fall", the Tragic Story of an Infanticide Mother in the St. Gallen of 1904

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In the Romanesque theatres since last Wednesday, "Friedas Fall" traces the trial of a Saint-Galloise woman raped by her boss in the Saint-Gall of the early 20th century. Meeting with director Maria Brendle and actress Julia Buchmann is the tragic but desperately banal story of a young single mother forced to raise an unwanted child alone, the fruit of a rape, which Maria Brendle tells in Friedas Fall, her first feature film. This story could tak…