Plot

Six-year-old Emmi Escher asks her mom, "Where's Toni?" Like many parents, however, Emmi's mother does not listen to her child until Toni never returns from school. In fact, Toni never even made it to school. Enter Inspector Anatole Wasser whose preliminary investigation turns up 11 other missing 10-year-olds who disappeared on the exact same day as Toni. Clues are insufficient. The only link between the children is their age and that each lives near a lake. The investigation at a dead end, police assure everyone they have plenty of leads in hopes that the kidnappers reveal themselves. No one emerges. The first clue arrives on the tenth day when all the parents receive the exact same letter from each child, giving the parents until the next full moon to meet some very cryptic demands. Winner of the "Grand Prix of the Americas" for Best Film at the Montreal World Film Festival, Fredi Murer's Full Moon is delivered with adept characters and haunting magicalrealism. Full of intrigue, surrealism and genuine emotion, Murer's masterpiece offers a fresh look at the all-too-familiar aphorism, "nothing is as it seems."

Reception

Awards:
(Winner)Montréal Film Festival Grand Prix of the Americas,
(Winner)Cinequest Film Festival Audience Choice Award

Film Festivals:
Cinequest Film Festival

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Quotes and Credits

Credits

Writer Fredi M. Murer

Director Fredi M. Murer

Co-Producer Raimond Goebel

Co-Producer Bruno Pésery

Co-Producer Karl Baumgartner

Producer Marcel Hoehn

Max Escher Benedict Freitag

Emmi Escher Mariebelle Kuhn

Anatol Wasser Hanspeter Müller

Irene Escher Lilo Baur

Production Companies Arena Films

Production Companies Pandora Filmproduktion

Production Companies T&C Film AG

Distributors Euro Space

Assistant Camera Alexandra Weiss

Casting: Germany Outcast

Wardrobe Catherine Schneider

Continuity Barbara Krieger

Distributors Kinowelt Home Entertainment

On-set Dresser Thérèse Traber

First Assistant Director Marcel Just

Second Assistant Director Tobias Ineichen

Production Manager Peter Spoerri

Executive in Charge of Production Antje Paul Leinberger

Hair Stylist Ronald Fahm

Costume Design Claudia Flütsch

Production Design Susanne Jauch

Gaffer Tom Meyer

Key Grip Peter Demmer

Sound Designer Jürg von Allmen

Sound Editor Patrick Storck

Sound Re-recording Mixer Martin Steyer

Sound Henri Maïkoff

Foley Artist Max Bauer

Props Thérèse Traber

Philipp Eisenmann Gerd David

Schilter Daniel Bill

Flavio Gilardi Teco Celio

Ingeborg Gilardi-Hölzle Angelika Bartsch

Nicolas Rochat Jacques Chailleux

Oskar Furst Joseph Scheidegger

Vera Soraya Gomaa

Marie Rochat Yolande Moreau

Film Editor Loredana Cristelli

Film Editor Isabel Meier

Original Music Mario Beretta

Cinematography Pio Corradi

Notfallarzt Peter Hottinger

G Carol Schuler

Selina Grond Olivia Brunaux

Alice Chandra Goetz

Sicherheitschef KKW Max Rüdlinger

Elsy Furst Verena Zimmermann

Yvonne Botta Sara Capretti

Memorable Quotes:
"Emmi Escher: Where is Toni? "

"Irene Escher: [daughter is throwing her shoes into the lake] Emmi, have you gone mad? [girl ignoring] Irene Escher: Will you stop that! [ignoring] Irene Escher: Will you listen to me? [grabs girl's arm] Emmi Escher: You didn't listen to me, either... "