What Makes The Highly Dysfunctional Family In 'Der Architekt'

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I watched a movie called Der Architekt, a drama about a family of four who travel to a rural village for the funeral of the paternal grandmother. The family consists of the mother and father, Eva and Georg Winter and their two children Reh and Jan. Georg secretly has another son named Alex by a local women named Hannah. The film opens with a portrayal of the highly dysfunctional family, a damaged marriage, alcoholic son, underconfident daughter, and a deathly ill father. Soon the family is up in the mountain village, the children learn that the reason they rarely visited their grandmother was because she disapproved of Eva and Georg’s marriage. Instead another women, Hannah, has become the grandmother’s caretaker in her old age. With many

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