Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Die dünnen Mädchen
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2008 · FILM

Die dünnen Mädchen

Documentary

Synopsis

The “thin girls“ are eight young women between 18 and 29 years old who have long suffered from eating disorders. You have starved to self-dissolve and can't just stop it. Diagnosis: anorexia. The disease eats into her life - until the complete takeover of power. What moves people to literally starve to death despite material abundance? Maria Teresa Camoglio has been looking for answers in a therapy facility for dysfunctional young women. She lets the young women talk about their suffering from anorexia and thus gains a new unobstructed view of anorexia. The disease, which is often dismissed as a fad, shows its life-threatening brutality here. If you are trapped in it, you can't just start eating again. First, as one of the girls explains, there is the seductive addiction to the high feeling that hunger can convey for a time. But soon control slips away and turns into coercion.

Credits

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 4

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Heike GnidaShot by Sophie Maintigneux

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.