Postcard to Daddy
2010•1h 26m•7.4•Released
Documentary
As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family - excerpts from Michael's first feature film hint at his extreme adult life, overshadowed by his lifelong trauma. Yet in spite of the intense drama, the film doesn't have an atmosphere of anger and hatred but rather a surprising air of hope and love of life. Michael's aim is not to accuse the "perpetrator" but to understand. In the end, he takes his video "Postcard" to his father. With the camera running, he confronts him with his past.
Director
Michael Stock
Languages
English, German, French
Studio
Michael Stock Filmproduktion
Cast
Michael Stock
Self
Recommended
7.1
Capturing the Friedmans
2003
6.9
An Open Secret
2014
6.6
Abducted in Plain Sight
2017
7.1
Deliver Us from Evil
2006
6.9
Welcome to Chechnya
2020
6.3
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
2025
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
6.8
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
2025
7.9
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
6.2
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
6.4
Fuck
2006
6.8
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
7.4
Prophet's Prey
2015
6.5
Girl Model
2011
8.1
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
7.1
Marvel's Behind the Mask
2021
7.1
Maternal Instinct
2026
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
7.5
28 Up
1984
6.9
The Crash
2026
Similar Movies
7.5
The Ogre's Wife
2021
6.5
Who's Afraid of Alice Miller?
2021
3.9
Uncut
1997
5
Jimmy Somerville: Queer Rebel of British Pop
2025
9
Art and Pep
2022
Visibles
2018
9
Such a Resounding Silence
2023
Memory Books
2008
4.6
I Am My Own Woman
1992
4.8
Race d'Ep!
1979
5.9
The Colour of His Hair
2017
4.5
Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land
2013
3.6
Everything at Once (Paco & Manolo's Gaze)
2021
1
It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live
2021
7
The Tickle King
2017
3.5
Acts of Love
2021
6.2
Elton John: A Singular Man
2016
10
The Age of AIDS
2006
6.8
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
2025
7.1
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022