Victoria and Markus are a couple who are spending a holiday in a cottage. One evening they decide to host as a guest a 17 year old girl who was hitchhiking in the vicinity of the house. But the girl soon will begin a game of seduction with Markus ...
Acting
Sonja Gerhardt's unsettlingly controlled teen predator energy.
Direction
Salonen lets silence do the screaming for him.
Director
Hannu Salonen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hannu Salonen is Finnish but built his career in German television — this rare theatrical feature keeps his small-screen intimacy.
The title's German original ('Die Verführung') and the alternate 'The Strange Girl' create a deliberate ambiguity: is she strange because she's alien, or because she reveals how strange the 'normal' couple already were?
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