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Original release / air date: 25 February 2020
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country / region: Austria; Germany
Original language: German
Production company / studio: Das kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF); Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg; Panama Film
Artificial character(s): Elli / Emil
Performer(s): Lena Watson
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Synthetic Human

Overview

A human-looking android named Elli lives inside a family role created from another person's memories, then is taken elsewhere and reprogrammed into a second identity.

ASFR Content

Elli is explicitly a machine whose apparent childhood memories have been programmed into her. After becoming unresponsive in a swimming pool she is rebooted by phone. Later another man powers the android down, changes its appearance and uploads a different set of memories, turning Elli into Emil. Old and new memories then begin bleeding into each other.

ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Elli is rebooted after becoming unresponsive

Georg pulls the motionless android from the pool and uses a phone to restart her.

Character(s): Elli / Emil
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Elli repeats programmed memories

Her apparent family history consists of implanted recollections and repeated routines rather than lived human memory.

Character(s): Elli / Emil
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

Toni powers Elli down

A motorist recognizes that Elli is an android and switches her off before taking her away.

Character(s): Elli / Emil
Features:
Scene 4
Key ASFR scene

Elli is reprogrammed as Emil

The android is given a changed appearance and a new set of memories so that it can impersonate an elderly woman's deceased brother.

Character(s): Elli / Emil
Scene 5
Key ASFR scene

The two programmed identities begin to conflict

Memories from successive programmed lives intrude on one another, producing confused recollections and behaviour.

Character(s): Elli / Emil

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