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contacts Motta, the attorney in charge who is investigating the increasing number of casualties. In
Marmorera, myth and reality meet, and the remaining few inhabitants are convinced that the rumors about a curse are not just fairy tales. The inscription "Resistance" at the facade of a house in the new Marmorera village remembers that not all residents had agreed to sell their village and their country to the ZĂĽrich electricity company before the dam was built. Cavegn tries to prevent further casualties. Even the city of ZĂĽrich could be threatened by the curse of Marmorea because it draws its power supply from the power plant at the Marmorera reservoir.
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bygone era, which the residents of
Marmorera have carefully tried to hide? Cavegn seems to be the only one to whom Julia spoke; she tells him a kind of visions that are related to the future deaths of people from Marmorera. However, on the videos that were taken in the course of the therapy, there is no sound, and even Julia is physically not able to speak. For Simon's wife Paula, Julia is soon a dangerous rival, although the unusual patient is always quiet and modest – as long as she is allowed to use a bathtub whenever she wants.
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there, a squirrel suddenly jumps against the windshield, causing him to lose control of his car, driving off the road. The film ends with Simon finding himself at the bottom of the reservoir in the time before the flood and Julia sees Julia in a window of one of the old houses. Then the city of Zurich at night is seen, with all the lights slowly going out, while sirens wail in the background.
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Simon's distress goes so far that, towards the end of the film, he puts himself in danger: While his baby is being born, he receives a call from the restaurant saying that "she is back" and that the top of the church tower of the sunken
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Cavegn was born and raised in ZĂĽrich. His parents died in a car accident. Soon Cavegn suspects that this patient will be much more than another medical problem to solve. Is Julia perhaps dangerous, or is she merely an interesting example of an extraordinary mind? Or is Julia actually a curse from a
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in 1954, bizarre deaths accumulate, and Simon finds increasingly clear connections between these "accidents", his patient and the flooded mountain village at the base of the dam. Cavegn tries to talk about his observations with the chief psychiatrist, with his wife and with his friend, and he also
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identity of a young psychiatrist who takes care of this young woman and gradually realises that his own identity is based on the soil of this mysterious lake, and on the identity of the growing number of dead people, who were all taken from their home village
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was also involved in the production, "starring" Julia, the mysterious woman, in the last sequences of the film.
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