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Film · 2025

Mother's Baby

Directed by Johanna Moder · starring Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter and Marie Leuenberger

Synopsis

Julia is forty years old and is a conductor. She and George Bobe, her partner, are trying to have a child. For now, without success. That will be until Dr. Vilfort, a fertility specialist working at a private clinic called Lumen Vitae, appears in their lives to offer them new hope, an experimental procedure that could make them parents. After a successful treatment, Julia becomes pregnant. During the delivery, however, not everything goes as planned, and they have to take the baby away immediately to perform another additional treatment. Julia and her husband are left stunned, not knowing what has happened. 

Finally, the child is returned to the couple hours later, but upon his return, Julia feels strangely distant: the newborn does not cry, nor does he seem to be affected by pain. The baby will test the marriage, as she has doubts about whether the baby they have brought home is really theirs, and the father also begins to question his wife's sanity. 

Director and screenwriter Johanna Moder is at the helm of 'Mother's Baby', a slow-burn psychological horror set in an atmosphere of anguish and suspicion that keeps the viewer constantly pondering the same question: Has something truly strange happened at the clinic, something unethical, or is this madness part of Julia's postpartum syndrome?

Where to watch Mother's Baby

All the options

Mother's Baby is not on any service in the UK right now. It can be watched in other countries:

  • USA Apple TV: rent US$5.99, buy US$9.99Prime Video: subscription, rent US$3.99, buy US$9.99Tubi: free
  • Austria Apple TV: rent €4.99, buy €7.99Prime Video: rent €3.99, buy €9.99
  • Canada Apple TV: rent 5.99 CAD, buy 14.99 CADTubi: free
  • Germany Apple TV: rent €4.99, buy €7.99Prime Video: rent €3.99, buy €9.99
  • Holland Apple TV: rent €3.99, buy €7.99Prime Video: rent €4.99, buy €9.99
  • Australia Stan: subscription

The essentials

Runtime
108 min1 hour and 48 minutes
How long is Mother's Baby?
1 hour and 48 minutes (108 minutes).
Who directed Mother's Baby?
Johanna Moder.
Who is in Mother's Baby?
It stars Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter and Marie Leuenberger.
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Director
Johanna Moder

Photos and posters

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Reviews

All 3 reviews

What the critics say 4.0, from one outlet

  • 4.0 El MundoLuis Martínez The problem arises when, after the initial proposal, Mother's baby proves incapable of deciding what it wants to be, why there is so much suspicion, and why there are so many axolotls (there are… Read
  • VarietySiddhant Adlakha If not for a few ill-conceived decisions toward the end, Johanna Moder’s jet-black motherhood comedy would be the perfect genre thriller. Read
  • CineuropaSusanne Gottlieb Johanna Moder rustles up an eerie thriller about a mother unable to connect with her newborn, but is not brave enough to push it to the limit Read
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