Paula Berry gained his first acting and dance experience with the Youth Ensemble of Berlin's Friedrichstadt Palast. [2] In 2009, the 14-year-old was at her Berlin school approached by an acting agent and the casting of Chris Kraus's film poll (2010) invited. Although Berry had little acting experience, she beat out more than 2,500 candidates and was given the lead role. [2] Beer in the historical drama was seen as a 14-year-old half-orphan Oda, who is traveling in the summer of 1914 on the eponymous estate of her aristocratic family to the Baltics. There is dedicated to her father (played by Edgar Selge) bizarre anatomical studies, while she herself falls in love with a wounded Estonian anarchists (Tambet Tuisk), whom she secretly maintains healthy. Although Chris Kraus stated that berry - like other candidates - was not necessarily the best in terms of technology or speed, he praised her talent and her approach to the role, inspired by the biography of his great-aunt Oda Schaefer [3]. Due to the authenticity, he had insisted on the appointment of the same age actress. [3] Beer received before the shooting, which took place in the summer of 2009 from southern Estonia on the Baltic coast, acting classes and wrote a diary from the perspective of their role, which was later found in the film using .