Directed by:
Christoph SchaubScreenplay:
Martin SuterCinematography:
Filip ZumbrunnComposer:
Balz BachmannCast:
Corinna Harfouch, Bruno Ganz, Stefan Kurt, André Jung, Sunnyi Melles, Teresa Harder, Christine Schorn, Max Herbrechter, Elisa Schlott, Samuel Weiss (more)Plots(1)
On her 50th birthday, of all things, Giulia has to experience that old age renders you invisible. Retail therapy ostensibly helps, but then she meets a stranger with whom she prefers to spend the evening more than with her friends. They are waiting in a restaurant reflecting energetically on the increasing number of their annual growth rings.
Jessica and Fatima, both 14, are also out shopping - but in their very own manner. They are out looking for a birthday present and „find" gold sneakers for the 18-year-old they both have a crush on. The store detective, however, observes and arrests them. Cornelia and Max, Jessica's divorced parents, are crushed when informed that they are to pick up their child from the police station. Whose fault is it that their daughter apparently belongs to a lost generation?
Meanwhile, on her 80th birthday, Léonie rebels against her daughter and old age and gleefully sabotages her own birthday party.
(Moscow International Film Festival)
Cast
Corinna Harfouch
East Germany
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Downfall (2004)
Berlin Calling (2008)
Bruno Ganz
Switzerland
Best movies:
In the White City (1983)
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Stefan Kurt
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Foster Boy (2011)
Four Minutes (2006)
Stationspiraten (2010)
André Jung
Luxembourg
Best movies:
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)
The Experiment (2001)
Dreamland (2013)
Sunnyi Melles
Luxembourg
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008)
Steppenwolf (1974)
Teresa Harder
West Germany
Best movies:
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Wave (2008)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Christine Schorn
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Mein Vater (2003) (TV movie)
Max Herbrechter
West Germany
Best movies:
Noi siamo angeli (1997) (series)
Schimanski (1997) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Elisa Schlott
Germany
Best movies:
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007) (TV movie)
Narcissus and Goldmund (2020)
Nichts mehr wie vorher (2013) (TV movie)
Samuel Weiss
Switzerland
Best movies:
Stiller Abschied (2013) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Advertising Rules! (2001)
Alice Brüngger
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Babett Arens
West Germany
Best movies:
Sisi (2009) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Die Bergretter (2009) (series)
René Vaziri
Switzerland
Daniel Rohr
Switzerland
Best movies:
Vitus (2006)
Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Renate Becker
Best movies:
The Dark Side of the Moon (2015)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Salting the Battlefield (2014) (TV movie)
Karin Pfammatter
Switzerland
Best movies:
Me and Kaminski (2015)
Snow White (2005)
And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead (2021)
Miro Svercel
Best movies:
Dhoom 3: Back in Action (2013)
Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen (2009) (TV movie)
Klemens Niklaus Trenkle
Best movies:
Will You Marry Us? (2009)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Susanne-Marie Wrage
West Germany
Best movies:
Vom Atmen unter Wasser (2008) (TV movie)
If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen (2009) (TV movie)