Summary The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have stopped chemo therapy and having left her husband. The worried parents call the other three adult daughters into the house and they arrive one by one. For the first time in 6 years the entire family is united again. The characters are drawn as tensions rise from old conflicts and as the situation sinks in that Laura might be terminally ill. The movie eventually shifts from a lively sometimes comical beginning into the serious theme of dying and does handle this quite tactfully and moving. While the film touches on many areas surrounding death (including religion, graveyard, care, eutanasia) the main focus is on the transformation of the characters that are thrown out of their busy lifes into this situation, eventually accepting it and dealing with it. View more details
Directed : Ben Verbong
Written : Karin Howard Anita Elsani Katja Kittendorf
Stars : Christiane Paul Julia-Maria Köhler Katharina Marie Schubert Anna Böger
Genres : Comedy Drama
Release date : Apr 29, 2009
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : German
Filming locations : Dormagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Production companies : MMC Movies 3L Filmproduktion Elsani Film
Summary The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have stopped chemo therapy and having left her husband. The worried parents call the other three adult daughters into the house and they arrive one by one. For the first time in 6 years the entire family is united again. The characters are drawn as tensions rise from old conflicts and as the situation sinks in that Laura might be terminally ill. The movie eventually shifts from a lively sometimes comical beginning into the serious theme of dying and does handle this quite tactfully and moving. While the film touches on many areas surrounding death (including religion, graveyard, care, eutanasia) the main focus is on the transformation of the characters that are thrown out of their busy lifes into this situation, eventually accepting it and dealing with it. View more details
Genres : Comedy Drama
Release date : Apr 29, 2009
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : German
Filming locations : Dormagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Production companies : MMC Movies 3L Filmproduktion Elsani Film
