Der alte Affe Angst

Summary Angst is the story of a sensitive stage director, Robert, and his beautiful girlfriend Marie, a doctor in a children's clinic. Their different attitudes toward life lead the two to constant fights and conflicts. When Robert finds out that his father is terminally ill, he feels guilty for not having taken more care of him. Marie tries to help, but when his father dies, Robert falls into a downward spiral of despair. He looks for solace in his work and in one-night stands with prostitutes. When Marie finds out that Robert has betrayed her, she leaves him. However, her love for Robert and her realization that to love someone also means one must be able to forgive, offer hope for a new beginning between the two. View more details

Der alte Affe Angst

Directed : Oskar Roehler

Written : Oskar Roehler

Stars : André Hennicke Marie Bäumer Vadim Glowna Hilde Van Mieghem

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Genres : Drama Romance

Release date : Apr 23, 2003

Countries of origin : Germany

Language : German

Filming locations : East-Side-Gallery, Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany

Production companies : Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) TV-60 Filmproduktion Neue Bioskop Film

Summary Angst is the story of a sensitive stage director, Robert, and his beautiful girlfriend Marie, a doctor in a children's clinic. Their different attitudes toward life lead the two to constant fights and conflicts. When Robert finds out that his father is terminally ill, he feels guilty for not having taken more care of him. Marie tries to help, but when his father dies, Robert falls into a downward spiral of despair. He looks for solace in his work and in one-night stands with prostitutes. When Marie finds out that Robert has betrayed her, she leaves him. However, her love for Robert and her realization that to love someone also means one must be able to forgive, offer hope for a new beginning between the two. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama Romance

Release date : Apr 23, 2003

Countries of origin : Germany

Language : German

Filming locations : East-Side-Gallery, Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany

Production companies : Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) TV-60 Filmproduktion Neue Bioskop Film

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Manan, a Bengali software engineer, has recently returned from USA after a stint of fifteen years, the most part of which was spent working in Europe. He is facing hard time at office. Manan suddenly feels an urge to visit his native village in rural Bengal for last time, which he visited twenty five years back, when he was a teen. It is abandoned now almost. When he arrives at the village, he finds the shattered edifice. He can't find any of his childhood structures, memos. It is a shocking experience for him to re-connect with his childhood memories. Manan confronts two different worlds in his life during his stay - one, his astounding global citizenship, another one of his past childhood native memories. Both are totally different in nature; yet exist in a single life - like two parallel worlds. He feels that, he can reciprocate with the domicile. Meanwhile Manan gets engrossed towards the aged tree named 'Sannyasi', which is the most respected place in the village. It's a huge Banyan tree, standing tall and protecting the village for years. The tree is a symbol of unity. Manan discovers a new world which has almost hid itself with time out of an inexplicable loneliness, that everyone forgot, he doesn't want to return to Europe anymore - stuck in the nostalgia and mystery of his predecessor's abode and the great banyan tree. It is the old buried memories of his predecessors which haunt him to stay there and mesmerises him to play a fantastic game of time and space.

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