Directed by:
Miriam BlieseScreenplay:
Miriam BlieseCast:
Birte Schnoeink, Ole Lagerpusch, Andreas Döhler, Justus Fischer, Brigitte Zeh, Falk Rockstroh, Tobias Kasimirowicz, Sophia BurtscherPlots(1)
Sophie and Georg meet and fall in love just after the heavily-pregnant Sophie has been abandoned by her boyfriend. To the newly born Jakob, Georg naturally becomes his father. The patchwork family faces all the usual challenges that beset modern parents: who should be allowed to work and who should take care of the child? How much freedom is permissible and how much self-sacrifice required? And where is the room for passion? A few years later, Georg and Sophie have split up. Jakob is six years old and his parents are grimly battling for custody. Sophie’s new partner, of all people, tries to mediate between them. Played out in a series of individual scenes that all take place outside the same front door in Berlin, the film is an elliptical portrait of a family for whom the term 'patchwork' is simply a part of their everyday lives. The protagonists negotiate their anxieties and desires in front of house walls, in-between pillars and in car parks. Here, home is not a safe harbour, but a place of transit exposed to the wind. A laconic look at the unreasonable mundanity of love. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Birte Schnoeink
West Germany
Best movies:
Lore (2012)
Remembrance (2011)
Amour Fou (2014)
Ole Lagerpusch
Best movies:
Stay Still (2019)
Andreas Döhler
East Germany
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Nö (2021)
If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Brigitte Zeh
West Germany
Best movies:
The Stranger in Me (2008)
Rabbit Without Ears (2007)
October November (2013)
Falk Rockstroh
East Germany
Best movies:
The Collini Case (2019)
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006) (TV movie)
Free Rainer (2007)
Tobias Kasimirowicz
West Germany
Best movies:
Where Is Fred!? (2006)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Sophia Burtscher
Austria
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)