Cinematography:
Filip ZumbrunnComposer:
Christian Garcia-GaucherCast:
Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus, Thomas Ostermeier, Isabelle Caillat, Moritz Gottwald, Jenny König, Urs Jucker, Jenna Hasse (more)Plots(1)
Lisa has given up her ambitions as a playwright in Berlin and moved to Switzerland with her children and husband, who runs an international school there. When her twin brother Sven, a star actor at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre, falls ill with leukaemia, Lisa returns to the German capital. His hopes of getting back on the stage give Sven the strength he needs to fight the disease. But when his condition deteriorates and his mother, also an actor, proves unreliable, Lisa takes the reins and whisks her brother back to Switzerland. She hopes that new treatments, family life and mountain air will work a miracle. Brother and sister, Berlin and Switzerland, life and theatre, sickness and health. With its outstanding leading cast, Schwesterlein interweaves these complementary binaries into a mature, moving and complex drama. This film explores the meaning of healing and sacrifice, the integrity of an adult sibling relationship – a topic that has rarely been addressed as it is here – and artistic work as a core aspiration in life. A fairy tale, with two adults as Hansel and Gretel, the theatre as the gingerbread house and the illness as the evil witch. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Nina Hoss
West Germany
Best movies:
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
Tár (2022)
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Lars Eidinger
West Germany
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
Never Look Away (2018)
Sense8 (2015) (series)
Marthe Keller
Switzerland
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Marathon Man (1976)
And Now My Love (1974)
Jens Albinus
Denmark
Best movies:
The Kingdom (1994) (series)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Idiots (1998)
Thomas Ostermeier
Best movies:
Mathilde (2017)
My Little Sister (2020)
Isabelle Caillat
Best movies:
Anna's Time (2016) (TV movie)
M (2017)
The Price of Fame (2014)
Moritz Gottwald
Best movies:
My Little Sister (2020)
Jenny König
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
My Little Sister (2020)
Urs Jucker
Switzerland
Best movies:
Vitus (2006)
Cut Off (2018)
Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (2015)
Jenna Hasse
Portugal
Best movies:
My Little Sister (2020)
Paulo Dos Santos
Best movies:
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Belle du Seigneur (2012)
My Little Sister (2020)
Pierre-Isaïe Duc
Best movies:
A Parting Shot (2007)
Vanity (2015)
My Little Sister (2020)