Directed by:
Caroline LinkScreenplay:
Caroline LinkCinematography:
Bella HalbenComposer:
Niki ReiserCast:
Karoline Herfurth, Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch, Hanns Zischler, Mišel Matičević, Franz Dinda, Karin Boyd, Jacob Matschenz, Inka Friedrich (more)VOD (1)
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The life of the seemingly intact family of Eliane and Thomas Richter suddenly collapses when their 19-year-old son Alexander is killed in a tragic accident. To help herself get over the loss the deeply distraught mother commissions the famous artist Max Hollander to paint a portrait of Alexander based on photographs of the boy, together with his sister Lilli. Lilli herself has her own problems. A talented 22-year-old dance and voice student, she loses the chance to dance a principal role when she gets in a quarrel with her teacher. She also has problems with her boyfriend, an artist she clings to a bit too much. And finally she thinks her mother's plan to hang her brother as "decoration" on the wall is ridiculous.
Through the encounter with the much older artist Lilli begins to win back her self-confidence. Max is drawn ever deeper into the complex, emotionally charged network of the family. Personal losses in the painter's own life have left painful traces in him too. Together Max and Lilli begin to come to grips with their grievous pasts.
In her new film Caroline Link delves into the moving inner lives of the figures, painting a complex family portrait as well as a tension-filled psychograph of an intensive and unusual encounter.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Karoline Herfurth
East Germany
Best movies:
The Reader (2008)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)
Josef Bierbichler
West Germany
Best movies:
The White Ribbon (2009)
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Corinna Harfouch
East Germany
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Downfall (2004)
Hanns Zischler
Germany
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Europa Europa (1990)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Mišel Matičević
West Germany
Best movies:
The Billion Dollar Code (2021) (series)
My Beautiful Country (2012)
The Company (2007) (series)
Franz Dinda
East Germany
Best movies:
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A Year in Winter (2008)
The Speer and Hitler: Devil's Architect (2005) (series)
Karin Boyd
Best movies:
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A Year in Winter (2008)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Jacob Matschenz
East Germany
Best movies:
The Wave (2008)
A Regular Woman (2019)
Never Look Away (2018)
Inka Friedrich
West Germany
Best movies:
Stopped on Track (2011)
Willenbrock (2005)
A Year in Winter (2008)
Hansa Czypionka
West Germany
Best movies:
Beyond Silence (1996)
A Year in Winter (2008)
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Paula Kalenberg
West Germany
Best movies:
Vom Atmen unter Wasser (2008) (TV movie)
A Year in Winter (2008)
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Matthias Kupfer
West Germany
Best movies:
Frozen Sky (2011) (series)
A Year in Winter (2008)
Picco (2010)
Alina Freund
Germany
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Lilly the Witch 2 - Journey to Mandolan (2011)
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Proschat Madani
Iran
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Tatort (1970) (series)
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Eva Gosciejewicz
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) (series)
Filippo Kreindl
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Pizza und Marmelade (2008)
Auf der Suche nach dem G. (2009) (TV movie)
Alfred Kleinheinz
Austria
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Tatort (1970) (series)
TKKG und die rätselhafte Mind-Machine (2006)
Philip Köstring
West Germany
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Frühling (2011) (series)
TKKG und die rätselhafte Mind-Machine (2006)
Dejan Bućin
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)
Three (2010)
Rising High (2020)
Tanja Frehse
West Germany
Best movies:
A Year in Winter (2008)