A comedy about aging, youth and other truths
2009
Motion Picture
87 Min
Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party.
Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. Julia’s guests wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, the signs of age concealed by make-up, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdoms of Julia’s closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. Jessica and Fatima, both 14, are also out shopping - but in their very own manner. They are out looking for a birthday present and „find“ gold sneakers for the 18-year-old they both have a crush on. The store detective, however, observes and arrests them. Cornelia and Max, Jessica’s divorced parents, are crushed when informed that they are to pick up their child from the police station. Whose fault is it that their daughter apparently belongs to a lost generation? In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen’s home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.
Corinna Harfouch
Bruno Ganz
Stefan Kurt
André Jung
Sunnyi Melles
Daniel Rohr
Teresa Harder
Max Herbrechter
Christina Schorn
Babett Arens
Renate Becker
Susanne-Marie Wrage
Samuel Weiss
Elisa Schlott
u.v.m.
Director
Christoh Schaub
Producer
Marcel Hoehn, TC Film
Writer
Martin Suter
Cinematographer
Philipp Zumbrunn
Editor
Marina Wernli
Sound Mixer
François Musy,
Gabriel Hafner
Composer
Balz Bachmann
Production Design
Susanne Jauch
Location Sound
Hugo Poletti
Costume Design
Dorothee Schmid
Makeup
Barbara Grundmann
Casting
Corinna Glaus
Production Management
Claudia Sontheim
Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
Max Ophüls Saarbrücken, Germany
International film festival d'Amour de Mons, Belgium
Alba International Film Festival Chicago, USA
European Film Festival Bukarest, Romania
Lubuskie Film Summer Lagow, Poland
Moscow International Film Festival MIFF, Russia
Berli&Beyond Film Festival San Francisco, USA
Washington DC International Film Festival, USA
Festival Black Night Tallinn, Estonia
Mill Valley Filmfestival San Francisco, USA
Solothurn Film Festival, Switzerland
Nomination of Switzerland for the european Filmaward 2010
2009 Audience Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Piazza Grande
Zurich Film Award
Swiss Film Awards: Nomination for best Picture, Nomination for best Script, Nomination for best Actor in a Leading Role, Nomination for best Actress in a Leading Role, Nomination for best Sountrack
Award for best Script, Mons
Audience Award at the International Film Festival Bucharest
Switzerland's Film Pearl 2010