“A work that really goes to the heart”
Kirschblüten – Hanami is a 2008
German film directed by Doris Dörrie.
Synopsis
The story culminates in a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji
in the midst of the cherry blossom season, a celebration of beauty,
impermanence, and new beginnings.
Trudi (Hannelore
Elsner) and Rudi (Elmar Wepper) are an affectionate, long-married couple
whose children have grown up and moved away. They live in a small Bavarian village.
Trudi learns that her husband is terminally ill. The doctor suggests a final
adventure, which the two wanted to have for some time, but never managed.
Trudi decides to keep the disease secret
from Rudi. She manages to convince him to visit their children and
grandchildren in Berlin. But when they arrive, they realize that their children
are too busy with their own lives to take care of the parents. Then they decide
to drive to the Baltic Sea. But there, Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is
thrown completely off track and doesn't know how to go on. After he learns from
a his daughter's girlfriend that Trudi has actually sacrificed her life out of
love for him, he starts to see his dead wife with new eyes. He travels to Japan
to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer…
Awards
2008: Bavarian Film Award for Best Actor
Elmar Wepper and Olga Film - Molly von Fürstenberg / Harald Kügler as Best
Producer
2008: Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlinale
2008: German Film Award for the best male lead
Elmar Wepper, Film Award in Silver in the category of Best Feature Film,
Film Award for Best Costume Design. Other nominations in the categories
of Best Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actress (Hannelore
Elsner)
2008: nominations for the European Film Award for Best Actor
(Elmar Wepper)
2008: Guild Film Award
2009: Prize of the German Film Critics Best
Picture Actor (Elmar Wepper)
2008, the film came together with Tom Schreiber Dr. Alemán , Dennis Gansel's The Wave and Andreas Dresen's Cloud Nine shortlisted as a German
candidate for the Foreign Film Oscar nominee
had to be, but compared to Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex in the
cold.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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