Summer ´04
The summer holidays of a modern, liberal family are shattered by a stranger who unwittingly shifts the balance of power and stirs up emotions that no one is prepared to deal with.
At 40, Miriam radiates serene beauty and tranquillity, a confidence and self-assurance as vast as the sea close to her summer home. There are no taboos in the polished, urbane life she shares with her partner André and their 15-year-old son Nils; there is understanding and tolerance. If Nils invites his 12-year-old girlfriend Livia to spend the holidays with them, fine. But when the brazenly sensual Livia begins flirting with an older man, Bill, Miriam feels it is her responsibility to stop the questionable relationship. But as she does so, it is she herself who falls for the shy and charmingly insecure Bill. Miriam forges ahead, seducing him, seeing him secretly. But it is Livia that Bill loves, not Miriam. And suddenly the vast horizons of her life vanish in a fog of jealousy and rejection - emotions that prove to be far less controllable than she thought...
Starring Martina Gedeck ("Mostly Martha", "Elementary Particles", "The Lives of Others") and directed by two-time Grimme Award winner Stefan Krohmer ("They´ve Got Knut") comes a delicate, evocative tale about the limits of guilt and love, a confrontation with one´s personal moral conceptions.
Director Stefan Krohmer :
A twelve-year-old girl seems to begin a love affair with a stranger. How does the woman who feels responsible for the girl cope with this suspicion? What questions does she ask the girl, and how does she approach the man? And how does her position change in the constellation when she herself develops an interest in this man? How does the image that she has of the others and herself change? We do not judge any of the events, but give the viewers the chance to make their own picture and, perhaps, to reject it afterwards.
[stefan krohmer and daniel nocke]
A twelve-year-old girl seems to begin a love affair with a stranger. How does the woman who feels responsible for the girl cope with this suspicion? What questions does she ask the girl, and how does she approach the man? And how does her position change in the constellation when she herself develops an interest in this man? How does the image that she has of the others and herself change? We do not judge any of the events, but give the viewers the chance to make their own picture and, perhaps, to reject it afterwards.
[stefan krohmer and daniel nocke]
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