The film, directed by Welf Reinhart in his feature debut, follows married couple Hanne (Dagmar Manzel) and Bernd (August Zirner). Their lives are suddenly interrupted by a visitor from the past: Hanne’s former husband Kurt (Harald Krassnitzer), suffering from dementia and convinced they are still together.
In an interview with Variety, Reinhart discussed the “extremes” of Alzheimer’s disease.
“On the one hand, it’s a fatal, terrible illness. On the other, it often leads to unintentionally comical situations. It was clear to me that the film had to capture this ambivalence.”
Reinhart mentioned many touching films about the illness, including Julianne Moore starrer “Still Alice” and “The Father,” which “powerfully capture the grim side of the disease.”
“Then there are those that present the topic as pure comedy,…
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