Dying

Matthias Glasner20243hDrama

Why we chose it

Matthias Glasner won the screenplay award in Berlin for a film that grew out of his own life: his parents, he once said, didn’t simply die but spent years doing it. He turns that into something like a symphony, solemn one moment and absurd the next.

Synopsis

When her husband, who has dementia, finally goes into a care home, Lissy feels a relief that doesn’t last, because her own body is starting to fail. Her son Tom is in Berlin, conducting rehearsals of a symphony about dying that a friend of his wrote, while her daughter drinks and has got tangled up with a married man. It’s been a long time since anyone in this family called anyone else.

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Also known as: Sterben
Production year: 2024
Decade: 2020s
Duration: 3h
Genre: Drama
Festivals & Awards
Language: German, English, Latvian
Country: Germany
Subtitles: Greek, Polish
Age rating: 16+

Berlin Film Festival

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

2024

German Film Awards

Best Film

2024

What others say

4.3

58 reviews

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