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DYING
STERBEN

• Director: Matthias Glasner
• GERMANY / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 180’ / German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Matthias Glasner
• Director of Photography: Jakub Bejnarowicz
• Editing: Heike Gnida
• Music: Lorenz Dangel
• Cast: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg, Ronald Zehrfeld, Robert Gwisdek
• Producer: Jan Krüger, Ulf Israel, Matthias Glasner
• Production Co.: Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion, Senator Film Produktion
• World Sales: The Match Factory

2024 Berlin Best Screenplay, Prize of German Arthouse Cinemas

The members of the Lunies family haven’t been a family for a long time. Lissy is quietly happy that her husband suffering from dementia is put in homecare. But her new freedom is short-lived: diabetes, cancer and kidney failure mean that she doesn’t have much time left either. Their son Tom is a conductor in his early 40s, currently working on a composition called ‘Dying.’ Tom’s sister Ellen starts an affair with a married man, and they share an affection for alcohol. As Death finally turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally meet again. Director Matthias Glasner contemplates on death through a dysfunctional family, in this pitiless comedy-drama about life, death and everything in between that cleverly circumvents sentimentalism and misery porn.

This film is screened with the kind contribution of Goethe Institut Istanbul and German Films.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.