Alte Liebe
'Love, After All'
Harry moans about everything since his retirement. He drinks wheat beer and looks after his larkspur. Lore, by contrast, clings to her job as a librarian and dreams of a different life. Forty years of marriage have left their mark: routines, silence at the kitchen table, past jealousies and the quiet fear that this is all there is left. Their daughter Julia's announcement that she intends to marry for the third time inevitably leads to arguments, although these are merely the tip of the iceberg. They talk a lot to each other but nevertheless often mean something entirely different. Despite this, something has lasted throughout all of their years together: a deep bond, a once burning love that still smoulders.
Andreas Dresen, well-known for his acute and sensitive scrutiny of people and their relationships, has turned Elke Heidenreich and Bernd Schröder's bestseller into a film starring Dagmar Manzel and Joachim Król. The result is a story about getting older, love and the difficulties of living with each other that is as acerbic as it is ironic, but also funny and moving.
After the screening of the film, Andreas Dresen and Dagmar Manzel, who already collaborated on Sprung ins Glück and Willenbrock, will be talking about the film, love in old age and the art of meeting each other anew.
Dagmar Manzel sings, dances and performs with unbridled passion. Whether as an actor or as a singer, she develops a magnetism few can escape. For eighteen years, she has made an impact at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, has celebrated successes at the Komische Oper Berlin (most recently as the Fool in Aribert Reimann's opera Lear), has investigated crime in the Franconia-set episodes of the long-running television crime series Tatort, and has won numerous awards, such as the Deutscher Filmpreis German film prize and the Grimme-Preis television award. Her autobiography Menschenkind was published in 2017.
Andreas Dresen comes from a family of thespians and studied directing at Film University Babelsberg. He has worked as a freelance director and author since 1992. He won the 'Silver Bear' at the Berlin International Film Festival with Grill Point (2002) and the main prize in the Cannes Film Festival's 'Un Certain Regard' section with Stopped on Track (2011). Gundermann (2018) won six Deutscher Filmpreis awards, and Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022) two 'Silver Bears'. From Hilde, with Love (2024) was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival.
