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PRODUCTION TEAM

Filmmaking : Gerhard Ertl, Sabine Hiebler  

Scriptwriter : Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl

Photography : Wolfgang Thaler  

Montage : Karin Hammer

interpreters : Karl Merkatz, Christine Ostermeyer, Erni Mangold, Branko Samarovski

Production House : Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glase, NGF Filmproduktion GmbH, Hildebrandgrasse 26, 1180 Vienne (Autriche), tél.: (43) 1 403 01 62, fax: (43) 1 403 01 52 15, burner@geyrhalterfilm.com

ANFANG 80 (COMING OF AGE)

True love knows no boundaries, not even when it comes to age. Rosa meets Bruno. Two people who consider themselves to be over the hill and irrelevant in today’s world suddenly learn what it means to pursue once-in-a-lifetime happiness. To find one’s soulmate. Loving and laughing together. The only problem: Rosa has cancer and only six months to live. The two decide to go for it anyway. Bruno leaves his marriage and a family life where everything’s been routine for some time, and Rosa runs away from the hospitals and retirement homes where her niece hoped she would quietly disappear. They set up house together, and are then forced to face the question of whether happiness has an expiration date. "COMING OF AGE tells the gripping story of a couple’s sunset years: from the first amorous tête-à-tête to the inevitable last goodbye, from a shy kiss to secret get-togethers in a pensioners' home. This is the portrait of a generation that unfortunately has become quite invisible, and not only in film." -- (Profil)

Gerhard Ertl, Sabine Hiebler