Vincent Wants to Sea

“Whether classed as a drama, a comedy, or a road movie, Vincent Wants to Sea is a perennially favourite Hollywood tale.” Les Wright (culturevulture.net)

Genre Drama, Tragicomedy
Year of Production 2009
Director Ralf Huettner
Principal Cast Florian David Fitz, Katharina Müller-Elmau, Heino Ferch, Johannes Allmayer, Karoline Herfurth
Length 96 mins
International Festival Screenings Cleveland 2011, Shanghai 2011
Awards  Bavarian Film Prize 2010 (Audience Award, Florian David Fitz, Best Screenplay), German Film Award 2011 (Best Film Gold, Florian David Fitz, Best Leading Actor)

It was his mother’s final wish to see the sea once more. But now Vincent’s mother is dead. And he keeps her ashes in a candy tin under his bed. Vincent wants to fulfill this last wish for his mother. He is just waiting for an opportunity to run away from the home where he is stuck because of his Tourette-syndrome.
 
Together with anorexic Marie, compulsive Alexander and a car stolen from the home’s doctor, Dr. Rose, he embarks on the long drive to Italy, to the sea. His father and Dr. Rose are hot on their heels. This marks the start of a momentous adventure, at the end of which there is only one certainty: none of them will ever be quite the same again.  

Ralf Huettner was born in 1954 and graduated from the University of Television & Film in Munich in 1985 with the film Marilyn. His feature debut Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen (1987) was a major success, winning prizes at home and abroad. His other films include: Andenken an einen Engel (short, 1983), In Afrika ist Muttertag and Nerzwölfe (shorts, 1984), Der Fluch (1988), Babylon (1990), Texas (1993), Voll Normaal (1994), Mondscheintarif (2001) und Reine Formsache (2005).

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

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