GoetheKino|GoetheCine - Film Series Christian Petzold
Director: Christian Petzold
93 min, 2008/09
Three people who have lost their way are brought together by fateful coincidence. Thomas, a young, strong, taciturn former soldier, dishonourably discharged from the army. Ali, still affable, despite the blows life has dealt him, is a Turkish businessman in Germany who will do all he can to avoid being taken for a ride by his snack-bar lessees. Laura is a woman with a past. She is beautiful but has become somewhat insufferable in her marriage to Ali.
Thomas, Ali and Laura hide themselves and their secrets from one another. They are searching for security as much as love. They are dependent on one another, but the price of fulfilling their desires is betrayal.
Christian Petzold’s JERICHOW tells the tale of a love triangle, where time and again desires break down into a different, deeper dream. On the country roads of north eastern Germany, in the woods of this vast region and on the cliffs soaring above the sea, a drama unfolds that lends a bold new meaning to a classic cinematic constellation.
Between guilt and freedom, passion and cool calculation lie desires which, once fulfilled, could be mistaken for a curse.
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