Bhowanipore Film Society in collaboration with the
Goethe-Institut Kolkata will show two films from Germany at Nandan III on 25th of March, 2021 from 3 pm.
TOUR DE FORCE
Dir: Christian Zübert
2014, Farbe, 95 min.
Initially, his friends have no idea why Hannes has chosen Belgium of all places as the destination of their annual cycling tour. En route, they find out the truth, and react in a shocked manner. Hannes is suffering from the incurable nerve disease ALS, and he wants to forestall the painful deterioration of his body. The endpoint of the trip is the office of a euthanasia assistant in Ostend. After the initial shock, the group pulls itself together to celebrate life with their dying friend and his wife one last time – right up to the inevitable end. Supported by wonderful actors, the director has succeeded in creating a tragicomic road movie that never turns into a melodrama.
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BELOVED SISTERS
Dir: Dominik Graf
2014, Farbe, 139 min.
1788: Charlotte von Lengefeld, the daughter of an impoverished noble family in Thuringia, has returned from Weimar to her hometown, Rudolstadt– mainly to the delight of her unhappily married sister, Caroline of Beulitz. The two girls had once vowed to share everything. One day, Friedrich Schiller, who has been expelled from Württemberg, appears in Rudolstadt, and the two sisters take their oath seriously. They begin a love triangle, which benefits from Charlotte’s marriage to the poet. But this lifestyle turns out to be fragile. Dominik Graf’s film is a mix of documented fact and fiction; a private utopia can be just as difficult to achieve as the political situation unfolding in the background – the French Revolution.
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