Based on the memoirs of the comedian Hape Kerkeling, whose childhood in the Ruhr Valley was shaped by coal dust and the carnival season, the story told in All About Me is funny, sad, and warm all in one. The young Hans-Peter (later nicknamed Hape) realises early that he has the gift of being able to make others laugh: his grandparents, the customers at his grandmother's general store, his fun-loving relatives, the parents of his classmates – the only person whose spirits he can't lift, try as he might, is his depressive mother, who kills herself when he is nine years old.
This is the first film of the series
"Strong Women", screened every Friday from 13. March to 03. April 2020 in our Goethe Hall.
Director: Caroline Link, colour, 100 min., 2017/18
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