Film
A Heavy Heart

Film Society

Wed, 05.05.2021
6:00 PM Palmerston North, Event Cinemas

Director: Thomas Stuber, colour, 109 min., 2014/15

Herbert Stamm, once famous as "The Pride of Leipzig", left his greatest successes as a boxer behind him long ago. Now he earns his keep as a debt collector and bouncer while, on the side, he trains young, hopeful boxer Eddy. Herbert’s daughter hasn’t seen him for years, and he keeps his girlfriend at arm’s length too. He ignores the first signs of a serious illness until a diagnosis catches up with him: the gigantic man is suffering from ALS, an incurable disorder of the motor nervous system that is advancing relentlessly. Herbert tries to put the ruins of his life in order in a timely fashion.