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A HEAVY HEART

(orig. HERBERT)

  • A HEAVY HEART

Germany 2015
Language: German
Director: Thomas Stuber
Camera: Peter Matjasko
Script: Thomas Stuber, Clemens Meyer nach einer Vorlage von Paul Salisbury
Editor: Philipp Thomas
Cast: Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Lena Lauzemis, Edin Hasanovic, Reiner Schöne, Udo Kroschwald, Marko Dyrlich, Kida Khodr Ramdan, Manfred Möck, Wolfram vonStauffenberg, Henning Peker u.a.
Producer: Undine Filter, Thomas Král, Anatol Nitschke
Music: Robert Seidel
Sound: Johannes Doberenz
Distributer: Wild Bunch Germany
Format: DCP
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

For Herbert, a former boxing champion in the GDR, sport always had priority - before the family, before everything else. Today, he is 51, lives alone and works as a debt collector. At the same time, he trains his protégé Eddie. Herbert covers up his physical frailties which are appearing more and more until they can no longer be overlooked. With diagnosis ALS, an incurable muscle disease, he has to look on helplessly as his body - which he always controlled and which always obeyed him - slowly degenerates. With his last ounce of strength, he makes a final effort to come to terms with his daughter with whom he has had no contact for years. A powerful study of character and milieu.

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