This Is Love

Germany

2009

107 Min

Color

2.35:1

German, English, Danish, Thai

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Matthias Glasner, Lars Kraume, Jürgen Vogel, Frank Döhmann, Andrea Hanke, Gebhard Henke, Andreas Schreitmüller

SCR Matthias Glasner, Alex Ross

CAST Corinna Harfouch, Jens Albinus, Lisa Nguyen, Jürgen Vogel, Devid Striesow, Ernst Stötzner, Valerie Koch, Tatja Seibt, Knut Berger, Marina Bouras, Marita Breuer, Margarita Broich, Jesper Christensen, Hannes Wegener

MUSIC Christoph Kaiser, Julian Maas

San Sebastián (Competition), Berlinale (German Cinema), CPH PIX

Synopsis

Chris and little Jenjira are running away from the mafia. Together with Holger, Chris got the 9 year old Vietnamese from human traffickers without being able to pay for her. Maggie is a withdrawn police inspector prone to alcohol who finds out why her husband left her without a word after 16 years. The two meet when Chris is accused of murder. In countless interrogations, the two get to know each other better and confess their hidden fears and dangerous desires to each other. —San Sebastian Film Festival

Director

Matthias Glasner

Born in Hamburg on January 20, 1965, Matthias Glasner used to work at the Hamburg State Opera and as a film projectionist. He has lived abroad in Russia and Texas. In 1983, he started making films with Birgit Staudt, including Schicksal und Zufall (1990). Whilst also working as a musician in the band “homesweethome”, Glasner founded the Jack Film & Musikproduktion company in 1993. In 1994/95, he directed Die Mediocren, a movie depicting the complicated love-lives of two women and two men. He followed this work with Sexy Sadie (1996), his first collaboration with his friend Jürgen Vogel (with whom he had founded the film production company Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion). In Sexy Sadie, Jürgen Vogel played a serial killer who escapes from prison after a doctor tells him that he only has a few more days to live. —filmportal.de