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THE MOON AND OTHER LOVERS
Der Mond und andere Liebhaber
Synopsis
When her former employer, a cosmetics shop, goes bust, Hanna simply helps herself to boxes full of perfume. As life and politics change around her, principally the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, Hanna battles on through the new job at the petrol station…
Synopsis
When her former employer, a cosmetics shop, goes bust, Hanna simply helps herself to boxes full of perfume. As life and politics change around her, principally the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, Hanna battles on through the new job at the petrol station…
Our take
What, at first sight, may appear to be a comedy develops into something far more complicated in this character study of the big-hearted and headstrong Hanna (Katharina Thalbach)—a woman determined to take in her stride whatever life throws at her. Co-starring Birol Ünel (Fatih Akin’s Head-On).