LIFE IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE
by André Erkau
synopsis
The life of the Färber family is completely unhinged after a bizarre accident leading to the mother’s death. While Markus clings onto the past and cannot come to terms with the loss of his wife, his fifteen-year-old daughter Kim runs away to Denmark with Alex, a cool guy who has dropped out of school, and visits the setting of her childhood. Together with his mother Gerlinde and her lively caretaker, Paula, Markus sets off to search for his daughter and so embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
international title: | Life Is Not a Piece of Cake |
original title: | Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Riva Filmproduktion GmbH |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | André Erkau |
film run: | 98' |
release date: | DE 18/04/2013 |
screenplay: | Gernot Gricksch |
cast: | Helen Woigk, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Christine Schorn, Frederick Lau, Rosalie Thomass, Edin Hasanovic |
producer: | Michael Eckelt |
co-producer: | Helge Sasse, Ulf Israel |
production: | Riva Filmproduktion, Senator Film Produktion, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE France |
backing: | Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, nordmedia Fonds, German Federal Film Fund |
distributor: | Senator Filmverleih |