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Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, 2024 Berlin International Film Festival
Dying follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who haven’t been a family for a long time. Lissy is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd slowly wasting away in a home. But her new freedom is short-lived: Diabetes, cancer and kidney failure mean that she doesn't have much time left either. Her son Tom, a conductor in his early 40s, is working on a composition called ‘Dying’, while at the same time being made the surrogate father of his ex-girlfriend’s child. And Tom's sister Ellen starts an affair with the married Sebastian, with whom she shares a love for alcohol. As Death turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally meet again.
Matthias Glasner
Matthias Glasner is a German film director bor in Hamburg. In collaboration with his friend, the actor Jürgen Vogel, he founded the film production company Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion. He won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival for his film Dying (Sterben).
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