ON MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
by Tanja Egen
synopsis
Actor Nina travels to her home town in Germany’s Ruhr region for her grandmother’s funeral and discovers that her childhood home has remained virtually unchanged. But when the date for the funeral is postponed, tensions flare up again between the pragmatic mother and her cosmopolitan daughter who now lives in a large European city and considers the offer of a role in German TV soap Traumschiff (Dreamboat) to be beneath her.
international title: | On Mothers and Daughters |
original title: | Geranien |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2023 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Tanja Egen |
film run: | 83’ |
screenplay: | Tanja Egen, Esther Preussler |
cast: | Friederike Becht, Marion Ottschick, Peer Martiny, Jasmina Musić, Stefanie Meier, Aleksandra Ćorović |
cinematography by: | Claudia Schröder |
film editing: | Nicolas Dusollier |
music: | Paul Eisenach, Jonas Hofer |
producer: | Catherine Ann Berger |
co-producer: | Jakob Zimmermann, Tanja Egen |
production: | Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) / German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |