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Best Friends (Beste Freundinnen)

Nomination Ernst Stötzner “Best Supporting Actor” / Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen

2nd part of the ZDF Heart-Cinema Series “Next Exit Happyness”
(“Nächste Ausfahrt Glück”)

TV Movie, 89‘‘, Eisenach, Berlin, first run, 7/3/2021, 8:15 pm

Story
Juri’s decision to stay in Eisenach, even for the sake of his demented father, visibly upsets Katharina’s life. As a mother of two, a happily married wife and a busy kindergarten director, she finds it difficult to confront the feelings she thought she had lost for her youth sweetheart. Only with great difficulty she can hide her jealousy as Juri and her best friend Sibylle grow closer and closer.

Cast
Valerie Niehaus, Dirk Borchardt, Ernst Stötzner, Max Hopp, Susanna Simon, Christian Erdmann, Winnie Böwe, Runa Greiner, Sebastian Schneider, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Malgorzata Mikolajczak, Pauline Werner, Maurice Lattke, Juri Padel, Julia Schubert, Fynn Gabriel, Roland Bonjour, Marek Wlodarczyk

Crew
Directed by: Francis Meletzky
Written by: Georg Weber
DOP: Bella Halben
Music: Freya Arde
Producer: Christian Popp, Magdalena Frau