AwardDying for beginners (Sterben für Anfänger)
TV Movie, 90 Min, Berlin, first Broadcast 5.5.2025, ZDF
- Premiere on 24.8.2024 at the "20th Festival of German Film Ludwigshafen am Rhein"
- WINNER OF THE "RHEINGOLD AUDIENCE AWARD"
- WINNER OF THE "TV - BIBER", Category Best TV Movie
- WINNER OF THE “MAYOR'S AWARD,” 15. GÜNTER ROHRBACH FILMPREIS, for Christian Klandt (Director) und Benedict Goll (Screenwriter)
- WINNER OF "3sat PUBLIKUMSPREIS 2025"
- 24.8.2024 20. Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Premiere)
- 2.11.2024 46. Biberacher Filmfestspiele
- 8.04.2025 21. Achtung Berlin Filmfestival
- 7. 11. 2025 15. Günter Rohrbach Filmpreis for C. Klandt (Director) und B. Goll (Writer)
- 5.11.2025 TeleVisionale 2025, Film - und Serienfestival Weimar
Content
The film tells the story of ex-music manager Eric (Edin Hasanović), who is recruited as an undertaker and shortly afterwards learns that his best friend Alex (Max Hubacher) has an irreparable brain tumour. Eric wonders how to deal with this. Between despair and melancholy, he finds an unconventional yet loving way to celebrate saying goodbye.
Cast
Edin Hasanović, Max Hubacher, Svenja Jung, Peter Kurth, Luna Jordan, Steffi Kühnert, Wolfram Koch, Rike Eckermann, Martina Schöne-Radunski, Mélanie Fouché, Roland Wolf, Adolfo Assor, Gerdy Zint, Maya Morgeneyer, Mex Schlüpfer
Crew
- directed by: Christian Klandt
- written by: Benedikt Gollhardt, litre. Based on ‘The End - Das Buch vom Tod’ by Eric Wrede
- DOP: René Gorski
- Music: Johannes Repka
- Producers: Tobias Stille, Christian Popp