DYING

STERBEN

By Matthias GLASNER

FEATURETTE - as BUYER REP

Drama - Completed 2024

DYING is an intense depiction of life constantly facing the impertinence of death.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2024
Competition Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 180 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Matthias GLASNER
    • Synopsis
    • DYING follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who haven’t been a family for a long time. Lissy (Corinna Harfouch) is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd (Hans-Uwe Bauer) 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. Son Tom (Lars Eidinger), 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 (Lilith Stangenberg) starts an affair with the married Sebastian (Ronald Zehrfeld), with whom she shares a love for alcohol. As Death finally turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally meet again.