Cherry Blossoms (2008) ( Kirschblüten - Hanami ) ( Cerejeiras em Flor )

Cherry Blossoms (2008) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$27.99

Original Title: Kirschblüten - Hanami
Alternate Title: Cerejeiras em Flor
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
122 min + 124 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Doris Dörrie

Written By:
Doris Dörrie

Actors:
Elmar Wepper ..... Rudi Angermeier
Hannelore Elsner ..... Trudi Angermeier
Aya Irizuki ..... Yu
Maximilian Brückner ..... Karl Angermeier
Nadja Uhl ..... Franzi
Birgit Minichmayr ..... Karolin Angermeier
Felix Eitner ..... Klaus Angermeier
Floriane Daniel ..... Emma Angermeier
Celine Tanneberger ..... Celine Angermeier
Robert Döhlert ..... Robert Angermeier
Tadashi Endo ..... Butoh Dancer
Sarah Camp ..... Butcher
Gerhard Wittmann ..... Doctor #1
Veith von Fürstenberg ..... Doctor #2

Synopsis:

When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth. As Franzi and Karl don't care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan...

Trudi and Rudi Meier Anger live in a small Bavarian village. Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill. The doctor suggests a final joint enterprise, something the two have probably done some time, but never did. Trudi decides to keep the disease secret and to follow the advice. She convinces Rudi to visit their children and grandchildren in Berlin. But there arrive, they find them, that their children are busy with their own lives too, in order to take care of the parents.You then decide to which Baltic Sea to drive. There, Trudi dies unexpectedly. Rudi is thrown completely off track and do not know how to proceed. When he was still the friend of his daughter learns that Trudi the life that she really wanted to live, have obviously sacrificed out of love him, he sees his dead wife with new eyes.Rudy tries to make up for lost time Trudi's life. Since her secret obsession Japan and the Japanese modern dance Butoh was, Rudi traveled to his son after Tokyo. This is soon overwhelmed by the situation, and wishes his father away again. Since Rudy is learning in a park, in the Cherry Blossom is to know a young Japanese woman named Yu, who strikes him, because it hands daily Butoh dances. Yu lives in a tent, has lost her mother only a year ago, Rudy's situation can well understand, and helps him to find in the city cope. understand, despite their language problems, and despite the great cultural differences, the two soon became very good.As Trudi has always talked about how much they like once the sacred mountain Fuji would have seen Rudi persuaded his new companion, travel together with him there. The hill is so 'shy', that he constantly hides behind clouds. So the two relate a hotel room on a lake and wait for days for better weather. Rudy's health is deteriorating. When he awoke one night restless and goes to the door, it welcomes the mighty Fuji, the bright moon light lit. Rudy puts on the clothes of his wife, paints his face like a Japanese dancer and the lake begins to imitate the slow movements of Butoh. In a recent vision appears to him his dead wife, takes him by the hand, and both unite to form the common dance before the majestic backdrop of mountains and water. - When Yu sees the next morning Rudis empty bed, looking for him, she finally found him dead on the shore of the lake. In his luggage there is a packet ('For You, Yu'), left in the Rudi her his life savings.Two contrasting scenes decide the film: first, the cremation Rudis, balance in which his son and Yu in a solemn ceremony, the remaining in the ashes of bones with chopsticks in a Japanese box, the other which remains characterized by complete lack of understanding table talk of his children, the indignant at the grumpy father and his scandalous weakness for Trudi's dresses.

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